I chose a short lacy dress that had a flare to the skirt section, so that hopefully this would distract from my tummy. |
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This was a man who had no intention of allowing any error to distract from his all-important evidence in defence of the Government. |
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Some were suggesting that his interest was overblown to distract attention from the company's poor trading statement. |
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The people, however, provided enough colour in the way they dressed to distract my attention from the rundown streets. |
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There is always a danger that new hi-tech systems will distract attention and divert energies from effective policing. |
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Milling over the thought too much would distract my attention so I averted myself back to the problem at hand. |
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Not even the beautiful scenery flashing past the windows of the truck could distract his thoughts. |
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While small, the errors do distract from an otherwise meticulously researched book. |
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They rhythmically clapped in an attempt to distract and drown out the speakers. |
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So, we shouldn't allow this subtle linkage to Gilgamesh to distract from a proper consideration of paleosols. |
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I think I wanted a TV to distract me from the fact I was breathing, not living! |
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It's an evolutionary trick to distract the pursuer, much as lizards lose their tails. |
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There's some meanies trying to get into the bridge while their buddies here distract you guys! |
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It is seen only in brief flashes, possibly to distract from the fact it looks rubbery. |
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The plot is so ludicrously convoluted that the actors really need to work to distract us from it. |
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To distract myself from the wait for Elle to deliver, I had cooked them the same fruited breads and baked sausages that I served the soldiers. |
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I averted my eyes from the television, trying desperately to distract myself. |
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There are many things that can distract a driver, and kids and pets mucking up in the backseat is a classic. |
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In his prime he was very handsome, but dressed down as if he feared any sartorial display would distract from his teaching. |
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It will be interesting to see who gets what in the jobs carve-up, but that won't distract from the terrible financials. |
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He is savagely denounced for using military adventures to distract attention from his own predicaments. |
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A chilled teething ring may distract the child whilst helping to soothe their sore gums. |
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Don't let the infamous bag lady distract your attention from the real issues. |
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He returned, and began to noisily bang his spoon on the table to distract Al-Allaf, who ignored him and continued to read out loud. |
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As hard as you might try to detect them, there are few gaps or details to distract from the overall impression of seamlessness. |
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The videos apparently distract the viewer's attention from the song to the meaningless portrayal of carnal desires. |
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I got a hangnail, this is gonna distract me the entire fight, I'm gonna sit this one out. |
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There are no love interests and few tertiary characters to distract us from this focus. |
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He was simply trying to distract from his careless and untypical error by being funny. |
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To distract the viewer from the film itself, MGM has loaded up this release with a truckload of bonus materials. |
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On the way Ben watched where the guards patrolled trying to figure the best way to distract them for long enough to get a message out. |
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Well-designed uPVC windows can and do blend in and certainly do not distract from the surrounds. |
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Even the backdrop of hurtling bungee jumpers at the Olympic Park can't distract him. |
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Carpets are needed throughout to dull the sound of footsteps and echoes in the corridors, which can distract and upset some children. |
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Not only are there no other performers to distract the audience, there is no handy support mechanism to prompt a line. |
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All of which should distract them from the fact that they're hauling the little munchkins back to school tomorrow. |
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They veil the simple wisdom of the Buddha's words, and distract us from it. |
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Cunnah is unlikely to let something like a labour dispute distract him from the job in hand. |
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It was politically expedient for Vandemonians to distract attention from events on their island to those on an island far away. |
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That should not distract us from realising how unsectarian Scottish society has actually become. |
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The convoluted plotlines and gimmicky narration distract needlessly from its premise of ecological change and accountability. |
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If I could distract Jafar someway for a few moments, I could make a run for it. |
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The over-reliance on the doosra can sometimes distract a bowler from his primary craft. |
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The other sightseers will not distract you as you gaze in awed silence at the fairy-tale islands of rock amidst the cloud. |
