Recruiters seem to agree that the school can add or detract from the value of an MBA.
Readers, however, should not allow questionable judgments of culpability to detract from the value of this book.
Mr. Murdoch may love newspapers, but they detract from the value of his more attractive TV and satellite businesses.
The appraiser, John Sollo, said that some recent leafy and plaid upholstery fabrics instead of the original leather might detract from the value.
"And not to be too crass about it, but it could detract from the value of the apartments in the building".
Ms. Swift learned how much details could detract from the value after representing a couple who was ready to buy an apartment for more than $7 million.
If some of the interpretations of Headingley's significance – an allegory for a country in apparently remorseless decline regaining its fight and pride moments before it expired – seem fanciful, the hyperbole should not detract from the value of victory.
Babbage will announce the winners in the two categories before 2010 is up.One last thing: it is by no means Babbage's intention to detract from the value of the above research and innovations, strange and silly though they may appear at first blush.
This issue is common to much criminological research, however, and should not detract from the value of this novel exploration of a little-understood crime.
Soiled covers, missing dust jackets, ripped pages, mildewed edges, less-than-sharp corners and food stains can all detract from the value of a treasured tome.
