Diversions

Government officials have now opened wide the Mississippi River outlets -- what they call the diversions -- in a desperate attempt to overwhelm the massive oil slick approaching the ragged shoreline of Louisiana. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I find it funny how whenever you criticize a Republicans actions, all you get is name calling and diversions from the topic. ❋ Unknown (2009)

A career, blogging, sports, video games, a large screen TV, are all interesting diversions from the dullness of existence, but to make them the focus of our existence, and then somehow grandiosely suggest that our generation has some kind of greater import than those which went before or after, is the selfish mentality which I speak of. ❋ Unknown (2008)

These arguments are diversions from the important principle involved. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Office workers in search of diversions from the drudgery of their existence now have less to divert them, at least office workers at the Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services. ❋ Emil Steiner (2008)

As this Blagojevich crisis deepens, I recommend watching for Obama to pick on other weak constituencies to develop diversions from the main issue. — ❋ Unknown (2008)

You can't argue the true issues, so you engage in diversions like berating some guy for not answering your questions about Lincoln and the civil war. ❋ Unknown (2007)

My point of criticism, as you can tell, is the screenplays and more specifically, their diversions from the books. ❋ Unknown (2006)

One of my diversions is Diablo 2, which I finally managed to stop playing and give my CDs to Steph so she could hide them from me. ❋ Joshenglish (2006)

Thank you .... but I must say I do find some of the other diversions from the original questions interesting. ❋ Unknown (2003)

I may differ from Captain Mirvan in other respects, yet my opinion of the town, its manners, inhabitants, and diversions, is much upon upon a level with his own? ❋ Unknown (1778)

The point of my rambling diversions is that, ultimately, I will be fucking thrilled when indoor smoking is finally outlawed in Virginia. ❋ Unknown (2007)

(e) permit the Province of Ontario to go forward with its plans for diversions from the Albany River basin into the Great Lakes and utilize such additional water for power at Niagara; ❋ Unknown (1940)

They may be past-masters at driving hard bargains when they hold the trump cards, as they did in 1909 when they skillfully worked into the Boundary Waters Treaty a clause excluding previous diversions from the application of the Treaty, and persuaded our negotiators and statesmen to sign away their rights to the 8,600 cubic feet per second diversion of the Chicago Sanitary District, which we now know was actually being diverted before the treaty was signed. ❋ Unknown (1928)

The stories of the various mobsters who will play a part in the book’s climax are trite and predictable, and ultimately form prolonged diversions from the real story. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Our diversions are our collective diversions; re-building a strong, united, progressive movement with a disciplined and democratic party of the working class and the poor at its core. ❋ Unknown (2007)