The White House has distanced itself from Britain's handling of the leaked NSA documents when representatives said it would be difficult to imagine the US authorities following the example of Whitehall in demanding the destruction of media hard drives.
Bernie Sanders immediately distanced himself from Hillary Clinton on trade, foreign policy and the environment as he announced a bid for the Democratic presidential nomination that represents her first serious challenge from the left.
The conventional wisdom is that Rubio alienated conservatives by pushing the immigration issue, even though he has since distanced himself from comprehensive reform and emphasized the need to first address border security.
Last month,two dozen writers including Peter Carey and Joyce Carol Oates publicly distanced themselves from international writers' organisation PEN over its decision to give the magazine a freedom of expression award in the wake of the atrocity.
But Miliband, who in effect sacked Thornberry in the course of two telephone calls on Thursday night, distanced himself from the tweet.
It is not from the higher judiciary, who speedily distanced themselves from it.
Although Labour and Conservative candidates in Perthshire have distanced themselves from the tactical voting campaign, privately many unionists are hopeful that drives such as this will offset what recent polling suggests is the inexorable.
However, questioned by the Labour MP Gisela Stuart before the Commons defence committee, Carter distanced himself from the project.
I distanced myself yet further using another of Mischel's methods.
That means the damage done to Fine Gael is probably containable, especially given that Enda Kenny is completely distanced from the Lowry era.
The communications minister, Mahmoud Vaezi, has distanced the government from the establishment's filtering policy, saying that his department has nothing to do with it.
