separate oneself from

Now Leipheimer faces the same dilemma as Horner: how to be a good teammate and separate oneself from those teammates early in the Tour, taking over the sole leadership role.

"The necessity was to separate oneself from one's mother, or destroy her, at least symbolically, and replace her with a mother figure of one's choosing."

The second condition required that a sin be mortal is that there be full advertence to the grave malice of the act, for one cannot be said to separate oneself from God unless one has made the same amount of deliberation that is required for any temporal affair of great moment.

One may hate unity, and yet not separate oneself from it.

One may separate oneself from unity, although one believes in it.