Sentences with phrase «as a diversion from»

They see the efforts of big business to get Congress to reform the tax code and cut corporate income - tax rates as a diversion from the Tea Party's fight to lower personal income - tax rates.

At this early stage, social media seemed like it was meant as a diversion from life.

Perhaps it was as a diversion from writing books on Tolstoy and Dostoevsky that the author, a professor of Slavic languages at Northwestern, decided to write on the shortest of literary genres, the quotation.

I knew that any unsupervised pints would quickly go missing from the kitchen counter, so I placed a few baskets in strategic locations as a diversion from the extra pound I stashed to bake this lovely cake.

Democrats, meanwhile, shrugged off the Republican complaints as a diversion from the overarching issue of LLC giving.

BUT: Increased research is widely regarded in the scientific community as a diversion from the serious steps needed to reduce CO2.

I created the blog, as an outlet for my creativity, as well as a diversion from the pain.

Just as we expect all teachers, including those focused on the arts, to teach honesty, self - discipline, and organization, we can also reasonably expect all teachers to regard literacy not as a diversion from their primary subjects, but as a useful way of helping students think about their subjects.

Critics, however, see the program as a diversion from truly beneficial policies or even as a harmful dalliance into the lives of low - income students who most need a highly trained, highly skilled, and stable teacher workforce.

And some advice I got — which I hated at the time but had come to appreciate — was to view this parenting journey as a diversion from Italy to Holland, per...

Traditionalists are against this uncommon move by the global search engine incorporation, citing it as a diversion from its belief to display an ad - free Main Page.

Animals may be tormented in cruel forms of amusement as a diversion from boredom.

As a diversion from her day job, she started a small business selling jewelry at local fundraising bazaars.

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Analysts have been wary of Google's move into hardware manufacturing, as it's a major diversion from the company's core strengths.

Mostly, though, I write about fast - food as the occasional diversion — it's nice to take a break from the routine every once in a while.

As a result of that diversion from export markets, food price increases in those countries lagged well behind the ascent in world prices.

Such risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to: our ability to achieve our financial, strategic and operational plans or initiatives; our ability to predict and manage medical costs and price effectively and develop and maintain good relationships with physicians, hospitals and other health care providers; the impact of modifications to our operations and processes; our ability to identify potential strategic acquisitions or transactions and realize the expected benefits of such transactions, including with respect to the Merger; the substantial level of government regulation over our business and the potential effects of new laws or regulations or changes in existing laws or regulations; the outcome of litigation, regulatory audits, investigations, actions and / or guaranty fund assessments; uncertainties surrounding participation in government - sponsored programs such as Medicare; the effectiveness and security of our information technology and other business systems; unfavorable industry, economic or political conditions, including foreign currency movements; acts of war, terrorism, natural disasters or pandemics; our ability to obtain shareholder or regulatory approvals required for the Merger or the requirement to accept conditions that could reduce the anticipated benefits of the Merger as a condition to obtaining regulatory approvals; a longer time than anticipated to consummate the proposed Merger; problems regarding the successful integration of the businesses of Express Scripts and Cigna; unexpected costs regarding the proposed Merger; diversion of management's attention from ongoing business operations and opportunities during the pendency of the Merger; potential litigation associated with the proposed Merger; the ability to retain key personnel; the availability of financing, including relating to the proposed Merger; effects on the businesses as a result of uncertainty surrounding the proposed Merger; as well as more specific risks and uncertainties discussed in our most recent report on Form 10 - K and subsequent reports on Forms 10 - Q and 8 - K available on the Investor Relations section of www.cigna.com as well as on Express Scripts» most recent report on Form 10 - K and subsequent reports on Forms 10 - Q and 8 - K available on the Investor Relations section of www.express-scripts.com.

He had requested the police to seize his passport to stop him from making any attempt to flee the country as he and others suspected his story to be false and a diversion from the real incident.

Fighting Halloween, trying to put Christ back into Christmas, get the Easter bunny out of Easter and so on are an exercise in silliness, a diversion from what we should really be doing as followers of Jesus.

These (most) People just use it as a diversion to distract people away from how they truely are, and ya know what, it works really well on «fellow Christians;» they stick together like glue, like a heard of stupid sheep and baaaaaa baaaa each other, while they go around and treat honest and truthful «evil heathens» like dog crap on the bottom of their shoe.

As Strauss says, from the point of view of this pure philosopher, nonphilosophic lives seem deformed or mutilated or full of desperation imperfectly calmed by diversion.

I still kept a round of duties, and would not suffer myself to run into any open vices, and so got along very well in time of health and prosperity, but when I was distressed or threatened by sickness, death, or heavy storms of thunder, my religion would not do, and I found there was something wanting, and would begin to repent my going so much to frolics, but when the distress was over, the devil and my own wicked heart, with the solicitations of my associates, and my fondness for young company, were such strong allurements, I would again give way, and thus I got to be very wild and rude, at the same time kept up my rounds of secret prayer and reading; but God, not willing I should destroy myself, still followed me with his calls, and moved with such power upon my conscience, that I could not satisfy myself with my diversions, and in the midst of my mirth sometimes would have such a sense of my lost and undone condition, that I would wish myself from the company, and after it was over, when I went home, would make many promises that I would attend no more on these frolics, and would beg forgiveness for hours and hours; but when I came to have the temptation again, I would give way: no sooner would I hear the music and drink a glass of wine, but I would find my mind elevated and soon proceed to any sort of merriment or diversion, that I thought was not debauched or openly vicious; but when I returned from my carnal mirth I felt as guilty as ever, and could sometimes not close my eyes for some hours after I had gone to my bed.

