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How to use the word detachment in a Sentence?

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The commander of the 102nd Intelligence Wing at Otis Air National Guard Base, Massachusetts, has suspended the commander of the 102nd Intelligence Support Squadron pending further investigation into the unauthorized disclosure of classified information, additionally, the detachment commander overseeing administrative support for Airmen at the unit mobilized for duty under Title 10 USC has also been suspended. – Ann Stefanek	Found on CNN 1 year ago
So there's a certain detachment. – Mohsin Mirza	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Sisters and brothers, I leave for Mexico, grateful for the detachment of the government of that brother town that gave us asylum to take care of our lives, it hurts to leave the country for political reasons, but I will always be alert. – Evo Morales	Found on CNN 4 years ago
All applicable security checks were done for that individual, Ms. Malik, that includes an immigrant visa interview, it includes facial recognition screening, it includes interagency counterterrorism screening, it included a review by the visa security unit of immigration and customs enforcement, which as a detachment in Islamabad in our embassy there and it included the full biometric fingerprint checks and in all cases, the results of those checks were clear. There were no indications of any ill intent by that individual at the time the visa was issued. – Edward Ramotowski	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
Mayor Rahm Emanuel is implicated in the shooting death of Laquan McDonald, this killing indicates the detachment of city leaders from the plight of black, teenage youth on the South Side of Chicago and a willingness by the city to criminalize blackness as opposed to reforming structural inequality. – Devon Jerome Crawford	Found on CNN 8 years ago
We had a cipher code clerk go to a bar and be approached by a good looking person, when the wife of the (head of Marine detachment) went on vacation, two blondes knocked on the door and asked if he wanted company. – James Cason	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
In the A320 family, accidents and incidents range from fan-cowl detachment, landing gear collapse, bird strikes, right through to hull losses through pilot error, most aircraft have teething problems, and in most cases, these are eradicated. Very rarely, these issues cause disasters -- largely because of a culmination of factors that lead to the event. – Kane Ray	Found on CNN 9 years ago
In the A320 family, accidents and incidents range from fan-cowl detachment, landing gear collapse, bird strikes right through to hull-losses through pilot error, most aircraft have teething problems and in most cases these are eradicated. Very rarely, these issues cause disasters -- largely because of a culmination of factors that lead to the event. – Kane Ray	Found on CNN 9 years ago
He who would be serene and pure needs but one thing, detachment. – Meister Eckhart	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Hypocrisy is the most difficult and nerve-racking vice that any man can pursue; it needs an unceasing vigilance and a rare detachment of spirit. It cannot, like adultery or gluttony, be practiced at spare moments; it is a whole-time job. – W. Somerset Maugham	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Love is an attachment to another self. Humor is a form of self-detachment -- a way of looking at one's existence, one's misfortune, or one's discomfort. If you really love, if you really know how to laugh, the result is the same you forget yourself. – Claude Roy	added by anonymous 14 years ago
We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment. – May Sarton	added by anonymous 14 years ago

The commander of the 102nd Intelligence Wing at Otis Air National Guard Base, Massachusetts, has suspended the commander of the 102nd Intelligence Support Squadron pending further investigation into the unauthorized disclosure of classified information, additionally, the detachment commander overseeing administrative support for Airmen at the unit mobilized for duty under Title 10 USC has also been suspended.

– Ann Stefanek

Found on CNN
1 year ago

So there's a certain detachment.

– Mohsin Mirza

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Sisters and brothers, I leave for Mexico, grateful for the detachment of the government of that brother town that gave us asylum to take care of our lives, it hurts to leave the country for political reasons, but I will always be alert.

– Evo Morales

Found on CNN
4 years ago

All applicable security checks were done for that individual, Ms. Malik, that includes an immigrant visa interview, it includes facial recognition screening, it includes interagency counterterrorism screening, it included a review by the visa security unit of immigration and customs enforcement, which as a detachment in Islamabad in our embassy there and it included the full biometric fingerprint checks and in all cases, the results of those checks were clear. There were no indications of any ill intent by that individual at the time the visa was issued.

– Edward Ramotowski

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

Mayor Rahm Emanuel is implicated in the shooting death of Laquan McDonald, this killing indicates the detachment of city leaders from the plight of black, teenage youth on the South Side of Chicago and a willingness by the city to criminalize blackness as opposed to reforming structural inequality.

– Devon Jerome Crawford

Found on CNN
8 years ago

We had a cipher code clerk go to a bar and be approached by a good looking person, when the wife of the (head of Marine detachment) went on vacation, two blondes knocked on the door and asked if he wanted company.

– James Cason

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

In the A320 family, accidents and incidents range from fan-cowl detachment, landing gear collapse, bird strikes, right through to hull losses through pilot error, most aircraft have teething problems, and in most cases, these are eradicated. Very rarely, these issues cause disasters -- largely because of a culmination of factors that lead to the event.

– Kane Ray

Found on CNN
9 years ago

In the A320 family, accidents and incidents range from fan-cowl detachment, landing gear collapse, bird strikes right through to hull-losses through pilot error, most aircraft have teething problems and in most cases these are eradicated. Very rarely, these issues cause disasters -- largely because of a culmination of factors that lead to the event.

– Kane Ray

Found on CNN
9 years ago

He who would be serene and pure needs but one thing, detachment.

– Meister Eckhart

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Hypocrisy is the most difficult and nerve-racking vice that any man can pursue; it needs an unceasing vigilance and a rare detachment of spirit. It cannot, like adultery or gluttony, be practiced at spare moments; it is a whole-time job.

– W. Somerset Maugham

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Love is an attachment to another self. Humor is a form of self-detachment -- a way of looking at one's existence, one's misfortune, or one's discomfort. If you really love, if you really know how to laugh, the result is the same you forget yourself.

– Claude Roy

added by anonymous
14 years ago

We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.

– May Sarton

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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