For other Russians, it's a welcome diversion from the unsettling news closer to home.

Braving arrest with Hollywood stars is a diversion.

AMA welcomes change focus to diversion, rehab'n, treatment.

He did not dwell on the diversion of American corn from food to heavily subsidized bio fuels.

But this is nothing more than a political diversion.

(d) Restorative justice community involvement, diversion and other alternative measures

It is will be vintage Saddam diversion with no real revelations.

Embezzlement, misappropriation or other diversion of property by a public official

Armenian forces are well dug in and have received a significant boost from Russia s diversion of heavy weaponry to Armenia from some recently closed Georgian military bases.

But the failure of this administration runs deeper than its chronic and intentional diversion of resources away from the types of policies that keep people safe from disaster.

Palau has practical controls that would prevent such diversion of funds raised locally.

If Obama fails, the next administration will be sorely tempted to create some diversion from troubles at home at great peril to the world.

The latest report from the International Atomic Energy Agency has verified that there has been no diversion of Iran s civil nuclear program to weapons development.

In controlled firms, where the concern is diversion from minority shareholders, making directors even more responsive to the controller will likely make minority investors still more vulnerable.

In such cases, diversion and dilution of resources and loss of focus is the inevitable result.

The diversion of land to bio fuels production has reduced the land available to produce agricultural commodities.

Concerned also by the increase in the diversion of chemical precursors used in the illicit manufacture of drugs,

The significant threat posed by MANPADs has been acknowledged globally measures to prevent their diversion must be strengthened.

JERUSALEM The resumption of peace talks between Israel and Syria after eight years of saber rattling is not a diversion from the political troubles of Israel s lame duck prime minister.

59 162. Follow up on strengthening the systems of control over chemical precursors and preventing their diversion and trafficking

Once authorities complete their feasibility studies and the diversion scheme begins, the project will be presented as a fait accompli .

Every dollar invested in bolstering a country s nuclear arsenal is a diversion of resources from its schools, hospitals, and other social services, and a theft from the millions around the globe who go hungry or are denied access to basic medicines.

The big question is whether today's cooperation between China and the US will prove to be no more than a diversion from Asia's enduring strategic reality China's emergence as the region's dominant power.

The big question is whether today's cooperation between China and the US will prove to be no more than a diversion from Asia's enduring strategic reality China's emergence as the region's dominant power.

The Six have refused because verification cannot provide an absolute guarantee against the diversion of some enriched uranium to military use.

In 1970, boosted by the new Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT), the IAEA acquired expanded authority to safeguard nuclear elements against diversion.

Critics also cite the diversion of infrastructure funds and Louisiana National Guard troops to Iraq as contributing causes to the emergency.

This diversion was adopted without the consent of Innocent III, who threatened excommunication to any who took part in the attack.

Terrorists groups, insurgents and drug traffickers continue to acquire arms primarily through illegal diversion, theft and smuggling, rather than through legitimate transfers.

To accomplish this, four diversion tunnels were driven through the canyon walls, two on the Nevada side and two on the Arizona side.

Preferential access for African countries, under the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) and more recent initiatives, seems to be largely a matter of trade diversion taking trade from some poor countries and giving it to others.

First, corruption takes many forms, so a war on corruption has to be fought on many fronts. You can t fight the diversion of small amounts of money by weak and poor countries while ignoring the massive diversion of public resources into private hands of the sort that marked, say, Russia under Boris Yeltsin.

China already has identified the bend where the Brahmaputra forms the world s longest and deepest canyon just before entering India as the diversion point.

If designed badly, the cost of such agreements in terms of trade diversion, confusion, and demands on limited administrative capacity often exceeds the benefits.

Of course, the deal may prove to be little more than a diversion, breaking the momentum toward military action but failing to achieve its goal.

IBM grew concerned about the delays in development of OS 2 2.0 and the diversion of IBM funds earmarked for OS 2 development towards Windows.

What Wert has done is a complete diversion, announcing nonsense so that you all resign yourselves to the least, he has backed down as they say.

Social media brings new ideas, different views as it is for development. More ideas, more views, more differences bring diversion and will force us to be tolerant.

In the event of the regime s collapse a distinct possibility it would be difficult to prevent the diversion of its assets, or even the use of its weapons.

Only through full transparency in the global trade in small arms and light weapons can we really fully address the problem of their diversion into the illicit market.

Furthermore, we encourage the Council to consider increased cooperation with the International Criminal Police Organization in order to improve identification of diversion points in the trade of small arms.

Unfortunately, despite the national efforts made, there are still loopholes in the regime governing the legal transfer of arms that allow for the diversion of arms to the illegal market.

And he did deliver on a major new arms reduction treaty with Russia, and hosted a summit aimed at reducing the vulnerability of nuclear weapons and materials to theft or diversion.

Recalling that the Charter of the United Nations envisages the establishment and maintenance of international peace and security with the least diversion for armaments of the world's human and economic resources,

Moreover, the delusion that the European Council can somehow call growth and productivity into being has provided a diversion to national politicians who are unwilling to push for unpopular decisions back home.