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While I agree, and we all agree Afghanistan faces a dire humanitarian and economic situation, it is critical that our assistance not be diverted by the Taliban, unfortunately, as I sit here today, I can not assure this committee or the American taxpayer we are not currently funding the Taliban. – John Sopko	Found on CNN 1 year ago
They’re so concerned with (diversity, equity and inclusion) and politics and all kinds of stuff. I think that really diverted from them focusing on their core mission. – Ron DeSantis	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power. Consequently those who live under the dominion of Puritanism become exceedingly desirous of power. Now love of power does far more harm than love of drink or any of the other vices against which Puritans protest. Of course, in virtuous people love of power camouflages itself as love of doing good, but this makes very little difference to its social effects. It merely means that we punish our victims for being wicked, instead of for being our enemies. In either case, tyranny and war result. Moral indignation is one of the most harmful forces in the modern world, the more so as it can always be diverted to sinister uses by those who control propaganda. – Bertrand Russell	added by Normando 1 year ago
But it could have a profound negative impact on the climate, obviously. You have a war, and obviously you’re going to have massive emissions consequences to the war. But equally importantly, you're going to lose people's focus, you're going to lose certainly big country attention because they will be diverted, and I think it could have a damaging impact. – John Kerry	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Equally important, you're going to lose people's focus. You're going to lose certainly big country attention because they will be diverted. And I think it could have a damaging impact. So I hope President Putin will help us to stay on track with respect to what we need to do for the climate. – John Kerry	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
We have always known the more effective we are, the more the false attacks will intensify. Defending the Republic has and will continue to fight for #WeThePeople who make this country work, defending the Republic and the PAC will not be diverted from their missions by lies, innuendo and other distractions. We believe in the law, the Rule of Law, and we intend to follow it and work to reinstate and preserve it. – Howard Kleinhendler	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The presence of hundreds of those being paid to push the toxic interests of polluting fossil fuel companies, will only increase the skepticism of climate activists who see these talks as more evidence of global leaders' dithering and delaying, the scale of the challenge ahead means there is no time for us to be diverted by greenwashing or meaningless corporate promises not matched by delivery. It's time for politicians to show they are serious about ending the influence of big polluters over political decision-making and commit to a future where expert and activist voices are given center stage. – Murray Worthy	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The lava on its path to the sea has been a bit capricious and has diverted from its course. – Sergio Rodriguez	Found on CNN 2 years ago
All funds were diverted to Covid relief, leaving little resource to carry out( the) basic procedure of reporting the crime and supporting the victim, local public transport was shut ; we couldn't reach out to the survivors since villages are distanced and cases came from different locations. We operated over the phone. – Vikram Singh	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Much of our strategic attention and much of our strategic capacity was diverted into Iraq, to the detriment of the war. – John Allen	Found on CNN 2 years ago
For a brief time, my mind is feeling a little bit free, it is getting diverted and I am not thinking about my problems. – Susheela Kumari	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
Most of the current challenges in our health-care facilities stem from managing the day to day patients that come to our facilities, these patients that have chronic conditions requiring daily treatment such as dialysis, chemotherapy, etc. They dont go away just because there is a coronavirus pandemic, finding ways to continue to provide high-quality care for vulnerable patient groups such as the disabled, elderly remains a challenge as resources are diverted to manage an escalating number of cases daily. – Attila Hertelendy	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
Even though the drug supply in the United States is safe, there are small percentages ... of potential counterfeit drugs. Certainly, there's a lot of evidence of diverted drugs. – Susanne Somerville	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
The rooms in which Aspergillus was detected have been closed and out of an abundance of caution, we are only performing emergent surgeries in the operating rooms that have advanced in-room filtration, some surgical cases may be postponed or diverted to other local hospitals. – Seattle Children Hospital	Found on CNN 4 years ago
Any active sportsman has to be very focused; you've got to be in the right frame of mind. If your energy is diverted in various directions, you do not achieve the results. I need to know when to switch on and switch off: and the rest of the things happen around that. Cricket is in the foreground, the rest is in the background. – Sachin Tendulkar	added by Dr. Cringe 4 years ago
Due to a disruptive passenger onboard and out of an abundance of caution, the flight was diverted to Chicago and landed at 4:22 a.m. local time. – Alaska Airlines	Found on CNN 5 years ago
We're distracting from the main issue, what the issue was is the President calling journalists' fake news.' That was the beginning of the question, and suddenly, he diverted to Bill McCraven, and now everyone is talking about insults on Bill McCraven as opposed to freedom of the press. – Mark Hertling	Found on CNN 5 years ago
California does NOT divert water to the ocean, ridiculous. It's true that water is diverted to the coastal cities for a constant water supply but all such water is used by the coastal communities. – Henri Grissino-Mayer	Found on CNN 5 years ago
The law provides that Medicaid providers must be paid directly and cannot have part of their payments diverted to third parties outside of a few very specific exceptions, this proposed rule is intended to ensure that providers receive their complete payment, and any circumstances in which a state does divert part of a provider’s payment must be clearly allowed under the law. – Tim Hill	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
We know that the people using street drugs – illicit opioids – four out of five started with prescription pills, either they had them prescribed directly or they’re using diverted pills. And often what leads them to go from pills to injection of fentanyl or heroin is that it’s easier to get. You don’t need a prescription and it’s often much less expensive. – William Goodman	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
This problem is most easily illustrated with the example situation where I divert the lava flow to save my house, but as a result, the lava flow destroys someone else's house, as a result of these two factors, lava flows are generally not stopped or diverted. – Benjamin Andrews	Found on CNN 5 years ago
This problem is most easily illustrated with the example situation where I divert the lava flow to save my house but as a result the lava flow destroys someone else's house, as a result of these two factors, lava flows are generally not stopped or diverted. – Benjamin Andrews	Found on CNN 5 years ago
Almost all of the increases in overdose deaths are attributed to illicitly manufactured fentanyl, not pharmaceutical fentanyl that has been misused or diverted. And we know that because the number of prescriptions for pharmaceutical fentanyl has remained relatively stable over the past decade, whereas seizures of illicitly manufactured fentanyl has skyrocketed, so it really is due to illicitly manufactured fentanyl that is entering the market and that is essentially being mixed with heroin so that Lindsay LaSalle have an adulterated product that people aren't aware of, so their risk of overdose increases substantially. – Lindsay LaSalle	Found on CNN 5 years ago
When someone runs 26 miles, the blood supply to the skin and muscle increases tremendously, because they need a lot of oxygen, it's estimated that up to 25% of blood ends up going to skin and muscle, and when this happens, that means the blood is getting diverted from other organs. So, while the skin and muscle are perfused at a higher rate, the kidneys are receiving a reduced blood supply. – Martin Hoffman	Found on CNN 7 years ago

