Although this might drive an able-bodied subject to distraction, the doctor's prize pupils are far from normal.
Clinton and his helpers have got so good at damage control that it's driving even august Republicans to distraction.
Dr White reckons that the residents of Cowboy Wash may have fallen victim to starving raiders, driven to distraction by failed harvests.
But it also demonstrated how the media are driving us to distraction with silly sidebars, reducing entire presidential debates to Big Bird, bayonets and binders full of women.
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While I stipulate to the fact ideas can sometimes lead to great things, I also submit it is more frequently the case that ideas lead to distraction, disappointment, and even outright disaster.
With a Gallic esprit that irritated its allies to distraction, France has nominated Jean-Claude Trichet, head of the Bank of France, to lead the new central bank Europe requires when the single currency is launched.
Israel's economy, though not without the odd tremor, has boomed in comparison with those of its floundering Arab neighbours, where governments have been driven to distraction or overthrown amid the turbulence of the Arab spring.
Mr Gates, however, has had to work at his partnerships: after leaving the chief executive's chair at Microsoft he almost drove Mr Ballmer to distraction and the two had to make peace over dinner in 2001.
Why Napoleon ached to flee this sumptuous villa, with its enviable views, terraced garden and library, to once again live out of a travel trunk and trampoline-caliber camp bed (on display in the home) taxes the sensible mind to distraction.
The possibility that a man who has broken-the-code on the threat posed by the Wahhabis and other Islamists and done as much as anybody to raise an alarm about it might actually be credentialed in this way is driving their fellow-travelers to distraction.
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The possibility that a man who has broken-the-code on the threat posed by the Wahhabis and other Islamists -- and done as much as anybody to raise an alarm about it -- might actually be credentialed in this way is driving their fellow-travelers to distraction.
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If you have sat across the table for months on end with Cyril Ramaphosa and found a way by which sworn enemies can come together to craft a new nation (and become firm friends), then the frustrations that drive the rest of us to distraction seem to count for little.
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Where ports and hardware keys are concerned, HTC's done its best to keep the distraction to a minimum, carving those odds and ends out of the very same plastic as the chassis.
The challenges we face in Western New York and across the country are too serious for me to allow this distraction to continue, and so I am announcing that I have resigned my seat in Congress effective immediately.
And now, with the Iranian regime besieged by its own people as never before, and with just a short period required for it to cross the nuclear threshold, Iran has more reason than ever to seek a distraction in Lebanon to buy time for itself.
But there are the usual privacy concerns as well as worries about adding to driver distraction.
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Do what you can to prevent distraction from becoming a major challenge.
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Ford's prototype system aims to lessen distraction by taking readouts from biometric sensors and combining the data with information from the car, including speed, steering-wheel angle, and data from radar sensors or cameras used in blind-spot obstacle detection or cruise control.
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The best way to avoid the distraction of business management is to outsource your administration and infrastructure.
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Facebook does not have to be a weapon of mass emotional destruction or a distraction to your social interactions.
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"As long as Wal-Mart is targeting the consumer and relying on consumers walking the aisles to buy supplies, they will not be a big distraction to the office supply stores, " he says.
"Peripheral Warfare" strategy was recently tested by Iran in its proxy war with Israel, when two of its surrogate forces, Hezbollah and Hamas, utilized specialized missile crews to bomb Israeli civilians, as well as to cause a distraction while it fired upon Israeli border patrols in 2006 to start the Israel-Hezbollah War.
But regardless of the legal outcome, Dunn and other board members could face pressure to resign if the ongoing controversy persists and becomes a too much of a distraction to the company.
Whitman told reporters after the debate that the controversy over Nicky Diaz Santillan, who the former CEO of eBay says confessed to being an illegal immigrant last year and was subsequently fired, is just a distraction to her race for governor.
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Existing technology like text-to-speech, voice command, Bluetooth hands-free calling and traffic services also helps alleviate driver distraction to avoid potentially dangerous situations.
The National Transportation Safety Board formally told us last week that your customers (and their teenage children) are addicted to smartphones to the point of distraction while driving posing danger to themselves and to cars around them.
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He could pay attention to it or he could create a distraction in order to ignore it.
Rabois denied the charges, but resigned saying he wanted to avoid a distraction for Square.
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Amazon seems sensitive to issues relating to focus and distraction, at least where children are concerned.
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She also accused Republicans of jumping on reports of the briefings to cause a distraction.
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