(1) We're in danger of being sidetracked by a simplistic debate that suggests an emphasis on people and their responsibility somehow blames individuals and ignores the real social determinants of health and disease.
(2) The problem starts at school, and girls very quickly get sidetracked out of maths and physics.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Many respondents felt more girls needed to study Stem subjects at younger ages.
(3) Wants to avoid getting sidetracked by applications.
(4) One expert goes so far as warning , "Cleavage could sidetrack a legal career".
(5) Learning about the super-clarity that is needed on stage to bring about thatslight sidetracking of reality.
(6) As he lays out his plan, you are totally with him, even when it gets sidetracked a bit by his big buddy Groot.
(7) But the Syrian “revolution” was quickly and predictably sidetracked and deformed by the much more powerful Islamists.
(8) Other women who have run their states laughed wryly at similar memories of enduring sexist insults and being obliged to sidetrack their election campaigns to deal with them.
(9) So from now on, my focus will be on working with them, face-to-face, for the whole day rather than getting sidetracked with emails, phone calls, meetings or proposals.
(10) And it was refreshing to be able to spend all the time on that and not be sidetracked by special effects and spectacle, which a lot of other films I've done have been.
(11) Asked about this Pulis said: "To say he was doing it as a sidetrack to influence the referee, you've said it.
(12) Environment groups urged countries to renew their pledges under the Kyoto treaty and not be sidetracked by promises of a better deal.
(13) Soon, dozens of cases were sidetracked by endless technical argument.
(14) I’m all for important discussions on the state of authorship and recognition for black artists in pop – but as Swift’s tweet showed, couching those analyses in something as pointless as the VMAs soon sidetracks the conversation.
(15) Yes, I want to ask a question.” Scolari was promptly sidetracked by the extra question that is invariably jammed in from somebody in the room.
(16) Recent debates about redress mechanisms for medical accident victims have been sidetracked by fears of an American-style medical malpractice crisis.
(17) In Britain we have simply allowed ourselves to be sidetracked by our governing elite's military adventures and the bread and circuses of royal occasions and sporting festivals.
(18) Lord knows we had the tunes but the times that we did it when we should have been great was the first year we headlined it and we got sidetracked.
(19) Nursing organizations formed coalitions, held meetings, published position statements, and mounted campaigns to sidetrack the AMA plans.
(20) 'It was refreshing to be able to spend all the time on my character in Rush and not be sidetracked by special effects and spectacle' With Daniel Bruhl in Rush.
Stray
Definition:
(a.) To wander, as from a direct course; to deviate, or go out of the way.
(a.) To wander from company, or from the proper limits; to rove at large; to roam; to go astray.
(a.) Figuratively, to wander from the path of duty or rectitude; to err.
(v. t.) To cause to stray.
(v. i.) Having gone astray; strayed; wandering; as, a strayhorse or sheep.
(n.) Any domestic animal that has an inclosure, or its proper place and company, and wanders at large, or is lost; an estray. Used also figuratively.
(n.) The act of wandering or going astray.
Example Sentences:
(1) Stray bottles were thrown over the barriers towards officers to cheers and chants of: “Shame on you, we’re human too.” The Met deployed what it described as a “significant policing operation”, including drafting in thousands of extra officers to tackle expected unrest, after previous events ended in arrests and clashes with police across the centre of the capital.
(2) Until that point, Bravo had looked assured, often straying 30 yards off his goal-line and confident enough to try a couple of passes that many goalkeepers would consider too risky.
(3) Spatial distribution of the disease correlated with indirect EIA data on healthy urban population (3116 persons examined) and stray dogs (152 animals examined).
(4) At peak times 1,300 vehicles an hour will use the lanes, with non-Olympic motorists fined £130 if they stray into them.
(5) The helicopter strayed more than a mile into Turkish airspace, but crashed inside Syria after being hit by missiles fired from the jet, Turkish officials said at the time.
(6) Guardiola has ever-so-slightly strayed away from what has made Barcelona so brilliant now, and there are certainly questions to be asked about how Busquets-Iniesta-Xavi triumvirate has been disrupted by Cesc Fabregas.
(7) Lula responded by insisting that his government would not stray from its quest to protect the Amazon and appointed another high-profile environmentalist, Green party founder Carlos Minc, as his new minister.
(8) "Stray bullets are part of my life here," says Jessica, a 17-year-old football coach.
(9) Hence stray voltage may threaten farm animal health and production wherever modern animal housing is applied.
(10) But in 14 years, the search for international justice in Africa has strayed far from the "never again" principle, and into the murkier waters of deals and fixes.
(11) Bedoya then strays offside on the other side of the pitch.
(12) In his search for a new economic model for the paper that would take it into a secure digital future, Thompson has been experimenting with innovations that appear to stray from his corporate bunker on the 16th floor of the Times building into the editorial realm.
(13) Turkey has said the jet mistakenly strayed into Syrian air space on Friday, but was quickly warned to leave by Turkish authorities and was a mile inside international airspace when it was shot down.
(14) You made sure that Mairead "stuck to the story", checking with her at every opportunity that she wasn't going to stray, as you put it.
(15) The laboratories without stray light problems reported results with less instrument-to-instrument variation, the results followed a symmetrical distribution, and the mean of the results provided an accurate estimate of the absorbance of the solutions.
(16) Others face more niggling problems: in a recent post on the local Facebook group “Eliminate All Stray Dogs”, one resident claimed an unruly pack kept jumping on his car, destroying its windscreen wipers.
(17) and other species in stool specimens from stray dogs and cats in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
(18) Up to 4.5 million Russians were already expected to change holiday plans after the Turkish military shot down a Russian jet that strayed into Turkish airspace on a bombing mission over Syria, and military operations against Kurdish insurgents in the south-east have added to a sense of crisis.
(19) Udall barely mentioned government surveillance on the campaign trail, choosing instead to mount a singular focus on female voters, rarely straying from two topics : contraception and abortion.
(20) The four people arrested in the Gloucestershire cull zone were held on suspicion of aggravated trespass after police responded to reports of horns being blown and individuals straying from a public footpath.