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Jill Stein, the Green candidate, came a distant second, with 19 percent.
Even safely tethered to the Earth, we’re subject to the faint tug of distant celestial bodies and nearby earthly ones.
These are men and women who can sense the presence of distant atolls of islands beyond the visible horizon, simply by watching the reverberation of waves across the hull of their vessel, knowing full well that every island group in the Pacific has its unique refractive pattern that can be read with the same perspicacity with which a forensic scientist would read a fingerprint.
And oddly enough, as you look more deeply into the universe, more distant objects are moving away further and faster, so they appear more red.
Every single one of the dots in this image is a distant galaxy, millions to billions of light-years away with a supermassive black hole at its center pushing material into space at nearly the speed of light.
In 2004, using the Hubble Space Telescope, scientists saw the eddies of a distant cloud of dust and gas around a star, and it reminded them of Van Gogh's "Starry Night."
And despite the distant relation, convergent evolution has made it remarkably similar to the human brain, with as many neurons and synapses and a highly developed hippocampus and cerebral cortex.
One thing is distant relationships among human languages.
Let's say at some point in the not so distant future, you're barreling down the highway in your self-driving car, and you find yourself boxed in on all sides by other cars.
It was that we were trying to sell too many of the wrong kind of housing: large lot, single family, distant, too expensive for the average middle-class family to afford and, quite frankly, not a good fit to their lifestyle anymore.
This means that as a female killer whale ages, a greater percentage of her family consists of her children and grandchildren, while more distant relatives die off.
They control a distant robot, and you guide the work out loud.
Because Darwin was talking about our distant ancestry, our common ancestry with apes.
You gradually trace further and further back into the past, adding these ever more distant relationships.
The ones on the right were made by Neanderthals, our distant cousins, not our direct ancestors, living in Europe, and they date from around 50,000 or 60,000 years ago.
So if we can stop these cancer cells from going from the primary tumor to a distant site, we can stop cancer right in its tracks and give people more of their lives back.
Our primary tumors were smaller in our treated animals, there were fewer cells in circulation, and there was little to no tumor burden in the distant organs.
That's how distant we are from even meeting an air force willing to fly against ours.
And that's the kind of resolution power that allowed you to see little specks of dust floating around distant suns.
The first time you ever see a blue-green signature on a distant planet, it means there's photosynthesis there, there's water there, and the chances that you saw the only other planet with photosynthesis are about zero.
In this lifestyle, people have a more formal way of interacting with each other, a distant way.
You know, that might be something to consider, but that's a distant threat.
So, in a distant future part of Africa, Binti is a mathematical genius of the Himba ethnic group.
Why would we expect in a bureaucracy that it would orient itself towards distant suffering?
By some accounts, it’s possible that the universe may eventually consist entirely of black holes in a very distant future.
Eventually, in an almost inconceivably distant future, the universe may be left as a cold and dark place.
The danger is still kind of distant.
You know, you're gazing upon your very distant ancestors.
Climate isn't really about some abstract, distant climate far, far away from us.
People believed that creativity was this divine attendant spirit that came to human beings from some distant and unknowable source, for distant and unknowable reasons.
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