Multitasking could also be considered as distraction in situations requiring full attention on a single object (e.g. sports, academic tests, performance).
Distraction is when "one limits attention to the critical bounds by constantly enthralling it with impressions".
The Jets endured a major distraction when Mark Gastineau, the team's main pass rusher who appeared to be experiencing a career-renaissance, abruptly retired in midseason to tend to ailing actress Brigitte Nielsen.
In 1921 in Paris he published a satirical anthology, A Dozen Knives in the Back of Revolution which Lenin described as "a book of great talent by the embittered to distraction White Guard."
Towards the end of the Nine Years War, taking advantage of the distraction of the English, Chieftain John O’Connor briefly re-occupied the castle only to be put out again in 1603 by George Carew, the Governor of Munster.
Obama selected Nancy Killefer to be the first CPO/Deputy OMB Director for Management, but before the Senate could vote on her confirmation, she withdrew her nomination, citing a "personal tax issue" as a likely distraction for the Obama administration.
He suggested that this story became a distraction amid the doodle-bugs and created excitement because the man was sentenced to death and the girl to imprisonment - a call for the girl also to be hanged Orwell suggests flows from the brutalizing effects of the war, and that the story would not be as remembered as the older cases.
Since in this war the Liberals were said to be pro-German, US President Woodrow Wilson, worried about Mexico and Pancho Villa, and the loss of able general, Menocal's friend and Cuba hand Frederick Funston had one less distraction on his hands.
Originally the injector had to be restarted by careful manipulation of the steam and water controls, and the distraction caused by a malfunctioning injector was largely responsible for the 1913 Ais Gill rail accident.
M.J. Rosenberg, writing in the Los Angeles Times, argued that the term "delegitimization" is a "distraction", whose purpose is to divert attention away from world opposition to the "illegitimate" occupation of the West Bank and blockade of the Gaza Strip, from the "illegal" settlements, and from "the ever-louder calls for Israel to grant Palestinians equal rights".
Thereupon Duff sought distraction in 1808 by volunteering to join the Spaniards in their war against Napoleon.
A Fare to Remember (2006) (with Julie Elizabeth Leto and Vicki Lewis Thompson) (Just Whistle / Driven to Distraction / Taken for a Ride)
Yale, under the guidance of Dean Richard H. Brodhead, then chose to cancel Van de Velde’s spring 1999 classes citing his presence as a “major distraction” for students, damaging his reputation and academic career.
She attempts to restore his confidence in his creativity, but the easy life he's enjoying, flitting about Monte Carlo, Honfleur, Deauville and St. Tropez, is too much of a distraction.
Having met three times by the end of the year, it was found that the revolutionary events on the continent of Europe provided a distraction, and the commission failed to meet its quorum on occasions.
The German Army planned to seize the port as a distraction from the main Austro-German effort at Gorlice–Tarnów.
Well regarded for their participation on the Purr Like a Kitten LP, they were also known for their faux band feuds with fellow Toledo-based bands Stylex, Premonitions of War and others, which toward the end of the 90s, was a distraction of their musical ability leading to a focus more on their drinking and shock aspect.
After that he presents Mio fratello è Pakistano (2005), Distraction (2006 and 2007), Cultura Moderna (2006 and 2007, together with Brazilian Juliana Moreira), Primo e Ultimo (2008), Scherzi a parte (2009 with Claudio Amendola and Belen Rodriguez) and Sarabanda (2009 with Belen Rodriguez).
Since Emerson has managed to annoy M. Maspero to the point of distraction, he is initially not even allowed near the Valley of the Kings, where another of Emerson’s rivals and targets of invective, Theodore M. Davis, has the rights to the entire valley.
The book's editor, Seth Godin said that to identify which author wrote what essay would have been a distraction.
Taking advantage of the distraction, the U-Boat Captain feigns illness and manages to swipe Mainwaring's revolver, seizing Hodges as a hostage.
He uses the distraction this offers to infiltrate The Pentagon to find a cure for Scully's cancer, while Scully is able to uncover and reveal a Syndicate connection within the FBI.
Weapons of Mass Distraction is a 1997 film starring Gabriel Byrne, Ben Kingsley, Mimi Rogers, Jeffrey Tambor, and other stars in an ensemble cast, about two media moguls and their fight over ownership of a professional football team.