After he got in trouble with multiculturalists for asking an interviewer "Who is the Tolstoy of the Zulus, the Proust of the Papuans?," he published a Times Op-Ed piece in which, while attempting to distance himself from the remark, he called his critics Stalinists.
The Bush campaign headquarters did not return calls yesterday but a spokesman, Scott McClellan, was quoted in yesterday's Washington Post attempting to distance the Republican contender from Mr Robinson's claim.
As Mesiab correctly observes, Twitter is now in an awkward position: while attempting to distance itself from third-party services and protect its trademarks (which it has a legal obligation to do), it cannot afford to alienate third-party developers.
Students' early worries about emotional distancing were largely replaced by an attempt to achieve emotional balance: " [I am] attempting to distance myself in a professional manner while maintaining some empathy" (#52, female, year 2) Although the emotion of gratitude was widespread at both time points, it did increase noticeably in the final projects.
The US, which admits to providing "targeting assistance," in addition to hundreds of refueling sorties over Saudi airspace, has in recent months attempted to distance itself from the coalition.
You get the feeling some of the criticism has stung Kennard and Milton, who in interviews have attempted to distance themselves at least from their work with Alexandra Burke: one way of redressing the balance is to emphasise your roots.
Villas-Boas even went as far as to say that the Chelsea players are "social role models" and are expected to behave as such, which is a new stance by the club, which has in the past attempted to distance itself from the sex scandals involving captain John Terry and left-back Ashley Cole.
His growls take the form of detracting, demeaning, and degrading voices in my head which attempt to distance me from people in order to prevent possible further injury.
In interviews, these men attempted to distance themselves from the chaos they had unleashed, but it was impossible to begrudge them their success.
Upon James' conviction, and sentencing to 3½ years in prison, the Hitmen attempted to distance themselves from their former coach.
