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In fact, some city dwellers don’t even bother with acquiring land or gaining distant help.
The EU’s institutions became too distant, too elitist, and too strong, not taking into account the national identities to which Europeans remained attached.
Inspiring lone wolves and stay-at-home groupies or tight-knit local cells to launch attacks in distant, unpredictable locations is the ultimate weapon of the weak in asymmetric conflicts.
Many disruptive technologies (for example, advanced robotics, next-generation genomics, energy storage, renewable energy, and 3D printing) could drive future growth, but their full potential can be realized only in the distant future.
Because of this simple fact, the military considerations are very different from those in a conflict between countries that are distant from each other.
Palestinians working in Israel are good for both sides, and better than the foreigners who come from distant lands and live an isolated life in Israel, solitary and under constant threat of expulsion.
For these voters, Jawaharlal Nehru and Indira Gandhi are merely historical figures, and are a distant memory even for many voters born before 1975.
Voters have been subjected to a barrage of outlandish claims: the Treaty would supposedly introduce abortion into Ireland (it is outlawed under Ireland’s constitution), abolish Ireland’s low corporate-tax rate, and introduce a European army that would soon be sending Irish boys home from distant battlefields in body bags.
The more ambitious WFS target of halving the total number of hungry people worldwide is even more distant, with the number of undernourished people having fallen by only 17% since 1990-1992.
The euro is the dollar’s main competitor, with the renminbi coming in a distant third.
In many countries, the end of poverty remains a distant goal.
If leaders on both sides do not begin to work together, Egypt’s awakening will remain a distant dream, with ordinary citizens suffering the social and economic consequences.
It is a noble set of goals, but it sometimes appears to be distant from the region's political realities.
A big but geographically distant country is different not only in size, but also in kind from a smaller one.
Politicians seem distant and untrustworthy, citizens tell pollsters.
Not only does the EU often deal with globalization-related issues like trade;Europe’s citizens feel that the distant and disconnected “Brussels,” over which they have little influence, is infringing on the sovereignty of nation-states.
The recent dramatic volatility in financial markets is but a distant memory.
It is not clear whether the measurement problem was bigger in the more distant past than it has been recently; but it is irrelevant when we think about the future.
Tremendous hydroelectric potential can be found on distant rivers flowing through unpopulated mountain regions.
But, as Facebook’s data-export facility demonstrates, a new model that turns data into an asset and consumers into producers is not a distant prospect.
To be sure, over the past few decades, NATO’s primary focus was on peacekeeping operations in distant places, rather than on its core function of territorial defense.
Yet diplomacy and development take a distant second and third place behind defense – or more accurately, military – approaches in US foreign policy spending.
But any agreement between Israel and the Palestinians, will call for a first phase of evacuation of the at least 50,000-60,000 people living in the more distant and scattered settlements.
Even migration to distant places and remote cultures is nothing new.
That view is now a distant memory.
But it is also a distant goal.
These can motivate us to think of distant people as if they were friends and family.
Another factor is the spread of ideologies, both secular and religious, that encourage us to care for distant others, that persuade us to expand our kindness beyond our immediate circle.
Nobody would argue that we are losing the distinction between those who are close to us and distant strangers.
This can drive our powerful impulse to deal with distant evils through sanctions, bombings, and war.
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