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Some critics have said the problem is that the tests divert money away from actual educational improvements.
He recalled feeling that it did no good to establish the CAP unless the pilots had instructions on whether they were authorized to shoot if the plane would not divert.
"This consideration took precedence, apparently, over Clinton's unwillingness to be portrayed as trying to divert American public opinion from the impeachment process," Ben-Ishai wrote.
These financial facilitators also appeared to rely heavily on certain imams at mosques who were willing to divert zakat donations to al Qaeda's cause.
In a letter to Elbridge Gerry, written from Braintree, Massachusetts, 17 October 1779, Adams described the tactics he had tried to use in Paris to avoid political queries made by an insistent Ralph Izard: At Sometimes [ sic ] I endeavoured to perswade [ sic ] him to excuse me, at others I rhodomontaded it, with him, and endeavoured to divert him from it ...