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Example sentences for: divert

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Those politicians who have devoted their lives to exacerbating that burden--like Bob Dole and Bill Clinton--would prefer to divert your attention to relative nonissues like the deficit.
One U.S. official notes that while war might divert the countries' resources away from funding international terrorism, it would also hamper their monitoring of domestic terrorist groups.
Quindlen, a board member of the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League, had no plans to discuss abortion in her address--"I would have talked about the sheer pleasure of living," she told the Philadelphia Inquirer . She added that she didn't want to divert attention from the students on their graduation day.
A spin doctor (Robert De Niro) and a Hollywood producer (Dustin Hoffman) orchestrate a fake war to divert attention from a presidential sex scandal.
I'm sorry that Stein cannot decide whether the president's bombing of Iraq was generated by a wish to divert the nation.