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Lavishly rendered scenes can overcome a lot of obstacles, but nothing can distract us from the non-existence of a coherent story. |
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The audience probably weren't listening anyway, so effectively did the staging distract from Jonathan Summers' thoughtful, amplified vocal. |
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The wider the debates the more they are likely to harass, confuse and distract hard-pressed District Court judges and magistrates in particular. |
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Yes, pop culture pedagogy is, indeed, one way to funnily distract students from the mandatory, often punitive-seeming experience of comp class. |
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An average director would have to punctuate this scene with music or a cutaway or anything to distract us from the stark image. |
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But I'd still rather we didn't have to distract ourselves from our headache by stubbing our toes. |
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Each time I submersed myself in a project, the phone would ring, and I would allow it to distract me in another direction. |
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For a movie that seems contrived as a backdrop for madcap hilarity, there's precious little hilarity to distract you from the backdrop. |
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There is also much to be said for cheap-as-chips packages that cannot distract anyone with 3-D gaming. |
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The graphics too are both simple and apposite, although some of the attractive backgrounds can occasionally distract from the levels themselves. |
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I was rebounding and using an expanse of dates to distract my attention from how awful I really felt. |
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He's a particularly close-mouthed politician, and when he does speak, it is almost always to distract and dissemble. |
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The parents readily feign injury to distract attention from young which can fly at around three weeks. |
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Continue to train abdominals and spinal erectors, as muscle at the front and back of your midsection will distract from your waist width. |
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You know, boys were frolicsome, so they would distract your attention when you were doing things. |
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Such things will not distract him from the task ahead, which involves defending the tour prologue. |
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Bellini has also introduced heavy and disturbing portals between galleries, that distract attention in views of the enfilade. |
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This means trivialities that could distract or divert his focus of attention, which is winning golf tournaments, do not sidetrack him. |
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Now I'm rambling, but these thoughts distract me from concentrating on my work and I must let them out. |
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The more extraneous items you cram on a web page, the more you confuse and distract the visitor. |
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The color should not distract your reader from the main points of your site. |
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However, Coleman's limited critique should not distract readers from recognizing the broader legal landscape depicted in the article. |
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For the most part the colors and image are solid, with little to distract the viewer. |
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The use of fashions in thought is to distract the attention of men from their real dangers. |
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If you want to stop your baby doing something, the best way is to quickly distract and divert her onto a different activity. |
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They are attempting to deflect the ball, distract and unsight defenders and goalkeeper and be in place for rebound opportunities. |
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The argument of menfolk in not allowing women to enter the mosque is that this will distract the attention of men. |
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At the same time, we should not allow it to distract attention from the need for reform of the SIS's general oversight provisions. |
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An irrelevant sight may distract them so they fail to notice important cues, such as brake lights or traffic signs. |
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Yet, the bright shimmer of the production that had initially served to distract from the songs slowly, ineluctably, entranced me. |
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They walked in silence into the woods, and Jonathon focused most of his attention on the scenery to distract himself. |
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His wife had let him divorce her but still called him Normie, still managed to distract him when the phone rang. |
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And so, to distract from this pointless scepticism, I mention something cribbed from the Guardian. |
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The expanse of the day unfolds before me and I can't comprehend how I am going to distract my cranky baby for the next 12 hours. |
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With her short skirt and pompoms, she searches for the game plan, using snack food and beer to distract some rabid fans that get in her way. |
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Yet she is never a Pollyanna, eager to use the amazing accomplishment of her formal acumen to distract us from what she observes. |
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He had managed to distract the man's attention by pointing at something behind his back. |
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He was avoiding the subject, and was using characters he'd played to distract and confuse her. |
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Solid, there's no glaring inconsistencies through the film that distract you. |
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One longs for less to distract you from his unique world-view and wonderfully idiosyncratic voice. |
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By high school, I was a fan of large, baggy dresses and wore a thick mask of painstakingly applied makeup to distract from my pear-shaped body. |
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He chose not to attend the Open championship, not wishing to distract his players. |
