Similarly, we cannot abandon the Rwandan refugees in their camps, where militias prevent them from returning home and seek to divert food from the most vulnerable groups.

They insisted that it was important to insure that such supplies not become a way to breach the sanctions or divert food.

"They are diverting food from Sudan to the refugees," said Senator Kassebaum.

Naturally, rebel leaders were happy to receive the medicines for themselves, but would not allow aid agencies to divert food and fuel to the other side.

But the last straw was the attempt to divert food for political purposes.

Catholic Relief Services, Save the Children, CARE, and other aid groups signed a 2006 declaration stating monetization is inefficient and diverts food from the poor.

Of course, he had to divert food, electricity, and consumer goods to other countries to do it, but Romania has no foreign debt at all now.

Cellulosic ethanol production uses nonfood crops or inedible waste products and does not divert food away from the animal or human food chain.

Some weight loss surgeries also divert food around a section of intestine.

An uncle initially ordered her at gunpoint to divert food from the Red Cross kitchens to her relatives, but she did not give in.