11.   Talking about the Giants was a nice diversionary tactic.

12.   The first is a diversionary tactic to cover up the consistent congressional failure to address huge budget deficits.

13.   They said the devices were to serve as a diversionary tactic while the four robbed two banks in the city.

14.   This is no slick diversionary tactic.

15.   We resort to shelling only when we have information that infiltrators are trying to come in and Pakistanis provide shelling as a diversionary tactic.

16.   Both American and world opinion would condemn a U.S. strike against Iraq as merely the diversionary tactic of a desperate man.

17.   During the massacre, other rebels ambushed a nearby police station in a diversionary tactic, sparking a three-hour gun battle.

18.   For Walder de Goes, president of the Brazilian Institute of Political Studies, the wording in the FARB note was a diversionary tactic.

19.   He said such a diversionary tactic could indicate the sender knows the area fairly well.

20.   In their operation, police tossed the man a bottle of water as a diversionary tactic before rushing the assailant, NHK said.