How To Use Diversionary In A Sentence
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In the south the French division mounted a diversionary amphibious raid at Kum Kale on the Asian side of the Dardanelles.
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With all due respect, I think that your perspective here is horribly simplistic, uncomfortably mis-targeted (to the point of near endorsement), and quite diversionary from the essential core issue.
Oaxaca to Guadalajara: The good.. the bad.. & the ugly
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For more than a week before the Inchon landing, the Allied forces used diversionary tactics by bombing nearby areas.
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The term diversionary measures refers to direct actions of groups or individuals operating in the enemy's rear area.
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The proposal was dismissed as a diversionary tactic intended to distract attention from the real problems.
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One opposition member has already said he suspects the premier will simply come up with some diversionary tactic - a "thingamajig" - aimed at pacifying the public.
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We therefore encourage elaborate, ambitious syntax, diversionary subordinate clauses, and other enriching linguistic techniques.
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We have heard all these diversionary arguments before, but rarely do these arguments have any merit.
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The bombing was apparently a diversionary tactic, while the Navy landed its troops ashore.
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She smoked as a diversionary tactic and cast about to compensate.
THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS
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He deployed his divisions with the aid of smoke, mirrors and diversionary activities.
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A diversionary channel is still being used to flow the river around the work site.
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At Sadiapani village, land was acquired for a diversionary railway line, as the existing one will be submerged.
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In strict military terms, it's called a diversionary tactic.
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Hitler remained convinced that the main Allied invasion of France would take place near Calais and that operations against Normandy were diversionary.
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Mini-games such as Crush the Carrier are fresh, but prove nothing more than minor diversionary undertakings.
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Here, for your approval, is just a sampling of some of the most appealing diversionary choices currently offered on your TV.
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This turned a diversionary skirmish into the main theatre of war.
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Youth clubs have also been given money to pay for diversionary activities such as discos and barbecues to get young people off the streets.
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The newer is the hottest soft porn glossy, featuring curvy breasts, teasing hard nipples, slappable ass, as well as some diversionary violence, chromy car stuff, and pictures of food that other people can sell you if you are hungry.
Archive 2007-10-01
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This really is a title better suited for Spider Man fans looking for some diversionary gameplay.
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Diversionary loops also create extra track capacity for freight trains, enabling many more lorries to be taken off the roads.
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On September 14 the unit was reconnoitred as a diversionary raid; two mines were found and detonated and the beach and defense positions charted.
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For more than a week before the Inchon landing, the Allied forces used diversionary tactics by bombing nearby areas.
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A further amount is being spent on a temporary diversionary bridge.
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His leadership in directing a diversionary force at Maastricht allowed the king's main army to take the town.
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The death of a child, mown down by a speeding sponsor in 2000, led the organisers to push as much traffic as they can on to diversionary routes.
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Since John Kerry's 2004 campaign, hawkish Democratic security and political consultants have asserted that Afghanistan is a good and necessary war in comparison with Iraq which they label a diversionary one.
Tom Hayden: Obama's Wars
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He didn't offer platitudes or pollute the night with diversionary talk.
TOGETHER ALONE
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Detailed discussions should follow in order to consider any modifications to the scheme which may assist in reducing the costs of diversionary works.
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The Golden Valley Line serves as a diversionary line for several other lines in the area as well as serving its normal traffic.
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Ills a diversionary tactic-she will do anything rather than finish her tale.
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To partially rectify this system new diversionary cables were laid to circumvent the target conurbations.
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Determined to rescue the two, Holmes starts a diversionary fire and, in the confusion, scarpers.
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Secondly, it's not comprised of mini-games or other diversionary elements.
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The BBC was in fact concerned that those facts were not given too much prominence compared to diversionary criticism of me for not being a teetotal monogamist, which is of course much worse than being a warmongering torturing murderous bastard.
British Blogs
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Is there arguably a Parliamentary scheme that you get the diversionary system in the Magistrate's Court and you do not get it if you are committed to the District Court?
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it is important to establish a network of diversionary rail lines not only across the region but also across the country.
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Government must allocate extra funding to provide even more of these diversionary programs to give some hope to the juveniles responsible for much of the in-town disturbances.
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Fires were started by the prisoners as a diversionary tactic.
