Examples of use of to take away
1. "The president wants to take away our Social Security," he said, "and then he‘s going to take away the private pension plans, too?
2. "We didn‘t want that to take away from our occasion.
3. "No–one wants to take away from those achievements.
4. That is not to take away from her considerable achievements.
5. "No one has the right to take away anyone‘s life.