Mr Nesbitt said nothing should deflect from marking "the memory of two brave citizens".
This would be "better for the country" than a "rash of by-elections which I think would actually kind of deflect from the need that everyone feels for a general election, " he added.
From 2000 through 2002 AOL committed fraud to boost its online advertising revenue and deflect attention from a business slow-down.
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The arrests may be intended to deflect attention from the Securities and Exchange Commission itself.
His Euro-bashing looks like a ploy to confuse the issue and deflect criticism from the government.
Most Palestinians are anxious to avoid a schism that would deflect them from their confrontation with Israel.
In picking Ryan, Romney may have hoped to deflect concern from jobs to Ryan's hobby horse of the deficit.
They have V-shaped hulls that deflect blasts from improvised explosive devices -- IEDs -- outward and away from passengers.
Try as it might, Samsung cannot deflect attention from its own copying by the patents it has asserted against Apple.
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Indeed, the fact that the scale of the disaster has so far been contained should not deflect attention from the dangers ahead.
Speaking on Monday morning, the opposition leader sought to deflect attention from his backing for Lord Archer by blaming the Tory peer for lying.
But two topics of great moment for the Union that seemed unlikely to deflect leaders from their immediate aim of enlarging membership were no less nerve-jangling.
That said, there is a value to Big Oil in doing something green, even if the biggest benefit is being able to deflect flack from environmentalists.
To simply liken divorce to an illness, only serves to deflect attention from the real reasons why more marriages end prematurely these days than they used to.
Hatfill's attorneys said the FBI tipped the news media to searches of Hatfill's home to deflect attention from what the attorneys characterize as a floundering anthrax investigation.
At the time, Gerry Adams claimed that Mr Donaldson had spoken out because he was about to be "outed" by police officers determined to deflect attention from the raid.
When it all went wrong, politicians both in the US and elsewhere sought to deflect attention from their own actions by the ever-popular sport of attacking and blaming the banks.
Others, however, who saw Armstrong as a symbol of hope and solidarity were completely devastated by his fall, with some cynically wondering if Livestrong was a front to deflect attention from doping allegations.
"Matt is extremely disappointed that Dottie and the Sanduskys have decided to smear his character in an attempt to deflect attention from Jerry Sandusky's heinous crimes, " his lawyers Justine Andronici and Andrew Shubin said in a written statement to CNN.
In short, they say, let us try harder to prevent families from requiring social care, to prevent people from requiring hospital treatment, to deflect young people from an aimless life which ends in prison.
Prolexic Technologies and others that help companies deflect unwanted traffic from their sites.
So, a fox-hunting ban is a perfect cause to unite the party and deflect critics away from more expensive campaigns.
This would deflect attention away from the urgent policy problems confronting Europe and serve as a pretext for a period of intense naval-gazing.
At employment, Mr Smith was a skilful communicator, and had managed, until recently, to deflect attention away from the flaws in the New Deal, a scheme for getting the long-term unemployed into work.
If he wanted to deflect attention away from himself, he did so by including Thatcher in his team for the first time since the defender's horrifying challenge on Portsmouth's Pedro Mendes on 23 August.
The review appears, temporarily at least, to ease the pressure on head coach Eddie O'Sullivan and deflect further criticism from the IRFU's three-man committee which gave him a bew four-year contract before the World Cup started.
While Mr Cameron may get some "concessions", in calling for a renegotiation of powers, he said the prime minister was trying to "deflect" attention from the real issue of the UK's membership and delay a referendum for five years.
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Instead of scaling back state spending and regulations, politicians and pundits today prefer to re-jigger the tax code yet again, so as to deflect attention away from the size of Leviathan to the means by which it is financed.
Mr Khan has said he acted to deflect western attention from Pakistan's own nuclear programme (in 1990 America had cut off all military aid to Pakistan because of its then covert bomb-building) and, in the case of Libya and Iran, as a gesture of support for two fellow Muslim countries.
"Mayor Bloomberg can try to deflect attention away from his disastrous policies all he wants, but 50, 000 New Yorkers would not be homeless today if he had chosen to invest in the strategy of moving families into permanent, affordable housing that Mayors Ed Koch, David Dinkins and Rudy Giuliani all used with success, " said Mary Brosnahan, the coalition president, in an email.
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