| One putative proponent privately distanced himself from his public praise of Miers. |
| Her defense attorney had admitted his client ran an illegal bank, but distanced her from the deadly Golden Venture. |
| He has consistently distanced himself from his documentarian brethren, both aesthetically and politically. |
| I was dissociated from it at one level, though I wouldn't say I was distanced. |
| Britain, rightly, has distanced itself from this summary system of justice, without the right of appeal. |
| After all, I had distanced myself from the granola crowd the year before by skiing in knickers rather than blue jeans and gaiters. |
