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Example sentences for: deflection

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Although it's obvious that successful Middle East diplomacy could be a powerful deflection from Clinton's scandal and could help immeasurably in the upcoming elections, the papers don't make much of this.
First you get the secret hotel meetings, the furtive use of code names, the artful deflection of an outsider's nosy question about the relationship.
According to Ohm's law, this increases the voltage deflection recorded for a given current flowing through this extracellular resistance.
The press conference was strikingly Western-style, says the paper, complete with Zhu's deflection of a serious question about eventual national elections with a quip about pictures of him in Time and Newsweek .