Sentence examples for keep at arm's length from inspiring English sources

She is a magnet for all the rightwing oddballs whom most Tory MPs try to keep at arm's length.

We identify the rare, much-too-attractive individuals in our work and social circles whom we need to keep at arm's length.

Reporters and photographers in Afghanistan, trained to keep at arm's length from the authorities, have come across documents left behind by fleeing Al Qaeda operatives.

One potential casualty of the new hair test is Vice President George Saitoti, a man whom Mr. Moi seems determined to keep at arm's length.

That is something which ministers will be anxious to keep at arm's length, though again this has been due to efforts to hit a government target for the number of young people starting apprenticeships this year.

Although the party's roots are in Iran, it has forged a strong allegiance with the United States and appears eager to keep at arm's length — at least publicly — from its former sponsor.

"There's something about commercialization that's kept at arm's length," Professor Zittrain said.

Politicians appear to have been kept at arm's length.

Birth mothers were kept at arm's length.

In extremis, some pariah states were kept at arm's length.

But, for the moment, the media were kept at arm's length.