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Melissa and her friends try to distract her from this by means of chit-chat and gossip, and there is already plenty of the latter. |
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When threatened, the octopus can squirt out ink as a decoy to distract its predator and allowing the octopus to escape. |
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Her weapon was a set of red cheerleading pom-poms, with which she'd distract assailants before kung-fu kicking them. |
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The actress has some kittenish mannerisms which sometimes distract but she drifts convincingly enough through the sticky New York nights. |
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We have all kinds of ways of imagining the future that distract us from actually living in the present. |
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Most of the film is spent working very hard to build suspense and distract the audience with red herrings that stop being effective early on. |
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There are few red herrings to distract you from the inexorable march of the plot. |
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Personal or other items that might distract workers from their specific duties have been banned from workstations, including coffee and snacks. |
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We're taking the car seat and a stroller and all the toys that distract her for more than fractions of actual seconds. |
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These exchanges are routine, and don't distract Krista from trying to breach an ideological gap with a car full of wrathful seniors. |
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Even more creatively is the fact that players can use the headset's microphone to distract or attract onscreen enemies. |
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He had been arrested by a small-town sheriff trying to distract attention from his own corruption and was convicted on the purchased testimony of a career con man. |
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When you do leave, put on a radio or the TV for background noise, and give your pooch a toy to distract him as you depart. |
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If he moves or gesticulates to distract the thrower, he is cautioned for unsporting behaviour. |
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The problem is that it is being used to waste time and distract from other things when our position is very clear. |
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In greedy desperation, Oberon plans to distract Titania by having his impish henchman Puck slip her a mickey, causing her to fall in love with something repulsive. |
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Maybe that is why they are using something like this to take up House time and distract from the grim realities in which they now engage. |
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It seemed clear that the Prime Minister was going to tough it out, hoping, no doubt, that the hoopla over the Olympics would quickly distract the attention of the electors. |
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Using the Eurostat case as an electoral instrument is the best way to distract the incipient reform process and we do not wish to do this. |
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Anwar's conviction could widen those differences and also distract people from the country's religious tensions and economic problems. |
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It may also help to distract them by playing a game or starting a new activity. |
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Some governments have also fuelled this criticism in order to distract attention from their own economic policy mistakes. |
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But such debates distract from the essential issue for young girls: their right to a basic education. |
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If anyone tries to distract you at a bank machine, complete what you are doing and retrieve your card and money before talking to the person. |
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Policies that distract from this make persons an obstacle to development rather than its object. |
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So keep on thinking about that, and do not distract yourself from your sacred work here, by trying to say prayers of your own. |
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The gate is ideal when you need to eliminate low-level noise that otherwise would distract from the program material. |
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It is for this agenda, and so as not to distract public opinion, that the Convention has to be called. |
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Where the Canadian program differs from many others is in helping athletes deal with other things that may distract them from their sport. |
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During a procedure, you may try to distract your child by engaging them in a fun activity. |
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These are used as a smokescreen to distract us from the real issues. |
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Like any kind of wordplay, verbing can distract instead of persuade. |
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The problem was that, for the last 1,000 years, trespassing was not a crime so the police could do nothing if hunt saboteurs went on to farmland to distract the hounds. |
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With nothing but the gentle slap of one piece of pasteboard against another to distract him, Sam slipped imperceptibly from daydreaming into sleep. |
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While there are glimpses of felicitous dialogue, there is no chemistry between these two characters to distract from the play's weak dramatic structure. |
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And there's no perfect person who's going to distract you long enough. |
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He's only trying to distract attention from all his problems at home. |
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The kind of event meant to distract from a glaring budget fact. |
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Sometimes all you can do is distract yourself until it passes. |
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Which explains the recent appearance of a bogeyman in the culture wars designed to distract from pressing economic realities. |
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This is simply a red herring to try and distract angry voters in Hobson. |
