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I think step one is to stop deflecting and to own it and to acknowledge the fact that we have new challenges that are emerging from the situation in Afghanistan, what we need to see is… action that demonstrates and underscores the fact that we are not going to sit idle in the face of a heightened threat of terror. – Bill Hagerty	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Hiding data from workers in the facility and the community seems all about putting the company's own public relations profile above the lives and health of workers and the community. It's about deflecting responsibility for the spread in the workplace. – Debbie Berkowitz	Found on CNN 3 years ago
While no known asteroid larger than 140 meters in size has a significant chance of hitting Earth for the next 100 years, NASA and its partners are studying several different methodologies for deflecting a hazardous asteroid. – Lindley Johnson	Found on CNN 4 years ago
The memory quotes would be attached to San Francisco-based forehead area, and the quotes about wanting to help I placed on San Francisco-based hand. The hand could be seen as welcoming, but also deflecting. – San Francisco-based artist John Mavroudis	Found on CNN 5 years ago
High profile, mass casualty attacks are a tried and tested method of changing the narrative and deflecting attention away from the problems it is facing, this is done for internal consumption just as much as external. – Matthew Henman	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
The IRPT, acting as a legal political force, had served as a lightning rod (for dissent), deflecting radical Islam, its closure and official pressure on its members is likely to push many pious Muslims out of officially registered mosques into underground ones. – Alexander Knyazev	Found on Reuters 8 years ago

I think step one is to stop deflecting and to own it and to acknowledge the fact that we have new challenges that are emerging from the situation in Afghanistan, what we need to see is… action that demonstrates and underscores the fact that we are not going to sit idle in the face of a heightened threat of terror.

– Bill Hagerty

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Hiding data from workers in the facility and the community seems all about putting the company's own public relations profile above the lives and health of workers and the community. It's about deflecting responsibility for the spread in the workplace.

– Debbie Berkowitz

Found on CNN
3 years ago

While no known asteroid larger than 140 meters in size has a significant chance of hitting Earth for the next 100 years, NASA and its partners are studying several different methodologies for deflecting a hazardous asteroid.

– Lindley Johnson

Found on CNN
4 years ago

The memory quotes would be attached to San Francisco-based forehead area, and the quotes about wanting to help I placed on San Francisco-based hand. The hand could be seen as welcoming, but also deflecting.

– San Francisco-based artist John Mavroudis

Found on CNN
5 years ago

High profile, mass casualty attacks are a tried and tested method of changing the narrative and deflecting attention away from the problems it is facing, this is done for internal consumption just as much as external.

– Matthew Henman

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

The IRPT, acting as a legal political force, had served as a lightning rod (for dissent), deflecting radical Islam, its closure and official pressure on its members is likely to push many pious Muslims out of officially registered mosques into underground ones.

– Alexander Knyazev

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

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