• Any method of deflecting a person thinking about suicide can buy valuable time that may allow him or her to reconsider.

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  • But Mr Obama is hardly a master of deflecting attention from himself.

    ECONOMIST: Is America beginning to weary of ��Yes we can��?

  • Mr Barak's supporters are busy digging up similar stories about rival parties, in the hope of deflecting or at least attenuating Mr Rubinstein's wrath.

    ECONOMIST: Israel

  • Astronauts would then travel to the asteroid where "there could be mining activities, research into ways of deflecting an asteroid from striking Earth and testing to develop technology for a trip to deep space and Mars, " it said.

    CNN: Forget falling stars: NASA plans to catch an asteroid

  • Turkle suggests that this kind of confession is a way of deflecting direct conflict: it can be easier to tell your woes and secrets to a stranger (or a lot of strangers) than to heal your wounds with people who are actually in your life.

    NEWYORKER: The Disconnect

  • Earlier this month BP released an internal report into its spill in the Gulf of Mexico, deflecting much of the blame for the disaster onto rig owner Transocean and contractor Halliburton.

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  • Studying the ripples allows the mass of the deflecting objects to be calculated.

    ECONOMIST: Cosmology

  • Either man would be more than capable of respectfully deflecting US pressure on the Palestinian issue away from Netanyahu and so freeing the prime minister to attend to the Iranian threat.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Obama��s High Commissioner

  • The idea is to inject clouds of material into the stratosphere, creating a thin haze and deflecting some of the sun's rays away from the Earth, at least temporarily.

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  • This leads to various missions involving your binocular-camera, a suit of fire-deflecting Samurai armor, and various other tools at your disposal, including your wits.

    FORBES: Connect

  • Hitler escaped the full force of the blast when someone moved the briefcase next to a table leg, deflecting much of the explosive force.

    NPR: Last Survivor Of Plot To Kill Hitler Dies At 90

  • Uruguay international Luis Suarez was at the center of the action, his early shot deflecting off Leighton Baines to produce the opening goal.

    CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

  • Goldman Sachs' head of public relations, the sharp-tongued Lucas van Praag, has gone from deflecting negative publicity about his firm to taking barbs as the subject of a blistering Twitter parody, authored by a group of financial bloggers who are sharp-tongued snarks in their own right.

    FORBES: Pranking Goldman's Lucas Van Praag

  • No one was better than Jobs at making sure Apple products were elegant packages with magnetic appeal, and even when they fell short of rival products, he was adept at deflecting criticism.

    FORBES: 5 Reasons Apple Could Defy Skeptics In 2013 Despite Q1 Earnings Miss

  • It took the home side 23 minutes to muster their first effort of note, with Mikko Hyyrynan's shot deflecting wide for a corner which was easily cleared.

    BBC: SPORT | Football | Europe | MyPa 0-1 Blackburn

  • Standard green features in each home include LED lighting, recycled glass countertops, a high-efficiency water heater, water-conserving fixtures including dual-flush toilets, FSC-certified bamboo flooring, EnergyStar appliances, zero-VOC paints, finishes, and adhesives, a whole-house ventilation system, low-E windows, high levels of insulation, a fully recyclable, heat-deflecting cool roof, exterior wood siding and decking made from FSC-certified cedar, and much more.

    FORBES: By Land or by Sea: New Prefab Firm Offers Game-Changing Delivery System

  • Hired in January after Johnson fired Mike Tannenbaum, Idzik was deflecting questions as recently as Wednesday about his course of action with respect to Revis.

    WSJ: Jets Swap Revis for Picks

  • Bamba capped a dismal night for his side when he handled the ball in the box, Craig's penalty deflecting off the unlucky Smith and into the back of the net.

    BBC: Sport - Football - St Johnstone 5-1 Hibernian

  • Rebecca Jeschke of the digital rights advocacy group the Electronic Frontier Foundation says that Google's recognition of the problem is encouraging, but that the company has a long way to go in deflecting future privacy concerns.

    FORBES: Google's TroubleClick

  • Early of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, California, proposed siting a vast, 2000 km-wide glass deflecting panel at the "inner Lagrange point" between the Earth and the sun, the latter diverting the sun's rays away from the Earth's atmosphere.

    CNN: The shield of Ra: Could solar reflection save the planet?

  • Far from deflecting pressure on Israel to make further concessions, it trapped Israel into a position that serves none of its vital interests.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Netanyahu's perilous statecraft

  • At the time, members of the Yankee hierarchy spoke in hushed tones about their hopes that Chamberlain could return to live a normal life, deflecting questions about his pitching future.

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