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It has distanced itself from Russia, once its patron, and has renounced its territorial claims on large parts of Macedonia, whose language is close to Bulgarian.

But since January, in a shrewd display of political nous, it has distanced itself from Morsi.

While it has distanced itself creatively from classical design, Hemmerle has scrupulously preserved the craft workmanship that has been a house tradition.

It has distanced itself from the conspiracy theories surrounding the plane crash in 2010 that killed Lech Kaczynski, then Poland's president, and 95 others in Smolensk, in Russia.

While the German government defended the song as legitimate free speech, it has distanced itself from the poem, labelling it last week as "deliberately offensive".

But Suriname's appeal should be broadening now that it has distanced itself from a wrenching civil war in the late 1980s and can capitalize on the allure of its huge tracts of rain forest.

The BBC reported that the band Böhse Onkelz, translated as Evil Uncles, said it had distanced itself from fascist leanings in the 1980's and had gone on to campaign against Nazis and to write anti-fascist songs.

The works of ancient and modern philosophers have convinced him that human knowledge had become ever more obscure and confused because it had distanced itself progressively from the direct experience of nature and had turned instead to reading and commenting on books written by human beings.

So much discussion has taken place that the White House says it has stopped monitoring it and the Republican National Committee has distanced itself from the so-called "birther movement," whose members insist that Mr. Obama was born in Kenya and not Hawaii.

Success would have given the FN a big push along the road that it wishes to travel, from being a party of protest to a party of government, and from being a movement tainted by its past to one that has distanced itself from it.

Still, it's not clear why Herbalife has distanced itself from the major work-at-home entities.