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They still just distract us from generally more substantive topics in need of our attention. |
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The discussion of race in the league just serves to distract from why players misbehave. |
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He uses it to dismiss hecklers and distract from bad news in the Garden State. |
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In each case, the Justice Department used a diversionary tactic to contain the damage and to distract the public from the truth. |
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Their extreme objectification is never hidden, and they often seduce and distract the suave spy. |
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Outside its locked doors, amid atmospheric squalor, the huddling masses distract themselves with bread and circuses, while one man agitates for revolution. |
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It is sometimes helpful to distract attention away from the treatment. |
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All this seasonal picture-painting is, by the way, supposed to distract me from the fact that it is in fact belting down great gusts of rain outside my window right now. |
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Instead, their marshmallow was covered from view, or they were given a pretend scenario to distract themselves with. |
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While it may distract from your tunnel vision, it's wise to think ahead. |
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Moss' presence only serves to distract and irritate as he mugs for the camera and throws around unnecessary voice-overs describing his own actions. |
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Intriguing how a simple answer to a question by a reporter could distract people from the true underhandedness taking place right under their noses. |
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The liquid keeps them totally buoyant and, with no light, sound or other sensation to distract them, the body and mind soon enter a deep state of relaxation. |
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The first is simply that the decision-making process would distract key campaign staff at a moment when they have the non-trivial task of running a presidential campaign. |
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The whole group is in a buoyant mood, with plenty to distract us from the thought of the long flight home tomorrow, with the long stopover in Kuala Lumpur en route. |
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The Newscaster, reporting on the scene, tries to distract his audience from the horrid nightmare by relating an Englishman's views on Steel Tariffs. |
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In the afternoon, to distract myself I went for a walk round the park. |
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One wrong note is all it takes to distract the trumpeters playing their improvs a full octave higher than the rest of us and that puts off the clarinet players. |
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We should integrate literacy into play only if it furthers a play theme in progress, and we should avoid literacy props that may distract children from make-believe. |
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Towards the middle of the game you will find yourself sneaking around, picking the enemy off from a distance, or using items to distract your opponents. |
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There will be no inrush of comments like yesterday to distract me. |
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If you want to distract attention from your top half, go for a plain colour and style on top and a sexier bottom with side ties or lots of flamboyant detail. |
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To enhance control and fun on curvy roads, move the shifter to manual mode and slap it up and down through six distract ratios like the best manu-matic. |
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The first draft I write by hand in my local library, where the room is so grim there is nothing else to distract me, so I concentrate on the writing just to get out of there. |
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In recent years literature has seen a profusion of irony and exotica, as if writers are too exhausted to keep up the fight, and instead hope to distract us. |
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This approach is nice for small texts, but for a 300 pages book, the formatting consume time and distract the writer. |
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Projectiles are any items that can be thrown or projected into the face or path of an assailant to distract him, make him flinch, or to affect his eyesight momentarily. |
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Its clean and simple visual design shouldn't distract you as you work up a sweat. |
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To distract him from his religious inclinations, his father sent him to Nice to stay with a friend of the family. |
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No amount of intellectualizing can distract him from the memory of his beloved's legs, face, and eyes. |
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However we strain to distract ourselves, our consciousness of death heightens our awareness of evil. |
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But not without that bike in front of me with a big jukebox to distract me from being a beat-up little kid. |
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Travellers should be vigilant when visiting outdoor markets and be cautious of strategies to distract their attention. |
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This perceptible latency-or audio lag-can disorient and distract you, making it hard to keep your name at the top of the leaderboards. |
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He would make faces at you, he would taunt you, he would talk constantly, and it would distract me ā a maddening banter, designed to unnerve you. |
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There was even a mini-row to distract him after reporters heard him tell a squaddie that one of his boys is also interested in soldiering. |
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Like cortisone, this art takes effect on the symptom level: it is supposed to distract, desensitize and have an addictive effect. |
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Your photographs all contain a small circle of light to emphasise a particular person or a work or to distract the attention. |
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The psychic reader may try to distract you, but keep your eyes on the prize and you'll walk away with your pockets full. |
