He said ministers had used the distraction of Mandelson's return to "strangle" one of the last elements of reform of public services.
Studying the initial pace of actions, many analysts predicted that the North would use the distraction of the Iraq war to declare itself a nuclear weapons nation or even to conduct an underground bomb test.
The second was from 2006 to 2009 when the Taliban used the distraction of the Iraq war to reignite the insurgency from its safe havens in Pakistan's tribal areas.
There has been speculation that Mr. Assad used the distraction of the Mubarak trial to order his security forces to seize the restive city of Hama, where dozens of people have been killed since Syrian armored columns first shelled the city on Sunday.
If you're worried it might be too early but you could really use the distraction of a few dates, then set some ground rules for yourself, e.g. no more than one date a week, or, no more than kiss, or, no overnight stays, etc.
The opposition Greens have accused the government of rushing through the vote by using the twin distractions of the British EU referendum and the Euro 2016 football championship to push through a text that it says is too lax.
The posterior cortex should be broken by osteoclasis thanks to the tension previously applied, and the surgeon must verify that the osteotomy is completed by separating the ends of it using the same distraction capacity of the fixator.
There are many external fixators which are designed to achieve the surgical objective of managing bone defects using the principles of distraction osteogenesis.
The different distraction techniques can be divided into single-, two- and three-point distraction, using the number of inserted pins as points of skeletal distraction as common denominator.
The CEO of Procter & Gamble said earlier this week that he doesn't know whether Woods will ever appear in another Gillette commercial, saying the company did not need the "distraction" of using him in its advertising.
