The arrests may be intended to deflect attention from the Securities and Exchange Commission itself.
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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Indeed, the fact that the scale of the disaster has so far been contained should not deflect attention from the dangers ahead.
Some sceptics believe that the story of the plot is little more than a device to deflect attention from the government's heavy-handed conclusion to the kidnapping.
And many of them come from people who consciously want to deflect the attention of the American electorate from the real issue: as the United States becomes increasingly dependent on Chinese finance, it is rapidly losing its economic sovereignty.
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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.
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.
They want to deflect public attention from the charge that their candidate, the President, improperly touched an adolescent girl.
Gore's publicity apparatus has attempted in recent days to deflect the public's attention from the vast number of court rulings issued across Florida.
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.
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.
Speaking on Monday morning, the opposition leader sought to deflect attention from his backing for Lord Archer by blaming the Tory peer for lying.
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.
Try as it might, Samsung cannot deflect attention from its own copying by the patents it has asserted against Apple.
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"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.
It is another instance of a bureaucratic term which hides the true nature of a government department's activity and is designed to deflect attention away from it.
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.
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