Sentence examples for could not distance from inspiring English sources

I found that I could not distance myself from the situation as much as I would have liked.

In an interview Tuesday on "Kudlow and Company" on CNBC, Mr. Romney could not distance himself fast enough.

Williams, who grew up in Asheville, N.C., said he could not distance himself from Kansas until his last recruiting class departed.

In January 2005, Artest was traded to the Kings, but some 2,200 miles could not distance him from more trouble.

Despite public gestures of atonement for abuses of power during his presidency, Chun could not distance himself from the lingering public memory of his actions.

He acknowledged that the most prominent prosecution witnesses were flawed and unsavory but said Mr. Bulger could not distance himself from them because they were all in the criminal enterprise together, like peas in a pod.

BLT Steak couldn't distance itself from Trump Steaks fast enough.

His vice-president, Hubert Humphrey, couldn't distance himself enough from Vietnam and Nixon took the White House in 1968 at his second attempt.

"He knew that he was closely associated with these peace talks -- it wasn't like he was back at headquarters -- and he couldn't distance himself from this decision," said one American official.

Both McCain and Romney were hobbled by the fact they couldn't distance themselves from an unpopular GOP president.

Sui and Han's stunning performance to Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" brought them a personal-best score of 82.39 points but couldn't distance them from Evgenia Tarasova and Vladimir Morozov of the Olympic Athletes from Russia, who have 81.68 points.