Word: deflects
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...first half, the Badgers’ offense came to life, sending a ball into the box that evaded a diving Mann. Shooting into an open net, Wisconsin looked poised to tie the game just before halftime. But Okuji stepped in front, slid to her right, and deflected the would-be equalizer away from the goal. Captain Nikki Rhodes stepped in to clear the ball away, keeping the Crimson ahead before the break. Although Wisconsin would knot the game up in the second half, the play effectively salvaged a draw for a Crimson team on the rise...
...rarely misses an opportunity to sound the Yanqui alarm when doing so has domestic political benefit. Critics, who are questioning whether the alleged coup plot was actually real, were quick to suggest that this latest anti-gringo outburst would conveniently deflect attention away from allegedly incriminating evidence against Chávez and his government emerging in an international corruption trial that began this month in Miami. The case involves a suitcase filled with $800,000 in cash that was seized at the Buenos Aires airport in the summer of 2007, allegedly being delivered on behalf...
Palin still has plenty of questions to answer, and while she has basked in mostly adoring reviews from the conservative base, she is also struggling to deflect the scrutiny of her record in office. Though it insists she is up to the job of Vice President, the campaign denied all news interview requests for nearly two weeks after she joined the ticket. She regards reporters warily and from a distance, except for a brief meet and greet on her campaign plane that was strictly off the record. Onstage, she tells the same teleprompter jokes every day, and her husband Todd...
...critics say the issue isn't the McCain campaign's use of biography per se, but rather how and when they bring it up. By turning to his POW experience in order to deflect any question, be it about his character, wealth or memory, McCain appears to risk trivializing his own heroic personal story in much the same way that Rudy Giuliani's constant invoking of 9/11 became the butt of jokes during his presidential campaign...
...most demonstrations in China don't have official sanction. The zones were met with skepticism from human rights advocates. Nicholas Bequelin, a researcher with the NGO Human Rights Watch, called it "a protest pen" meant to segregate demonstrators. "It's a system that has been set in place to deflect criticism about the lack of freedom to protest, the lack of freedom of assembly and demonstration in China," he says...