11.  The debate is diverting attention from the urgent need to improve the way the medical system cares for terminally ill patients.

12.  The latter initially diverted public attention from social issues.

13.  The need would be to show, against reasonable expectation, that the second did not divert attention from the first.

14.  They want to divert the attention of the people from the real issues.

15.  He lied to divert attention from the real situation.

16.  The Jordanian government denied that there were any attacks and accused the Israelis of opening fire on Jordan to divert attention from the intifada.

17.  It urged developed countries not to let domestic economic problems and concern with eastern Europe divert attention from the needs of millions of Africans.

18.  Armenia claimed that the reports were exaggerated to divert attention from large-scale Azeri attacks.

19.  It looks to many of us as if the Government are using the helmet issue to divert attention from spending money on real facilities for cyclists.

20.  Yet changes which at first seem major or dramatic often fade in significance as parts of them are assimilated into school operation or attention is diverted to newer concerns.