But last week, a detachment of Afash's fighters raided the offices of the Aleppo Media Center.
Stephen May presents the life of this extraordinary man with a detachment unusual in a biographer.
The brigade, Jack explained, was a detachment of Palestinian Jews trained by the British Army to fight the Germans in Italy.
They will help a detachment of 41 British troops, who arrived in Skopje on Friday night, to establish a headquarters for Operation Essential Harvest.
Why, despite the reams of data and case studies, and incalculable numbers of management attention, is there still such a detachment between top management and the front line?
With rowdy Algerian fans throwing missiles onto the pitch, a detachment of Tunisian policemen arrived in the 75th minute to ward off potential trouble as tensions rose in Sousse's Stade Olympique.
Later, senior Vatican officials and a detachment of the Swiss Guards, who by tradition protect the pope, will gather to bid him farewell as his helicopter takes off from Vatican City bound for the summer papal residence, Castel Gandolfo.
These people both continuously experience the flow of things in a direct and immediate way, yet they retain a powerful detachment that allows them to adjust and refine what they are doing.
So with a sizeable detachment of the British and foreign media camped outside, Sheikh Omar Bakri and co began preaching to the converted in the shape of supporters already on the inside.
This sluggishly methodical drama, directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan, follows a small police detachment through rural Turkish plains in the company of a pair of manacled prisoners who have promised to reveal where they buried the body of a man they killed.
Mr. Tenet makes a peculiar claim of detachment, as if he had not been a top official in the Bush administration.
But Obama has a certain emotional detachment that has turned off many of them.
Such good fortune seems to require a certain wry detachment: You're in on the joke, or you risk becoming it.
Is this self-consciousness this creates simply a form of detachment, and if so, why do we need to feel so detached?
Irony today is thus a mixture of self-detachment and self-absorption: an unwillingness to take a stand and an eagerness to see the strange workings of fate in mere thwarted desire.
The shooter was assigned to a small Special Operations Forces detachment working on so-called village-stability operations, a plan to raise local self-defense forces to protect Afghan villagers from the Taliban, a military official said.
Does this philosophy of cynical detachment have a name, a patron saint, a body of writing that seekers of truth can study?
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Out of 12 soldiers from Galashiels Detachment, A Company, 52 Lowland Volunteers, 6th Battalion, Royal Regiment of Scotland, to give it its full name, four of them are serving in Helmand right now.
The first-person narrative deftly captures the mixture of horror, fascination and detachment with which a child views the world of grown-up folly.
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The group captain in charge of the Tornado squadron described the tragedy as "a huge blow to the detachment and particularly to their squadron, " Reuters reports.
What it is selling, essentially, is a pose of knowing, cool detachment.
In the name of scientific detachment, they cited a possible alternative explanation that the features were caused by the movement of dry dust down a slope.
But a monastic principle I overlooked is detachment.
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Even more thrilling to those with a sense of history was a visit to Southhampton, where a U.S. Army detachment stood at attention before the pier where the old freighter, Mayflower, was fitted out for her trans-Atlantic voyage.
Detachment is usually associated with a slacker mentality: a cold, dispassionate, uninterested, apathetic, even condescending attitude toward life and others.
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At Oxford, he became a dandy and an aesthete, affecting a posture of foppishness and rather sarcastic detachment from his relatives.
Mrs Gandhi's dismal silence spoke of her broader detachment, after being diagnosed with a serious illness in the summer.
Users often experience a feeling of well-being, contentment and detachment from daily worries.
Eleven study subjects experienced a total of 23 serious adverse events, which included erosion of the conjunctiva (the clear covering of the eyeball), dehiscence (splitting open of a wound along the surgical suture), retinal detachment, inflammation, and hypotony (low intraocular pressure).
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