Barton Gellman

For a decade, makers of AIDS medicines had rejected the idea of lowering prices in poor countries for fear of eroding profits in rich ones. The position required a balancing act, because the companies had to deflect attacks on the global reach of their patents, which granted exclusive marketing rights for antiretroviral drugs.

American Journalist

Thomas McGuane

People don't understand how much influence they can actually have on a writer, how much a writer's feelings can be hurt, how much they can deflect his course when they raise their voices like they did over highly personal books like 'Panama' or 'Bullet Park.

American Author

Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

Perhaps the earliest memories I have are of being a stubborn, determined child. Through the years my mother has told me that it was fortunate that I chose to do acceptable things, for if I had chosen otherwise, no one could have deflected me from my path.

American Scientist

Neil deGrasse Tyson

I don't want to be the embarrassment of the galaxy to have had the power to deflect an asteroid, and then not and end up going extinct. We'd be the laughingstock of the aliens of the cosmos if that were the case.

Jane Lynch

So much of Sue Sylvester, the angry woman, came from that part of my life, wanting to crush other people's dreams and judging others so harshly, which is always just a way of deflecting your own self-judgment.

American Actress

John Lanchester

My mum had this amazing ability to deflect things, and from an early age, I knew what I was not supposed to talk about.

British Journalist

Nathan Myhrvold

Sooner or later the space program will need to save us by detecting and deflecting an incoming asteroid.

American Businessman

Mika

In my older songs, I used to hide behind fictional characters to deflect attention away from myself.

British Musician

JaVale McGee

People try to bring negativity into my life, but it's crazy how I deflect it.

American Athlete

Lesley Sharp

You can choose to go about your life attracting attention or deflecting it.

English Actress

Used when an object's path is physically altered by someone or something.

Physical Deflection

Subtly turning a situation away from a desired focus, often in conversation.

Subtle Evasion

Intentionally redirecting attention to avoid dealing with a particular subject.

Strategic Avoidance

Used to describe the act of steering a conversation away from a certain topic.

Subject Change

Deflecting can indicate avoiding emotional engagement or vulnerability.

Emotional Guard

Deflecting blame or responsibility can be a protective strategy in arguments.

Defensive Mechanism

 age your skin, and promote the development of potentially deadly skin cancer. Sunscreen protects your skin either physically by deflecting UV rays with an inorganic blocker like zinc oxide or titanium dioxide, or chemically by using carbon-based compounds to absorb UV photons

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 And sometimes these objects run into each other, and they gravitationally deflect, and then the gravity of Jupiter pulls them back into the solar system. And they then become the comets as we see them in the sky. The important thing here to note is that in the meantime,

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 what to do we're not going to blow them up like you see in the movies instead we're going to deflect them will launch some spacecraft that will push or pull the asteroids into a different orbit so that they're no longer on a path to impact earth within enough advanced

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 or the way that light rays are deflected by massive objects. More importantly, Einstein's theory predicts things that simply don't exist in older theories where space, time and gravity were separate. The stitching can leave wrinkles in the space-time material.

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 Here's one risk of extinction that we all became aware of recently, when an asteroid passed close to our planet. Possibly research could help us not only to predict the path of asteroids that might collide with us, but actually to deflect them.

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 If we observe several stars orbiting around an apparently empty point, a black hole could be leading the dance. Similarly, light that passes close enough to an event horizon will be deflected in a phenomenon known as gravitational lensing.

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 deflected to the sides the team advances to the next location of a reported iev the old an explosive device or anything like that or gets set nobody comes through keep the local Nationals out one for their safety and

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 far below the surface they collide with the islands flanks and are deflected upwards bringing with them from the depths a rich soup of nutrients such upwellings attract great concentrations of life

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 key factor the deep ocean currents far below the surface they collide with the islands flanks and are deflected upwards bringing with them from the depths a rich soup of nutrients

The Blue Planet...

 the islands flanks and are deflected upwards bringing with them from the depths a rich soup of nutrients such upwellings attract great concentrations of life