The Americans had different views, but they had deliberately distanced themselves from the area.

"That's Mr. Mitchell's job," Elizabeth Dehner spoke for the first time from her chosen spot against one wall, deliberately distanced from the others, keeping her own thoughts on dungeons at bay.

Then, sounding much older than he had before, Lodec said, "My humblest apologies, Lord Cwan, if you believe that you are being deliberately distanced from the rebuilding of the Thallonian Empire.

Schools at present can see that the same thing might happen to them - particularly when local decisions can be made about levels of pay and when local purse-holding is deliberately distanced from the machinery of national funding.

Other opponents of the trade, however, deliberately distanced themselves from 'fanaticism'.

It is hard to avoid feeling that T. S. Eliot's life was such that his work merely gives the personal gist of it, and that the gist is so deliberately distanced from its source that it reaches us only because he couldn't entirely withhold it.

Ronny Yu directed, with what the fan press is reporting as an old school approach deliberately distanced from the CGI excesses of "Crouching Tiger" and its imitators.

West's treatment of the returning soldier in The Return of the Soldier is deliberately distanced from the war.

One major problem, it said, was that elected officials had deliberately distanced themselves from urban unrest, ceding authority to the police.

She was, after all, the one who had deliberately distanced herself from her home, who had intentionally set out to carve herself a career that would take her as far away as possible.