It's very distracting.

That noise distracts me.

Unfortunately, Iraq is draining all the oxygen out of the policy process in Washington.

This is when people actually get stuff done, is when no one's bothering them, when no one's interrupting them.

We live in a world with limited resources, so caring more about some issues means caring less about others. If we have a moral obligation, it is to spend each dollar doing the most good that we possibly can.

We live in a world with limited resources, so caring more about some issues means caring less about others.

Unfortunately, this focus on savings distorts understanding and distracts from the real challenge of creating mass consumption markets in developing countries.

Actually, I read this great quote the other day, which was, Style makes you feel great because it takes your mind off the fact that you're going to die.

In a world with limited resources, where we struggle to solve just some of the challenges that we face, caring more about some issues means caring less about others.

Sensationalising these acts in reportages takes attention away from important aspects, such as the prevention and mitigation of such crimes.

Fourth, the government distracts attention by supporting healthy Chinese Web sites, as well as glitzy but vacuous entertainment oriented TV programs. Such circuses combined with the bread of economic growth crowds out subversive messages from abroad, especially when combined with nationalistic propaganda designed to inoculate people against whatever subversive media content that might slip through.

On the contrary, the double terror induced by terrorism and counter terrorism distracts public attention from those problems that, as some of us still remember, produced terrorism.

Fourth, the government distracts attention by supporting healthy Chinese Web sites, as well as glitzy but vacuous entertainment oriented TV programs.

But the current focus on economic malaise in Europe and the United States is distracting attention from the many serious challenges that call into question Asia s continued success.

But there is also a risk that assistance for tsunami victims is diverting aid from disasters that are of a more chronic character or that are less amenable to sensational media coverage.

One more suggestion Environmentalism has its own off putting conspicuous consumption, and it chases people away from values and issues they might otherwise embrace.

But the debate about possibly biased Italian or Spanish or Belgian judges in highly sensitive cases detracts from the deeper question of whether the increase in the powers of the judiciary may not have gone too far.

For example against the one who distracts them from studying Legyen bombariadó a Corvinuson bombariadót csináló lakásában!!! (HUN) ( Make a bomb alert in the apartment of the one who makes bomb alert at Corvinus!!! ).

Now some people might say email is really distracting and I.M. is really distracting, and these other things are really distracting, but they're distracting at a time of your own choice and your own choosing.

China deflects attention from its refusal to share water, or to enter into institutionalized cooperation to manage common rivers sustainably, by flaunting the accords that it has signed on sharing flow statistics with riparian neighbors.