But the courts are not as distant from the political process as some like to think.
The mayor occasionally seemed distant from voters and late to respond to local crises.
But with technological advancement comes the danger that people become distant from understanding how it all works.
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This is why the ASEAN states are keeping equally distant from the great powers in the region.
"We were fighting more and we were distant from each other, " says Mr. Ellis, a 49-year-old film editor.
They are as distant from each other, intellectually, as are the denizens of New York and the Ozarks.
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Guernsey's Bailiff believes the island should seek to be more distant from the control of the UK Government.
Distant from the nation's largest media markets, he never was as famous as Joe DiMaggio or Ted Williams.
My ideal portfolio right now is about as distant from traditional U.S. blue chips as you can get.
They tend to view him as someone at home in academic and political debate but distant from the business world.
For my Gen X brethren, even if we feel safely distant from such bad corporate behavior, our parents can certainly validate it.
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The dominant narrative of the Tea Party as an extremist fringe group isolated from the American mainstream is distant from the truth.
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California's general run of Pinot Noirs are far more distant from their original French model--Burgundy--than, say, the state's Cabernets are from Bordeaux.
All that must feel very distant from your daily lives your studies, your friends, the pleasure you take in this fair city.
Libya has the largest oil reserves in Africa, safely distant from the Persian Gulf, and has historically cosy relations with American oil firms.
If Mr Brown was not as distant from the plot as he wants people to think, then he is guilty of an appalling miscalculation.
Such a transfer appears to contradict the first amendment to the constitution, which requires that the government stay neutral and distant from all religious matters.
Other suspected or admitted PED users eligible for induction such as Mark McGwire (16.9%) and Rafael Palmeiro (8.8%) were similarly distant from the required 75%.
The persona is going to get larger and larger, and more and more distant from him and the way he used to live his life.
But if the agenda of New Labour threatens to be so distant from an authentic social liberalism, where is the programme that would deliver one?
The MFO is a small international command, remote from the Egyptian-Israeli border, manning small monitoring outposts distant from any civilian population centers and lightly armed.
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In fact, the best form of public relations is quite distant from the Ab Fab image: less glamorous, more subtle and a great deal more difficult.
He added that, when banks became distant from the communities they served, problems were created, saying "at least part of the banking system should be local".
Perhaps peoples more distant from the Equator experiencing more pronounced seasons found it necessary to develop calendars and other innovations whereas more temperate climates required less precision.
The director sets a heart-pounding pace, pausing only for such interludes as Snow White's encounter with seven dwarfs who could not be more distant from their Disney forebears.
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Al Qaeda remains a deadly force, but its foot soldiers likely number in the hundreds, and its most lethal outposts now are distant from bin Laden and his lair.
Giuliani had always been obsessively overprepared, and now Siegel could only surmise that in the years since the World Trade Center bombings Giuliani had become too distant from the fray.
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
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So the justices could rule that requiring people to buy insurance fulfills an interstate regulatory scheme, while forcing them to eat broccoli is too distant from any rational economic goal, he said.
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