Word: deflective
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...several occasions, the professor attempted to deflect questions either by avoiding them entirely or by accusing the audience of the very racism he is alleged to exhibit...
Harvard still has its problems with thegovernment. By taking the public relations highground, though, the University has assured itselfof having to deflect less flak from theCongressional subcommittee members than many otherschools, particularly...
...Bills held and took over at their 35. A five-yard holding penalty on Jayice Pearson kept the drive going after a third-down incompletion, but Keith McKellar had a pass deflect off his knee. The ball tipped off Lonnie Marts' hand to Eric Everett, who returned it to the Kansas City...
Backed halfheartedly by Belgium and Denmark, Germany argued for recognition of the two republics as quickly as possible, suggesting that international acceptance of Croatia's frontiers would deflect the Serbian drive to annex more Croatian territory on the pretext of protecting Serb minorities. But opponents in Britain, France, Holland and, from the sidelines, the U.S. and the United Nations countered that recognition might only provoke the Serbs into expanding the civil war by deploying the national army into Bosnia- Herzegovina to "protect" the Serb minority there. That in turn could cause the conflict to spread to Macedonia, possibly involving Greece...
Both countries put their stakes on Secretary of State James Baker's visit to Beijing last week. He is the highest ranking American official to arrive since the government forces massacred pro-democracy demonstrators at Tiananmen Square in June 1989. He tried to deflect the inevitable criticism with a message similar to Bush's: "You cannot work out or solve problems if you are not willing to sit down and talk to people...