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    detachment


    1. It is a state of peace and completion, awareness and compassion with detachment


    2. He could maintain a level of detachment


    3. She could tell the guys in his detachment were razzing him unmercifully


    4. These are magnets which promote desired growth or detachment of


    5. look at it without an emotional attachment! Emotional detachment is


    6. Living with detachment and al owance is a spiritual y conscious thing to


    7. What is it that is stopping you from ful al owance and detachment?


    8. detachment face to the other animals, lies in


    9. She never really ascertained a career thief’s detachment


    10. The Guild had always required detachment and squarely focused business acumen

    11. A career thief’s detachment may have spared him of any associated guilt, but the irony certainly was not lost on him as he rented and relaxed in a room in an inn that his Guild had very recently struck


    12. The clergy of each particular country might be considered as a particular detachment of that army, of which the operations could easily be supported and seconded by all the other detachments quartered in the different countries round about


    13. Each detachment was not only independent of the sovereign of the country in which it was quartered, and by which it was maintained, but dependent upon a foreign sovereign, who could at any time turn its arms against the sovereign of that particular country, and support them by the arms of all the other detachments


    14. Not in a forlorn sense, but a conscious sense of detachment to herself, rather than a loneliness at being imprisoned with her own thoughts and problems in a one-room bed-sit, in the concrete block that she had called 'home'


    15. ” Things started to break up now so that the second leave detachment could pack their kit ready to catch the transport that would take them to the train for home


    16. He was unlike any other prisoner she had met within these walls and certainly very different from Khan’s callous detachment from morality


    17. Cleetor, he remembered, took his professional detachment very seriously


    18. Remembering the way he had not looked at her while she bathed, she wondered if his apparent lack of interest was an actual lack or self-imposed detachment


    19. Arbitan’s aloof detachment reminded her of Sicarius, and she had already seen how dangerous he was


    20. The 1st Infantry extended, cutting off retreat to the hills, and a detachment of Cubans engaged the blockhouses on the north, but made a poor showing, having expended their ammunition recklessly before closing in

    21. The constant giving with no strings attached provoked childlike expectations among an overindulged generation of children whose detachment and immaturity caused many to incorrectly estimate or value the sacrifices made by their parents


    22. I felt a sense of relief, and detachment


    23. The detachment ended up consisting of Hornsby, five other men from D company and Colling


    24. “Here they are, Master Sergeant Anthony Gaetano, 1067th Quartermaster Detachment


    25. Then the day before your furlough expires, Division gets a teletype advising that you have been ordered on TDY to some outfit called the ‘Paris Recreation Service Detachment


    26. He was in charge of the detachment


    27. The sergeant had moved Colling’s two wall lockers to another room behind the dispensary to make room for a staff sergeant named Purcell, a transfer from a tank outfit whom Vincent had appointed as non-commissioned-officer-in-charge of the Grabensheim medical detachment


    28. Sergeant Prinzman had already been informed about the deactivation of the 61st Division, and he confirmed for Colling’s benefit that A Company was being placed under Major Brumerson’s command, renamed and numbered as the 1067th Security Detachment


    29. Davis sensed this detachment and it annoyed her


    30. once detachment sets in, move away from the centre of con-

    31. When through the practice of discrimination and detachment


    32. at it with a smile of affectionate detachment


    33. attitude, which is that of total detachment, aloofness, standing


    34. experience that detachment brings control


    35. This is detachment — when the old is over and the


    36. There is aloofness and detachment as


    37. It is not at all difficult, but detachment is needed


    38. M: The urge must come from within as a wave of detachment,


    39. M: With detachment the fear goes, but not the fact


    40. dispassion and detachment, the loss of interest in the dream it-

    41. affectionate detachment, timelessness and causelessness of


    42. detachment and the RCMP headquarters in B


    43. With a sense of detachment, she watched the men drop their weapons with a look of terror before turning to run for the doors that slammed shut before they could reach them


    44. and a complete detachment from reality was what was


    45. “A detachment of soldiers came here two days ago, and the next morning when we awoke, they were all gone including all who were stationed here


    46. Rather than function as an advisor out of My Tho in the Dinh Tung and Kien Thung provinces in the Mekong Delta area of IV Corps in the southern portion of Vietnam, he was assigned special duty to an SF A Team; Detachment A-302, in III Corps


    47. " Myers knew better than to chide the Wolf for not making a courtesy call on the lieutenant colonel who ran the Bien Hoa C Team, the team that had command responsibility for Detachment A-302, his team


    48. He noted with complete detachment that he was, for the moment anyhow, operating in a completely auto�matic mode


    49. After he listened to Myers orally debrief and answer questions from the MACV people, Lochert said he had nothing to add except that Myers and Detachment A-302 of the 5th Special Forces Group were the best unit he had ever been in the field with, and he, Major Wolfgang Lochert, hereby notified the assembled officers that he was putting the Mike Force Team in for a unit citation and submitting SFC Charles Haskell, better known as Snake, for the Medal of Honor


    50. 3 Judas then having taken a detachment of soldiers and officers from the chief priests and the Pharisees came there with lanterns torches and weapons













































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    Synonyms for "detachment"

    detachment disengagement breakup separation withdrawal insularism insularity insulation apathy aloofness unconcern coldness squad patrol unit troops organisation organization

    "detachment" definitions

    avoiding emotional involvement


    the act of releasing from an attachment or connection


    the state of being isolated or detached


    a small unit of troops of special composition


    coming apart