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Lest the national language be eventually supplanted by le sabir atlantique (the Atlantic pidgin), he urged the government to set up a system of penalties to divert the linguistic polluters from the path of sin.
The question is, would cream skimming divert so much volume that universal service at affordable prices becomes infeasible?
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 ...
A staffer for McFarlane and Poindexter, Marine Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North, developed a scheme to trade U.S. arms for hostages and divert the proceeds to the Contras to get around U.S. law.
The pilots knew their mission was to divert aircraft, but did not know that the threat came from hijacked airliners.