Katherine Harris has no credibility and neither do her charges. Her phony attacks are a cynical attempt to deflect attention away from her involvement in the largest congressional bribery scandal in history.
Quotes about deflect (16 Quotes)
To know thyself must mean to know the malignancy of one's own instincts and to know, as well, one's power to deflect it.
What we have here is another attempt to deflect attention from the opportunity we have to improve our highway infrastructure and our economy.
Once again, President Clinton is using American troops to deflect attention from his record of lies, distortions, obstructions of justice and abuse of power.
Our fielders have to catch a lot of balls, or at least deflect them to someone who can.
has adopted this siege mentality in which the best way to deflect the question is to attack the questioner. I'm not quite sure who he's playing to -- maybe the segment of the Republican Party that believes we're a bunch of liberals who have our own agenda.
Berlusconi is desperate and he's latching on to what he can to deflect attention away from the economy it's the most prominent chink in the armor. That's why he's jumped on the wiretapping scandals.
Newspapermen, as journalists used to be called, have long been charged with the sin of cynicism. a characterization that many of us encourage to deflect attention from our far more widespread flaw, incorrigible sentimentalism.
I believe that words can help us move or keep us paralysed, and that our choices of language and verbal tone have something a great deal to do with how we live our lives and whom we end up speaking with and hearing and that we can deflect words by trivialization, of course, but also by ritualized respect, or we can let them enter our souls and mix with the juices of our minds.
Now we're really seeing even the byproduct of the style that he's comfortable with and the confidence that comes from winning, ... We're achieving the success as a team that comes from 23 guys paying attention to team defense. We're not taking anything from what Brian has remarkably been able to accomplish, because it's extraordinarily hard to get a shutout, period, let alone to think of four in a row. But it really is an entire roster sacrificing anything and everything needed to get in front of pucks or deflect pucks or controlling positions defensively to be aware of taking away scoring opportunities.
Terrorism is in good part an effective government propaganda; it serves to deflect attention from governmental abuse toward a mostly imagined, highly dangerous outside enemy.
This individual has received a number of accolades over the years, yet he doesn't seek attention and is quick to deflect praise to other around him.
This is just a desperate attempt to deflect attention from a career of blunders and failures.
The South Korean disclosure will deflect attention from North Korea and Iran where it belongs,
NASA will send up a big sun shade that will be in orbit between the earth and sun and deflect 2 or 3 percent of the sunshine back into space. It would be cheaper than the international space station.
The fact is, the committee's allegations are baseless -- Mr. Sevan never took a penny, as he has said from the beginning. The IIC is and, since the beginning of its efforts, has been on a mission to scapegoat Mr. Sevan in a misguided attempt to spare the United Nations criticism and deflect attention away from the conduct of others.