To this end St Philip worked hard to invent diversions which would keep his charges occupied, especially at what he considered the most dangerous times — the long sultry Roman afternoons, and the period of the pre-Lenten carnival, when Renaissance society gave itself up to a distinctly un-Christian preparation for Lent (and if anyone doubts that Sixteenth Century Rome could be fully as immoral as our own times, let him read the Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini, a great artist, but far from a good man).

After recounting the «evils» which accompanied the industrial revolution, evils resulting from the diversion of attention towards «things as opposed to values,» Whitehead writes, «it may be that civilization will never recover from the bad climate which enveloped the introduction of machinery» (SMW 291f).

Our calling now and always is not to sugarcoat the gospel as entertaining diversion from a writhing world but as the power from God for sharing in its convulsions as people of indestructible hope.

Augustine never quite brings his view of sexual love within the range of his deepest insight as to what loving another in God means: turning the whole current of love for self and neighbour into the channel of the love of God «which suffers no stream to be drawn off from itself by whose diversion its own volume would be diminished».19 To turn the human loves into the stream of devotion to God is one thing, to set devotion to God apart as one kind of love which makes others inferior is another.

This argument is essentially a diversion from the evidence we have today such as the rate of expansion.

Carpet Recycling UK could be on track to meet its ambitious 60 per cent diversion rate by 2020 as the total volume of carpet waste diverted from landfill reached 42 per cent in 2017.

This session will feature an inside look at the role of animal feeding as a key strategy in the diversion of food from disposal.

I feel like there is a trend of mixing veggies into sweetened baked goods as of late, although this is a delicious diversion from the normal chocolate zucchini bread that I've seen everywhere.

The Government rather confusingly refers to the amendment as an «adjustment to the Sustainable Diversion Limits (SDL)» in the Northern Basin — «recovering water» from «environmental flows» rather than «allowing irrigators to use it for commercial gain».

Sex is Good for Moms Passion serves as a much needed diversion from her unrelenting focus on the baby.

A major twist has crept into the prosecution of the alleged $ 2.1 b arms fund diversion charges as former Sokoto State Governor, Attahiru Dalhatu Bafarawa, his son Sagir Attahiru and their family company, Dalhatu Investment Ltd have applied for a separate trial from former National Security Adviser, retired Colonel Sambo Dasuki.

In the amended charges coming barely one year to the general elections, names of prominent politicians from the opposition party were listed as beneficiaries of the alleged diversions

SERAP's Executive Director, Mr Adetokunbo Mumuni, in a letter, which read in part, said: «SERAP is sending you this open letter to seek explanations from you, as former President and Commander - in - Chief of the Nigerian Armed Forces, on what you knew, or had reason to know on the apparent diversion and sharing of the over $ 2 billion meant to purchase arms to empower Nigerian soldiers to fight Boko Haram.

Jack Dromey, Unite deputy general secretary, said the Walker Report was a diversion as it walked away from the key issues in the private equity debate.

The letter dated 8 January 2016 and signed by SERAP executive director Adetokunbo Mumuni reads in part: «SERAP is sending you this open letter to seek explanations from you, as former President and Commander - in - Chief of the Nigerian Armed Forces, on what you knew, or had reason to know on the apparent diversion and sharing of the over $ 2 billion meant to purchase arms to empower Nigerian soldiers to fight Boko Haram.»

She regularly attributes concerns about diversion of resources from district schools as whining from «the union - political - educational complex.»

«Soon after this defendant admitted to a 10 - year - scheme stealing more than $ 80,000 in welfare benefits and winning a diversion from a prison sentence, he had the gall to perpetrate the very same ruse using the same fake identity as before,» said state Inspector General Leahy Scott, whose office helped nab Dukeshire each time.

Allegations of hypocrisy are treacherous because they can function as argumentative diversions, drawing our attention away from the task of assessing the strength of a position and toward the character of the position's advocate.

With the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection planning to begin in January 2014 phasing in a requirement that large - scale food service operations such as grocery stores, universities and correctional facilities compost food waste to increase diversion from landfills by 350,000 tons per year by 2020, anaerobic biodigesters may soon be very important to the state's business community.

In addition, exclusion of human - related impacts such as irrigation, land use, and water diversion from most current climate models makes reliable projection of drought even less certain (Sheffield and Wood 2008).

As our hearts remain heavy and the tears continue to fall over the events on Friday, we could all use a diversion, some comfort, and respite from the sadness.

Being as one, far from natural spots, provides for you time to research each other without the diversions of family, workmates and companions.

But as diversions go, it is pleasant, a nice escape from winter's doldrums.

I'm not a massive Lord of the Rings fan anyway and as such The Hobbit is a welcome diversion from that style.

A twee fantasy of frictionless sorority and romantic deaths as scant diversion from the carnage of the Civil War.

Lithgow's delightful grandpa offers a welcome diversion from the madness, but those moments are as fleeting as the plate of cookies left out for Santa on Christmas Eve.

The Toy Box Speedway applies that to a kart racer, which works well as a cute diversion as long as you're not expecting too much from it.

fandom, the single - player mode provides a fun diversion from the multiplayer while also serving as an excellent tutorial for the game's other modes.