Example sentences of "[adv] distance himself [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She has defended the Mulroney government , whereas Mr Charest has discreetly distanced himself from the old regime . |
| 2 | That Pericles ' maternal relatives , the noble family of the Alkmaionidai , were enemies of Themistokles ( as they certainly were is no objection to this view : Pericles ' father had already distanced himself from the Alkmaionidai by the time of his ostracism in 484 ( Ath . |
| 3 | A close associate of the President , he had nevertheless distanced himself from the ruling party , the Vanguard of the Malagasy Revolution ( AREMA ) . |
| 4 | John 's address stressed that the Council was to be pastoral rather than dogmatic , thus distancing himself from his advisers , and endorsing the view , condemned by Cardinal Ruffini , that the task of the Council was not to proclaim new dogmas but to find new ways of expressing the old ( see Abbott , p. 710–19 ) . |
| 5 | Although he had deliberately distanced himself from the government since being ‘ sacked ’ as prime minister nearly two years ago and although he personally remained untainted by the multiple scandals which have beset the Socialist Party , he found himself caught up in the great tidal wave of rejection of the Socialists , which has swept the country . |
| 6 | He is once more distancing himself from the people of Scotland . |
| 7 | Mr Tebbit was keen yesterday to distance himself from any comparison with Mr Powell . |
| 8 | US President George Bush , concerned above all to hold together an anti-Iraq coalition in the Gulf which included key Arab allies , had quite openly distanced himself from Israel in recent months . |
| 9 | He also distances himself from approaches to the study of media ‘ impact ’ which conceive of them in a fairly narrow way . |
| 10 | He was associated with Edward Irving and Henry Drummond [ qq.v. ] and participated in the early prophetic conferences at Albury , but later distanced himself from the movement that was to result in the formation of the Catholic Apostolic Church . |
| 11 | By using Yagüe as his intermediary , however , Franco effectively distanced himself from the horror . |
| 12 | In other words , whilst appearing to criticize the antisemitism of Streicher and The Protocols , the author does not wholly distance himself from the traditions of antisemitism . |
| 13 | GE is headed by former environment minister Brice Lalonde and was set up with Mitterrand 's encouragement , but Lalonde has increasingly distanced himself from the government in recent months , criticizing Socialist policy on the environment . |
| 14 | Yu , who had served as deputy director of the GDP since 1989 , had reportedly distanced himself from Yang prior to the congress . |
| 15 | Irony in Estella 's true background after Pip has tried so hard to distance himself from the lower classes and she turns out to have come from them . |
| 16 | He has steadily distanced himself from Mr Zhivkov 's heavy-handed policies and introduced more tolerance in Bulgaria . |
| 17 | Different tiers of government refused to co-operate ; Liverpool City Council disbanded inner-city working parties and incorporated Urban Programme issues into mainstream committees ; and the Secretary of State steadily distanced himself from what he perceived to be a largely meaningless ‘ talking shop ’ . |
| 18 | In the ensuing political rumpus John Major shamelessly distanced himself from his henchman . |