1.   But he is the front-runner in the Republican race, and his task on Wednesday will be to underscore his leadership credentials and deflect anticipated attacks from other candidates.

2.   Companies need to be smarter in using their own Web sites to deflect attacks.

3.   His bosses were so anxious about his reaction that they agreed to break the news in a room where they could use a table to deflect an attack.

4.   His purpose may be to deflect attacks that he aims to buy the White House.

5.   Republican insiders argue that voters are sick of the Democratic attacks on the Speaker, and they say that GOP Congressional candidates can readily deflect the attacks.

6.   She sought in her speech to deflect that attack by arguing that her remarks reflected what she had learned during two decades in government.

7.   To deflect this attack, the Republicans should take on corporate welfare as discordant with fiscal conservative principles.

8.   He said increases in interest rates are no longer effective in deflecting speculative attacks on the peso.