No, not election observers from the African country, but tiny bits of cellulose that, under the pressure of a citizen wielding his voting franchise and a metal stylus, are supposed to detach sharply from a punch-card ballot.
Each regiment was supposed to detach three-tank platoons to support the infantry divisions and border areas in times of crisis.
In fact, what you're supposed to do is detach the MagStay, remove the cord, reverse the MagStay, rethread the cord through it, close the laptop, and reattach; the larger opening of the MagStay now grips the closed laptop just as firmly as it previously gripped only the lower half.
After birth, when the placenta is supposed to be expelled from the uterus, it fails to detach.
To excuse similar atrocities because they are committed by regimes that are "only" authoritarian is to detach words from the realities they, are supposed to represent and clarify, and to hide human anguish behind a euphemistic phrase -- a practice more suitable for either authoritarianism or totalitarianism than for our democracy.
To get the "opportunity", actors have to detach themselves from the state which they are supposed to be subordinated to; meanwhile, to secure the "legitimacy", they have to internalize the state as it used to be.
"I think that Michael so infuses things that they become detached from what they're supposed to represent," Mr. Milch said.
I had this idea 'this doesn't apply to me' and it was a way to detach from the pressure of how a woman is supposed to look or be.
GDP appears to have been detached from all that it is supposed to measure and has been imbued with an intrinsic value all of its own.
We're supposed to grasp that everything about this auction scenario is unrepresentative, detached from the real world, and bizarre so much so that no one should really be eating this fish.
Because the strained (tension-generating) two-head bound state can be formed without the use of ATP hydrolysis energy, the molecule is supposed to spontaneously move forward once the trailing head detaches from actin upon ATP binding.
