But Russian authority is now so remote a memory that, even if Chechnya proves unviable as an independent state, it is hard to conceive of it ever again being subject to Moscow.

ECONOMIST: Chechnya

He said the high seas were among the worst in living memory on the remote island.

BBC: Highlands & Islands

Other new features include a new digital amplifier, a Bluetooth remote, and a settings memory to remember your source, volume and EQ levels for next time.

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But the sheer magnitude of the human tragedy of the second world war puts it in a class of its own, and its relative closeness to the present day makes claims on the collective memory that more remote horrors cannot.

ECONOMIST: The second world war

If you do learn the names of these designers, Emma's security commandos abduct you to a secret location within a remote discount store and chemically induce memory loss.

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The devices features an integrated IR blaster for universal remote capabilities, as well as an easily accessible memory card slot for convenient loading of multimedia files in a range of supported file formats.

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The transformation involved moving from the paradigm in which the application ran with a local file system to an architecture in which any data needed was fetched in advance from slower and more variably performant remote storage and then storing what was needed in memory.

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