Had Salmond een imprisoned by Sturgeonettes in an Aberdeeen safe house lest he detract from his successor's aura?
The exacting technique, he felt, detracted from the immediacy and individuality he so valued.
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.
Clever because he knows this detracts people from investing in options that would yield results much quicker, such as improving car efficiency, hybrid engines, smaller cars, better public or mass transport as well as wind and solar power.
But he knows he sometimes goes overboard, which detracts from his skating skills and scoring ability. .
Though he called the cliffhanger a "perfectly pitched WTF moment", he too believed that it "detracts from the episode as a whole".
