Even Russia, Iraq's main backer at the UN, has taken to distancing itself as part of an emerging strategic understanding with America.
With a view to distancing himself from his Roland Rat past he carefully said he wanted to make ITV 'more like Sainsburys than the Co-Op'.
The firm has used similar language when it comes to distancing itself from Mr. Romney, whose career buying and selling companies as a former Bain executive during the 1990s has drawn intense scrutiny on the campaign trail.
The New York Stock Exchange moved a step closer to distancing itself from its regulatory arm, as it announced the members of a newly created board of directors to oversee the unit.
Many New Jersey Democratic candidates for Congress were giving thought to distancing themselves from Mr. Torricelli, the top Democrat on the state ballot this year, out of concern that his ethical problems could bring them down too in November.
The criticism is the closest Varoufakis has come to distancing himself from the man he did much to mentor in the nearly six months that he oversaw often fraught negotiations with the eurozone and the International Monetary Fund.
