Disentangling

Particularly hard hit will be the engineering, electrical and electronics sectors, which face an enormous technical problem in disentangling the hotch-potch of metric and non-metric units that govern their production. ❋ Richard (2006)

I would have welcomed an afterword disentangling the fact from the fiction; but the lack of scholarly footnotes did nothing to detract from my enjoyment. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Pitt, 46, and Jolie, 34 have stayed silent over claims that Los Angeles divorce attorney Sorrel Trope, is "disentangling" their finances before a break-up and are also mum on Jolie involved in an affair with a voice coach of her latest spy thriller 'Salt'. ❋ Unknown (2010)

New Turkish foreign policies such as disentangling historic conflicts with surrounding countries have started to bear fruit. ❋ Unknown (2009)

As I've found previously with this author, the final disentangling of who hired the assassin and why does really stretch credulity - however, the story of the Redeemer and his circumstances are, perhaps because more simple, rather moving, and I was pleased by Harry's choices in the end-game. ❋ Maxine (2009)

Coie and his colleagues devised an ingenious method for disentangling the chicken-egg problem of a child and her social group. ❋ Susan Engel (2011)

But separation from a long term marriage has some very specific characteristics that differentiate it from other transitions; namely, it involves another person, and the disentangling of two lives from one another. ❋ L.C.S.W. Susan F. Schwartz (2011)

Democrats have praised the president for disentangling the United States from war on foreign soil, and Republicans have commended Obama for showing decisive military leadership. ❋ Pablo Andreu (2011)

Whittling down their sprawling franchises to reduce their importance, or disentangling, is another story. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Chairman Tierney did an excellent job of disentangling the highly entangled and conflicting positions among the witnesses. ❋ Unknown (2010)

With an angry shove, she clambered off him, disentangling herself from his body. ❋ Kresley Cole (2011)

And agnostics on the subject realized that while disentangling nature and nurture was extremely difficult, the precise mechanism mattered surprisingly little. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I felt a strange [pang] of disentanglement after leaving my true loves. It was as though my soul had stayed with them, on the [pita pit] bench where we ate our [last meal] ❋ Digiboi (2015)