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The height of the diversionary structure will allow water exceeding a two-year flood stage to flow onto an adjacent flood plain.
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I'm hesitant to assign this film a purely diversionary purpose, but is it designed to teach the virtue of self-reliance, or the simple pleasures of constructive play?
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This turned a diversionary skirmish into the main theatre of war.
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The archness doesn't really get in the way of the crime fighting, but it does lift this book from potentially boring to perfectly diversionary summer reading.
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Frequently, those solutions have been diversionary, steering the electorate away from confrontations of their own ambivalence about social change.
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He was put in what's called a diversionary program, which is one of these things where if you stay out of trouble for a year your record is clear.
CNN Transcript Apr 18, 2006
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Diversionary tunnels were dug from the cavities to aqueducts filling the reservoirs, which were lined with lime.
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On March 14, 1968, Jim and his aircraft commander were sent on a close-air support mission to assist in diversionary fire for a helicopter evacuation about 18 miles southwest of the city of Hue where the 304th North Vietnamese regiment was active.
Hamm, James E.
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In earlier days of Diversionary, Peterson said, actors feared being typed if they took roles in a gay theater.
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Most children are skilled in diversionary tactics .
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The closures have meant gridlock in places, but pre-planned highways contingencies have been put into operation and diversionary routes publicised where possible.
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There was supposed to be a diversionary covering air strike.
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Nor can we rely on escalatory steps such as economic sanctions to pressure it as it employs dilatory and diversionary tactics to complete its final solution.
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But the coyness is a diversionary tactic: it masks the deep normative commitments that in fact saturate Smart's work.
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American pop culture is filled with remnants of television series whose impact was little more than diversionary and trivial.
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The developers seemed to be conscious this would be primarily a diversionary game.
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Other reasons may include the lack of adequate diversionary options where we can divert people with minor charges out of the criminal justice system into psychiatric care.
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Accordingly, you resort to false premises, lies and diversionary tactics.
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Diversionary feeding involves leaving dead rats and other carrion on the moor for the harriers to eat.
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At any time today, there are a dozen Hope Vale people either in prison, or who would be in prison without diversionary measures.
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Any implication that I am engaged in diversionary activity will be hotly denied.
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This persuasive, manipulative emphasis has been seen in political tactics: withholding information, bluffing, making alliances, publicly supporting but privately opposing particular views, compromising, and using delaying and diversionary tactics.2 Participation is likely to be seen with general, rather than close, supervision; with the equalization of power; and with nondirective leadership.
The Bass Handbook of Leadership
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The bombing was apparently a diversionary tactic, while the Navy landed its troops ashore.
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It's not the kind of record I'd want to listen to at home - it's diversionary and fun, sometimes even great, but not very deep.
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He went straight in to see Wolters with this diversionary piece of information and was astonished to find him cheerful and expansive.
THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS
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The diversionary tactic of arguing that anyone arguing the anti-Islamist case is tarring 'All 1.5 Billion Muslims with The Same Brush!!' must now be sent to the rhetorical dustbin, along with the 'We Didn't Call IRA Terrorists' Catholic 'Terrorists!!' and the 'Muslims are the New Jews!!' devices, beloved of the Guardian crowd in their Anglophobia and naivity.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
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Remember, Gilligan made possible Alastair Campbell's diversionary tactic that distracted attention from the argument about the need for war.
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This recognises its importance for current passenger traffic and as a diversionary route when engineering takes place on the west coast main line.
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The proposal was dismissed as a diversionary tactic intended to distract attention from the real problems.
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I do not propose to get involved in what is clearly a diversionary tack.
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After a series of diversionary manoeuvres, he crossed the river under cover of a thunderstorm and defeated Porus.
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Where occasional water flowing onto or across a site cannot be avoided, it can often be made harmless by diversionary banks, directing the flow into drains.
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What may look like a simple journey across town can become a nightmare diversionary trek via rail replacement bus services.
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It's all a smokescreen, a diversionary tactic to take the focus off of certain questions those who failed this country that day don't want aired.
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The Duke's army, circumvented by the rebels in a diversionary movement on the march south, remained intact, waiting outside Northampton for events to unfold.
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The archness doesn't really get in the way of the crime fighting, but it does lift this book from potentially boring to perfectly diversionary summer reading.
