Word: deflected
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...target evades the attack with insouciant grace. Excited onlookers identify the amateur torero as a manager from the Casablanca Hotel, a sombrero's throw away. The boutique retreat is a haven where attentive staff just as skilfully deflect the challenges of everyday life from blissed-out guests. And the hotel, like the gleaming white village that envelops it, fuses local tradition with a modern and international sensibility. Gaucín is developing into a new Deia or Fornalutx: a magnet, just like those Mallorcan hot spots, for affluent north European bohemians who want to immerse themselves in Spanish culture without...
...each day ticks by, the situation worsens. Inflation, now at 1,730%, is predicted to rise to over 4,000% by the end of the year. More than 80% of the population live below the poverty line, and mortality rates are soaring. Mugabe, as always, seeks to deflect responsibility by blaming others for the economic meltdown: Britain and the U.S. Meanwhile allies such as South Africa and Equatorial Guinea have kept Zimbabwe afloat by providing electricity and fuel on credit, while sales of mineral rights to Chinese companies have also generated income and hopes of further support. But the Chinese...
...politicians, who make up the largest block of the parliament and have close ties to Tehran, dismissed U.S. claims as propaganda by a Bush Administration seeking to deflect blame for the American military's failure to curb the growing violence in Iraq. Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has maintained a studied silence; Ali al-Dabbagh, his official spokesman, told TIME the government has no comment on the latest accusations. But an official in the Prime Minister's office questioned the credibility of U.S. intelligence, pointing to recent reports of evidence-fudging at the Pentagon in the lead...
Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid rarely gets questions about his Mormonism, and Romney has tried deflect them by focusing on the broad principles of his faith, as well as family values and traditional marriage. A writer for the Atlantic Monthly asked Romney last year if he wears Temple Garments--white underclothing, with the "Marks of the Holy Priesthood" sewn in, donned with reverence by the most faithful Mormons. "I'll just say those sorts of things I'll keep private," he sensibly replied. Will that dodge work for other theological questions? Calling himself "a religious person," Romney in June used...
...It’s one thing to play, but when you see the extremely high athletic level that he plays, he’s one of the more amazing defensive linemen that I’ve ever been around,” Murphy says.Berg struggles to deflect the praise, very unfamiliar territory for a player used to having his way in the arena in which he excels most.“I must say, it isn’t as bad as it seems,” Berg says. “It bothers you all week in practice...