Distant in sentence

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Radical openness is still a distant future in the field of school education.

If that's true and it makes the future feel like something more distant and more different from the present, that's going to make it harder to save.

I can't reveal many details about how I left North Korea, but I only can say that during the ugly years of the famine, I was sent to China to live with distant relatives.

We make three mistakes: the first is underestimating the quantity of information that we produce every day; the second is depreciating the value of that information; and the third is thinking that our principal problem is a distant and super powerful agency that is called NSA.

I'm sure many of you remember a distant time when we had to know phone numbers, when we knew our friends' phone numbers.

So, for example, in a distant era now, it was common when one gave a speech to basically talk like writing.

A more effective way to think about my relations might be in terms of closeness and distance, where at any given point in time, with any single person, I am both close and distant from that individual, all as a function of what I need to do right now.

People aren't close or distant.

Let me end it with words from politicians who were similarly distant.

Now in a world of cheap, proliferating robotic weapons, borders would offer very little protection to critics of distant governments or trans-national criminal organizations.

You hear the gentle lap of waves, the distant cawing of a seagull.

You cool it down to room temperature, and as you do, those short strands do the following thing: each one of them binds that long strand in one place, and then has a second half that binds that long strand in a distant place, and brings those two parts of the long strand close together so they stick together.

Hence our older people are likely to end up living distant from their children and the friends of their youth.

Now, I find it helps to see life as being like a book: Just as a book is bounded by its covers, by beginning and end, so our lives are bounded by birth and death, and even though a book is limited by beginning and end, it can encompass distant landscapes, exotic figures, fantastic adventures.

And they suggested "'Oumuamua," which means scout or messenger from the distant past reaching out to us.

Now, if you don't believe me, think of comparing the brightness of a firefly in your backyard to the navigation lights on a distant airplane.

So thank you. (Applause) It's the fifth time I stand on this shore, the Cuban shore, looking out at that distant horizon, believing, again, that I'm going to make it all the way across that vast, dangerous wilderness of an ocean.

Somewhere in some other planet, orbiting some very distant star, maybe in a another galaxy, there could well be entities that are at least as intelligent as we are, and are interested in science.

That vision was, because all of the functions and characteristics of all biological entities, including viruses and living cells, are written into the code of DNA, if one can read and write that code of DNA, then they can be reconstructed in a distant location.

The Hubble Space Telescope: for the last 25 years it's been producing some of the most detailed views of our distant universe, but if you tried to use the Hubble to create an image of the sky, it would take 13 million individual images, about 120 years to do this just once.

So this is driving us to new technologies and new telescopes, telescopes that can go faint to look at the distant universe but also telescopes that can go wide to capture the sky as rapidly as possible, telescopes like the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, or the LSST, possibly the most boring name ever for one of the most fascinating experiments in the history of astronomy, in fact proof, if you should need it, that you should never allow a scientist or an engineer to name anything, not even your children.

But just the idea that the more distant a galaxy, the faster it was receding, was enough to give rise to modern cosmology.

They required new technologies and new telescopes, because the supernovae were in galaxies that were 2,000 times more distant than the ones used by Hubble.

What happened then was the virus, or someone sick with the virus, boarded an airplane, flew to another country, and for the first time, we saw in another distant country the virus pop up again.

You're looking at a fly-through of the Hubble Space Telescope Ultra-Deep Field, one of the most distant images of our universe ever observed.

And to my surprise, they said my primary caregiver had been a distant relative of the family.

Communities around the world don't want to see their culture in distant institutions which they have no control over.

They communicate, of course, but you will never catch a chimpanzee traveling to some distant chimpanzee band to give them a talk about bananas or about elephants, or anything else that might interest chimpanzees.

So we're now poised to look back at the distant universe, the cosmic dawn.

So I've had the great privilege of traveling to some incredible places, photographing these distant landscapes and remote cultures all over the world.

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