The phrase "will distance itself" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a subject's intention to separate or disengage from something or someone.
Example: "The company will distance itself from the controversial project to maintain its reputation."
Alternatives: "will separate itself" or "will withdraw from".
Mrs Merkel's CDU will distance itself from the FDP.
But Damascus has shown no sign that it will distance itself from Tehran, or modify its policies here.
Bin Laden's death in Abbottabad need not mean that the United States will distance itself from Pakistan, or that India would want that.
"The more America confronts Russia to defend the principles of international order," he says, "the more Germany will distance itself from America".
One hopes that the White House will distance itself from this disgraceful opportunism, that it will deliver the bipartisanship it originally promised.
Mr. Gordon's remarks, in which he stressed the importance of Britain's role in the bloc, add Washington's voice to growing alarm in European capitals and in Brussels, the headquarters of the union's bureaucratic apparatus, over the possibility that Britain will distance itself from the union.
Under such a constitution, Turkey will further distance itself from Western values, which will have a serious adverse impact on its prospect of joining the EU.
The US "will never distance itself from Israel".
By doing so the government will also distance itself from an influential strand of conservative thinking evidenced in Michael Gove's book Celsius 7/7 that is solidly wedded to Moore and Godson's counter-subversion strategy.
Will it distance itself from some of its shady associates?
Not only is the government unafraid of gun owners, but one political party will immediately distance itself from those who take its secessionist and firebrand rhetoric and hyperbole too seriously.