While I agree, and we all agree Afghanistan faces a dire humanitarian and economic situation, it is critical that our assistance not be diverted by the Taliban, unfortunately, as I sit here today, I can not assure this committee or the American taxpayer we are not currently funding the Taliban.

– John Sopko

Found on CNN
1 year ago

They’re so concerned with (diversity, equity and inclusion) and politics and all kinds of stuff. I think that really diverted from them focusing on their core mission.

– Ron DeSantis

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power. Consequently those who live under the dominion of Puritanism become exceedingly desirous of power. Now love of power does far more harm than love of drink or any of the other vices against which Puritans protest. Of course, in virtuous people love of power camouflages itself as love of doing good, but this makes very little difference to its social effects. It merely means that we punish our victims for being wicked, instead of for being our enemies. In either case, tyranny and war result. Moral indignation is one of the most harmful forces in the modern world, the more so as it can always be diverted to sinister uses by those who control propaganda.

– Bertrand Russell

added by Normando
1 year ago

But it could have a profound negative impact on the climate, obviously. You have a war, and obviously you’re going to have massive emissions consequences to the war. But equally importantly, you're going to lose people's focus, you're going to lose certainly big country attention because they will be diverted, and I think it could have a damaging impact.

– John Kerry

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Equally important, you're going to lose people's focus. You're going to lose certainly big country attention because they will be diverted. And I think it could have a damaging impact. So I hope President Putin will help us to stay on track with respect to what we need to do for the climate.

– John Kerry

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We have always known the more effective we are, the more the false attacks will intensify. Defending the Republic has and will continue to fight for #WeThePeople who make this country work, defending the Republic and the PAC will not be diverted from their missions by lies, innuendo and other distractions. We believe in the law, the Rule of Law, and we intend to follow it and work to reinstate and preserve it.

– Howard Kleinhendler

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The presence of hundreds of those being paid to push the toxic interests of polluting fossil fuel companies, will only increase the skepticism of climate activists who see these talks as more evidence of global leaders' dithering and delaying, the scale of the challenge ahead means there is no time for us to be diverted by greenwashing or meaningless corporate promises not matched by delivery. It's time for politicians to show they are serious about ending the influence of big polluters over political decision-making and commit to a future where expert and activist voices are given center stage.

