Unfortunately, amidst the confused priorities of this administration, such bold initiatives remain but distant possibilities.
He apologized for it, as one might for a mad but distant relative.
They tend to view him as someone at home in academic and political debate but distant from the business world.
Using Keck I, a telescope on a mountain-top in Hawaii, the physicists analysed light emanating from very bright but distant galaxies called quasars.
Yet the King floats above this adulation, observing it as if from outside his own body, gracious but distant, selfless in the Buddhist sense.
Anyone you might have been journeying with will now be but a distant memory.
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But get distant enough from the trust foundations, and strategy starts to unravel.
Brazil's relations with the United States are correct, but oddly distant.
Meanwhile, online appointment booking is at least two years away and some of the most innovative ideas deployed in other countries are but a distant dream.
So extraordinary was this particular bubble that there really seemed no reason for it at all: the economy was motoring along nicely, and deflation was but a distant memory from the 1930s.
Sprint ( S), for example, would become the third largest nationwide network operator, but a distant third and might become an attractive buy for Verizon, which would gain more spectrum, more cell sites and bragging rights as the largest U.S. network operator once again.
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Meanwhile, being embroiled in the odd security row didn't stop upstart Huawei from hitting the smartphone podium for the first time with 27.2 million handsets sold in Q4 2012, a 73.8 percent jump over last year -- but a distant third behind Samsung's 64.5 million units and 43.5 million for Apple.
If Toss is just tolerating you he will seem distant but certainly law abiding to the smallest detail.
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When he died, a distant but inspirational figure, Osama was only nine.
Deron Williams finished with 15 points, but was a distant No. 2 when it came to the best point guards on the floor.
Scotland revenged that defeat thanks to a Kenny Miller double in Olso in September 2005 but finished a distant third behind Italy and Norway, who went on to lose a play-off with the Czech Republic.
Here, within earshot of Turkey's highways, you can also hear the distant but occasional thud of artillery -- a reminder that the war they fled remains the worse option over the squalor they now endure.
This involves taking advantage of distant, but cloesr, galaxies that lie between Earth and the quasar.
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How can countries yield control to distant bodies but ensure bureaucrats remain responsive to local dynamics?
To human eyes, other solar systems may be incomprehensibly distant, but cosmically, they are pretty close by.
This is instead a teachable moment not only for football, but also for its distant cousin, soccer.
The FTC's narrow definition played up the likely effect on prices from the loss of that rivalry but ignored the more distant challenge from ordinary supermarkets.
The right place to start is with a common vision not of some distant future but of the world we seek for our children and our grandchildren.
It's not incredibly distant, but it's also not exactly nearby.
Paving roads reduces rolling friction, thereby boosting miles per gallon, but it also makes distant destinations seem closer, thereby enabling people to live in sprawling, energy-gobbling subdivisions far from where they work and shop.
The Finn, who has not topped the podium in five races, did his best to keep his car on the racing line but qualified in a distant sixth - more than a second adrift of Hamilton.
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She wanted to hear exactly how the next President was going to remove some of the tremendous financial weight bearing down on her reduce gas prices, cut the cost of medicine not in the distant future but right away.
But that comes a distant second in irritation level to spending money on items that will cut the wait time down, or in other words, paying to have the game speed up in order to actually play it.
The Babe Ruth trade may be a distant memory but players rarely move directly between the Red Sox and Yankees - and likewise with United and Liverpool, with Phil Chisnall the last player to do so in 1964.
For example, under the industry's byzantine fare structure, it is sometimes cheaper for a traveler to purchase a ticket to a distant city but to leave the plane at an intermediate stopover point -- which is his actual destination.
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