Politicians' ritual slanging matches should not be allowed to distract Canadians from weightier battles, such as the bobsleigh, the giant slalom or round-robin curling.
Creating a new department to engage in such an exercise would be expensive and distract us from our current efforts to find, hire, and retain the skilled security people we need as the threat rises, the methodologies of the attackers gain in sophistication, and the targets of their attacks expand to all of our intellectual property.
But eating while trying to browse Facebook in an attempt to distract from your loneliness can be a challenge.
This would be harmless enough if it did not distract from bigger issues.
Why distract from all the other things we could be talking about by just simply providing the list?
And so we hope that it will not distract attention from the work that needs to be done very quickly to find resolution on funding for the rest of this fiscal year so we can move on to these bigger issues.
Last month, they wondered whether the scare about an election postponement was a ploy to distract attention from the announcement that John Edwards would be Mr Kerry's running mate.
CNN's Richard Quest said Cameron's attempt to go after tax cheats could be seen as good populist politics and an easy shot as he tries to distract from other matters.
And there's going to be along the road here, as there always is, an attempt to distract attention from the issues when one side is losing the debate over the issues.
"Gardenhire had no idea that the deceptively ordinary laser he had borrowed from a friend was powerful enough to be seen by, much less distract, a pilot thousands of feet away, " wrote attorney Sean Kennedy.
Most of these cannot be readily quantified but are disproportionately important to the poor, who cannot afford to distract or insulate themselves from them.
And while music helps distract people from the rigors of toning their muscles and improving their heart health, it may be having an adverse effect on another body part: the eardrums.
EU's industrial policy (even though the trio differed on what that policy should be), politicians have been increasingly willing to slam the commission for no higher purpose than to distract attention from their own problems.
And if we are not careful, we will be on our way to becoming cyborgs: bolting gadgets onto our bodies will distract, disrupt, and disengage us from others, ultimately degrading our human experience.
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