Sentence examples for sought to separate from inspiring English sources

Minor scuffling broke out as officials sought to separate the two groups.

He has sought to separate himself from other civil society factions by focusing on black money.

Same-sex-marriage activists have wisely sought to separate themselves from advocates of even more exotic marital arrangements.

Mr. Torricelli also sought to separate his campaign and Congressional staffs by opening a campaign office in the building where his district office was in Hackensack.

Franco constantly sought to separate politics from the reality of Spaniards' everyday lives, often saying "be like me and don't meddle in politics".

When the Soviet Union collapsed, both regions sought to separate themselves from Georgia in bloody conflicts — South Ossetia in 1990-1, Abkhazin in 1992-4.

The militants were seeking to separate from Indian rule and establish an independent state of Khalistan.

These waist-high metal fences are manned by riot police and seek to separate the public from delegates and stars.

And that process is provoking some who revere Mr. Rabin to seek to separate his legacy from Oslo, and even to separate Oslo from peace.

On October 30, the prime minister said that the purpose was, first, "to seek to separate the combatants"; second, "to remove the risk to free passage through the canal".

It is a fence, meant to keep at bay infiltrators from Pakistan who are seeking to separate India's portion of Kashmir from India.