But that cannot distract our attention from the parties' responsibilities to each other.

Because the kids can't learn, they look for other things to distract their attention.

However, that approach should not distract attention from the preparation of the Code of Crimes.

Slow decisions on such matters will further distract international attention from Israel's territorial expansion in the West Bank.

The fact that the General Assembly has recently paid particular attention to issues of oversight and inspection should not distract attention from the need to establish a sound management system.

And how would I distract myself?

Enough. Enough. Don't distract the driver.

As US Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke has argued, trade expansion inevitably creates some losers, whose protests distract attention from the benefits of globalization.

To distract them, she starts singing with them.

Distract your audience with a modern minimalist slide.

No way. It'll distract you from safe driving.

I'll run and distract them. Escape while you can.

As previous experience has shown, internal discussions on constitutional competences essentially political navel gazing can distract attention from the far more pressing issues of economic growth and jobs.

Ms. Fall said that the policy focus on drugs in disease prevention should not distract attention from the importance of adequate nourishment and clean water in preserving health.

It was easy to avoid the central issue and distract attention from the information presented on the grave violations of international law, treaties, and resolutions of the United Nations.

Unfortunately, its main impact at this point is to distract attention from measures that would truly stimulate growth, including an expansionary fiscal policy and financial sector reforms that boost lending.

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With this she fell distract, and, her attendants absent, swallowed fire.

Finally, the draft resolution is meant to distract attention from the imminent problems of the unbridled proliferation of conventional weapons, the consequences of which are all too well known to the Assembly.

But it should not distract us from the fundamentals of Iranian politics.

I pity the government now, they have nothing to distract us with.

Debauchery and reality television, among other things, are there to distract us.

Cowboy clowns also distract the bull when the cowboy gets bucked off.

Just because he may distract other students, they told me not to come.

Moreover, some have expressed concern that the tsunami disaster might distract people's attention from other issues, especially the concerns of the small island developing States and this year's review of the Millennium Development Goals.

The increased attention we have been devoting to chemical weapons should not distract us from nuclear disarmament issues, notably from the need to strengthen the international non proliferation regime and to ban all nuclear testing.

I distract the thoughts of men and lead them in the ways of mischief.

Incremental measures will only distract us from the scope of the challenges that we confront.

The negotiating body should not take on tasks that distract it from its highest priorities.

The presenter of the theme Women and the Millennium Development Goals emphasized that the policy focus on drugs in disease prevention should not distract attention from the importance of adequate nourishment and clean water in preserving health.

Fourthly, this draft resolution risks serving the interests of those who wish to distract attention from the destabilizing accumulation of conventional arms and from clandestine programmes aimed at acquiring weapons of mass destruction and developing delivery systems.

Maybe you and Niall can distract them, you know, like, dress up as hot girls or something.

He feared his desire for the beautiful woman would distract him from his desire to love God.

We are concerned that the Beijing Olympics might simply become a giant spectacle to distract the attention of the international public from the violations of human and civil rights in China and in other countries with the Chinese government s significant influence.

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

Violence will not distract us from the main goal of building a democratic, pluralistic, federal and unified Iraq.

As a good lawyer, Obama weighs the pros and cons, aware that it is impossible to do nothing in the Syrian crisis but remaining viscerally disinclined to leap into any foreign entanglement that would distract attention from his agenda of domestic reform.

The prediction in his report (ibid., para. 11) that Israel would drag out decisions on the future of Gaza to distract world attention from its territorial expansion in the West Bank through the construction of the wall and settlements had proven accurate.

Attention, attention!

But the possibility of violence should not distract us from noticing that fundamentalist convictions also motivate positive political activism.

A local content policy would hopefully create employment for local populations and distract them from the path of war.

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Those resolutions serve only to distract the parties from more pressing issues and do nothing to help the peace process.

My favorite being, Cheese crumbs spread before a pair of copulating rats will distract the female, but not the male.

Attention! Everyone pay attention!