In the last few days, Washington has tried to figure out how to best influence General Musharraf to back down from emergency rule, which has distracted attention from antiterrorism efforts.
This means reducing the size of the financial sector and the Wall Street "brain drain" - which has distracted the nation's best and brightest minds from the work of real innovation and entrepreneurship - and refocusing on productive, export-oriented industries.
Cunliffe, speaking to the party faithful in Auckland on Saturday night, pledged to fight to remain in his role, and lamented "a campaign beset by dirty politics and sideshows, involving potential abuses of power at the highest level that will still take months and months to unravel", but which had "distracted from the issues that are more core to the future of our country".
He lamented "a campaign beset by dirty politics and sideshows, involving potential abuses of power at the highest level that will still take months and months to unravel", but which had "distracted from the issues that are more core to the future of our country".
For me it was chiefly the time when I wrote my first and second novels, and began to discharge some of the cargo of ideas about art and culture and the proper business of consciousness which had distracted me from writing fiction.
In an urgent Commons question, shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper said Mr Gove and Mrs May had indulged in a "public blame game", which had distracted from the government's work on tackling extremism.
Yesterday all sides declared they want to shut down the "drugs" question which has hogged debate because it has distracted from policy.
These drops frequently came when coaches were exhorting him to focus on a technical aspect of his route running, which could have distracted his focus on the ball.
This mainly referred to family or personal relationship problems, or financial difficulties, issues which may have distracted the driver from their driving role.
The protocol of the present study was performed by manual interventions by the investigators at the bedside, which could have distracted the patients compared with a system with built-in algorithms for non-assisted breaths and occlusions.
Although the NES was administered in a quiet room in the school, it was not possible to adjust for noises from any unexpected sources apart from aircraft and road traffic noise, which may have distracted the children and affected their concentration during the test.
