In addition, in many countries, "parallel," or black, markets emerged, which diverted resources from activities in the official sector.
They recorded how the British car industry had finally started building security into their cars after the Home Office in 1992 published a car theft index which diverted buyers from the riskiest vehicles.
The Mullaperiyar dam, which diverted water from the southern state of Kerala to neighbouring Tamil Nadu, was built in the late 1800s, and was considered at the time to be one of the most extraordinary feats of engineering ever achieved.
Large scale irrigation commenced with the establishment of the Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area (MIA) in 1912 which diverted water from the Murrumbidgee River near Narrandera.
The federal Works Progress Administration WPAA) oversaw the construction of the Twin Lakes Tunnel, which diverted water from Grizzly Reservoir, on Lincoln Creek, a southern tributary of the Roaring Fork, to Twin Lakes, where it was used for irrigation purposes by beet and watermelon farmers in the Rocky Ford and Ordway areas.
That prosecution, which diverted public attention from Enron to the conduct of its accounting firm, effectively destroyed Andersen.
Strangely, then, iconic Dutch art owes an essence of its character to religious iconoclasm, which diverted spiritual passion from sanctuaries to parlors and countrysides.
The EU's five-year inquiry found that in Google searches, the US firm gave prominence to its own comparison shopping services, regardless of their relevance to the search query, which diverted traffic away from competitors.
Throughout 1964 and 1965, as South Vietnam was struggling to establish a stable state after the ouster of Diệm, Thảo was involved in several intrigues and coup plots which diverted the government from implementing its programs.
They perceived dental consultations an abuse of the system which diverted resources away from patients presenting with more appropriate symptoms.
