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Most plans attempt to "divert" those who apply for welfare into private jobs.
Democrats want to divert attention to the significance of the case, which is weak.
The merchants wanted to divert trade away from the Arabs, fearing the enrichment of the North African Maghreb as a threat to Christian Europe.
Ever since James Carville declared "war" a year ago, the White House strategy has been to divert scrutiny to Starr, Newt Gingrich, and other enemies of Clinton.
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.