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You really want them to get together,...the problem is, he is SO afraid to open up to people that he distances himself from her and chooses to confide more in his pet eel.
It distances you from the horror of the violence, it seemed to me to be as if I was being sheltered from the full effect.
Balletic cinematography, a good deal of it aerial, encompasses infernal horizons and devastated landscapes hardly recognizable as earthly, sweeping oil drenched, smoke filled distances, to the adagio strains of Verdi, Schubert, Prokofiev, and others.
In the Soviet era, the distances between Russia and its neighbors became unbridgeable chasms, with the USSR ringed either by hostile states or weak, servile ones.
Here physics introduces scales of distances, atoms to galaxies, scales of time, nanoseconds to centuries, and scales of energy from electron volts to megajoules.
Finally, in Africa, there are still countries like Zambia, where more than three-fifths of the population lives in rural areas, and many must walk or drive long distances for health care.
And, indeed, the distances between Manchester, Leeds, Liverpool, and Sheffield are smaller than the distances covered by the Central, District, and Piccadilly lines in the London Underground.
Thanks to the Internet, distances no longer matter: the world really can be our classroom.
In the near future, 3D printing could further reduce the need to ship goods across long distances.
And the impact was greatest for people living in rural areas and small towns, where travel distances are typically longer and public transport is less available.
The US has spent the past 70 years helping to build a global system that, despite its flaws, for the most part enables countries to trade peacefully and across great distances.
Both may be necessary, because, while average fuel economy has made slight gains in recent years, the longer distances that people are traveling have offset any improvement.
Israeli Apache and Cobra gunships armed with Hellfire missiles regularly hit their targets from great distances, as do F-16 fighter jets armed with laser-guided munitions, but not without frequent “collateral damage” to innocent civilians.
And, in addition to the vast distances, there is the harsh climate.
ICT can also help to address shortages of qualified teachers and other educational resources by providing access across long distances, via online learning platforms.
This energy will therefore need to be transmitted long distances, often crossing national boundaries, with the use of special high-voltage transmission lines.
Third, Africa is economically isolated, owing to very poor infrastructure, large over-land distances, and many landlocked countries.
Moreover, slurry and manure would no longer be transported long distances, and could be used to fertilize farmers’ own land to produce feed.
It is far cheaper and quicker to move electrons across the globe than to move large ships long distances.
As a result, a Kenyan farmer in a remote district can now obtain information about crop prices or transfer funds, without having to travel long distances and wait in lines.
The necessary investments include large-scale deployment of solar and wind power; broader adoption of electric transport, both public (buses and trains) and private (cars); energy-efficient buildings; and power grids to carry renewable energy across large distances (say, from the North Sea and North Africa to continental Europe, and from California’s Mojave Desert to US population centers).
And if there were assemblers, they would face the same limitation as the bacteria with which we started our story: they can't travel long distances without hitching a ride, and would simply run out of raw material.
By flying medium-size loads middling distances to many of these isolated communities, cargo drones can save lives and create jobs.
Instead, they can augment existing distribution networks in remote regions of Africa, Asia, and Latin America where poverty and disease are pervasive, distances are great, and roads will never be built.
Although he distances himself from formal policy-making within the executive branch, Ozawa in fact masterminds the entire legislative process, including the budget and appropriations.
Globalization, which can be defined as interdependence at inter-continental distances, is as old as human history.
The numbers tell us that 15-20 percent of Sun-like stars harbor worlds similar in size to the Earth, orbiting stellar parents at distances implying that their surfaces might be temperate.
Green indicates success across all indicators of a goal; yellow, orange, and red point to increasing distances from achieving the goal.
Water is heavier than oil, making it very expensive to ship or transport across long distances even by pipeline (which would require large, energy-intensive pumps).
The more stressed water resources become, the more energy the water sector demands, as groundwater must be pumped from greater depths, and surface water must be transported across longer distances.
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