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His boot slipped on a patch of mud, diverting his attention as he leapt to keep himself from falling
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Diverting the subject, he said, ‘I understand you have gained some useful information from your captive
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The Caymans weren’t the most diverting place on the planet
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One reassuring thought: as she sat alone in this featureless white room awaiting her fate, the back-up squad should be keeping the Darangi busy, diverting them into the outer reaches of the compound
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As it happened, I needn't have worried about diverting Aunt Martha's attention, because the local police did just that for me
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You see, just before it crashed a couple of hackers were in the middle of diverting money from the Bank of England to an off-shore account and somehow, BT's system going down plugged them into my PC at the police station
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She turned to conversation, diverting her attention as he pressed and probed her abdomen raising nausea and burning pain
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Beth battled just to keep her footing, making little headway towards the door, but the luggage bay opened, diverting attention down the side of the bus, allowing the bottleneck to clear
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Colling was concerned that the Russian would not be satisfied with their drinking one glass with him, and hit upon the idea of making the man a gift of a bottle of the Countess’ cognac, diverting his attention long enough for them to slip away
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I preferred my history unvarnished, but it was rather diverting reading
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It is rather interesting work and was diverting while I waited
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“Joe, honey, you’re now diverting from the story
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figured that I could tough it out by diverting my mind with some
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But to bend her over his knee and threaten, to make her squeal a bit—that would have been diverting
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board, which means we‘ll have to open the ships labs for use, and start diverting power from the
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2 Peter shuddered at the thought of the Master's dying -- it was too disagreeable an idea to entertain -- and fearing that James or John might ask some question relative to this statement, he thought best to start up a diverting conversation and, not knowing what else to talk about, gave expression to the first thought coming into his mind, which was: "Master, why is it that the scribes say that Elijah must first come before the Messiah shall appear?" And Jesus, knowing that Peter sought to avoid reference to his death and resurrection, answered: "Elijah indeed comes first to prepare the way for the Son of Man, who must suffer many things and finally be rejected
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They also conspire to hatch up counter postulates and float conflicting and diverting ideas
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Under the impression that this was diverting Harry from more threatening
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Greg and Avi ascended the side stairs leading to the stage temporarily diverting the attention to them
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Sylvia’s ship appeared in front of Elizabeth out of range of the enemy ships that were still dodging the robot missiles which were diverting to converge on Rebecca’s ship
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Göring ordered counter raids on London thus diverting the Luftwaffe from its original purpose; that is the destruction of the RAF
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But once parked in the lot, and out of the car, the aroma took on a charmer effect diverting the attention of the sternest of thinkers
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Diverting her attention from the slaver’s platform, Nancy telepathically scanned the minds around her
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diverting all of its energy to your core
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The power elite have seized on the countries invasion fears, as opportunity to reshape the police into a private enforcement tool for their own use, and have been diverting military style weaponry to it
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The early evening skies of New York City were filled with police and fire department airships flashing their warning colors to air traffic over the Empire State Building, diverting taxi zeppelins and autogyros wildly away from the aerial blockade
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Diverting his eyes from
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Diverting his thoughts toward their final destination, I guess I shouldn’t be surprised
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“No, ma’am,” he eventually said, slumping his shoulders and diverting his eyes toward the floorboard
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Diverting his attention to the bus driver, Paul couldn’t help but notice he was wearing a Pearl Jam T-shirt, off brand blue jeans, and a set of gold-colored earrings in each of his ears
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You can imagine how important that will be in diverting attention and countering any allegations that might start flying around about the Government having instituted a ‘shoot to kill’ policy
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“What do you think some of the most popular guy costumes will be?” she asked, diverting the subject away from Rave
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have been only a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in,
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‘In its section on party funding in Africa the IDEA handbook notes that those sources of funding most incompatible with democracy are kickbacks from recipients of government contracts and other largesse, diverting state resources to the governing party through front organizations, and donations from foreign sources such as business owners, multinationals and governments
