The deflation was clear, though it should not be allowed to detract for long from the obvious progress made since Strachan took up the reins.
3. Kendall-Jackson Vintner's Reserve 2016 ($16): Nice fruit, with peach and apricot flavors, but the sweetness detracts from it for me, even if it might account for the wine's popularity.
On the other hand, equal pay for unequal work detracts from productivity growth, for example, by reducing the incentives to acquire human capital.
In the case of TripAdvisor, its website ranking algorithm is easily rigged by companies looking for a boost in foot traffic, something that detracts from Millennial searches for a more personalized recommendation and experiential travel.
And extended peacekeeping detracts from our readiness for these kinds of global missions".
The present discussion on whether college athletes should be allowed to leave school and turn pro before completing their academic requirements for graduation detracts from the real issues surrounding college sports.
In 2010, University of California, Berkeley, professor and pioneering ecological economist Richard Norgaard wrote in Ecological Economics that casting nature as a portfolio of financial assets "blinds us to the complexity of natural systems" and detracts from the need for more comprehensive plans to deal with climate change.
Augustine is anxious, contra the Manicheans and Cicero, to defend the compatibility of divine foreknowledge and human freedom by arguing that the free exercise of the will is among the events foreknown by God and that such foreknowledge in no way detracts from our culpability for our acts of willing [e.g. De Libero Arbitrio III.3 & 4; De Civitate Dei V.9].
The time users spend waiting on the telephone for support detracts from time spent in the classroom".
We believe that gray hair on a woman somehow detracts from what passes for beauty because we are fed a steady diet of women in their forties, fifties, and well beyond who don't have one gray hair and are held up as icons of beauty.
