On 12 June, Dempsey met with Lieutenant-General Gerard Bucknall, commander of XXX Corps and Major-General George Erskine, commander of the 7th Armoured Division and ordered Erskine to disengage his armour from the fighting around Tilly-sur-Seulles.
The Second Army commander, Lieutenant-General Miles Dempsey, ordered Lieutenant-General Gerard Bucknall, the XXX Corps commander and Major-General George Erskine, the 7th Armoured Division commander to disengage the 7th Armoured Division from the fighting around Tilly-sur-Seulles and to move through the gap, seize Villers-Bocage and menace the exposed left flank of the Panzer-Lehr Division. Panzer-Lehr Division
"The old life map," she said, "was that you retired at 65 and sat in a rocking chair and disengaged from life around you.
"I'm not prepared to cede the conservative label to those who would disengage us from what is going on around the planet".
Besides, in the light of his transfer request, Liverpool regulars are entitled to revisit Torres's sluggish early-season form and ask whether the team's future could have been built around someone so ready to disengage.
Every two years, broadcasters and sponsors pay billions in the belief that viewers around the world will temporarily disengage from the murkiness surrounding those who govern and sell world sport to gorge on the power of the sporting spectacle and channel the purity of stories of individual heroism from which they draw their power.
And, as we are seeing increasingly around the world, when we disengage our adversaries rush in.
At around 12 00 pm Triet had already ordered his troops to disengage from the battle in the belief that all American soldiers had been killed, and also to avoid possible air-strikes from the fearsome B-52 bombers.
We invite people to take a break from their every day experiences carrying around laptops and cellphones, and give them the chance to just disengage from the noise, the social network, the constant communication that's going on around us all the time.
