Had Salmond een imprisoned by Sturgeonettes in an Aberdeeen safe house lest he detract from his successor's aura?
He detracts from Mr Romney's attempt to run as a political outsider and creature of the private sector.
The exacting technique, he felt, detracted from the immediacy and individuality he so valued.
He came to the University of California at Berkeley because after that speech he was criticized from whites and blacks, blacks thinking he had detracted from the Civil Rights Movement, many whites thinking, you know, the audacity of this man to challenge American foreign policy.
However, he disliked the designers' running joke of placing "TM" after character and place names, which he thought detracted from the atmosphere.
"It is fair to say that, whether in terms of reality or perception, he has detracted from the company's ability to realize shareholder value".
David Norman, whose father and grandfather started the business, eventually tore out the soda fountain, a money loser that he believed detracted from the core business.
A state panel that oversees judges recommended that a Mount Kisco town justice be removed from the bench after it found that he had "detracted from the dignity of his office" by railing against a prosecutor from the bench and improperly handling his private law clients' money.
On the other hand, he was praising him for being the most consistent of all philosophers (Jacobi, 1785: 27–29), and even defended him against those — Mendelssohn included — who, as he thought, detracted from his philosophy by their misguided attempts at 'saving' it from the consequences of its unmitigated rationalism.
And none of this, he was convinced, detracted from his commitment to socialism.
