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Claiming to have been suspicious of the entire transaction, the administrator distanced himself from Hazmi and Mihdhar, but not before they had received the assistance they needed.
In hopes of attracting more white votes, the Democratic Party has distanced itself from civil-rights leaders like Jesse Jackson, and from issues like welfare reform and affirmative action.
In the early '90s, the Israeli government, which had distanced itself from Pollard, embraced him.
The Russian newspaper Segodnya , commenting on Vice President Al Gore's visit to Russia, said President Boris Yeltsin, vacationing in Karelia, had deliberately distanced himself from Gore because he didn't want to look as if he was begging for American money.
And an Irish government official, recently in the United States for a symposium on the famine, has refuted Pataki's description of the famine and distanced the Irish government from the New York law.