Distant
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MY COUSIN VINNY is really just a
distant
cousin of his character in Goodfellas anyway.
An astronaut brings home to her daughter a gift, it's a green jewel from a
distant
planet.
The San Bernardino valley is beyond some of the
distant
mountains as they filmed on the top of the crest.
As it is, it comes in a
distant
third, behind the sweeping vistas and the music.
The stooges are launched into space, land on a
distant
planet and (after the usual stooge shennanigans, save the world from alien zombies (a young dan "hoss" blocker") The only reason i give this movie a 1 is because that is as low as the ratings go.
The prospect of AI achieving superintelligence may seem too
distant
to worry about, especially given more pressing problems.
Today, ending the occupation of Palestinian territories that began that June seems as
distant
a dream as ever.
It has been years since the EU looked so distant, so aloof.
Listening to Obama’s reflexive and
distant
speeches on Libya, one can nearly hear French Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin’s flamboyant intervention at the United Nations on the eve of the invasion of Iraq in 2003.
But wresting power back from regional and international institutions – however shadowy and
distant
they may seem – would only compound the problem, for it would reduce the ability to guide the supranational trends that are shaping the world’s future.
Europe’s own misery and migration has become a
distant
(if not entirely forgotten) memory.
So they were more aware of
distant
opportunities, had more international contacts, and were disproportionately active in international trade.
Even the Russian clichés – tragedy stemming from overweening power, vodka, swearing, shooting, and shouting – only strengthen the film's extraordinary depiction of the local effects of
distant
and devastating forces.
As a result, efforts to fight monopoly are lagging, and the next stage of reform – the transition to a “blended ownership system” – remains
distant.
But a nation has frequently been a group of people who lie collectively about their
distant
past, a past that is often – too often – rewritten to suit the needs of the present.
Policymakers may view the continent’s looming demographic implosion – which soon will be compounded by the baby-boom generation’s exit into retirement – as a
distant
event that can be addressed later.
Older tribal and clan loyalties in Africa were mangled by the boundaries drawn, in
distant
cities like Berlin, for colonially-created states whose post-independence leaders needed to invent new traditions and national identities.
Their vote was a protest against globalization, a rejection of the contemporary world, with its
distant
and incomprehensible governing mechanisms.
It was not long ago that Ireland’s economic miracle was also seen as a model – what the Economist in 1997 hailed as “Europe’s shining light” – attracting admirers as diverse and
distant
as China and Israel.
Repudiation of NAFTA with no replacement would have been so costly that it was always a
distant
possibility, but it was a possibility all the same.
Ethiopians begin running in childhood as a means to reach, say, a
distant
school in the highlands.
The United States has always been the model of a mobile society, where people are willing to pull up stakes and go someplace new – if not to a new territory out west, then at least to a
distant
suburb, a long drive away from their old home.
Diseases are spreading, wells are drying up, storms are smashing cities and destroying crops, and rain is either a
distant
memory or an acute danger.
The interests of the Fed in the application of technology to production are so
distant
from the preoccupations of the European Central Bank that one is tempted to view the two institutions as living on different planets.
Yet New York remained a dream, so foreign and
distant
that I never imagined I would have the chance to compare illusion with reality.
The debate just eight years ago about “shovel-ready” infrastructure seems to be a
distant
memory.
Indeed, 2010 will determine whether US President Barack Obama’s vision of a nuclear-free world will remain a
distant
but achievable hope, or must be abandoned.
She could either send Debora to a
distant
hospital by taxi – an arduous journey over rutted roads – or she could pick up the phone.
And across Africa, NGOs like Doctors Without Borders use telemedicine to connect difficult-to-treat patients to specialists in
distant
countries.
Alas, the election makes such agreement more
distant
than ever.
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