Word: deflectingly
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...example of effective propaganda with no basis in reality. The insistent vilification of Israel, a country that grants all of its citizens, including a large Arab minority, full freedoms, civil rights and perhaps the best living conditions in the region, is and has been a ploy to deflect international and internal focus from the continual abuses of human rights in surrounding nations...
...early in the game. In the second quarter, blown coverage allowed Travis Rowley to get open deep downfield. While a catch would have been a sure touchdown, Murphy reacted by turning on the speed and diving sideways for the ball. He managed to get his fingers on it and deflect it harmlessly away...
...India's response is hardly atypical. Most governments have a skeleton or three in their own closets, and the standard reaction is to strenuously deflect attention onto their neighbor's closet in a game of moral musical chairs. (A comprehensive discussion on slavery, for example, may require mention of the fact that most of the slaves captured on Africa's east coast went not to the New World, but to Arab countries, but the art of the deal here is to throw your weight behind a popular cause in exchange for having your own sins passed over...
...classified as obstruction, a lie would have to be about something material to the case, and Condit could argue that lying about an affair wasn't material. Also key would be exactly what questions the police asked; if they weren't precise, and if Condit managed to deflect them, a jury might simply laugh at the cops' ineptitude...
...meeting fell back on safe platitudes about family - Condit, 53, has two twentysomethings of his own - but did little to allay what a source calls Susan Levy's "controlled anger." Since the start of this case, Condit has drawn ever more attention to himself by so obviously trying to deflect it. He might as well walk down the Capitol steps with his jacket pulled over his head. There's good reason not to talk to the media - the beast gets hungrier the more you feed it. But is there any reason not to talk to the police? Clamming up makes...