branching off

Despite this, Min has campaigned as a moderate Democrat on public safety issues, branching off from his Democratic colleagues in Sacramento by supporting Proposition 36.

Because it is such a complex reaction, with many paths branching off from each other and many intermediate products that are important for continuing the reaction, it's been hard to study and even harder to figure out which parts of the reaction to target for improved battery performance.

As comments amass over time, eliciting upvotes and increasingly meta discourse, the recipe starts branching off into infinite variations — some small, some large — perhaps indoctrinating itself into some readers’ regular cooking repertoire.

Among the interesting features immediately apparent are a stark equatorial ridge on the main body of Dinkinesh, as well as a secondary ridgelike line branching off it.

That point in time would mark the origins of English and German as distinct languages, branching off from a common proto-Germanic language.