Sentence examples for time diverted from inspiring English sources

Following their failure to capture the Byzantine capital, Constantinople, in 717 718, the Umayyads for a time diverted their attention elsewhere.

Interference stems both from poor health and from time diverted from income generating activities.

The actual explicit costs of the intervention over 5 weeks were gathered from the Public Health Budget Rationale (2004) for the inputs of labour, auditing services, supplies, facilitator travel, and honoraria that compensated the practices for the time diverted from normal activities.

Characters intersect and, with time, divert from type, but they don't interact with the same layered intensity that drove "The Sopranos" and "The Wire".

Teachers also cited as contributory factors the reduction in the number of school librarians, who could put interesting books before children, and the rise in "screen time", diverting children from reading to playing games.

Pac-Man has found his way to the iPod, where he will munch dots and flee from ghosts in the same time diverting fashion you've come to love.

Last, but not least, I warmly thank the scientific committee's members that spent some of their time, diverting it from the didactic and research activities, aiming to attain a full success for the conference.

The basic tenor is that Sanders is a "friend" and thus protesting him is a waste of time, diverting from going after the "real" enemy.

WF is part of this propped up image of a new downtown where Detroit is for the hipster, wealthier, and whiter and at the same time diverting resources from neighborhoods where people have lived and struggled to improve their city for decades.

But that mail would be subject to the same sort of spam filters in use now, which can at times divert legitimate mail.

It is a vote for a process that would consume years of parliamentary time, divert precious public resources to battalions of lawyers, and jeopardise the effective governance of our country.