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DeMINT: Yeah, for distracting from the real thing.

Sen. Jim DeMint: Gays And Unmarried, Pregnant Women Should Not Teach Public School The Huffington Post News Team 2010

DeMINT: Yeah, for distracting from the real thing.

Sen. Jim DeMint: Gays And Unmarried, Pregnant Women Should Not Teach Public School The Huffington Post News Team 2010

Media talking head after media talking head has claimed that this was a gaffe, carelessness, a serious mistake, etc., and even blamed her for distracting from the great health care debate.

August « 2009 « L.E. Modesitt, Jr. – The Official Website 2009

DeMINT: Yeah, for distracting from the real thing.

Sen. Jim DeMint: Gays And Unmarried, Pregnant Women Should Not Teach Public School The Huffington Post News Team 2010

The race card is old and very distracting from the problems at hand.

Obama: Race not 'overriding issue' in criticism 2009

It may be necessary to provide it so that actions (say) have subject matter, but putting more in just slows the pace for us and ends up distracting from the story and draining for the reader (if he or – far less often – she is of one of these other types).

DOG PEOPLE • by Ian Rochford 2009

Other times, including a tedious man vs. monster chase sequence on an ice moon (itself too derivative by half of The Empire Strikes Back), all that action instead feels superfluous and distracting from the main story thread.

DVD Review: Star Trek « Screaming Blue Reviews 2009

I deliberately kept the colours light, to stop them distracting from the character of the outlines.

Alasdair Gray: My life in pictures Alasdair Gray 2010

As for your conspiracy guy, I can assure you, as a Canadian, that people are not running around in distracting bikinis as winter wanes.

More From The Writing Group « Tales from the Reading Room 2009

DeMINT: Yeah, for distracting from the real thing.

Sen. Jim DeMint: Gays And Unmarried, Pregnant Women Should Not Teach Public School The Huffington Post News Team 2010