He half-expected to find that distance and resentment were weakening the bonds between the region's residents and their country.
Even the beach is not what it seems: the coral reefs stretch from the shore far out to sea, and although Egyptian laws protecting the reefs are regularly violated by developers who bulldoze their way through reefs, tourists may find they have to pick their way for some distance over the delicate sharp reefs, damaging both them and their feet, to find deep water.
Distance this country and you may find it's a long way back.
So it seems that because technology makes it easier to stay in touch while keeping distance, more and more people find themselves feeling distant and never touching.
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While a map easily identifies the many small and large mountain lakes, mostly unknown to tourists, I was keen to find the perfect one for a long-distance, open-air, cold-water swim.
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It's like buying a new cell phone, only to get it home and find out it won't dial long-distance.
Assuming you make small gains of 15 yards per play, you will find yourself out of the hole and in scoring distance on every drive.
Applicants must have tried to find a place to rent within a "reasonable commuting distance" to their old neighborhoods and place of work.
And apart from the distance issue, there may be other ways to find the right answer as well.
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It's still not clear at what distance the exchange was intercepted -- while the passive ISO 14443 tag is spec'd with a read distance of only 2-milimeters you'll find claims of reads at several meters.
Even if Mr Duncan Smith wanted to distance himself from hard-liners and Eurosceptics, he would find it difficult.
In 1995 a team led by Anita Cochran of the University of Texas at Austin used the Hubble space telescope to find what it thinks were 30 comet-sized fragments, at a distance that would put them inside the Kuiper belt.
Studies show that drivers in the U.S. spend an average of eight minutes cruising for city parking, mainly so they can find a space free or at the lowest price possible within the shortest distance of their destination, according to Donald Shoup, a professor of urban planning at the University of California, Los Angeles.
We suddenly wake up and find ourselves disoriented, wondering where we are, and possibly mistaking a light in the distance for something completely different.
When they find a pile of droppings, they shape a small ball and start pushing it away to a safe distance where they can eat it, usually underground.
Fortunately, she was able to find a vendor who could do handcrafted artisan work with fast turn around and who was within easy driving distance from her office in Westchester, NY.
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An unmanned aircraft like N-UCAS solves both these problems at once, providing a cost-effective capability that allows the carriers to find and attack terrorists and insurgents, and also to counter cruise and ballistic missile threats from a survivable distance.
Since the very first planets outside our solar system were discovered in the early 1990s, the hope has been to find an "Earth twin" - a planet like ours, orbiting a star like ours, at a distance like ours.
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