The Empire didn't want its crews distracted from their duties.

I don't want what happened to our colony to distract me from my duties to this one.

I tried not to let it distract me from my duties.

I wouldn't want to distract the minister from his new duties.

Staff members found themselves distracted from their regular duties.

Time and again throughout the night, reports came in of the robots attempting to distract others from their duties.

The work robots had not been distracted from their duties.

Price asked, distracted from her duties into asking a dumb question.

Would they distract each other from their duties and interfere with readiness?

Yet it was her mind that first distracted me from my duties.