Sometimes the young and beautiful nymph Echo would distract and amuse Zeus ' wife, Hera, with long and entertaining stories while Zeus took advantage of the moment to ravish the other mountain nymphs.

:" The fact that fate of the revolution was decided in Vienna and Berlin, that the key issues of life were dealt with in both those capitals without taking the slightest notice of the Frankfurt assembly-that fact alone is sufficient to prove that the institution was a mere debating club, consisting of an accumulation of gullible wretches who allowed themselves to be abused as puppets by the governments, so as to provide a show to amuse the shopkeepers and tradesmen of small states and towns, as long as it was considered necessary to distract their attention.

Hyman strongly opposed Krusty's wish to become a clown and make people laugh, believing that it would distract him from his religion, wanting the boy to go to yeshiva instead.

But he uses a decoy boy to distract Libby, knocks her unconscious, and locks her in a casket inside a mausoleum.

It continues to be debated whether Gardner's claims that Clutterbuck was involved in pagan witchcraft were true, or whether Gardner used the name of a respectable local worthy as a private joke and in order to distract attention from his true magical partner, Edith Woodford-Grimes.

If local legend is to be believed, the Royalists escaped by throwing coins from the windows in order to distract the poorly paid Roundhead troops.

* Temporarily distract the group from its mission by forcing it to focus on the poser.

It does not lead the group, nor does it try to distract or to entertain.

The fox-like Eelfinn try to distract the group first by trying to hypnotize them into leaving their fire, until Mat orders Thom to play music and break the lulling tone of the Eelfinn's voice.

To distract herself, she becomes more involved in magic, practicing spells with varying degrees of success, and trying to socialize with the campus Wicca group.

Despite Osborn's efforts to distract from the indictment of the group by putting Rhodes on trial at The Hague for war crimes, Rhodes and his team foiled Osborn's scheme with Rhodes himself transferred to his clone body after saving the life of a child.

Squadmates may be commanded as a group or individually ; for example, one half of a squad may be used to distract enemies while the other half attacks an objective.

The justification for the policy against hiring African-Americans was that they would distract from the consistent look of the dance group.

During the runup to the invasion a group of 33 international relations scholars took out a full-page ad in the New York Times suggesting, among other things, that invading Iraq would distract the United States from its fight against al-Qaeda and further destabilize the Middle East.

When alarmed, a feeding group of Glanville Fritillary larvae will jerk their heads in unison, probably to distract their enemies.

Originally, the Rogues were just the Flash's enemies teaming together after they were all broken out of jail by another Flash foe, the super-intelligent Gorilla Grodd to distract the Flash during his attempt at world conquest, but though they were all defeated by the Flash making their weapons hit each other, since then they have formed a lasting group, and usually a Rogue will never commit a crime by himself.

French philosopher and author Bernard-Henri Lévy also argues in his book Left in Dark Times that modern anti-imperialism is nothing more than thinly disguised anti-Americanism and has been too commonly evoked by Third World dictators and extremist movements to distract their audiences from their own crimes and abuses of power.

Others will do all in their power to distract themselves to avoid seeing the spider.

He felt that colonies did not pay for themselves, that the German bureaucratic system would not work well in the easy-going tropics, and the diplomatic disputes over colonies would distract Germany from its central interest, Europe itself.

He felt that colonies did not pay for themselves, that the German bureaucratic system would not work well in the easy-going tropics, and that the diplomatic disputes colonies brought would distract Germany from its central interest, Europe itself.

In these positions, the partners are said to experience sexual stimulation simultaneously, but this can also distract those who try to focus solely on pleasuring themselves.

She then had Joseph walk through and distract the women who cut themselves with the knives.

Wingers tend to " plant " themselves in front of the net, usually to distract or screen a goaltender, attempt a deflection, throw the defense into disarray, or draw a penalty.

A few of the students involved sued and the Supreme Court sided with the students, saying that provided that these speech acts did not distract themselves or others from academic work, the real purpose of the school, then students were free to wear and say want they liked in school.

One 1987 study found little empirical support for several proposed explanations, including biological ones, and argued that when depressed women tend to ruminate which may lower the mood further while men tend to distract themselves with activities.

