Sentences with phrase «distract from by»

We wouldn't want to distract from that by stressing over expensive gifts or elaborate meals.

Distract from them by creating some new and different conflicts and complications where there need not have been any.

What you have to lose is the genuine and profound meaning in THIS life that you are distracted from by religion with its dishonest promises of eternity, with its abundance of gifts that you are said to receive only after you die, when it is far TOO LATE to validate the claims.

A heady topic distracted from by too many pointless discoveries of broken glasses and old bikes, none of which go anywhere in a picture marked mainly by its aimlessness.

You err, I have grasped the fundamentals well enough to see that many hide the fact they don't know the basics by playing the «superior because so very well educated in science card» and worse, refusing to engage and distracting from this by the use of the ad hom technique that those questioning them have nothing worth listening to because they don't have science phd's coming out of their arses.

Not exact matches

This app just keeps you from getting distracted by new notifications every five seconds.

Office stress and distractions: No one is stopping by your desk and distracting you from work.

Pressed by Tapper about Trump's repeated falsehoods, with the CNN anchor asking whether they distracted from what Conway said were «the many things that he says that are true that are making a difference in people's lives,» she said they served as distractions only «if they're covered.»

In Bored and Brilliant: How Spacing Out Can Unlock Your Most Productive and Creative Self (and a matching TED talk from last spring), Manoush Zomorodi writes (and talks) about how our creativity and brainstorming works better when we are more present in the moment and not so distracted by gadgets.

Start being more focused: If you want to succeed, you have to stop being distracted by everything around you and be more focused in what you want to achieve, your distractions are wasting your time, and keeping from being focused.

Analysts, however, said the nominations to the board — to be cut to 12 directors from a previous 18 and voted on by shareholders in April — would do little to distract from the problems accumulating for GE.

Most of Altrec's pages are accompanied by a long — and sometimes distracting — rundown of products that are for sale, from backpacks to water bottles.

This is just another attempt by the Romney Campaign to distort and distract the media and voters from the unshakeable fact that many of Romney's policies mirror Barack Obama's.»

Some also warned that the attacks on the press are in part designed to distract reporters from the serious issues confronting the Trump administration, including whether adviser Reince Preibus breached rules by discussing an ongoing investigation of Trump's ties to Russia with the FBI, and by asking the agency to speak to news outlets about it in order to deny the story.

In addition, addicts repeatedly surfed the mobile web in search of «instant gratification» content, such as news updates, and they were easily distracted by incoming alerts from mobile messenger and social networking apps, such as KakaoTalk (which is similar to WhatsApp) and Facebook.

Investors, meanwhile, aren't thrilled with Tesla's plan to pay US$ 2.6 billion for solar panel installer SolarCity, run by Musk's cousin, lest it distract Musk from the missions at hand.

«We are seeing that our focus on the middle class, by putting more money in the pockets of hard working families, and giving less advantages to the wealthiest, is growing the economy,» Trudeau said, as he also attempted to distract the media horde from his finance minister's loose interpretation of what constitutes a conflict of interest.

They would plainly rather not: details of the settlement were explained by Ralph Goodale and Jody Wilson - Raybould on the Friday after Canada Day, the sort of thing one does when one is hoping summer will distract most Canadians from government business.

Rosenstein said the caucus leaked the one - page document to the press and said he would not be distracted from his job by what he called a «threat,»

«I have no doubt that next week in Prince George and in the upcoming throne speech Premier Clark will try to distract attention from her failure on LNG and show she «gets it», by making more and new promises about jobs and the economy.

The key for advisors is to keep antsy investors from getting distracted by huge market gains.

As competitors begin eating into its market share, Tesla won't be able to keep distracting from its current problems by promising the next big thing.

When TSLA and SCTY shareholders vote on the proposed merger on November 17, investors need to question whether this merger is just another promise by Musk to distract from larger issues facing both companies.

But recent bank lobbying has been remarkably successful in distracting attention away from classical analyses of how to shape the financial and tax system to best promote economic growth — by public checks on bank privileges.

The reasoning, as was explained to me was that it was thought a good shepherd could not lead if distracted by his own familial flock [this aside from the fact that a youngest son in a family would typically not inherit enough to support a family and was therefore sent to join a church].

