"All that Yahweh can possibly hope to accomplish is to use this to distract us from our real mission here."

Those nuisance field guns had accomplished their objective:to distract some of the American force from its primary mission.

Some are concerned that this "tool building" may distract scientists from their real mission.

Frustrating business, especially since self-defense distracted so from our primary mission.

Every move she made distracted him from his mission.

"No," said Harvey, determined not to let the past distract him from his mission here.

"A war of attrition has begun which can only distract from the organization's important mission," she said.

Let them not distract you from your mission, your purpose.

And they were distracting my guests from their mission, which was to flatter Mildred.

"You're just trying to distract me from my real mission."