No doubt the world would be better off without Saddam Hussein reigning in Iraq, but we must recognize that the effort of removing him right now may well distract us from dealing with graver threats.
A merger could very well distract them from the task at hand at the exact worst time.
While well-intended, the proposed convention is a long shot that may well distract proponents of constitutionally limited government from a more modest -- but equally potent -- response to the problem of overweening government: a properly engaged judiciary.
In recent years, small groups of radical settlers have pursued a policy known as "price tag," attacking Palestinian civilians and vandalizing property as well as distracting Israeli security forces and damaging military equipment.
This has proved problematic as well as distracting to some reviewers although, as the Guardian's film critic, Peter Bradshaw, noted, the end result is a kind of "hyper-real intensification of the pain in Dunbar's work and in her life".
Late advertising on this obvious theme cut heavily against Yes on 8. New consultants shot down as well the distracting argument that the right to same-sex marriage means lifestyle promotion in the schools.
This immediately calms you down by slowing your heart rate and blood pressure, as well as distracting your mind from stressful thoughts.
Hockey would have loved to distract you from all this on Wednesday with an epic trading deadline day, but when Lubomir Visnovsky makes up part of your most significant trade, well, good luck distracting anyone other than Mrs. Visnovsky.
And in any case, all these quizzes and statistics and chat rooms may well further distract viewers.
A pig may well look distracted by other things lurking in the muddy hay, but when it hears some feed jiggling inside a bucket, it really gains focus.
Anyone who believes that suicide is contagious the way the flu is contagious may well be distracted from giving the kind of attention that a potential suicide victim needs, the help to deal with problems inside, not behaviors outside.