The actor told The New York Times he doesn't want his looks to distract from the movie, but, «If the message of Jesus was love, hope and compassion, and I can bring that to more people by being a more appealing Jesus, I am happy with that.»

Chris, I honestly kept thinking you were trying to distract from the very real healing and conversation that was happening here by throwing in your theoretical and abstract musings.

Some are alarmed by what human beings are doing to their physical environment and concerned about the role of theology in distracting attention from this.

They make us less safe by distracting the authorities from focusing on genuine threats.»

Last month, two men tricked a woman into letting them into her apartment (by claiming they were from a utility company), and while one of the men distracted her, the other stole some cash he found.

You are doing a disservice to your own community by denegrating Potter at the expense of distracting from the message and social awareness that he has generated.

These things, while important, tend to distract from our real purpose of taking the gospel message to the world by living and looking like Jesus.

Rather than permit themselves to be convinced by the force of his words, which they admitted were in quality and in truth those of the Messiah, they allowed themselves to be distracted by where he came from.

But apparently it's a country where good moral people can be manipulated by self - serving politicians into being distracted from the larger issues by high - school debate questions like «when does life begin» or «should gays marry,» or even «is being gay a choice.»

Even though the voice's enthusiasm for the world of higher motion seems to have suspended my own doubts, it is disturbing to think how easily a skeptical oyster could argue from all this that ballerinas do not exist, but rather are nothing more than a distracting hypothesis invented by oysters who can not face the grimness of existence without flinching.

Faced with two weeks of care for a son he barely knows, Milne is distracted from an epic case of writer's block by his son's imagination.

Now, this idea must be used by us to encourage once again the conception of a «historical Jesus» to be found by clearing away later «accretions and perversions» and then to be contrasted with the whole Christian tradition... We thus distract men's minds from Who He is, and what He did.

Brooks wants us to think that Where The Wild Things Are is good democratic art because it shows that the best way to save democratic life is by defining health around the useful, prosocial activities we engage in to distract us from the riot of uncontrollable novelties that is our smithereens of non-individual selflets.

As for the adults who came to us claiming to have discovered their «true» sexual identity and to have heard about sex - change operations, we psychiatrists have been distracted from studying the causes and natures of their mental misdirections by preparing them for surgery and for a life in the other sex.

We've been seeing quite a few reasons to just wait to send that text message till after you park the car, but perhaps none that sound quite so much like a bad movie plot than this story from Maryland, where a 25 - year - old woman was distracted by texting and ran her car off the road, clipped a tree and was propelled 60 feet into a lake.

However, this is rarely achieved owing to man's unique ability to be distracted from spiritual matters by everyday trivia.

Too often we are distracted from the message of these stories by their miraculous nature.

Their adherence to a universal impact and outreach model can only distract from a more comprehensive and realistic strategy of ministry by the whole church in which television may play its appropriate part.

But Martha was so distracted by all the preparations, that she spent her time going from room to room, sweeping the floors, testing the soup, checking the bread, stoking the fire, setting the table and on and on.

This development, however, shouldn't distract us from the fact that no prominent politician seems able to set out an attractive and comprehensive plan for helping France reassume its place in the West, which it has been losing since its defeat by Prussia in the War of 1870.

For me it is different from doing other types of exercise because it's about training your mind to hone in on the thing you are doing right now, rather than be distracted by the mult!tude of things going on around you.

Although when you do this with a couple of your co-workers by your side and you also made a cake for this occasion, you're usually very much distracted from sunset watching by recipe inquiries.

AHHH INEED TO MAKE THESE as Im now so distracted by how much I think Id love them right from the freezer!

Let's distract from the situation by putting cheese on top of this bread pudding.

Just more dead cat talk that distracts from wenger's failure to upgrade by getting rid of average players who we all know can't deliver trophies even in a weak year... And EPL and cl were both that last year... Walcott Campbell Gibbs ox and mert should all have gone by now... Draxler Rodriguez subotic (there are better though) could have come in as all are actually available with a net spend of very little... Then focus on goal scorer and splash the cash... Would still go for for the borrusia guy but if wenger shows no intent nothing will happen