Are you trying to distract me?

I was trying to distract her.

I'll try to distract them.

May I bother you for a moment?

Apparently he wanted to distract her.

Don't let her distract you.

Don't let her distract you.

Preval needed a distraction

I tried to distract him, but it was in vain.

Tom tried to distract the police so Mary could escape.

Politicians understandably want to deflect attention from their own misguided policies.

Apparently, the first lady dressed for misdirection

Vishal Dadlani ( Vishal) Don t be fooled or distracted by the death of Kasab.

Or if not, is it possible that someone just started this fake craze to divert the attention of many?

They think that the piñata is a distraction from the goal of earned legalization.

His operation in Syria is partly designed to divert attention from his dismemberment of Ukraine.

We have been used as scapegoats to shift the focus away from the country s economic and political problems.

Thus, anything that may distract China from its focus on peace, stability, and development has been strongly resisted.

Over the last 10 years, Macedonia's ruling party has stirred homophobic sentiments as a way to divert public attention from political and economic failures.

By doing so he drowned out the concerns about low growth and high unemployment that were threatening his re election prospects.

The rocket attacks against Israeli territory are a transparent attempt to divert attention and rally the masses around Hamas as the true champions of the Palestinian cause.

But it's not. It's a projection which our clever brains create in order to cheat ourselves from the reality of death.

Of course, Netanyahu is intentionally exaggerating the Iranian threat to deflect attention from Israel s real problems especially its enduring conflict with Palestine.

On the one hand, what better way to distract the world's attention from Russia's actions in Ukraine then to stake a claim on another celestial body?

Though nationalist sentiment directed against external foes tends to divert attention temporarily from internal turmoil, the country s serious domestic problems need to be addressed.

But Putin was addressing Russians, too, knowing full well the need to distract them from their country s increasingly obvious economic woes.

It means not allowing newspapers and TV to be hijacked by spurious passions and staged theatrics designed to divert attention from everything else.

Are Greeks, Spaniards, Portuguese, and other Europeans really supposed to embrace an austerity program imposed on them because prevailing wisdom in Germany and other northern countries considers them profligate and lazy?

But the point is to fix eyes and hearts on a narrative of hope and purpose to uplift, rather than distract, the public.

Experts within the system don't track the source of the problem or talk about the truth they use taxpayers' money and try to shift people's attention.

Following the allegations by Russia s Federal Security Service, Moscow and Kyiv have traded accusations that the other is trying to distract its people from domestic economic problems.

Iran s oil and gas should not blind China to the dangers to its neighborhood and the entire world if the Islamic Republic develops a nuclear weapon.

Indeed, many regard Netanyahu s Iran obsession as nothing more than a successful ploy to divert attention from the Palestinian issue.

Critics suggest that the partial release of Zone9 writers was government s attempt to deflect mounting criticism about Ethiopia s dreadful human rights record approaching the Obama visit. Timeline of Zone9 case by Endalk Chala.

Historians have interpreted this as an attempt by Oppenheimer to please his colleagues in the government and perhaps to divert attention from his own previous left wing ties and those of his brother.

But this should not make us lose sight of other challenges. One of the most important is the fate of Ukraine, and the need to strengthen liberty and democracy there.

This is doubtless an attempt to deflect attention from Fujimori's own crimes perpetuated from 1990 to 2000, before he fled to Japan.

In this vein, Facebook user Zhanara Akhmet wrote that the long planned alphabet switch might have been sped up in order to divert attention from another unpopular government initiative.

And savvy Bank presidents have known that the best way to deflect political pressure is to add yet more bells and whistles especially when they are visible and loud.

If Obama fails, the next administration will be sorely tempted to create some diversion from troubles at home at great peril to the world.

The fires of the Middle East must not be allowed to distract the world s attention from the threat posed by North Korea s nuclear ambitions, which it demonstrated by its recent test of a long range missile.

But focusing on enlargement of the Security Council risks diverting attention from the rest of the Panel s analyses and 101 recommendations for reform, many of which do not require amending the Charter.

But we must not confuse necessary with sufficient there is a danger that an exclusive focus on institutions that are too big to fail could divert us from more fundamental issues.

To change the conversation Levin went on to explain to Dolly a theory of dairy farming which maintained that a cow was only a machine for the transformation of fodder into milk, and so on.

Paris based writer Zoe Valdes viewed the entire event as a show of a different kind, one mounted to distract from human rights abuses by the Cuban government.