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  • Dealing with the side-tracking and distractions of internal mind chatter is one of the most difficult challenges I face whenever I write.

    First Draft Secrets: Five Simple Steps | Write to Done 2009

  • The uprising in Egypt has scrambled President Obama's planned push on the jobs front this week -- side-tracking a key domestic issue as he and his Administration react to the rapidly-changing developments in the Middle East.

    Fast Fix: Will Egypt hurt Obama? (VIDEO) Chris Cillizza 2011

  • I actually have a bit more, but I think ending the scene there has more of an impact than side-tracking off into a different topic.

    NaNoWriMo: Ascension « The Graveyard 2009

  • But it was the militant Left who triumphed, infiltrating and politicising central and local government civil service establishments, side-tracking tried and tested constitutional processes, establishing quangos, commissars and "policy advisers" to take decisions and impose "solutions" outside the parliamentary process.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008

  • But it was the militant Left who triumphed, infiltrating and politicising central and local government civil service establishments, side-tracking tried and tested constitutional processes, establishing quangos, commissars and "policy advisers" to take decisions and impose "solutions" outside the parliamentary process.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008

  • May I draw to the attention of the distinguished delegates now present the "International Conference" proposed by the Vietnamese would logically mean side-tracking and avoiding

    Cambodia in Modern History: Beauty and Darkness Mekong Network 2008

  • GRACE: Randy Zelin, once again side-tracking in defense of Drew Peterson.

    CNN Transcript Mar 10, 2008 2008

  • I'm not going to address it in terms of Christianity as that will simply give rise to hostility and furious side-tracking from the fundamentalist atheists who infest Britain today.

    Britannia Ruled the Waves 2007

  • April 24th, 2006 at 6:16 am ignore the trolls shooting off their side-tracking efforts…

    Firedoglake » Six Months of Do or Die 2006

  • Sorry for temporarily side-tracking the discussion…

    limbo 2005

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