When a smuggler senses danger he can abandon the weakest members of the group, or desert them all, lying about the distance to the nearest town.
For all the usual reasons of language, distance and who knows what it is that the foreigners are doing anyway?
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The Clinton Administration believes the threat of missile attack, if it exists at all, is far off in the distance.
The idea: Passengers use an app to request a ride, the request goes to all participating cabbies within a certain distance and the driver who responds first gets the fare.
For the U.S., Nichols said that all the focus will be on whether the Fed will distance itself from the minutes of the last meeting, which were released April 10.
The top 15 lifetime money winners in distance running were all born in Africa, including Ethiopia's Haile Gebreselasie, considered the most talented distance runner in history and the former world record holder in the marathon.
Despite losing three more clashes against top American opposition, Farr went the distance with all of them.
Mr Assad recently stressed that he intended to keep an equal distance from all the Palestinian factions and to encourage them to pursue reconciliation between themselves in order to strengthen their international position.
As a Japanese company, Toyota has historically been all the more motivated to overcome the problems of language and physical distance.
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The emirate is big on hype, but the view from his 45th-floor office bears out the boast: all swooshing highways, gleaming buildings and bustling ports in the distance.
Which is why it is probably appropriate that Stream is held each year in Marathon - the little town outside Athens that knows all about the unchanging and challenging nature of the long distance race.
We are, after all, talking about the sort of distance in time which separates us from the invention of agriculture.
Facebook brings us both friends from our past and advertisements from our future, all competing to distance us from the boring but emotionally grounded present.
St Mary's all-weather lifeboat travelled the furthest distance in a single shout, when it was launched to rescue the catamaran Orinoco Flo 85 miles (137km) off the Isles of Scilly.
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In its responses, Sands denied all the accusations and said that Jacobs was the one who had failed to distance the company from Cheung, the triad boss.
Ross Forbes scored a penalty, Murphy fired in the fifth and Shaun Hutchinson headed in, all before the break, before Forbes fired his second from distance.
Of all the things he plans to think hard about, he says, distance learning tops the list.
Telling the world how it ought to be does, after all, require a certain distance from those messy things like details and the opinions of others.
In addition, all long-distance trains operating on the NEC will be powered by the new locomotives.
The distance is getting bigger all the time, and it is a very big gap.
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Gebrselassie is, by common consent, the finest distance runner of all time.
Haile Gebrselassie poses for photographs afterwards with the media, who have abandoned their usual cynicism in favour of unadulterated fawning in front of the greatest distance runner of all time.
And the sport, just as the athletes, comes in all shapes and sizes, from the 15-plus-hour Ironman distance, to the entry-level super-sprint distance.
Despite all the complaints, average commuting time remained stable through the 1990s, but the average distance travelled grew.
The Buddies came back into the match with a fine strike from distance then a late solo effort to give the visitors all three points.
Above all, there is no real distance between the musicians and the fans.
When combined with Sportiiiis, you get all the information you need including elapsed time, distance, and heart rate.
At this, all the others stood up and came away from the trees: what they saw in the distance was smoke spouting from different points in the landscape, first here, then there.
It was a hazy day, so it was hard to see off into the distance, but the mountains all around were brown instead of green where huge landslides had sheared away their sides.
Just driving the car even being engaged over phone calls during the journey may scale the distance and complete the journey but we can not expect creativity and above all there is inherent risk in carrying out the casual act.
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