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...Revolut, by contrast, is still going through a protracted and distracting saga as it attempts to gain a licence from UK regulators....
...“But if my doing it publicly in any way is distracting to Goldman Sachs, my number one focus is Goldman Sachs.”...
‘This one is less distracting’
...at a school in Connecticut reflects a broader struggle in education as some administrators turn to increasingly drastic measures to limit the reach of a technology that is both ubiquitous and endlessly distracting...
...If it’s not for a purpose, if it’s not believable, it can be too distracting. It is very much at the testing stage.” Additional reporting by Madhumita Murgia...
...Being bored, feeling under-stimulated is part of the ebb and flow of life, and if we go with it — or “sit” in it, as Raptopoulos intends — rather than distracting ourselves by reaching for some digital soother...
...But the company has struggled to contain costs and was plagued by delays, problems with its factory, poor morale and distracting side-projects, including a secret plan to build an aircraft in a business...
...“With the distracting proxy contest now behind us, we’re eager to focus 100 [per cent] of our attention on our most important priorities: growth and value creation for our shareholders and creative excellence...
...The costs will be high, distracting the US from a plethora of vital opportunities in favour of a rhetoric that reduces some of its most important allies and trading partners to a nuisance....
...Or should he try to buy them off by offering more distracting red meat — “doing a deal with Reform voters” as Sunak’s strategists put it? This has been the response of every leader since John Major....
...Yet, caution must be exercised to ensure it is not distracting attention from the primary responsibilities for which the person has been hired....
Cutting Asia-Pacific trip short to avert domestic catastrophe underlines US president’s foreign policy weaknesses
...It is certainly distracting: my eye is drawn high and low, from one seemingly random object to the next....
...One of the good but insidious qualities of smart devices is how useful they have become for distracting the kids when parents need to focus....
...“Macron’s ‘troops’ stunt was about portraying him as a staunch defender of Kyiv and distracting from the money,” said another frustrated EU diplomat. “It has infuriated the Germans.”...
Preoccupied by internal tensions, policymakers have little bandwidth to deal with impending external crises
...Critics have blamed the Twitter acquisition for distracting Musk....
...Meanwhile, the policy discussion remains bogged down with how to police AI-generated content, while distracting us from how some politicians — perhaps conscious of how tech companies eventually blocked Trump...
...The 58-year-old, who was treated for cancer last year, must do so against the distracting backdrop of Staley fighting a lifetime ban from financial services in the UK after regulators said he misled them...
...While workplaces can be distracting — Professor Nicholas Bloom of Stanford has memorably described a worker being driven mad by a colleague loudly cutting their toenails in an adjoining cubicle — many “homes...
...One of the exhibition’s strengths is that it dispenses with the distracting hierarchy separating art from craft and the fine from the decorative....
...Sadly, this brilliantly imagined love triangle is muffled by a distracting ensemble of teachers, concertgoers and family members who act out the various stages of du Pré’s cruelly short career in Marston...
...He gave one of these themes a name, “Big Market Delusions”, thereby creating a meta-narrative about distracting stock market narratives. Loved that....
...makeover” machine in grungy looks of denim and sheepskin that were transformed, on the other side, into hyper-polished silk and feather outfits, an effect created via a cast of identical twins and some distracting...
...It is so distracting to me that I can’t do anything else if it’s on. Ambient, dub and classical are easier, but I will still drift towards it. It has a pull that I cannot step out of....
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