11.   Along with France, Syria and the United States, Israel and Lebanon are on the panel, and both apparently succeeded in deflecting explicit criticism of their actions.

12.   But cute culture has a built-in method of deflecting criticism, simply by nature of its silliness.

13.   But Hoffa deflects such criticisms by turning the corruption issue around and pointing it at Carey camp members like Leedham.

14.   But Republicans said they were confident that passage of their own bill, even if it never becomes law, will help deflect Democratic criticism in races next year.

15.   But senior Palestinian, Arab and European officials see the Sharon plan as a nonstarter devised more to deflect criticism than to promote peace.

16.   But the arrests may be more of an effort to deflect growing criticism that authorities are not doing enough to begin accounting for killers among the refugees.

17.   But they are intended to deflect criticism of the Bush administration from those who say that it is Washington that has undermined the treaty, which it pioneered.

18.   Clinton, who avoided military service during the Vietnam war, has relied on former Vietnam combat veterans to help deflect domestic criticism of his overtures to Hanoi.

19.   Confronted with a growing list of ill postal workers, health officials spent Tuesday deflecting criticism for the delayed recognition of risks faced by Postal Service employees.

20.   Even when the Dodgers were fizzling at the end of the past two seasons, he deflected most criticism by producing at the plate.