Sentences with phrase «delayed by the distraction»

One might suggest that the cultural revolution declared at the beginning of the twentieth century was delayed by the distraction of crises — from World War I («the Great War») through the end of the Cold War in 1989.

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He's been a big enough distraction this year — drinking and causing scenes at the Hope and the PODS, where he pounded beers at the Hooters stand while his round was delayed by a storm.

In addition to delaying the purchase of a phone, we have limited the amount of media friction in our house by using this time - honored parental technique: distraction.

Suffice it to say, the new mandate hasn't made anybody happy and has garnered plenty of vocal detractors (and rightly so), from US Lacrosse, the sport's national governing body (which, among other things, called the mandate «irresponsible» and premature), to coaches (who don't see the flimsy headband approved by FHSAA — what one longtime game official told The Times looked «more like a thick bandana» — as serving any purpose and no more than a «costly distraction to parents and the players»), to game officials (one told The Times that the only effect the headgear was having on the game was to cause delays because the headbands were prone to falling off) to the athletes themselves, who say all it does is get in the way of their goggles.

Laboratory science has its usual pitfalls, and now add these: low temperature and high wind, reagents that never made it to Antarctica, unpredictable weather conditions that delay or cut short trips to your test site because it's dangerous to fly a helicopter in a snowstorm, Weddell seals that won't let you fish in your fishing hole, the unavoidable distraction presented by a troop of curious penguins, and... well, you get the picture.

Mr. Romm and many environmental campaigners and energy entrepreneurs say that markets, laws, public campaigns and leadership can prompt the technological transformation, and that government research money has mainly been a distraction and a delaying device promoted by industries or political operatives wedded to fossil fuels.

This means that such fights, which are at the core of the delays over energy legislation, are a distraction from the simpler process of building the first stages of a sustained energy quest after a long comfortable nap facilitated by cheap abundant fossil fuels for which longer - term and indirect costs are finally being gauged.

Talk about distraction, there was reporting from Fast Company claiming that there was a panic inside software development — the department across from Riccio's — over the delays and deadlines for those features that are enabled by the TrueDepth camera.