Word: deflects
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...despite all the players’ praise, Turner goes out of his way to deflect any commendation for the line’s performance...
Almost immediately after Dartmouth scored its second goal, Harvard freshman midfielder Brian Charnock took a hard shot from the outside. Dartmouth senior keeper Doug Carr was able to deflect the ball just enough so that it trickled along the line for two or three seconds, inches from being called a goal, before it was cleared away by a Dartmouth defender...
...British Prime Minister he was being rude and postponed next month's Anglo-French summit until early 2003. Chirac has come out firing to bolster the political, economic and cultural clout of Paris, to check the shift of the E.U.'s center of gravity to Berlin and to deflect attention from Washington. On some fronts he's fighting a losing battle. He took time off last month to lend his backing to a conference of French-speaking nations in Lebanon in a futile bid to stop the relentless march of the English language, spearheaded by American popular culture...
...Middle East. Nations such as Saudi Arabia might not agree to serve as staging bases without U.N. backing, and Bush can't place all the troops he'll need for the war on aircraft carriers. Other friendly Arab nations like Jordan, Egypt and Qatar need U.N. cover to deflect accusations that they are party to an attack on a brother Arab country. With U.N. sanction, it will be easier to convince ordinary Arabs that the war is legitimate and the fault is Saddam's. If the U.N. doesn't come through, the Administration is instead preparing to lead a "coalition...
...vowed to fight the bills in parliament where, with the support of a splinter party, it holds a razor-thin majority. Party chairman Lien Chan blasted the proposed legislation as an act of "political liquidation" designed to deflect attention away from Taiwan's stalled economy and Chen's inability to establish meaningful dialogue with the nation's chief adversary, China...