His visual similarities to Sailor Moons Tuxedo Kamen is made more explicit in an episode mid-way through the series when he is enlisted to distract a trio of ghosts calling themselves the Sailors XO and is even briefly depicted wearing a top hat, which he complains about.

The Civil War between Huáscar and Atahualpa would weaken ( and perhaps more importantly, distract ) the empire immediately prior to its struggle with the Spanish, although it is unclear how much of a difference a united Inca Empire would have made in the long term due to factors such as disease, and to the fact that the Inca military technology was vastly inferior to that of the Spaniards, who possessed horses, metal armor, swords, cannons, and primitive, but effective, firearms.

He decided that the marines must be deploying around the meadow, with the one left to distract him.

Customers have expressed frustration with the ads, including an over 200 page thread on Valve's official forums, saying that they violate original terms of service and distract from the game.

However, ten years later, Stadtholder Maurice of Orange, proposed to continue the war with Spain, but also to distract attention from Spain to the Republic.

According to some experts, Capra used great, yet unobtrusive craftsmanship when directing, and felt it was bad directing to distract the audience with fancy technical gimmicks.

Godzilla continues his rampage, until Professor Hayashida is successful with his invention and uses the bird call device to distract him.

While searching for the energy of the Black Lantern simultaneously dispatching various Doomsday ' clones ' created from the original to distract Earth's heroes by sending them after the other members of the Superman family with the aid of a robotic duplicate of Lois Lane created to give him an honest opinion on his actions, Luthor encountered Brainiac in space while attempting to alter the last of the Black Lantern energy, acting upon an unspoken theory of his.

Jean showed how the unwavering trust of Jef, the faithful Pierrot prototype, transforms his scandalously adulterous wife into his idealized image of her, while Domino presented another unfaithful wife who pays a gigolo to make a pretense of courting her so as to distract her husband from her real lover, but the gigolo manages to act his character with such pretend sincerity that she winds up falling in love with this fictional persona.

" She has also characterized " academic feminism's love affair with deconstructionism " as " toothless ", and warned that it " distract from constructive engagement with the problems of the public world ".

326 Supplie it with one gender of Hearbes, or distract it with many.

Layers can be placed in front of the playfield — the layer containing the objects with which the player interacts — for various reasons such as to provide increased dimension, obscure some of the action of the game, or distract the player.

His wife Hera sent ever-watchful Argus Panoptes, with 100 eyes, to guard her, but Hermes was sent to distract the guardian and slay him.

The play opens on 10 April 1809, in a garden front room of a country house in Derbyshire with tutor Septimus Hodge trying to distract his 13 year-old pupil Thomasina from her enquiries as to the meaning of a " carnal embrace " by challenging her to prove Fermat's Last Theorem so he can focus on reading the poem ' The Couch of Eros ', a piece written by another character, Mr. Ezra Chater.

* " Il était un petit navire " ( There Once was a Little Ship ), played by de Boeldieu with his penny whistle to distract the German guards from Rosenthal and Maréchal's escape, a traditional French song about a shipwrecked sailor that must cannibalize another sailor to survive.

In Europe, the early years of personal computing ( 1981 – 1985 ) were spearheaded by the very aggressive marketing of inexpensive home computers with the theme " Why buy your child a video game and distract them from school when you can buy them a home computer that will prepare them for university?

The Professor reveals that George Kaplan does not exist: he was invented to distract Vandamm from the real government agent — Eve, who was already in a relationship with Vandamm when alerted by the Professor to Vandamm's espionage activity.

The novel was the last of a story arc published to coincide with the series ' 30th anniversary in 1993, in which the Seventh Doctor encounters various alternate realities that have been created due to the Monk's meddling with time, including a reality where the Third Doctor was killed in his confrontation with the Silurians ( Blood Heat ), attempting to distract the Doctor while he helps the Vardans to invade Earth, thus getting their mutual revenge on the Doctor for their losses during their past confrontations with him.

The book claims that the way to defeat a vampire is for a woman who is pure in heart to distract the vampire with her beauty all through the night.

A family of musicians ( the Frys, from Alderbury, Wiltshire ) began working with the Army as their " bodyguards " and played music to distract the crowds.