Sentence examples for of a detachment from inspiring English sources

Johnny Tupana, 27, from French Polynesia, was part of a detachment sent to the coastal city of Gonaïves on Friday.

They are the advance guard, about 90 men, of a detachment from the Russian Ministry of Emergencies, an agency that usually deals with earthquakes or floods.

Colonel Samarrai was also in charge of a detachment of government forces who guard the offices of the Sunni Endowment, which administers Sunni mosques throughout Iraq.

Alikhan Gaisanov, commander of a detachment of Russian interior troops who fought there, said the rebels had fired five missiles at the helicopter.

Alikhan Gaisanov, commander of a detachment of the interior troops that arrived when the fighting began, said the Chechen border was heavily guarded and mined, effectively trapping the rebels in the forest east of here.

Unrepentant, the home secretary accuses his own profession of "a detachment, an unwillingness to engage seriously in a debate about modernising the judicial system", to help protect the innocent and ensure that it deals more effectively with the guilty.

As our star-spangled retinue approached the hallowed halls of Congress, a detachment of police summoned to the scene quickly encircled us.

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Some accounts of abstraction highlight a detachment of specific observations and events from their immediate context.

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