Sentences with phrase «distract you from more»

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:

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.

Dadey said, though, that today's announcement «should not distract from the more immediate task at hand of addressing the crime wave of corruption in Albany» and called for passage of previously proposed measures.

The Conservatives are keen to force Labour MPs to spend as much time as possible defending their own backyards and distract them from more strategic campaigning.

Moore also accused Trump of trying to distract from more - pressing issues, such as the situation in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria and special counsel Robert Mueller III's ongoing investigation into whether Trump's campaign coordinated with Russians seeking to meddle in the 2016 election.

But an intense focus on extra sensory visual flourishes meant to channel all the right vibes tends to distract from more important necessary developments, mainly the creation of empathetic characters.

Cinematographer Doug Emmet's tendency to shoot Steinfeld in isolated positions adds a greater deal of sympathy to the character and distracts from her more negative traits.

I am not against having better learning standards, but I also believe that we can not be distracted from more fundamental reform of our schools.

While I am not against having better learning standards, I believe that we can not be distracted from more fundamental reform of our schools.

TIME.com — The attention to low - graduation rates among some athletic programs should not distract us from the more systemic problem of low graduation rates for college students overall.

Though it's easy to get caught up in those more cosmetic updates, don't let the new clothes distract you from the more significant updates to the 2019's technology and safety offerings.

Still, don't let the obvious details distract you from the more subtle ones like the concave grille, echoed at the back by a slight dishing of the XC40's tailgate; the 90 - degree seam formed by the front door, fender, and wrap - over hood; and the way four different body lines meet at the forward edge of the C - pillar.

Likewise Shiller (2003) warns that our infatuation with the stock market (financial wealth) is fuelling volatility and distracting us from more the durable economic prospect of building up real assets.

But we've developed these capacities far faster than we've figured out how to respond to them — both in filtering information that, while scary or sexy, distracts from more meaningful, but subtle, trends, and developing the discipline to recognize human traits that cause us to ignore important, but less flamboyant, clues pointing to a promising path of least regret.

All this just distracts from the more worthwhile & interesting topic that should be up for discussion & revision, which is sound interpretation of the stats, something I have NOT seen here yet...

Awareness of local issues was higher before the CAGW train started rumbling down the tracks; however, concentrating on the CO2 demon has distracted from more important things.

They say the technological fixes also distract from more challenging social reforms like slowing the rate of population growth, shifting away from crops like corn ethanol that don't put food on the table, or ending subsidies for livestock production, which currently eats up an appalling 75 percent of the world's agricultural land.

Alex Trembath, a policy analyst with the Breakthrough Institute, calls the Keystone XL fight «a sideshow» that distracts from more meaningful climate solutions such as spurring new technologies to drive down the use of oil.

«[The banners] helped distract me from more negative thoughts and emotions and aided me in thinking more positively through this time of grievance,» senior Julia Bishop said.

If you include information about unrelated jobs, it can distract from your more pertinent experience in the field, and the hiring manager may refuse to call you in for an interview.

Depending on what stage your career is at, some early work experience may be unnecessary to list, and may distract from your more pertinent employment history.

It also puts older and less relevant experiences towards the bottom so as not to distract from more relevant work.

Since Technical Core Competencies are supporting information for a senior level resume, that information needs to easily available - but not distract from more crucial achievements.

So include it - but distract from more critical concerns.

And it's not just poor delegation; it's also the endless interruptions we receive throughout the day that can distract us from more important tasks.

Not exact matches

«One or more of these habits can distract the audience from your message and jeopardize your credibility,» Price explains.

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.

So the possibility remains, Carle said, that the Russians used the meeting with Kushner to distract the intelligence community and the public from potentially more incriminating relationships between the campaign and Moscow.

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.

You want to create a seamless, simple process that never distracts the customer from acting, and yet gives them plenty of value and a straightforward way to make a more informed buying decision.

If no: Ask yourself whether you need to maintain all these efforts or whether they're distracting you from doubling down on something more fruitful.

«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.

Premier Clark has an opportunity to turn away from the perpetual campaigning that has distracted her during her first term and to pay more attention to actually governing.

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

«E-learning strategies [like microlearning] make the transfer of learning from corporate down to front - line employees significantly more efficient and impactful,» said «Especially in today's fast - paced and highly distracted world, we learn in more ways than ever before.

Canyon's free throw shooting style can distract from the fact that he is playing more efficiently than ever even as he makes the jump from a mid-major to a power conference — he's upped his offensive rating to 120.7, from 98.0.

«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.

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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.»

I decided long ago that theodicy is nothing more than a giant circle jerk made to distract from the REAL question we should be asking when bad things happen to good people:

Aside from also starting to post more photos on my blog (which idea I see you gleaned from monitoring my brainwaves as well), Dean and I were just talking about this story yesterday and how the point is not doing vs. being, but never being distracted from being a disciple; which is really just being close to Jesus, doing what he does, listening to what he says and going with his agenda instead of ours.

More of the CNN sideshow to distract from the continuing problems of their messiah, Obama.

To use more accurate, but as yet unknown, judgments in nonrevelatory matters would, in fact, have distracted the hearers» attention away from the intended revelational point.

You have already been in situations where you experienced readings that enriched worship for you and many more of those that distracted from worship.

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.

But Where The Wild Things Are is itself proof positive that we're far more interested in using theater to distract us from our mundane tasks — theater, where the democratic individual can still live out, vicariously or otherwise, the fantasy of poetic heroism.

The claim that there are more than thirty million Americans «living in poverty» only intensifies the distrust that is corrupting our public life and distracting attention from the very real problem of poverty in this country.

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.

We originally tried to pair the scallops with a more oak - driven Chardonnay, but the flavors of toast, vanilla and baking spices were too apparent and distracted from the flavors of the dish, so we scaled down the oak but we wanted to give the dish the same sweetness or ripeness of fruit to contrast the salty and savory flavors of the ham.