Unfortunately, our attention is diverted from where it matters.

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A small marsh bird only diverted her attention for an instant.

Countries are getting tougher because migration flows can be diverted across jurisdictions.

But excessive secrecy leads to scarce resources being diverted into wild goose chases.

Decisions taken behind opaque walls are more likely to be diverted to their interests.

This report reviewed the diverted assets of more than thirty leaders of developing countries.

Beijing s coal induced smog forced people to stay in their homes, closed highways, and diverted flights.

He and others were especially concerned about nuclear reactors being diverted from plutonium to tritium production.

Current executive directors typically do not have the authority to make commitments on their countries behalf, so their effort is often diverted to minutiae.

This means that attention is diverted from the weakest and those most in need to those who already are well enough off to be organized.

Water from the Tiger Leaping Gorge will be diverted to flush out Dianchi Lake, without which Kunming will not prosper.

Although dissent was mostly diverted to Afghanistan, bin Laden s most trusted companions (his wife, too) have remained mainly in Yemen.

So did inflation targeting the excessive focus on inflation had diverted attention from the more fundamental question of financial stability.

Pestsov more than once during dinner time flew at these questions, but Koznyshev and Oblonsky carefully diverted him from them.

Those stocks could indeed be diverted and could help to fuel illicit trafficking, particularly to non State actors in Africa.

The result was that agricultural labor and resources were rapidly diverted to industry, resulting in a famine that killed tens of millions.

One example was the announcement that some of its enriched uranium is being diverted to medical research in other words, uranium enrichment, according to this message, can be slowed down.

Nicaragua s dictator, Anastasio Somoza, diverted much of the international assistance meant for the survivors into his own pockets and those of his cronies.

By focusing global attention on an economic crisis that does not really exist, it has diverted public attention from serious crises that do.

The river was diverted into the two Arizona tunnels on November 13, 1932 the Nevada tunnels were kept in reserve for high water.

While this revision occurs, resources are diverted from production, which is less efficient and less well matched with consumer desires, resulting in a reduction in the value of output a recession.

It squandered American soft power, diverted attention from Afghanistan and Al Qaeda, and created a danger that Iraq may become a haven for terrorists.

Given that this risks renewed violence, it is critical that Israel s regional partners and international actors understand that Palestinians will not be diverted from their strategic objective of achieving an independent state.

Two air force pilots diverted to Malta, followed by a navy warship all in defiance of Qaddafi s orders to bomb the eastern city of Benghazi.

Of course, any assistance to North Korea would have to be monitored closely to prevent it from being diverted for military or other political purposes.

Of the prefabricated accommodation units purchased, four 100 man living accommodation units, fully equipped and furnished, were diverted to the United Nations Operation in Somalia (UNOSOM).

Third, staff can focus on delivery, and not be diverted by the kind of major operating system rollout and organizational restructuring that took place in 2004.

Here Oleg Nilov diverted the discussion to an unexpected course It is hard to find more talented people than in Chechnya or Dagestan, but they are pushed the wrong way, down the wrong road, he said.

At the moment, revenues are diverted away from the regions to the center and then dispatched abroad the oligarchs' wealth of billions comes from fleecing the Russian provinces.

But the focus on agriculture diverted attention from a far broader agenda that could have been pursued in ways that would have benefited both North and the South.

it is much easier to apply the nation label (i.e. straightjacket) and manipulate the minds the lack of a better alternative and the diverted focus of attention might, after all, fuel sufficient courage and dedication for a conflict

Self confidence among the governed and caution among the rulers these are the psychological springs of democracy and true freedom, and they can never again be diverted in our homeland.

The logic of this type of mobilization is that resources are directed to the group that shouts the loudest and is able to trigger social conflict. This means that attention is diverted from the weakest and those most in need to those who already are well enough off to be organized.

But the much larger sums that Saddam diverted for his own purposes reflected how the member governments designed the program, and they chose to turn a blind eye to the abuse.

But the much larger sums that Saddam diverted for his own purposes reflected how the member governments designed the program, and they chose to turn a blind eye to the abuse.

When asked whether he would recommend the budget for the Ferris Wheel to be diverted to flood victims and to build a flood protection system, President of Macedonia Gjorge Ivanov replied

Mikhail Gorbachev was originally installed in power to press on with Yuri Andropov s KGB inspired vision of communism, but instead diverted the Soviet Union s course into glasnost and perestroika , and accidentally into freedom.

However, if exports increase, the factors of production namely capital, qualified workers, and unskilled workers must be diverted from other sectors of the economy, and this leads to a loss of jobs there.

The so called efficient markets model, which holds that prices fully and efficiently reflect all available information, also came in for a trashing. So did inflation targeting the excessive focus on inflation had diverted attention from the more fundamental question of financial stability.

Levin was just preparing to start a conversation with the old waiter when the Secretary of the Court of Nobility, an old man whose speciality it was to know all the nobles of the Province by name and patronymic, diverted his attention.

What's more, students from Mahamane Alassane Haidara High School and the student teachers from Timbuktu's teacher training institute have experienced a rocky academic year, with classes being disrupted by numerous social movements such as strikes, teachers withholding marks and problems with diverted scholarships.

Instead of a cheerful, healthy stranger who, he hoped, would have diverted him from his mental perplexity, he had to meet his brother, who knew him through and through and would disturb his innermost thoughts and force him to make a clean breast of everything.

Levin was not so lucky he fired at the first snipe too near, and missed he followed it with his gun when it had already risen, but at that instant another rose just at his feet and diverted his attention, and he missed again.

The main manufacturers and exporters must be subject to precise rules that would prevent the transfer of small arms and light weapons that could be diverted onto the illegal track or that could fall into the hands of criminal gangs and those who violate international law.