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In the evenings brilliant slashes of purple and pink distract the horizon as the sun makes its way towards the sea. |
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The struggle with OCD can eat up your time and distract you from thinking about your future. |
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Graphics go well with the text, but there are so many that they distract from the text. |
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The graphic novel is considered a minor art, essentially meant to distract young readers. |
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They shape-shift their appearance, tell stories, act foolish, and use humour, riddles or sleight of hand to distract. |
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At times the stadium would erupt with support and chants for the Indian team which seemed to distract some of the gymnasts from other countries. |
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Suddenly the sound of light tapping on the ground seemed to distract her. |
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Try to make the victim sit down and try to distract their attention while waiting for first aid to come. |
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These fascinating irrelevancies merely distract attention from the issues really concerning the people of Scotland today. |
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They used handsaws, electric saws, and cutting tools to free her, while using sweets to distract her. |
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Otherwise, they're like training wheels on a bicycle, and they distract from the beauty of pure Pig Latin. |
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However, they must not take the place of disarmament efforts, distract attention from such, nor substitute for the implementation of agreements that have been reached. |
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The baby may seem extra sensitive and hard to distract or comfort. |
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However, the debate on the reform of the Treaties must not, in any way, distract attention from the scale of the change to governance that the revision of the Growth Pact and its link with the Europe 2020 Strategy involves. |
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But I also think that we must work very hard to ensure that the things that make us different from Americans-as important as those differences may be-do not distract us from the things we have in common. |
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They have been sitting on this for a year because they are using it now as an attempt to distract from their own leadership issues and to distract from the problems they are having within their own caucus. |
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The sub-theme, namely, the effect on children, is not meant to distract attention from the main focus but to stress that violence against women affects not only women. |
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While the vehicle is in motion, visual information not related to driving that is likely to distract the driver significantly should be automatically disabled, or presented in such a way that the driver cannot see it. |
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By taking up arms against an imaginary Western plot to spread perversion, Vladimir Putin and Nigeria's Goodluck Jonathan doubtless hope to distract attention from the corruption and incompetence of their own regimes. |
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This will distract you from achieving your daily work goals. |
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He's miscalculated with this restaurant, which doesn't have enough atmospheric magic to distract you from the insane decibel level, absence of elbowroom and uncomfortable chairs. |
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Meanwhile Nadia Kamil's debut Edinburgh, Wide Open Beavers, was did extremely well across the road in Stand 4. The show's title, Kamil claimed, was meant to distract people from the dour topic. |
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Finally, please be on your guard against articulate, high-powered arguments that, simply put, serve as smokescreens to confuse and distract from simple, bottom-line facts. |
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The US media has a knee-jerk 'RED CHINA!' reaction to anything involving HK or the PRC, and is intended to distract from the issue of US government misconduct. |
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Using the work of French artist Invader ā who creates coloured mosaics inspired by the classic Space Invaders game ā to distract the kids, this is a fun, family tour that should keep all ages entertained. |
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We are confident that all the manoeuvres and attempts to distract us from the truth will be revealed at the conclusion of the investigations now under way. |
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As if to distract from his bald-faced unwillingness to help those Canadians most hurt by higher gasoline prices, he went further and lashed out with a vengeance. |
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A referendum now would distract from more urgent economic tasks at hand. |
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Avoid wearing headphones because the music could distract you from noises around you, such as a car blowing its horn so you can get out of the way. |
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We are at a moment in human history that will be apocalyptical among the world's most vulnerable if we in the developed world let this current financial crisis distract us from keeping our commitment to the poor. |
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Waiters were in on the ruse, and would frequently distract customers in order to facilitate the yoinking of oysters and caviar. |
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The Commission has sought to distract the public attention from unresolved internal problems in the present by making glib and bombastic promises for the future. |
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Little can distract a Frenchman from his sacred noonday repast. |
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We deplore, however, the foot-dragging approach of some members, which have formed the habit of introducing inexplicable variables to distract from the ongoing negotiations process. |
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Designing a new electoral system might distract from the more urgent task of economic reform. Some Brazilians are not altogether downhearted, though. |
