Sentence examples for has stayed aloof from inspiring English sources

While the mayor squirms, Mr. Pataki has stayed aloof.

Our headline "Capello has stayed aloof but personal touch may have kept Bridge onside" says the opposite of what is meant – it suggests that Capello's personal touch means there is still a possibility of Bridge staying onside; it should have read "Capello has stayed aloof but personal touch might have kept Bridge onside" (but it didn't).

In the past, when he has stayed aloof from legislative action, Republicans and others have accused him of a lack of leadership; when he has gotten involved, they have complained that they could not support any bill so closely identified with Mr. Obama without risking the contempt of conservative voters.

But exiled Syrian Army officers who formed the Free Syrian Army, based in Turkey, have stayed aloof from the council, and even they do not really control the many local militias that adopt the army's name alone.

(Scotland and Wales have stayed aloof from the experiment, wary of the more fragmented educational landscape they fear it creates).The reforms have shown commendable vim, compared with the halting overhauls of other major public services such as health and welfare.

But for reasons of political expediency they have stayed aloof.

On the one hand (more obviously at the outset), Jordan has claimed that it has tried to stay aloof from the conflict in Syria.

The stunning rise in these prices has also energized dozens of mutual fund managers who previously stayed aloof from the bubble.

Mr. Karzai has tried to stay aloof from the dispute.

After this, she went home for good to care for her ailing mother... Welty stayed aloof from the highly political times of the late fifties and early sixties.

An island of about 320,000 people, Iceland stayed aloof from the European Union for decades but applied for membership last year when the global financial crisis engulfed its banking system.