There are designs to perform such deflections, but the technology still needs to be developed.

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Giggs jinked his way into the Villa penalty area and his shot took two deflections before looping past Taylor.

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Such deflections are not necessarily bad, according to a new IMF discussion paper by Mr Ostry, Atish Ghosh and Mr Korinek.

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Pitino said the Cardinals had 38 deflections by halftime and 58 overall, an all-time high on the special chart his assistants keep.

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And Fulham eventually buckled when John Arne Riise's shot took deflections off Gera and his brother Bjorn on the way past wrong-footed Cottagers keeper Mark Schwarzer.

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Already thin and minimal, the pier was then slit in its upper reaches to create a vertical groove that allowed the two resulting sides to flex and absorb horizontal deflections from movement of the roadway.

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Rick Pitino, now head coach of Louisville Cardinals, kept a record of deflections while he was an assistant coach more than thirty years ago under NBA coach Hubie Brown then coaching the New York Knicks.

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