Late in life, Gatling did divert his attention to steam-powered ploughs.
But a prolonged bout of economic weakness will SAP the budget and divert focus from such far-reaching reform.
They hope this will help in developing better mosquito attractants that will divert them away from humans and reduce the threat of malaria infection.
Up to a point, flyovers and underpasses, being the first really decisive steps to speed up and divert traffic, have eased the situation, but a considerable contribution towards a satisfactory solution can be made by underground railway networks.
"Though I have little learning or literary talent, what does it matter if I tell a tale in rustic language to leave a record of all those lovely girls. This should divert readers too and help distract them from their cares. "
A proposed tax on financial transactions, which would divert business from Europe, also causes dismay.
In narrow terms, the merit of such deals depends on whether they create trade or divert it.
The FAO reckons that, if this were to happen (which seems unlikely), it would divert a tenth of the world's cereal output from food to fuels.
People threw into the water zongzi (pyramid-shaped glutinous rice dumplings wrapped in reed or bamboo leaves) and eggs to divert possible fish or shrimp from attacking his body.
Otherwise it will divert resources where they're needed.
The idea is not to encourage “virtue” in the abstract, just to divert more household waste to recycling bins.
For example, cities in the arid north are investing in costly desalination projects, and massive canals to divert water form Yangtze River to the north.
When she had thus disguised herself, she said to Abdalla, "Take your tabour, and let us go and divert our master and his son's friend, as we do sometimes when he is alone."
That is more than enough time to divert nuclear material and make mischief with it.
Indian diplomats say the talk of a threat from India is a smokescreen to divert attention from Pakistan’s failure to tackle the real issue: its nurturing of terrorists.
Rescue efforts will divert the army from its campaign against the Pakistani Taliban in Waziristan.
Another drug might incapacitate the mechanisms the bacteria use to divert lipids from the host cell to the chlamydial vacuole, halting the trespassers' ability to hide.
Traffic was ordered to divert to another road because of the repair of the main road.
Most Americans view it as grossly unjust, especially after they saw the Banks divert the billions intended to enable them to revive lending to payments of outsized bonuses and dividends.
When the long-term problems are large and real, they anesthetize us, mislead us, divert us—anything to keep us from giving up something or having to pay for it.
Unscrupulous officials pocket or divert funds.
Frerking has to divert attention immediately or think about more "serious" things to avoid the disease attack.
Use that to advance the argument that perhaps you should divert resources from quantitative research to other forms of learning.
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