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Example sentences for: distractions

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He can ill afford the politically motivated distractions posed by Jones and others.
Then, with no more time for distractions, he resumed his trudge through various learned sources (mainly works by John Kenneth Galbraith), denouncing "free markets" this way and that.
21 El General --During the Spanish Civil War, a dedicated engineer (Buster Keaton) keeps his train running despite the distractions of his gorgeous assistant (Sophia Loren).
I did not mention Monica in my lecture, but the first question I was asked was how President Clinton could do his job with all the distractions caused by the Monica Lewinsky affair.
The Clinton administration deemed the talks a success, saying 1) no one expected a breakthrough in the first round; and 2) the unprecedented discussion of substantive issues was a breakthrough . Skeptics said the progress was minimal and questioned whether the "well-rehearsed technique of locking Israel and its adversaries in a negotiating arena, cut off from other distractions, still works as well as it once did."