Word: deflecting
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Another problem with restricting access is that it might deflect attention away from more reasonable measures to improve house security. Instead of policies that leave students out in the cold, more security guards could be hired or allocated to watch over houses during the night. All too often security offices are dark and no one is watching out for undesirables, thieves or worse. Too little supervision, not too much student access is the greater house security risk...
...February 2002, President Bush publicly ordered that the prisoners at Guantanamo be treated “humanely and, to the extent appropriate with military necessity, in a manner consistent with” the Geneva Conventions. In recent months, American officials have cited the presence of Red Cross observers to deflect criticism for Guantanamo’s lack of accountability and transparency. But Tuesday’s New York Times article, which revealed some of the report’s findings, indicated that the Red Cross had all along been condemning many U.S. practices. The watchdog group had been granted access...
Only 31 seconds later, as Clarkson’s airhorn sounded and the announcer credited the appropriate players, Clarkson struck again, this time when a shot by Michael Grenzy seemed to deflect off of Harvard blueliner Ryan Lannon...
...Staff argues Harvard should not be singled out because its flirtations with Hitler were “not uncommon to the interwar period.” We’re not sure what is more appalling about this contention—the unconscionable attempt to deflect responsibility or the reasonings’ laughable intellectual laziness. “Everyone was doing it” did not work on the playground and it certainly isn’t effective when confronted with proof that this newspaper and this University openly espoused the twentieth century’s most pernicious ideas...
Inching forward in the crease as Spina weaved down the ice, the netminder managed to deflect the attempt with his glove, holding his team’s advantage and quashing a potential BC uprising...