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When I started to practice meditations, I understood that this dodger visited my thoughts all the time in the moment of relaxation, and especially during concentration on meditation, constantly diverting my attention on outside matters
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Narasimha Rao, whom circumstances ascended to the gaddi, believed it was his destiny to be remembered as the ‘father of economic reforms’ in the Indian history, but, as the Sangh Parivar’s, mandir wahi banaayenge’ clamor and the Musalmans’ banaane nahi daenge crusade were diverting the national political focus and the public attention from his ‘reforms agenda’, he might have wished that Allah would somehow shift the dilapidated masjid to Pakistan for renovation
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By simply diverting his
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NuHope was accidentally making Sharebel's points for him, rather than diverting the conversation elsewhere
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“Hu's are info-gluttons for an endless stream of trivial updates to constantly stimulate their virtual attention, scattering their mind across a flood of information diverting them from themselves and each other as they endlessly chase the never-ending scroller
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Instead of distracting and diverting their attention elsewhere, she only made the men even more interested in the discussion she and Kathy were having
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Thus, they shall suffer regret and remorse, and then their abode will be in hellfire for the purpose of diverting them with their hellish pain
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In fact, diseases, poverty, and stress are means for turning the spirit away from this lower life and diverting it from its lusts
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So diseases, poverty, distress and misfortune are indeed means for turning the spirit away from this lower life and diverting it from its lusts
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It was a way of diverting attention from his face, which had heated up
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They try to calm their disturbed mind by diverting the mind elsewhere, by watching television, consuming alcohol, gambling, gossiping, etc
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Some of the pirates were now diverting their fire from us to the shuttle
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"So you've been doing your homework, haven't you? About your father in law, he probably suspected something, but I succeeded in diverting his suspicions by hinting the possibility of marrying you to his second son
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proposals addressed the issue of diverting water to needed areas
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They were diverting the sailor's attention so that someone else could do something
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What was the signal? Liam had never said! How would she know when to attack? The questions shot through her mind, diverting her fearful worries into a lower priority
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presentation of the customs of societyin a diverting manner
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was exceptional when it came to diverting the media
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She tried to come up with a diverting answer
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When will it meet its diverting from Newton and reach a point where the
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By diverting the space in which the object is as well as the space
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When will it meet its diverting from Newton and reach a point where the Universe will finally come to comply with what Newton demands
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That too is the Lagrangian system with five cosmic structures holding relevancy to the centre structure where the centre structure stands in for seven positions diverting from singularity and the orbiting structures standing in for five positions in space
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While in rotation from the view point of a bystander it all may seem static and never changing but to the object in spin every next instant in time will be diverting from every aspect it had every second passing, and the direction it held in relation to the direction it held the previous mille, mille second will totally be incompatible with the direction it holds the very next mille, mille second of rotation
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While in rotation from the point of an outside observer all may seem static and never changing but to the object in spin every next second will be a diverting from every aspect it was in very second passing, and the direction it held in relation to the direction it held the previous mille, mille second will totally be incompatible with the direction it holds the very next mille, mille second of rotation
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I saw Orhanin briefly raise his bloody bandaged hand in acknowledgment that he had heard me, as the patrol boat sheared off away from us diverting the attention from us
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Though under the sun, they are using energy, a blue light from another star by diverting its radiations towards their colony using huge diffused multi panel reflectors
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Diverting her flow mid step Holly drove the dagger into Lucifer’s thigh instead
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and all of that kind that have been written, or shall be written compared with it: all I will say about it is that it deals with facts, and facts so neat and diverting that no lies could match them
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The words of Anselmo struck Lothario with astonishment, unable as he was to conjecture the purport of such a lengthy preamble; and though be strove to imagine what desire it could be that so troubled his friend, his conjectures were all far from the truth, and to relieve the anxiety which this perplexity was causing him, he told him he was doing a flagrant injustice to their great friendship in seeking circuitous methods of confiding to him his most hidden thoughts, for he well knew he might reckon upon his counsel in diverting them, or his help in carrying them into effect
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But as you know things present, here are my two reals, and tell me, most excellent sir ape, what is my wife Teresa Panza doing now, and what is she diverting herself with?"
