And all this politics stuff sometimes seems very distant to them.
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For those in the south, who are mainly Sinhalese (as, presumably, are most of the hardworking women in MAS's factory), the war is too distant to cause much pain.
For many of the owners, traveling to distant wholesale markets to buy goods poses a challenge.
None of the genes implicated in the spread of cancer to distant organs had to do with excessive cell division, it turned out.
On the other hand, consider the changes from the early 1990s from laughing at the notion of outsourcing the work of entire departments to distant countries, to embracing as a key organizational strategy.
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This concentration has caused pastures near to the towns to be overgrazed, and more distant ones to be under-used.
The deal was intended to strengthen both brands, which run a distant second to PepsiCo's Frito-Lay and Tropicana products.
The deal was intended to strengthen both brands, which run a distant second to PepsiCo's Tropicana and Frito-Lay products.
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.
Relatively well-off farmers who wanted the benefit of radio programs from the outside world could take batteries into town where they could be charged over a period of a couple of days, much as people journey to distant towns in Africa today to charge their cell phones at great expense.
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Its online services division runs a distant second to Google, still losing billions, annually.
But the broadcasters accuse EchoStar of selling distant signals to customers even if they can receive local stations.
They are Contemporary Man, a distant relation to Renaissance Man: living by their wits and off their imaginations.
As a young man Jobs abandoned his pregnant girlfriend and was later a cold, distant father to his daughter, Lisa.
Ask Nokia - a distant second to Apple in terms of what people are prepared to celebrate in the world of mobile.
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As a green solution, he reckons, it comes a distant second to recycling, because it fails to preserve a valuable raw material.
New York is guaranteed the home-court advantage for the first two rounds of the playoffs after finishing a distant second to Miami in the conference.
Our town police are well paid and polite and they are not very different from the rest of us in their distant relationship to crime.
That they become a super, super distant second to Target.
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Indeed, the man who said he put his family above all else was a distant father to both his eldest boys, whom he sent away to school.
But for folks who do a lot of charitable work, like driving to distant board meetings or delivering food to a food pantry, those miles can add up.
The intention was to give the US a crew-carrier and rocket technology that could go beyond low-Earth orbit to more distant targets, back to the Moon and further.
And if rich governments made a commitment, however distant, to opening their borders, they would quickly become more focused on addressing the growing imbalances between rich and poor nations.
They have used similar observations of more distant stars to find "exoplanets" (planets orbiting stars other than the sun) and in a few rare cases, to measure characteristics of the exoplanet atmospheres.
The results were more of a distant cousin to the Manhattan, with his version of a Trilby having a distinct smoky flavour from Islay scotch and the Tipperary being slightly more herbal, thanks to chartreuse.
The company had only about a 20 percent share of the U.S. smartphone market in the first quarter of this year, a distant second to Research in Motion's 55 percent slice of the pie during the same period, according to IDC.
But in a third analysis of research in biology and medicine, though, China barely made a dent, with the United Kingdom coming in a distant second to the U.S.. SciVal says American researchers published 250, 000 scientific papers on biology or medicine, 29% of the global total, in 2009.
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The battle of the bulge seems more like the Cold War: Billions are spent by Americans looking to get thinner, but countervailing forces, such as more time spent in cars driving past more fast-food restaurants from more distant suburbs to increasingly suburban office parks cancel out the effort.
How can countries yield control to distant bodies but ensure bureaucrats remain responsive to local dynamics?
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