| The resilience of its merchant groups in deflecting the European efforts at monopolizing the carrying trade in the Indian Ocean was impressive. |
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| Whirling around, he swung hard with the Golden Axe, deflecting a flurry of knives that had been thrown in his direction. |
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| Pryce took his opponent's blow upon his shield, easily deflecting the downward stroke. |
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| He turns misses into points by rebounding the ball, by deflecting rebounds to a teammate or with a well-timed putback. |
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| The object of this drill is to pass the ball to each other without the defensive man touching, deflecting, or stealing the ball. |
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| Sharon seems to be deflecting on the art of understanding poetry in itself, because she objectifies this work with the woman as she knew her. |
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| So who precisely is deflecting public perception away from internal problems onto the international stage? |
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| But certainly he's been playing this card as a way of deflecting criticism from his own rule or misrule as the case may be. |
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| Some of these approximate perfect round beads, creating scintillating effects in deflecting light rays. |
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| Beyond, looming into the blackness, reared a dark, heavily forested peninsula, like a giant's outthrust shoulder deflecting the sea's fury. |
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| Even so, architects are carefully vetting developer agreements in hopes of deflecting litigation. |
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| He has made himself a lightning conductor, deflecting the attention away from Blair. |
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| Prince Philip has often been controversial, but this has operated like a lightning rod deflecting criticism from the Queen herself. |
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| I had put a robe on over my nightgown and both garments together did a fair job of deflecting the faint breeze. |
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| In addition to the wing lift loads possibly not being equal, deflecting the ailerons to try to roll level exerts torsional forces on the wing. |
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| Curtis Jordan sealed the victory by deflecting Kramer's last-second Hail Mary pass. |
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| Mostly, they seem to have practiced deflecting it, or clumsily, destructively manhandling it. |
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| The water separator separates water from the air water mixture by deflecting it via the deflector into the water separator's storage tank. |
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| It is possible that thrill-seeking nihilists picked a target tailor-made for deflecting suspicion. |
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| Observations of the Sun deflecting starlight ushered in a new way of thinking about gravity. |
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| Over the years, she has become highly adept at deflecting personal criticism, smearing her accusers as misogynists who cannot bear the idea of a strong professional woman. |
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| To push such an institution towards a commercialization goal would risk deflecting it from its primary purpose. |
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| The chassis guards help protect the engine compartment by deflecting debris from rising upward along the chassis. |
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| They are intended to prevent countries which are not eligible from deflecting trade. |
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| The outside row of a shelterbelt acts as a snow trap and starts deflecting the wind current up. |
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| In fact this was nothing more than a way of deflecting criticism away from the state while at the same time providing profits for private industry. |
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| The Stiffness of paper is defined as the bending movement the paper can withstand in both directions by deflecting a small weighted pendulum. |
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| Due to the extremely small diameter of its deflecting roller of only 8mm, it can hand over even the tiniest parts. |
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| The amount of advance warning also determines the choice of response system, as we have a wide range of methods for deflecting an object. |
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| Apart from Gibraltar, where safeguarding the apes might be a welcome way of deflecting a Spanish threat, Europe has no great apes. |
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| Rupert Murdoch has a long history of successfully deflecting hostile fire about his influence on the news business. |
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| He was adept at deflecting a direct question with an anecdote or a bromide presented as a confidence. |
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| Ever had a petty and vindictive boss, competent only at deflecting blame for his own shortcomings? |
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| Weiner is, not surprisingly, very much against spoilers, and very good at deflecting questions. |
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| By pouncing on the moderator, Team Romney is deflecting attention from a tough night for its man. |
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| But she is nothing if not scrupulous about deflecting personal scrutiny, having long since turned herself into a more or less ageless, stateless androgyne. |
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| Newt Gingrich was on the griddle for much of the evening, easily defending his ideas and deflecting criticism. |
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| His effort only succeeded in deflecting the ball past the defender and subsequently into the corner of the net past the unsighted Stephen Kelly in the De La Salle goal. |
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| Well in advance, she predicted tornadoes, disasters and deaths, and was responsible for deflecting those evils which were the very opposite of peace and signified a conflict between nature and humanity. |
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| In fact, a recent access to information request by CAAR reveals that AAFC is actually internally dodging and deflecting the issue at every opportunity. |
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| When adorned with bull or 'roo bars, useful for deflecting wildlife in remoter parts of Africa or Australia, an SUV becomes a particularly lethal urban attack weapon should it encounter a pedestrian or smaller vehicle. |
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| Is there anything they can do to change the thinking of the world in regard to money, thus deflecting it into channels where it will be more correctly used? |
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| The knife provides the same adjustment features as the deflecting roller. |
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| Wind turbines also gain some energy from the impulse of the wind, by deflecting it at an angle. |
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| There will inevitably be some inconvenience to government in deflecting unwanted input or in justifying the usefulness of existing laws but that, we argue, is a small cost compared to the benefits of a healthy democracy. |
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| This is usually achieved by deflecting a laser beam with scanning mirrors. |
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| Monaco's Nabil Dirar, just off the bench, sent in a cross to El Shaarawy, whose header beat Hugo Lloris after deflecting off Kieran Trippier. |
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| The axis may therefore wobble when deflecting forces are applied. |
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| While he did not deny the generosity of international aid, he highlighted the fact that poverty had got worse in Cambodia because of corruption, which was deflecting aid to feed a sham democracy. |
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| High sunflower prices should eliminate further Pakistan buying interest in sunflower seed, thereby deflecting at least 250,000 tonnes of extra demand to canola. |
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| Bernardo Silva proved pesky down Monaco's right flank for a while, combining slickly with Jeremy Toulalan and Moutinho to reach the byline as Chiellini stumbled, with Barzagli instinctively deflecting the pull-back behind. |
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| Probably the force of the arctic water that has come down from Baffin Island and Greenland, freighting its icebergs, helps push the Stream to the east — that and the deflecting force of the earth's rotation. |
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| Each deflecting prism is individually polished and added on in the tool. |
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| He good naturedly indulges me as I explore the idea of him transcending certain stereotypes, but ultimately, there's a flickering, deflecting mask – of clothing, behaviour, gesture and language – that he must stay behind. |
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| To cover the parapet or breastwork of a tower or bailey with a convex cylindrical surface, with the aim of deflecting direct shots at the wall and increase resistance to the impact. |
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| The principle of defence is the opposition of the forte of the defending blade to the foible of the attacking blade deflecting the attack clear of the target. |
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| The grooves interfere with the air flow just enough to allow the air into the engine, while deflecting the water droplets which would turn to ice. |
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| Hurst took the penalty and struck a powerful shot into the top corner which was saved by Gordon Banks, who succeeded in deflecting the ball over the bar. |
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| Lift is generated when air flows over the kite's wing, producing low pressure above the wing and high pressure below it, and deflecting the airflow downwards. |
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