It is hard to understate the consequences of Mr Rove being distracted from his job.
In Rupp's opinion, the respiratory protection debate has distracted from other crucial flu-fighting measures.
But for the moment, Vasek is distracted from his troubles as a circus rolls into town.
We should not be distracted from looking for the real contributing factors to societal violence.
In the film, when Bond receives a golden bullet inscribed with 007, he is distracted from his mission.
And what about the argument that she is a negligent mother who will be distracted from her important role?
The idea is to raise people's curiosity enough while ensuring they won't be annoyed at being distracted from the tennis.
At times, I found myself distracted from the actual game by watching little vignettes play out in front of me.
When we make decisions, we have a tendency to get lost in the "muck" and get distracted from our core priorities.
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But the more gadgets a driver has to hand, the more he or she risks being distracted from what's happening on the road.
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He says the legislation's wording on competition must be amended or doctors could get "bogged down" in the process and distracted from patient care.
One risk is that by providing so much content on tablets and smartphones, viewers can get distracted from the show or, even worse, the ads.
The costs of this and other lawsuits, claims the Foundation, distracted from their true purpose while creating too great a financial risk for the future.
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They did just enough to keep our hopes pathetically alive, just enough to keep us distracted from running full speed against a range of other opportunities.
More worryingly, political intrigue and conspiracy now seem so to transfix Czech politicians that they are distracted from getting on with the sensible running of their country.
And it will have to live with the economic aftermath of a decade in which three administrations were frequently distracted from a faltering economy by the demands of overseas conflicts.
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The old Erasmus would be troubled by all these developments, but he would neither despair nor be distracted from his belief in sifting the evidence and patiently searching for the truth.
As a result, many managers below the VP level are struggling with personnel decisions (not to mention the forms), giving inconsistent messages to their teams, and becoming distracted from their business objectives.
Once under way, television footage of rows of empty seats at venues long assumed by home fans to be sold out had threatened to become a defining narrative that distracted from the events themselves.
Mr Merloni believes it would be fatal to be distracted from his firm's focus on white goods. (A family holding company oversees unrelated investments, notably in energy.) Fiat diversified way beyond cars, spanning tractors to financial services.
Her focus on being a victim immobilized her from thinking like a business woman and distracted her from behaving like a leader.
Mr Bush might hope for such a scrap, if it distracted Americans from his many troubles.
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Part of the problem is that Mr de la Rua's difficulties have distracted him from further reforms.
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Some argue that the focus on the tablets has distracted attention from a deeper malaise affecting Thai education.
It actually would have distracted us from the steps we did need to take to protect the American people.
It has also distracted them from the dark numbers coming from the large markets like Chicago, Los Angeles, and Philadelphia.
Rovers' spokesman John Byrne said the sudden worldwide attention on the club has not distracted players from their important League of Ireland games.
Yet the affair has quite clearly distracted ministers from their jobs.
So while the presence of smartphones probably distracted us from real-time interactions on occasion (like when we were checking emails), overall they enhanced and enriched our experience.
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