Sentence examples for them detract from inspiring English sources

Or will some of them detract from the whole?

Another major frustration for workers has been a lack of autonomy; they say non-sales duties that the Bain management has heaped on them detract from cultivating sales clients.

Occasionally, the fact that the inmates could only read about new technologies but not actually use them detracted from their startup plans.

Manager Phil Parkinson and his players may struggle to acclimatise to the league after the heady days of the Capital One Cup but the game should fortify them not detract from their main target.

Without this, many things had a plastic feel to them that detracted from the scene.

I do know that obsessing over their numbers, and the column inches devoted to them, is detracting from the real issues in the sex industry at the moment: trafficking, child prostitution, hard-core porn.

Feeling defensive after being accused of inadequate knife-ownership, I retorted that no one had ever taught me how to do the things that were so fundamental that being inept at them seriously detracted from my experience of "the good life".

Feeling defensive after being accused of inadequate knife-ownership, I retorted that no one had ever taught me how to do the things that were so fundamental that being inept at them seriously detracted from my experience of "the good life". "Why would they teach me calculus and not teach me how to run a house?" I said.

Disposable glasses may have a slight greenish or bluish cast to them that can detract from the true color.

Australia lost an early wicket when opener Watson (five) was bowled by Nuwan Kulasekara, but that did not detract them from the task in hand as the run-rate leapt to more than 8.00, near what was required of them.

And the missteps of a few in the group and the railing of the GOP against them do not detract from its accomplishment.