It opposes separating the regulation of a company from its products, saying each regulator will only have half the information.

VOA: special.2009.06.19

So separating the wheat from the chaff means keeping what is valuable and rejecting what is worthless.

VOA: special.2011.02.13

Worldwide,the number of pirate attacks increased by 11 percent, and the bureau said the boom came from the Gulf of Aden, the stretch of the Arab Sea separating Somalia from Yemen.

VOA: standard.2009.10.30