Now some people might say email is really distracting and I.M. is really distracting, and these other things are really distracting, but they're distracting at a time of your own choice and your own choosing.

Can two women really be so distracting, captain?

It turns out that those aren't the things that are really distracting.

I must ask you not to address me or move or do anything in the least distracting.

And for the next two hours, they all waited with me taking turns, going up to their room, coming back, telling me jokes, distracting me.

And O listener! If a distracting thought from the devil reaches you, seek the refuge of Allah indeed He is the All Hearing, the All Knowing.

And O listener! If a distracting thought from the devil reaches you, seek the refuge of Allah indeed He is the All Hearing, the All Knowing.

In Uganda, most of our successes have been attained in the face of opposition, indifference or distracting, superficial heckling by quite a number of our external partners.

The achievement of policy coherence in the interest of enterprise development may sometimes lead to conflicts with other policy goals, thus distracting from the principal objective of SME development.

There are some people who would purchase distracting talk, to lead astray from the Path of Allah without knowledge, and take it in mockery for those is a humiliating punishment.

There are some people who would purchase distracting talk, to lead astray from the Path of Allah without knowledge, and take it in mockery for those is a humiliating punishment.

Among the people is he who trades in distracting tales intending, without knowledge, to lead away from God s way, and to make a mockery of it. These will have a humiliating punishment.

Among the people is he who trades in distracting tales intending, without knowledge, to lead away from God s way, and to make a mockery of it. These will have a humiliating punishment.

I'm not too fluent in mathematical notation so so i find things like numbers to be distracting, but you're a number theorist and if you love numbers who am I to judge?

That has not stopped pundits and the media from exaggerating such fears, distracting from greater efforts to overcome protracted stagnation for much of the developed world, which will inevitably drag down economic recovery elsewhere, especially in developing countries.

The Government of Israel is attempting to distort resolution 425 (1978), exploiting the international balance of power to that end and with a view to destroying the comprehensive peace process and distracting attention from the lack of progress made on the remaining tracks.

NEW DELHI A favorite theme in international debate nowadays is whether Asia s rise signifies the West s decline. But the current focus on economic malaise in Europe and the United States is distracting attention from the many serious challenges that call into question Asia s continued success.

But wasn t it more likely, Huxley mused, that future ruling elites would strive to keep the governed in line by distracting them with sexual allurement, entertainment, and other forms of pleasure, à la Brave New World? In many ways, today s Chinese consumer culture is precisely the kind of palliative that Huxley described.

But sport can also become a kind of gigantic, distracting screen behind which nasty regimes do outrageous things the very opposite of the Olympic and World Cup spirit. As the world was watching the football games in Germany, North Korea was testing long range missiles and Palestinians in the governing Hamas launched attacks on Israel that prompted a bloody invasion of Gaza.

This year, the 400th anniversary of Galileo s first use of a telescope, has been declared the International Year of Astronomy, so this seems a good time to ponder Kant s first source of awe and reverence. Indeed, the goal of the commemoration to help the world s citizens rediscover their place in the universe now has the incidental benefit of distracting us from nasty things nearer to home, like swine flu and the global financial crisis.