Sentences with phrase «diversion when»

Anyways, I'm totally fascinated by it, which makes a lovely diversion when the eldest is too busy playing The Sims to watch The X-Files with me and the youngest is in her room binge - watching The Gilmour Girls.

Some additional categorizations of children's play that have been proposed include diversive play, composed of aimless activities that serve as a diversion when a child is bored; mimetic play, which is repetitious, structured, and symbolic; and cathartic play, which is therapeutic in nature.

It was a diversion when the NRA proposed it after Sandy Hook.

Multiplayer is very fun, and even the broken games are a hilarious diversion when someone can experience them alongside you.

The lack of a high - score system really hurts this game, but for a quick diversion when you're out and about or just lounging on the patio at home, at a perfect price of $ 3.99 USD, you get a lot of entertainment for the price of one breakfast.

Though it felt a bit gimmicky, it's a neat feature for the Switch, and it could be a neat diversion when you have some friends around and some time to kill.

The little animal pens and «ecological» trails were a nice little diversion when you wanted to take a different way somewhere.

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Construction began in 1975, when workers carved a 1.3 - mile - long, 300 - foot - deep, 490 - foot - wide diversion channel to re-route the Paraná River to make way for the dam.

The diversion comes two weeks after a passenger was killed when a window blew out during a Southwest flight.

Social media diversions, when used to decompress, can be useful.

He said the pessimist in him mocked his receipt of a degree in law when «law is ever more a hollow word, resonant but empty, in a world increasingly dominated by force, by violence, by fraud, by injustice, by avarice — in a word, by egoism»; when civil law permits «the progressive and rapid increase of oppressed people who continue being swept toward ghettos, without work, without health, without instruction, without diversion and, not rarely, without God»; when under so - called international law «more than two - thirds of humanity (exist) in situations of misery, of hunger, of subhuman life»; and when agrarian law or spatial law permits «today's powerful landowners to continue to live at the cost of misery for unhappy pariahs»; and whereby «modern technology achieves marvels from the earth with an ever - reduced number of rural workers (while) those not needed in the fields live sublives in depressing slums on the outskirts of nearly all the large cities.»

I still kept a round of duties, and would not suffer myself to run into any open vices, and so got along very well in time of health and prosperity, but when I was distressed or threatened by sickness, death, or heavy storms of thunder, my religion would not do, and I found there was something wanting, and would begin to repent my going so much to frolics, but when the distress was over, the devil and my own wicked heart, with the solicitations of my associates, and my fondness for young company, were such strong allurements, I would again give way, and thus I got to be very wild and rude, at the same time kept up my rounds of secret prayer and reading; but God, not willing I should destroy myself, still followed me with his calls, and moved with such power upon my conscience, that I could not satisfy myself with my diversions, and in the midst of my mirth sometimes would have such a sense of my lost and undone condition, that I would wish myself from the company, and after it was over, when I went home, would make many promises that I would attend no more on these frolics, and would beg forgiveness for hours and hours; but when I came to have the temptation again, I would give way: no sooner would I hear the music and drink a glass of wine, but I would find my mind elevated and soon proceed to any sort of merriment or diversion, that I thought was not debauched or openly vicious; but when I returned from my carnal mirth I felt as guilty as ever, and could sometimes not close my eyes for some hours after I had gone to my bed.

To this end St Philip worked hard to invent diversions which would keep his charges occupied, especially at what he considered the most dangerous times — the long sultry Roman afternoons, and the period of the pre-Lenten carnival, when Renaissance society gave itself up to a distinctly un-Christian preparation for Lent (and if anyone doubts that Sixteenth Century Rome could be fully as immoral as our own times, let him read the Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini, a great artist, but far from a good man).

He often uses these outward, physical battles as a diversion tactic so that when the real battle comes, we are unaware and unprepared.

Should we continue to work with them when they now represent a diversion from what we believe?

Our renewed focus on food waste diversion began when I came into the role of sustainability manager in 2007; as a fourth generation farmer, I, personally, am really passionate about not letting this resource go to waste by putting it to better use.

A striker with an understanding with his other forwards and midfielders, good spacing, and intelligent diversion tactics is a must when you play the forwards we do.

Come up with 5 or 10 diversion that you can go to when you feel yourself starting to get upset.

That means lots of easy - to - handle snacks (like dry cereal, fig bars, or crackers), milk, water, plenty of diapers and wipes, a sweater in cool weather, two changes of clothes (in case of diaper blowouts, carsickness, or other spills), extra clothes for you (you never know when you'll become part of the mess), comfort objects (bear, blankie), and multiple diversions (such as board books, small toys, and finger puppets).

When Donald Trump's longtime political adviser and attorney was asked by the Daily Beast Monday to comment on a potentially explosive story about his boss, he could have stonewalled or sweet - talked, bartered or begged, or attempted any of the other diversion tactics regularly employed by professional campaign strategists.

The Mahama administration did not abandoned the programme when the Dutch government stopped sponsoring the programme as a result of funds diversion under President Kufour.

«Would you accept that the apparent diversion and sharing of the over $ 2 billion was largely due to your failure to ensure: (1) that system was in place to ensure a transparent and accountable spending of budget for military operations in strict accordance with the standards of international law including the UN Convention against Corruption; (2) that any such system was operating in a continuous and effective manner; and (3) that violations of the standards were punished when detected by that system?

When Agabi sought to know what evidence he had of the diversion, the witness said: «the funds were found in their accounts when they had no reason to takeWhen Agabi sought to know what evidence he had of the diversion, the witness said: «the funds were found in their accounts when they had no reason to takewhen they had no reason to take it.

