There were five trucks arriving (Thursday) night to feed well over 50,000 people. There's less than that there. We're also diverting supplies to the convention center, which I learned about (Thursday). So I understand people's frustrations. But this has been an absolutely catastrophic disaster, and we're doing absolutely everything we can to get the supplies into those folks.
Quotes about diverting (16 Quotes)
It is a process of diverting one's scattered forces into one powerful channel.
I do not know what I may appear to the world but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay.
I was like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
There are people who read too much bibliobibuli. I know some who are constantly drunk on books, as other men are drunk on whiskey or religion. They wander through this most diverting and stimulating of worlds in a haze. . .
It causes us issues because it's diverting our attention from real needs to what we classify as vandalism. It detracts from the university's appearance to parents and visitors when it is done.
Happy that nation, fortunate that age, whose history is not diverting.
Nortel had misrepresented results over several years, possibly in an effort to trigger bonus payments, sparking regulatory and criminal investigations in the U.S. and Canada. The company was forced to restate a half-decade's results, diverting management's resources and spooking some customers (see BW Online, 032205, More of Nortel's Slip Is Showing ... absolute crisis.
There are some people who read too much The bibliobibuli. I know some who are constantly drunk on books, as others are drunk on whiskey or religion. They wander through this most diverting and stimulating of worlds in a haze, seeing nothing and hearing nothing.
With major insurance companies diverting patients from emergency rooms to our clinic we have expectations of exceeding the original number of 30 patients a day.
People will point the finger at the U. S. and go on about those wacky Americans and their wacky gun culture. That is a real easy way of diverting attention from the real problems the gang culture presents.
They're already diverting attention and perhaps some resources from the fight against al Qaeda and the Taliban on Pakistan's western border. So the U. S. has a very big interest in this.
Diverting the internal traffic between the Writer as Angel of Light and the Writer as Hustler is that scribbling child in a grown-up body wondering if anybody is listening.
We strictly abided by the selection criteria we had set and we did not want to go back on our words by diverting from it. We calculated the average of two highest scores in the two trial camps and the national championships and the top two scorers were given the place in the team.
Short, successful military adventures are as effective as the Super Bowl in diverting people's attention from unpleasant truths.
So as we have this debate about the personal accounts, I think it is very important for us to recognize that diverting 4 percent of your Social Security taxes into this is never going to be enough for this to retire on.