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The duchess told the duke what had happened, and he was much amused by it; and she, in pursuance of her design of making merry and diverting herself with Don Quixote, despatched the page who had played the part of Dulcinea in the negotiations for her disenchantment (which Sancho Panza in the cares of government had forgotten all about) to Teresa Panza his wife with her husband's letter and another from herself, and also a great string of fine coral beads as a present
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Don Quixote's host was one Don Antonio Moreno by name, a gentleman of wealth and intelligence, and very fond of diverting himself in any fair and good-natured way; and having Don Quixote in his house he set about devising modes of making him exhibit his mad points in some harmless fashion; for jests that give pain are no jests, and no sport is worth anything if it hurts another
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gave her, without diverting her mind a moment from its design
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I gazed round for a means of diverting her thoughts
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—That must have been highly diverting, said he
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Every county in the country should be implementing a system of diverting individuals with serious mental illnesses or co-occurring substance use disorders into community-based treatment and support services instead of putting them in jail
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It combines many of the latest ideas about diverting “high utilizers” from emergency room care into more long-term coordinated care, but is among the first in the country to include a focus on high utilizers whose primary medical problem is severe mental illness
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But instead of diverting to his left after he crosses the Ice Ash, he’ll continue along the high road and take Ohlarn, a hundred and forty miles to the northwest
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And Zhynkyns was certain he was quietly diverting rations from the guards’ mess halls to the prisoners with the same justification: if starvation weakened their resistance to disease, the pestilence might well spread beyond their own numbers, exactly as the Book of Pasquale warned that it would
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In 1934, with a gang war diverting the Chinatown tongs, Gian’ Battista’s son and successor, Carmine Sr
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) But all he got now was Daddy glancing over the top of the business section, like an ornithologist at some mildly diverting bird
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THIS TIME OF MORNING, trucks from Manhattan’s last remaining factories should be stacked at the Battery Tunnel, diverting traffic onto surface streets, but the backup is paltry; anyone looking to get out of the city is already gone
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They had never, I think, wanted to do so many things for their poor protectress; I mean—though they got their lessons better and better, which was naturally what would please her most—in the way of diverting, entertaining, surprising her; reading her passages, telling her stories, acting her charades, pouncing out at her, in disguises, as animals and historical characters, and above all astonishing her by the "pieces" they had secretly got by heart and could interminably recite
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This Game with Bellars was diverting for the nonce, but I had seen enough of his Contradictory Character by now to fix my Heart in its Resolve to flee with Lancelot
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Now they’re diverting more of their ships here
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Those hours he spent actively denying a part of himself were all fueled by calories: enough calories to feed the nation of Namibia for a day; enough caloric energy to augment the magnetic field of Mars for sixteen crucial seconds, thus diverting an asteroid that would otherwise turn a small mountain into a crater
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He advised me not to avoid intercourse with the Petersburg Brothers, but to take up only second-grade posts in the lodge, to try, while diverting the Brothers from pride, to turn them toward the true path self-knowledge and self-perfecting
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She did not talk about her brother, diverting the conversation as soon as her aunt mentioned Andrew
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There are worse things to do in a very hot country th an to put on a large conical sun- hat of plaited palm leaves and take off most of your clothes, and play about with mud and water, damming and diverting little trickling streams
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It was quite clear that Colonel Matisaka considered women prisoners to be a nuisance, and he had no intention whatsoever of diverting any portion of his force to guarding them
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Jean Valjean did violence to his habits, and took Cosette to see these rejoicings, for the purpose of diverting her from the memory of the day before, and of effacing, beneath the smiling tumult of all Paris, the abominable thing which had passed before her
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To take what had been the gift of another person, of a brother too, impossible! it must not be! and with an eagerness and embarrassment quite diverting to her companion, she laid down the necklace again on its cotton, and seemed resolved either to take another or none at all