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The HDP was handicapped by its inability to distance itself from the PKK, which a large section of the electorate regards as being responsible for the upsurge in domestic violence.
Another shift implicit in Sadat’s strategy was to keep Egypt at a distance from pan-Arabism.
Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar want a Syria that keeps Iran at a distance and does not become a source of cross-border militancy.
Light contamination and hot spots could impact Israeli, Palestinian, and Jordanian urban centers some distance away.
Prague lay away in the distance, lighted and luminous in the snow.
Postwar Japanese democracy was influenced in the 1950 and 1960s by an intellectual elite that consciously sought to distance Japan from its wartime nationalism.
Indeed, with the benefit of distance, a broader picture emerges.
This we did – incurring the wrath of many on the left – because maintaining “an equal distance between Macron and Le Pen,” we believed, was “inexcusable.”
In the US, the rungs of the ladder are farther apart than elsewhere, and the distance from the top to the bottom is greater.
This calls for diversification of production, urbanization, and industrialization, which in turn require policy interventions that may lie at considerable distance from the poor (such as fixing regulations or targeting the value of the currency).
The United States claims to have 56 kilometers, in a short stretch that covers less than 8% of the distance between Boston and Washington, DC.
President Kuchma must move fast to use his 56% victory at the polls to distance himself from greedy oligarchs and institute long-promised economic and political reform.
Since the 1997-1998 crisis, Asian governments have sought to keep their distance from the Fund.
Interventions will continue to occur, though they are now more likely to be shorter, involve smaller-scale forces, and rely on technologies that permit action at greater distance.
But while the Internet does allow for some forms of labor to be provided at a distance, it has not displaced diaspora networks.
Trapiche moved the families to a nearby town, where they gained access to electricity, water, sanitation, and schooling, but if they want to continue to fish, they have to travel a long distance.
Sitting in one’s basement in pajamas, spewing out venom on a keyboard like a Batman movie villain who was poorly treated in a past life, one is at a safe distance from one’s target.
Above all, the French and Dutch referendums confirmed that politics in the Union is now conducted “on the street,” and that it is no longer possible to “construct” Europe at a distance and by stealth.
For textbook liberals, the state should have kept its distance, acting purely as Platonic guardians of consumer sovereignty.
The problem with this omnipotent presidency is that the qualities needed in order to be elected are not necessarily those required to master the art of government, with its mixture of distance, patience, serenity, and modesty, in addition to energy and activism.
This is reflected in the distance women travel for work in urban areas.
Europeans can congratulate themselves on being a relatively safe distance away from whatever tensions may accompany the rise of powers like India, Brazil, and, especially, China.
Protected behind its oceans, and applying its vast technological capacity to the goal of energy self-sufficiency, the United States is ultimately able to distance itself from the travails of the Middle East.
But this is an illusion-the "Moon Illusion," to be precise: the distance traveled by light reflected from the moon to the eye of an observer is essentially the same regardless of the Moon's elevation.
The perceived size of the moon is determined by two factors: the physical extent of the light falling on the eye - also known as the angular subtense or the visual angle - and the distance information provided by the ground.
Some theorists include in this formulation the perceived distance of the moon (how far it appears to be from an observer).
The relationships between the stimulus (visual angle) and the perceived size and distance of the moon are summarized by the so-called "static size-distance invariance hypothesis" (SDIH): stimulus determines the ratio of perceived size to perceived distance.
One modification allows perceived distance to be evoked simultaneously by different behavioral responses.
Other explanations exclude perceived distance.
Verbal statements about the perceived distance of the moon are described as inferences based on perceived size rather than descriptions of experience: "The Moon looks big so it must be close."
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