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17 The Supreme Court permitted the Jones suit in part because it would not distract the president from his job.
4) This is another attempt to distract attention from the bombing of Yugoslavia.
With equal cynicism, Clinton's surrogates used these conservative associations to distract the public from his treatment of women.
Republicans fear that if he picks his issues carefully--education or the environment, not the IMF (too foreign)--vetoes some of the spending bills, and blocks a continuing resolution, he could galvanize disaffected Democrats in Congress and distract voters from Flytrap.
Ben-Gurion felt that releasing the document after the trial would distract attention from the court's verdict--an explicit rejection of Eichmann's claims.