Others suggest that departure mania may ripple down the line.
However, it is vital that departure is connected with succession.
When another Coast Guard inspection delayed that departure, passengers were told the boat would leave about 4 p.m.
Organizing that departure had required angry statements by the President of the United States and other world leaders, and a spreading, queasy sense of disgrace.
To some, that departure feels like an abandonment, of both the United States team and the Los Angeles Galaxy, Donovan's Major League Soccer club, which has begun its season without him.
The chancellor added: "We are determined to ensure that people have stability and certainty in the period leading up to our departure from the EU and that we use the opportunities that departure presents to determine our own priorities".
There's also not much sport in pointing out, as an arrogant undergraduate might, that "departure" could be just another way of saying that the artist is doing something he used to know he wasn't very good at.
Maybe that departure from the usual phone maker/carrier situation was part of the inspiration behind the new T-Mobile Shadow smartphone, which went on sale last week for $150 (with a two-year service commitment).
It is a trait of exile: the feeling that departure from the homeland was involuntary; that the London we loved turned its back on us before we decided to leave.
In recent days evidence has grown that departure is imminent.
He chalked that departure up, in part, to impatience with Google's timeline.
