Another distant relative had suggested the union, since Martina was on her own and only occasionally employed.
No matter how hard I tried to get close to her, I felt like a distant relative.
He apologized for it, as one might for a mad but distant relative.
SEC's then chairwoman (and distant relative of Mr Estrada) and took her place.
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Today's hunt tax, levied by some municipalities, is a distant relative of the 1, 200-year-old Jagdregal, which reserved the bag, or part of it, for the lord.
Knowing a famous person has the same impairment as you can be reassuring, but only in the vague way that hearing of a successful distant relative is reassuring.
Hemingway, a distant relative of the author Ernest, and who took two-and-a-half years out of the sport to pursue other interests, failed three times at 2.36, as did Baba.
Every Irish school child is being pushed to send postcards to some distant relative, imploring family reconnection at one of countless gatherings of the clans being encouraged for 2013.
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Jesse James, a distant relative of the outlaw from the 1880s, nervously scans his e-mail on a recent afternoon from a tiny office inside his 250, 000-square-foot motorcycle shop in Long Beach, Calif.
She is one of the wealthiest women in Spain, has more titles recognized than any noble in the world, and is a distant relative of Winston Churchill and Diana, Princess of Wales.
Depending on where in the United States you choose to attend school, you can receive college scholarships for being short, tall, fat, left-handed or a distant relative of Lambert and Annetje Van Valkenburg.
Trott, who played under-19 cricket for South Africa, is a distant relative of former Australia captain Harry Trott, and his brother Albert, who played for both England and Australia in the late 19th century.
Mr Ozanne, a distant relative of the family who built the tower, said it was the only one of its kind in the island and the changes would be "very much in-keeping with the original tower".
So we know they had venison, and they likely had some kind of water fowl goose, duck, swan or eagle. (Best not to think about those last two.) The fowl also could have been wild turkey, but if so, it was a very distant relative of that bird in the supermarket case today.
At the time, the competing teams expected to find that the more distant supernovae were slowing down, relative to those nearer - a decline of the expansion of the Universe that began with the Big Bang.
On the economic front, weakness from the financial crisis following the peso devaluation in late 1994 and the relative hiccup from the 1998 Asian crisis are now distant memories.
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