The effect of Mr Donaldson's tenure is hard to disentangle from that of Mr Spitzer's.
Even at the best of times, Britons tend to be uncomfortable with patriotism, finding it hard to disentangle from nationalism and xenophobia.
The argument is hard to disprove, or to disentangle from other factors, most notably a broad loss of influence for Europe and Mr Sarkozy's mercurial diplomatic style.
This coincided with the wave of violence, kidnappings and terrorist acts that swept Iraq prior to the 2007 U.S. surge, so some of it is hard to disentangle from the broader scene.
One hopes that in the new year our intelligence professionals--from seniors like Clapper, Morell and Vickers to the newest arriving analyst--can disentangle themselves from these public disputes and focus on their core responsibilities.
It is hard to disentangle diversification from desertion since each feeds on the other.
It now falls to Mr Sullivan to disentangle AIG from its legal problems and restore some shine to the company's share price.
He stressed that there are so many pressures on the ocean that it is difficult to disentangle them from the effects of climate change.
Right now DirecTV integrates TiVo's digital video recorder technology into their satellite television receivers (as DirecTiVo), but it looks like they've been taking some pretty clear steps to disentangle themselves from the company.
It is always hard to disentangle the weeds from the plants in such a large field.
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Over the past 20 years, successive governments have been trying to disentangle the state from the economy.
It is proving hard, however, to disentangle the commercial from the political.
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As with physical stockbuilding, it is hard to disentangle what is millennial from normal responses to the underlying economy.
An earnest of the new president's good faith would be early evidence of his readiness to disentangle his government firmly from the late Ayatollah Khomeini's fatwa ordering the murder of a British writer, Salman Rushdie.
Second, it is hard to disentangle the effects of regulation from the state of the economy.
But it may sometimes be difficult to disentangle the results of espionage from the advances produced by legitimate scientific research, declassified material, and scientific journals and conferences.
They would expect to disentangle the new Aberdeen airline from the Lufthansa Star Alliance, and to look for new allies, probably in Scandinavia, with which to open up new long-haul options for Scottish business travellers.
Nor is it easy to disentangle the effects of climate change from those of avoidable failures in policy.
It's hard to disentangle the initial shock of price liberalisation from ongoing inflationary pressure.
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The challenge is for ruling parties to disentangle their short-term partisan objectives from their obligations as arbiters -- on behalf of the whole country -- of once-in-a-lifetime political transformations.
It would take an extraordinary law that could disentangle, in every case, the motives of mercy from those of easy disposal.
Researchers are still struggling to disentangle the effects of man-made emissions of carbon dioxide from the natural variability of the climate.
From the complex web of factors that have fostered intolerance and violence in Pakistan, it is possible to disentangle four main strands.
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