Diversion, when it's appropriate,» Cuomo said Monday.

At a time when the public purse is under pressure, these funds could be better spent on «diversion» programmes where offenders are helped to access community support programmes rather than locked up in overcrowded prisons.

Kalu's legal ordeal began in 2007 when the EFCC first charged him at the High Court in Abuja with 107 that included official corruption and criminal diversion of public funds totalling over five billion.

Bratton added that the issue of sealed arrest records — as well as lax federal gun laws — need to be reexamined when dealing with early - release and diversion programs.

When quizzed on her role in the scandal by Citi News, the Fisheries Minister, Elizabeth Afoley Quaye, said the NPA was in a better position to act on the widespread diversion of premix fuel, because her Ministry did not have a tracking system to identify culprits.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has said the lawmaker representing Anambra North Senatorial District, Stella Oduah, has been ignoring invitations to her over an alleged diversion of N3.6 bn meant for the installation of security devices at the airports when she was the Minister of Aviation.

Professor Ted Taylor, from the University of Birmingham, said: «When lungfish gulp air at the water's surface, their heart rate instantly increases — signalling a diversion of blood to the creature's lungs.

Indeed, the flow could have resulted from a partial diversion of known catastrophic floods unleashed upstream when natural lake dams broke tens of thousands of years ago.

Most physicians (95 %) accessed the PDMP when they suspected patient abuse or diversion.

They also found that patients who underwent intestinal diversion, resulting in digested food passing through just part of their intestine, had little change to their intestinal flora when sites above and below the diversion were compared.

When we disrupt this meaning with our detached logic and unrooted information, we cast the villagers into the same cultural void that we have been able to endure only by filling it with endless diversions.»

(The diversion of Pioneer 11 past Saturn had not been planned when the plaques were prepared.)

This controversy developed in the years after Hurricane Katrina, when scientists noticed that there were large areas of wetland loss near the Caernarvon Freshwater Diversion.

Although my vocational responsibilities leave me with little time for diversion, when I do have some to spare, I like to maintain a diverse range of in...

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It's so easy for so many aspects of Footloose to descend into cartooniness, but it only really happens when Chuck is on screen, and his scenes feel like dull diversions from the real story.

This is a case where simpler would have been better, especially when those plot diversions get in the way of the film's top - notch action.

This day, however, the bird escapes, bringing her in touch with Gabriele for the first time, at a time when Gabriele is earnestly contemplating suicide as a way out of his troubles, and is more than happy for any diversion that might come along.

Fans of the stars and people with modest thresholds for entertainment may find it good enough as a momentary diversion, but most others will likely find boredom on many stretches when the jokes fizzle repeatedly.

The promise of something more is certainly there, but it remains just a witty diversion for those times when there's nothing else to watch.

When it doesn't lag to the point of being unplayable it is a fun diversion.

It's not constant hilarity but the moments of levity do offer brief diversion, as we see Johnny Depp improvise when his large dog becomes uncooperative, a few wire - suspended giggles from Peter Pan, and some script departures from Dustin Hoffman.

It doesn't, but for once, some of those diversions are effective, particularly when the film introduces us to a new incarnation of a certain web - slinging hero and offers an inventively staged battle royal between two competing factions of superheroes.

The stoplight management approach allows teachers some flexibility to use cell phones when the situation warrants, but also to keep cell phones from becoming a diversion from the learning.

Included in the PowerPoint: Macroeconomic Objectives (AS Level) a) Aggregate Demand (AD) and Aggregate Supply (AS) analysis - the shape and determinants of AD and AS curves; AD = C+I+G + (X-M)- the distinction between a movement along and a shift in AD and AS - the interaction of AD and AS and the determination of the level of output, prices and employment b) Inflation - the definition of inflation; degrees of inflation and the measurement of inflation; deflation and disinflation - the distinction between money values and real data - the cause of inflation (cost - push and demand - pull inflation)- the consequences of inflation c) Balance of payments - the components of the balance of payments accounts (using the IMF / OECD definition): current account; capital and financial account; balancing item - meaning of balance of payments equilibrium and disequilibrium - causes of balance of payments disequilibrium in each component of the accounts - consequences of balance of payments disequilibrium on domestic and external economy d) Exchange rates - definitions and measurement of exchange rates - nominal, real, trade - weighted exchange rates - the determination of exchange rates - floating, fixed, managed float - the factors underlying changes in exchange rates - the effects of changing exchange rates on the domestic and external economy using AD, Marshall - Lerner and J curve analysis - depreciation / appreciation - devaluation / revaluation e) The Terms of Trade - the measurement of the terms of trade - causes of the changes in the terms of trade - the impact of changes in the terms of trade f) Principles of Absolute and comparative advantage - the distinction between absolute and comparative advantage - free trade area, customs union, monetary union, full economic union - trade creation and trade diversion - the benefits of free trade, including the trading possibility curve g) Protectionism - the meaning of protectionism in the context of international trade - different methods of protection and their impact, for example, tariffs, import duties and quotas, export subsidies, embargoes, voluntary export restraints (VERs) and excessive administrative burdens («red tape»)- the arguments in favor of protectionism This PowerPoint is best used when using worksheets and activities to help reinforce the ideas talked about.

I find that the students enjoy that and we get some really good feedback — they like it when I wander off and talk to them for a bit in the lecture, and the diversions about modern physics before coming back and teaching them the thing they need to know.