Distance
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Oman is keeping its
distance
from the situation, while Kuwait has attempted to mediate between Saudi Arabia and Qatar.
Not only were the housing projects kept a safe
distance
from areas that had good jobs, but, with few residents experiencing stable families and livelihoods, there were not enough local examples of success to guide young people.
This is why many schools, hospitals, cultural institutions and other establishments remain governed by centralized administrations, although they could have transformed themselves into organizations that the state would watch from a
distance
or support through transparent procedures.
Moreover, as globalization shrinks distance, events in faraway places - like Afghanistan - have a greater impact on everyone's lives.
The
Distance
Between the First and Third RomeMOSCOW/ROME: For a decade, Pope John Paul II has been flying in circles around Mother Russia: one day he visits the Baltics or his homeland of Poland; the next, Orthodox Romania and Georgia.
Difficulties stemming from professional jargon, organizational structure, and
distance
are more than offset by the benefits of integrating nutrigenomics facilities and expertise to ensure cooperative use of knowledge and its application in nutritional research.
Indeed, the DOJ rushed to
distance
itself from the decision, highlighting how easily Trump can use (or not use) the pardon power to settle his many scores: it is virtually the only power within the criminal justice system that the president can exercise unilaterally.
Macroeconomics may be the only applied field within economics in which more training puts greater
distance
between the specialist and the real world, owing to its reliance on highly unrealistic models that sacrifice relevance to technical rigor.
Decision-making increasingly takes place at considerable
distance
from the public.
A third area of some consensus (and some
distance
from George W. Bush) is climate change.
And this past October, talks were held in Astana, the capital, on the Syrian crisis, with representatives of the Syrian government and some armed opposition groups in attendance – despite Kazakhstan’s
distance
from the tragic developments in that country.
High-speed broadband Internet access can improve everything from transport management, environmental protection, and emergency services to health care,
distance
education, and agricultural productivity.
A striking feature of the protests has been the
distance
that the demonstrators have put between themselves and existing political parties, including the Republican People’s Party (CHP), the largest force in the center-left secular opposition.
Moreover, Pakistan would have to mothball the short-range “Nasr” missile, which has already been shown to be capable of delivering small nuclear weapons over a
distance
of 50-75 kilometers.
He has also kept a safe
distance
from Africa’s political failures, notably in Zimbabwe, where he has resisted calls to assist in the removal of Robert Mugabe.
After all, the Internet lends itself to abusive behavior, because users can operate anonymously and at a safe
distance
from their targets.
Chirac's remarks highlight the EU's
distance
from its ideal of equality for all of its members.
Because fuel cells are about twice as efficient as internal combustion engines, the effective cost per unit of
distance
would be about half that.
But the decision of many leftists to maintain an equal
distance
between Macron and Le Pen is inexcusable.
And Germany today is able to
distance
itself – though clearly at the margin – from Israel’s current government because Germans fully confronted their past in ways that many of their neighbors have not.
The difference and the
distance
between markets and politics must be clear – and, for the sake of both effectiveness and legitimacy, it must be based on rules that are well understood and on popular consent.
But Djukanovic keeps the Serbian opposition at a
distance.
A famous map painted by my friend and compatriot Saul Steinberg depicts the global village as seen from Manhattan: the
distance
from the Hudson River to the Pacific Ocean is the same as the
distance
from Ninth to Tenth Avenue on the Upper West Side, and somewhere beyond the calm ocean float Russia, China, and Japan.
What a
distance
Poland has travelled since communism's collapse in 1989!
By contrast, when Poland was liberated from the Soviet version of the Russian imperial yoke, it was seemingly eager to put as much cultural
distance
between itself and Russia as possible.
Admittedly, my perspective is heavily colored by events in the world of chess, a game I once played at a professional level and still follow from a
distance.
Indeed, it is one reason why Saudi Arabia maintains an equal
distance
from all Iraqi factions, and why we are the only country not to have sent a permanent ambassador.
When Obama was faced with a campaign crisis over incendiary racial remarks by his former pastor, he did not simply
distance
himself from the problem, but made use of the episode to deliver a speech that served to broaden the understanding and identities of both white and black Americans.
Turkey has already traveled some
distance
along this path.
Tellingly, Myanmar’s pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi has spoken of her country in terms of the “vicinity of China, the geographical
distance
of the US, and the cultural linkages with India.”
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