Departing in example sentence

Pakistan was hacked off the stooped shoulders of India by the departing British in 1947 as a homeland for India’s Muslims; but, until recently (as Pakistan’s population continues to grow at a higher rate than India’s), more Muslims remained in India than lived in Pakistan.

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Rosetta had to turn around to get its cameras to actually look at Philae while it was departing and to be able to communicate with it.

This is a picture, a photograph of the Hubble Space Telescope taken by the shuttle Atlantis as it was departing after the last human space flight to Hubble.

Now, with the voyage departing, he had one final announcement to his shipmates: They were going to head in the opposite direction.

Departing from the lines, I decided to tackle the idea of points, like which is more similar to the type of representation that we find in photographs themselves.

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