Officially, Lebanon's government and Hezbollah's policy has been to "disassociate" the country from the Syrian conflict.

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Peres also tried to convince the Reagan administration to disassociate with Shamir and deal only with him.

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The church leadership has done little to condemn anti-semitism or disassociate itself from the views of its more radical supporters.

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Within weeks of the protest Nestle decided to disassociate itself from Sinar Mas.

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It said it wished to disassociate itself from any alleged wrongdoing and had referred the matter to the police.

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Forty-six professors signed a letter to university president Joseph Klaffter demanding that the university disassociate itself from Dershowitz's statements.

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What they discovered suggests, once again, that Doctor Yusuf broke the rules requiring charity trustees to disassociate themselves from terrorism.

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The organization changed its name to Livestrong, ostensibly to disassociate itself from its scandal-ridden creator, who also resigned as its chairman.

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The Center finds it instructive that another former Carter hand, Secretary Christopher, chose not to repudiate Tarnoff or to disassociate himself from his remarks.

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At the same time, Price said individuals may be prone to protect their own reputations and disassociate themselves from the killer to avoid being ostracized.

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Needless to say, the debut of the Tarnoff Doctrine was an unqualified disaster, giving rise to increasingly frantic efforts to disassociate the Administration from its premises.

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In a letter to Yale's President Richard Levin, the PLO representative in Washington, DC Maen Rashid Areikat, demanded that the university disassociate itself from the conference.

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This is a time to embrace rather than disassociate.

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"It is high time for the Security Council and the international community to send also a strong message for the government of the South to disassociate itself from the rebel factions and to stop destabilizing" Sudan and the region, he said.

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