Sentences with phrase «distract from other»

Instead of making many independent decisions in a kitchen that may compete with or even distract from other key elements once they are all together in the space, remember that each part plays a role in the whole.

«An outside third party can help couples remember why they fell in love and to come up with strategies to keep that love engine chugging along despite job promotions, kids, pets and new responsibilities that might distract them from each other.»

Many owners grow some grass for their cats to munch on, both for a healthy diet, and to distract them from other household plants!

The «watch me» cue is useful anytime you want to get (and keep) your dog's attention and distract him from other temptations and distractions, such as in the waiting room of the veterinary clinic or when your dog is about to chase a squirrel.

Working with a squeaky at the momont to distract him from the other dog seems to be working in baby steps!!!

That's the point of the card after all — Orbitz wants you to keep coming back to the site — but it could distract you from other credit card rewards programs that, depending on your priorities and spending habits, could be more rewarding for you.

Potential legal issues may be time - consuming and can distract from other aspects of life.

And you can easily hide the pillow away whenever you don't want to distract from other elements.

It rests easily on a dresser and is white so it doesn't stand out too much and distract from other room decorations.

Its a mellow sweet, without any maple overtones to distract from the other flavors.

Or then to distract from other issues.

Driving the other camp are the tech companies and industry groups for whom the partisan deadlock on net neutrality risks stalling business plans and distracts from other policy debates they'd prefer to be having.

While it roils, it is taking up a lot of political bandwidth in Victoria and Ottawa while distracting from other important work.

Still other times, like today, it's as simple as a bowl of fragrant bananas, distracting me from my other projects, summoning me to make something with them.

Olive oil is traditional (and delicious), but a neutral oil like canola or grapeseed could be swapped in if you didn't want olive oil's particular grassiness distracting from other flavors.

In Dr. Rupps opinion, the respiratory protection debate has distracted from other crucial flu - fighting measures.

The hat and boots are vying for attention, with each distracting from the other.

It's a simple look that adds a natural touch of green without being too distracting from the other decor in the room.

Someone will find you are the shiny object that distracts him from other parts of his life.

Bloom is the real low point, known more for his celebrity than acting chops, he only distracts from the other heavy hitters.

As she plans this event, Stargirl is distracted from other sad or confusing occurrences in her life.

Your book is an obsession that fills your free time and distracts you from other areas of your life.

This worked for me: my cats love it, and it keeps them distracted from the other plants when they are outdoors.

The best way to do this is to distract them with playtime — catnip mice, wand toys, affection... whatever it takes to keep them distracted from the other cat (it might take two people to keep the cats distracted, one for each cat).

The debate over «selling out» distracts from other issues, says Napier, who continues to create publicly accessible work, such as NetFlag.

As I've explained from time to time, I often use the blog as a sort of diary — so that writing a blog post on Harry wasn't distracting me from other analysis: it provides detailed documentation of the analysis that there was a problem with Harry, that I could refer to later.

IMHO the emphasis on global average surface temperature in recent times, while understandable (if it really does rise 3 + K this century, the emphasis will have been justified) distracts from other issues that are just as important for local climate (which is what we all actually experience).

TIPS TO PARE DOWN: Is spending money on stuff distracting from your other pursuits?

Dated, faux distressed floors were replaced with new wide - planked, walnut flooring in a dark chocolate brown and bare windows were dressed in tailored taupe drapery panels to add warmth without distracting from other design elements.

Not exact matches

On the other hand, your phone can distract you from important meetings, throw you off your groove and suck up time you could've used for more productive tasks.

It's so tempting to be a control freak in terms of the area you know best, but all that will do is distract you from the myriad other CEO responsibilities and burn out your sales leader.

Don't let the other possibilities or hazy dreams distract you from achieving your goal.

Other times, tech might distract you from important tasks, spending quality time with loved ones or activities that would serve your best interests.

And the NTSB has listed distracted driving — everything from cell phones to in - dash systems and other hands - free devices — on its 2014 «Most Wanted» list, which identifies the year's biggest transportation challenges.

However, a Reuters analysis of nationwide bridge data reveals the fretting over the safety of bridges and other road infrastructure is overblown and could distract from more serious problems elsewhere:

It will not only polarize society but also distract Trump from other pressing economic issues.

On the other hand, anything that puts more regulatory burdens on board — and thus distracts them from their main jobs — is bad news.

And to cap matters, bankers seek to distract voters from realizing that if the government does not tax land rent and other unearned income, it must burden labor and capital — consumers and employers.

• The War was distracting CEOs from hiring and spending; • Consumer confidence was negatively impacted; • Victory increases the chance a tax cut passes; • War limited visibility, keeping earnings expectations low; • The markets initial rally was «looking through» the war — and seeing an economic recovery on the other side.

In every single Synagogue since the beginning of Time, Women and Men are separated in their seating arrangements so that they do NOT distract each others» attentions from their prayer in the temple.

It distracts from what really matters, which is how we treat each other.

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.

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.

The effort to distract the country from this indefensible record with claptrap about a Republican war on women, a papist plot against access to contraception, legal semantics about same - sex relationships, and other red herrings, has failed.

In any event, these are certainly items for us to wrestle with, but hopefully don't distract us from the core of our faith, the gospel, and our mandate to love God / love others / make disciples in our world.

It distracts us from the duties that should flow from love of God and each other.

Distracting them from the problem only delays the inevitable breakdown when some other factor imposes on their trust issues.

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 often use these external modifications to distract others from the fact that we are still the same old person we were before.

Looking primarily to models based on quantitative research methodologies to provide a clear direction for policy in regulating media and violence can also distract policy makers from coming to grips with other difficult but more important value questions that impinge on the issue of media and violence, such as the purpose of broadcasting, issues of ownership and control of media, the international context of Australian media, the dominant economic nature of most of Australia's social communications, the distinctive ways in which the media reproduce and reconstruct myths and symbols of violence from within the culture, and how audiences use and respond to media myths and symbols.