Critics have felt that its program has lacked integrity and that its real goal is to divert funding from the disabled due to a lowered budget.

"Our problem is not that we have fewer dollars but that we have to divert funding into capital investment," he said in an interview last week.

Privately, officers have complained that the civic action program has diverted deployments and funding from the historically tense border with Colombia.

In July 2009, he voted against a bill that would harm Vermont's small businesses by diverting key federal funding to larger, venture capital-backed firms.

Another misconception is that this accord's commitments will divert funding from poverty reduction.

Because the runaway budget diverted funding from other research, the science journal Nature described the James Webb as "the telescope that ate astronomy".

Conservatives want to divert public funding to vouchers for private or religious schools.

Edward's invasion of Scotland soon diverted funding from the project, however, and work stopped, only recommencing after an invasion scare in 1306.

Psychologist Ed Vul expressed concern, however, that the initiative would divert funding from individual investigator studies.

However, neighborhood opposition in the District halted this plan in 1977, diverting planned funding toward construction of the Washington Metro.