"divert" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The Defense Department complains that such projects divert billions of dollars from programs the Pentagon considers vital.
- Such an accord could significantly slow the nuclear arms race, which has diverted hundreds of billions of dollars from civilian needs and heightened the risk of nuclear warfare.
- We were warned that a war would divert tens of billions of dollars from pressing problems at home.
- Saddam Hussein diverted billions of dollars from the program with illicit oil sales, surcharges and bribes.
- The oil tax would also be more efficient than an oil import fee, offering incentives for conservation without diverting billions into the production of high-cost domestic oil.
- Consumers annually divert billions of dollars - to credit cards affiliated with the programs, or to goods and services tied to such plans - to obtain more miles.
- The program also allowed Saddam Hussein to divert billions of dollars into his bank accounts.
- It diverts billions from California's schools, hospitals and childcare centers by funding failed prison and policing policies, deepening the state's ongoing budget crisis.
- The society said that groundless public fears about a possible link between power lines and cancer were diverting billions of dollars into mitigation work.
- As fuel tax revenues dwindle, policymakers have had to divert billions from the general fund and other non-transportation funds to pay for infrastructure.
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