As Prime Minister Ariel Sharon oversaw Israel's disengagement from the Gaza Strip, he lost support of many Likud members.

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Even then, however, the unlikely durability of such an assessment made it a poor basis for U.S. disengagement from the world.

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Others, for example, painted scenes with poems and inscriptions that proclaimed a disengagement from worldly affairs while they in fact remained very much in the fray.

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After all, they must conclude that their sacrifice has been in vain, or shortly will be, as everything they have fought for is squandered by a precipitous U.S. disengagement from the fray.

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In practice, America's main policy aim in Israel will switch not from engagement to disengagement, but from peace making to damage limitation.

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In 2005 he covered the disengagement of Israel from Gaza.

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Several videos emerged on Thursday, showing groups of between three and six peacekeepers from the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (Undof).

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Netanhayu resigned from Ariel Sharon's government in 2005 because he disagreed with Sharon's Gaza disengagement plan which called for the removal of all Israeli settlers from the Palestinian territory.

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Every day on my radio show, I hear of people withdrawing from the political arena into a cocoon of disengagement and discouragement.

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In fact, orienting away from someone in this manner almost always conveys detachment or disengagement, regardless of the words spoken.

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