diversionary , also: diversional

A good place to start a diversionary fire if you needed to.

One is a diversionary attack on the wall from outside.

There I held them, for a diversionary attack at the last moment should one be needed.

But the last thing the agency needs is a diversionary power struggle.

To minimize the risk, he set up a diversionary action.

These troops were meant to serve as a diversionary force.

I keep thinking this must be some sort of diversionary tactic.

The rest of it seems to be pretty much diversionary."

We are satisfied that the President had no knowledge of any diversionary effort.

"I think it's a diversionary tactic from the real problem of the schools."

There will be very little time before the diversionary strike begins.

"To point the finger at them is diversionary," he said.

He would lead the opening diversionary assault on the air base.

The main attack was to come the next day followed by a series of diversionary attacks.

Once they were inside, they put on a big diversionary show.

Then I want exactly ten minutes of diversionary fire, everything you've got."

He entered a diversionary program and the charge was later dismissed.

A successful diversionary foreign policy could increase support for the domestic regime.

Overall, diversionary foreign policy is more likely in a major power because they are less constrained by the international community.

"If I understood you before, you're saying they're putting out diversionary communications?"

The success of their final run depended on a diversionary air raid.

They were primarily a diversionary force, to fight only if there was no other way to keep the war party busy.

His ships were not expected to survive their diversionary employment.

The use of diversionary techniques such as fires had to be made carefully.

"These people knew a very different Iran, and their analysis was not just useless but diversionary," he added.