Sentences with phrase «convenient distraction»

It has been a very convenient distraction for the Abbott Australian government.

But vilifying easy targets like doctors and other high wage earning professionals is a convenient distraction from the extraordinary and far - reaching impact these proposed changes will have on hundreds of thousands of middle - class small business owners from coast to coast.

In truth, the «war on Christmas» cries offer a convenient distraction for we who have become complacent and comfortable in our affluent, cozy religion.

This is a view so obviously contrary to Catholic doctrine as to be no more than a convenient distraction from the main issue.

Everyone talks about changing the culture because it's a convenient distraction during a rebuilding project.

While I do not dismiss the recent grassroots efforts that have gained significant strength via a petition to get pink slime out of school cafeterias, I worry that the focus on it detracts from bigger and more important food system issues, and provides the meat industry with a convenient distraction and an easily fixable problem that can effortlessly be spun into a public - relations success.

One interpretation of the emphasis on developing the Common Core curriculum is that these debates provide a convenient distraction from potentially more intractable fights over bigger reform ideas like teacher evaluations, expanded school choice, or improved accountability systems.

While combing through somebody else's private discussions may be a convenient distraction from the alarmingly rapid climate change that scientists are documenting, it is not helping us solve the problem.