Word: deflective
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...spirited offensive served to deflect parliament's fire away from Grachev himself, and no vote was taken to call for his dismissal. But when he dropped out of a government visit to the Gulf region last week, the presumption was that he had finally fallen from official favor. In fact, Grachev had become ill after speaking to the parliament and checked into a hospital for medical tests...
...blending himself into history and folklore may have been a strategy to deflect intimacy and embarrassing inquiry. Dawidoff suggests this view, with speculation that Berg had trouble living up to his billing as athlete-scholar- spy and actually felt unworthy. Just as likely, he feared the dull prospect of settling down after baseball and a good war and so decided to schedule the rest of his life as a series of away games...
Eaton and Orfield also accused MontgomeryCounty officials of trying to deflect attentionfrom the district's problems...
...piece of propaganda whose solepurpose was trying to deflect attention from thereport," Eaton said. "There was nothingparticularly useful in there to make the reportmore accurate...
...since becoming the first Democrat to announce his candidacy for the state's highest office in April 1993, Barrett has had to deflect accusations that he and the governor are too much alike...