Sentence examples for designed to distance from inspiring English sources

It was designed to distance Mr Rajapaksa personally from the PPB's actions.

His comments will be seen by some observers as politically expedient, designed to distance the Lib Dems from the Tories in the runup to the next election.

Certainly, it's a worry for the 27-year-old actor, whose thick black stubble seems designed to distance himself from his teenage counterpart.

It involves the use of techniques designed to distance the audience from emotional involvement in the play through jolting reminders of the artificiality of the theatrical performance.

This modification was designed to distance Belle from her father, Richard Greener, renowned as "the first black graduate of Harvard College" and "the first colored librarian and professor at the University of South Carolina".

I confess I haven't a clue, although possibly it has something to do with an idea called the big society that no one really understands and which might simply have been a soundbite designed to distance him from Thatcher.

And it launched a strong makeover of its Messenger app that makes it quicker, more modern, and that uses cutesy design to distance it from Facebook's more utilitarian core app.

It also explains some subtle repositioning designed to put distance between the Conservatives and the free market orthodoxy with which they have become associated.

We conducted two experiments designed to vary distance only, holding impacts constant.

Looking beyond the numbers, Didi Kuaidi, led by president Jean Liu, a 12-year veteran of Goldman Sachs, is now rolling out a series of innovative new products and services designed to further distance China's emerging transportation giant from vigorous foreign competition.

A specific program called Metron-PX was designed to measure distances and angles in the hoof.