This results-based approach takes the Board away from day-to-day issues of administration.

She said that in both cases it seemed to divert the attention of elected officials away from important issues.

And certainly, the speakers here did not shy away from tough issues.

Constable said it would only draw attention away from "important" issues like health care and education.

Minority groups are always useful- they turn people's attention away from real issues which the politicians have no control over.

It was a relief to move away from personal issues to practical, worldly problems.

What cost Republicans the last election was running away from issues their base cares about.

However, only the Conservatives appeared to be actively moving away from green issues.

You can't get away from issues of life and death in a crime novel.