"It's not going to detract from the dignity of Nelson Mandela, " declared the producer Rick Leed.
It was possibly slightly edited but not so much so as to detract from the harsh reality of this awful event.
It's very unfair to detract from Corpus's stupendous victory and to detract from the achievement of Gail Trimble, their fantastically talented captain.
Pursuit of the arms control grail seems to lead us into absurdities, and to detract from our own best efforts to defend ourselves.
It starts to detract from those things, and that worries me.
The death, at the weekend, of John DeLorean, the controversial American tycoon, will do nothing to detract from the buzz about the cars that bear his name.
However, last week, Sudanese President Omar el-Bashir accused the international media of "exaggerating" the situation in Darfur to detract from atrocities in Iraq, the Palestinian territories and Somalia.
And the last thing she should want when discussing international relations with leaders and the media is for some shiny thing on her head to detract from her message.
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That is not to detract from what Mr Mandela has achieved, notably the wringing of political compromise from the rags of fear and distrust, and the conciliation of black and white.
Some governments argue that building a common brand identity threatens to detract from their island's individuality, a view that exasperates Jean Holder, secretary general of the Caribbean Tourism Organisation, the local trade body.
Yet such legitimate concerns should not be allowed to detract from the basic progress that has occurred: in the past 20 years the share of the world's population living in proper democracies has risen from about a third to just over half.
While he stressed that he did not want to detract from Leicester's achievements, Young - whose team have not lost a game in this season's competition - said that he did not feel that the kicking lottery was the best way to decide a rugby match.
Although we acknowledge that the company has been pushing significantly into online sales itself and its online sales are growing at a much faster pace than its overall sales, a shift to online shopping is likely to detract from a distinguishing feature of Best Buy in customer service.
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The analyst says the chances of a summer debut of a low-end iPhone would appear to be low, given that Apple is supply constrained on the iPhone 4, and the the fact that the company would not likely want to detract from the pending debut of the iPhone 5, which he expects to arrive in June.
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The last thing it needed was for the slow-growing CropScience business to detract attention from its drugs.
The program doesn't add to or detract from the overall security measures at U.S. airports, as all those who board planes are still subject to the same standards of what they take on board.
The outcome of this case on these facts should not come as any surprise to even the most novice follower of fraudulent transfer law, but that should detract from an important lesson to be gained from this case.
This will continue to dampen consumption and detract from future growth.
This is a game that uses the social connectivity of Facebook to enhance, not detract, from a gaming experience.
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To me, that added to the character rather than detract from it.
Assessment deadlines can really help people keep up with continuous learning but if they are unforgiving, as they often are when assessment is also an incentive device for performance, then they can detract from opportunities to learn and master.
The inability to transmit does not greatly detract from its usefulness: if the probe's log showed, for instance, that the envelope it was inside crawled along Interstate 405 before turning off to Los Angeles International Airport where, after a short delay, it suddenly zoomed off to Phoenix Sky Harbour, then it probably went by air.
Oftentimes fog descends like a veil to obscure the view, but rather than detract from its allure, the mist lends the scene an air of mystery akin to that of a Scottish loch.
Let's not let the fact that she didn't publicly come out to the world detract in any way from her remarkable accomplishments.
Ipswich lost David Norris to injury but it did not detract from the visitors' increasing superiority and Keane later outlined his ambition with the introduction of Tamas Priskin and 16-year-old Connor Wickham.
Unfortunately, that fact may well have contributed to recommendations concerning Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty that not only detract from the overall, sensible thrust of its proposalsthreaten to add substantially to the human and material costs involved in meeting objectives identified by the Commission.
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But this was the company's day, and it wasn't going to let noisy speeches and a few leaflets detract from its success story.
Yet others have leapt to the singer's defence, with some of them contacting the BBC to insist that the delayed start did not detract from their enjoyment.
Demonstrating that the Democrats on Capitol Hill are following his lead on Israel will not add or detract from Iran's willingness to attack Israel either directly or through its Arab proxies, or both.
Of course, too much talk about the bottom line would detract from Clif Bar's stated mission to serve loftier goals.
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