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The knotty task of integrating two huge research teams can distract both managers and scientists from the all-important quest for new drugsāa problem that will not show up in the balance sheet for several years. |
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Such ensnarement is then used against them to distract them or to obtain their silence regarding the much more serious commercial fraud being committed. |
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Interlocutory appeals are generally disfavored because they interrupt the main proceeding and distract from the completion of the case. |
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Aragorn leads an army of men from Gondor and Rohan to march on the Black Gate to distract Sauron from his true danger. |
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Their rowdiness seems calculated to distract managers, good or bad. |
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The advantage of its Latin origin and the relative meaninglessness of Lorum Ipsum is that the text does not attract attention to itself or distract the viewer's attention from the layout. |
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Construction work or collisions on the freeway distract and slow down commuters, contributing to even longer delays. |
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With no visuals to distract you, every sawing sound and fleshy squelch is magnified, contrasting with the mundane noise of a car passing outside, a reminder of life going on in the streets beyond. |
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I think it helped distract us from the dry, humdrum, and heat of the here and now. |
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A French column would distract Kray from Moreau's true intentions by crossing the Rhine from the west. |
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None of this should distract from Hooke's inventiveness, his remarkable experimental facility, and his capacity for hard work. |
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We need you to buy us some time, so distract the security guard for a few minutes. |
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I am surprised, frankly, that Liberal members on the opposite side of the House would, in their own conscience, sit by and cheer in their churlish, childish way those attempts to distract attention from the real issue. |
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Chemical and mathematical details abound, but do not distract from the general palatability of the main theme. |
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When the Merry Dancers fill our sky, these council lights distract attention away from this majestic spectacle. |
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At one point she lyingly accused another child of moving in the stop-the-dancing break in musical statues to distract attention from the fact that little Joe, unheeding, hadn't stopped dancing. |
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How is the Naked Lady of Northumbria going to fit in or will it not distract drivers? |
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Tricks that an intelligent octopus may employ to distract their predators are to discharge ink or to remove one of its tentacles which will continue to move for a bit after removal. |
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Illumination by a laser beam at night can distract pilots and even cause fatalities if it occurs during a critical phase of flight. |
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Little Anglicisms were left standing that distract from otherwise fine prose. |
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That subject is tangential to our discussion, and we cannot let it distract us. |
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Additional information may distract consumers from more important factors, and it may overwhelm consumers and cause them to make decisions with less reflection rather than more. |
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He'd refused to say anything more, because he didn't want to distract her with his problems on the eve of the Quals. |
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I chose a squirming little furball with a doggish face and tabby stripes and brought it home as a surprise for Connie, hoping it would distract her long enough for her to reƫvaluate the decision she was committing us to. |
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Hunters commonly used teams of dogs to distract the bear, allowing the hunter to spear the bear or shoot it with arrows at closer range. |
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We shouldn't let these post mortem injuries distract us while looking for the cause of death. |
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In socialising with sick children and seeing their suffering, he tried to distract them from their pain and homesickness by drawing their portraits, which amazed and gladdened his newfound friends. |
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Start with desensitising CDs now and play to distract pets while the sounds get louder to help him associate fun with the noises before the night. |
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There are no wires or earpieces on the players to distract them. |
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This is exactly why you shouldnt let fair-weather friends distract you. |
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Were believers thoroughly persuaded of what God meaneth, by these things, they would not be so liable to those frights and amazements which distract and disturb them. |
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He started the story shortly before his wedding to his pregnant girlfriend, Ann Charteris, in order to distract himself from his forthcoming nuptials. |
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In 2008, the Cambridge graduate, 50, had revealed that during his time with MI6, he had received training on how to use strobe lights to distract people. |
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In the Gulf War, while retreating from Kuwait, the Iraqi army had set many oil wells on fire in an attempt to disguise troop movements and to distract Coalition forces. |
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Unfortunately, her sworn enemy Slaggy Lindsay also has designs on the new boy, as well as the best cleavage in the entire year group to distract his attention. |
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Since their introduction in the 1920s, car radios have been blamed for causing accidents as they distract drivers who retune them while on the move. |
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Is this just a smokescreen to distract us from other things? |
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