Synonyms: extricate, disengage, disentangle, untangle These verbs mean to free from something that entangles: extricated herself from an embarrassing situation; disengaged his attention from the television; sought to disentangle fact from fiction in the account; lawyers tasked with untangling the corporation's financial dealings.
It is here that this reader experiences a bit of discomfort, because the battles between good and evil seem too stark, too Manichean, although in fairness to Sandiford he does show through the character of Bart, who once resided in the home of Franck's guardians, that evil isn't so easily extricable from good.
Literary awards like these are structured to acknowledge excellence in visual art or in text, presupposing that these facets of comics are extricable from one another.
(119) There was no "readily extricable question of more general application that would elevate it to one of statutory interpretation" because the Board was applying the Privacy Act "to a labour relations context, its undisputed area of expertise".
John's history as a young orphan and child labourer highlights for us how conditions of class can and ought to be introduced to Edelman's rather homogeneous figure of "the child." Indeed, the injustice of John's specific silences has more to do with poverty than with childhood, although the two will never be extricable for a boy raised in workhouses and sold to a fisherman.
It held, notwithstanding the CRA's assertion otherwise, that on "extricable questions of law, including Interpretation of the [Income Tax] Act", the Minister is to be held to a standard of correctness, and it is only on questions of fact or mixed law and fact that the Minister only has to meet a standard of reasonableness.
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