He's diverting attention away from the life and death crisis, March realized.
There was only one answer: divert the world's attention away from him and onto another topic.
"It's just an attempt to divert the attention of the public away from the governor."
We are being made fall guys to divert attention away from the real people who called this mess.
My grandmother diverted money away from the group and its work.
I think going to war just diverted our energy away from those issues.
"I think your main part in the act will be to divert thoughts away from it."
The idea is to divert attention away from this fact.
The other churches have been diverting energy away from the real work, and that's why we're here.
But she cannot divert too many scarce resources away from social needs.