"We shouldn't get sidetracked into thinking we were asked to play Dr. Ruth, " Baker said.
We let ourselves be sidetracked by issues that are emotional, like abortion or gay marriage.
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Even the United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP), a small anti-EU group, has been cunningly sidetracked.
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Sure, Indiana could have been sidetracked by the embarrassing 26-point loss at New York in Game 2.
The campaign was sidetracked a bit on Tuesday by Mr. Romney's evening fundraiser in Las Vegas with Donald Trump.
Furthermore, planned reforms and the opening up of the economy often get sidetracked by powerful political and business interests.
Throughout Sidetracked, I will describe the results of various studies examining the power of these forces and how they operate.
Relief efforts stall or are sidetracked--and the population of the affected area often is worse off than it was before.
But as false accusations about me continue, they have sidetracked and distracted my ability to present solutions to the American people.
Even though prom dress season runs this month and next, it's easy to see how Wilkenfield could get sidetracked by Derby season.
The facility maintains a pretty active schedule of events which, at the very least, could keep the networking-minded potential founder sidetracked for days.
We speak all the time and I understand that as a player you get on a run and you don't want to be sidetracked.
We need to analyze this, not get sidetracked by emotional theatrics.
He was, by all reports, a good programmer in his own right, and had vision and courage, but was sidetracked from the rise of Microsoft by a struggle with disease.
With great success, they've sidetracked immigration reform, forced Democrats to abandon their "pay-go" budget rules to contain the expanding alternative minimum tax and saved Big Oil from big energy taxes.
Resist the temptation to be sidetracked by oblique projects.
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Even though many measures are legally questionable and may never come to a floor vote, the special committees are providing more public attention to sovereignty issues that were sidetracked in previous years.
Last year, after Senate hearings on the Chemical Weapons Convention revealed that the treaty is unverifiable and could have a negative impact on U.S. national security, its ratification was sidetracked for a time.
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Clinton had the gift of a booming economy, but any thought of making progress on major generational challenges, like Medicare and Social Security, were sidetracked by the Monica Lewsinsky scandal and the impeachment saga.
In other research, Dr. Polivy and her colleagues found that people who have chronically dieted and failed to meet their goals often get sidetracked and succumb to overeating rather than continuing on after a slight setback.
You see, this dedicated family man and civil engineer had framed this complex effort as an opportunity in his mind in a way that motivated him to accomplish his goal, and not get sidetracked along the way.
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A. rebels, who wear awkward long coats and caps as they scramble across a hill, look less like a guerrilla force than like fellows who had planned to go shopping with their families but somehow got sidetracked into a bizarre adventure.
The Startup Act 2.0 Bill, currently sidetracked by the 2012 election, would provide green cards to foreign nationals receiving advanced math and science degrees from U.S. colleges and universities and make it possible for entrepreneurs already in the U.S. to stay permanently.
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At the same time, the simple structural device that propels the play the incoming calls that keep the pay phone of Becker's Car Service ringing at frequent but unpredictably irregular intervals ensures that the action will never be sidetracked by the savory digressions with which the script is salted.
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Mr. MOTHERSBAUGH: Well, in the sense that we were actively touring and putting out albums for about a decade and then kind of got sidetracked into other activities, and then about seven, eight, nine years ago started touring again, like, in small little, you know, bits and batches here and there.
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