– Murray Worthy

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The lava on its path to the sea has been a bit capricious and has diverted from its course.

– Sergio Rodriguez

Found on CNN
2 years ago

All funds were diverted to Covid relief, leaving little resource to carry out( the) basic procedure of reporting the crime and supporting the victim, local public transport was shut ; we couldn't reach out to the survivors since villages are distanced and cases came from different locations. We operated over the phone.

– Vikram Singh

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Much of our strategic attention and much of our strategic capacity was diverted into Iraq, to the detriment of the war.

– John Allen

Found on CNN
2 years ago

For a brief time, my mind is feeling a little bit free, it is getting diverted and I am not thinking about my problems.

– Susheela Kumari

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

Most of the current challenges in our health-care facilities stem from managing the day to day patients that come to our facilities, these patients that have chronic conditions requiring daily treatment such as dialysis, chemotherapy, etc. They dont go away just because there is a coronavirus pandemic, finding ways to continue to provide high-quality care for vulnerable patient groups such as the disabled, elderly remains a challenge as resources are diverted to manage an escalating number of cases daily.

– Attila Hertelendy

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

Even though the drug supply in the United States is safe, there are small percentages ... of potential counterfeit drugs. Certainly, there's a lot of evidence of diverted drugs.

– Susanne Somerville

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The rooms in which Aspergillus was detected have been closed and out of an abundance of caution, we are only performing emergent surgeries in the operating rooms that have advanced in-room filtration, some surgical cases may be postponed or diverted to other local hospitals.

– Seattle Children Hospital

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Any active sportsman has to be very focused; you've got to be in the right frame of mind. If your energy is diverted in various directions, you do not achieve the results. I need to know when to switch on and switch off: and the rest of the things happen around that. Cricket is in the foreground, the rest is in the background.

– Sachin Tendulkar

added by Dr. Cringe
4 years ago

Due to a disruptive passenger onboard and out of an abundance of caution, the flight was diverted to Chicago and landed at 4:22 a.m. local time.

– Alaska Airlines

Found on CNN
5 years ago

We're distracting from the main issue, what the issue was is the President calling journalists' fake news.' That was the beginning of the question, and suddenly, he diverted to Bill McCraven, and now everyone is talking about insults on Bill McCraven as opposed to freedom of the press.

– Mark Hertling

Found on CNN
5 years ago

California does NOT divert water to the ocean, ridiculous. It's true that water is diverted to the coastal cities for a constant water supply but all such water is used by the coastal communities.

– Henri Grissino-Mayer

Found on CNN
5 years ago

The law provides that Medicaid providers must be paid directly and cannot have part of their payments diverted to third parties outside of a few very specific exceptions, this proposed rule is intended to ensure that providers receive their complete payment, and any circumstances in which a state does divert part of a provider’s payment must be clearly allowed under the law.

– Tim Hill

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

We know that the people using street drugs – illicit opioids – four out of five started with prescription pills, either they had them prescribed directly or they’re using diverted pills. And often what leads them to go from pills to injection of fentanyl or heroin is that it’s easier to get. You don’t need a prescription and it’s often much less expensive.

– William Goodman

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

This problem is most easily illustrated with the example situation where I divert the lava flow to save my house, but as a result, the lava flow destroys someone else's house, as a result of these two factors, lava flows are generally not stopped or diverted.

– Benjamin Andrews

Found on CNN
5 years ago

This problem is most easily illustrated with the example situation where I divert the lava flow to save my house but as a result the lava flow destroys someone else's house, as a result of these two factors, lava flows are generally not stopped or diverted.

– Benjamin Andrews

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Almost all of the increases in overdose deaths are attributed to illicitly manufactured fentanyl, not pharmaceutical fentanyl that has been misused or diverted. And we know that because the number of prescriptions for pharmaceutical fentanyl has remained relatively stable over the past decade, whereas seizures of illicitly manufactured fentanyl has skyrocketed, so it really is due to illicitly manufactured fentanyl that is entering the market and that is essentially being mixed with heroin so that Lindsay LaSalle have an adulterated product that people aren't aware of, so their risk of overdose increases substantially.

– Lindsay LaSalle

Found on CNN
5 years ago

When someone runs 26 miles, the blood supply to the skin and muscle increases tremendously, because they need a lot of oxygen, it's estimated that up to 25% of blood ends up going to skin and muscle, and when this happens, that means the blood is getting diverted from other organs. So, while the skin and muscle are perfused at a higher rate, the kidneys are receiving a reduced blood supply.

– Martin Hoffman

Found on CNN
7 years ago

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