From the village of Vijay Pura in the Indian state of Rajasthan, the global financial crisis seems remote.
The notion of Mr Bush now steering through anything with the scope of his tax cut or his education bill seems remote.
The possibility of anything horrible happening on the field seems remote.
And secondly, a different sort of relationship between local government and local people because the Town Hall can seem remote, just as Whitehall seems remote.
The ability of DT to revitalize its US subsidiary with a new infusion of cash and capital spending seems remote now that European mobile market teeters on the edge of a decisive downturn.
Yes, this risk seems remote and impossible, just as until a month ago it was unimaginable that the federal government would sue an American company to stop it from using a factory it had already built because it was in a right to work state.
He goes believing that he is leaving Northern Ireland a better place than he found it and even at a moment when talks are stalled and power-sharing seems a remote prospect, it seems to me that is a belief to which he is entitled.
The likelihood of finding a Salomon mounting jig in Chogoria Hospital seems rather remote.
This now seems as remote to us as a Calvinist anti-Christmas protest outside a Catholic Church in Manhattan.
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Breakup is not off the table, so long as the proper findings are made, but it seems a remote possibility.
But for most younger Europeans, the threat of war in western Europe now seems almost unimaginably remote.
And at age 39, with a plate in his ankle and a limited off-season, even that best-case scenario seems like a remote possibility.
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From what we can tell, the remote seems to operate just like any other, but of course given that it has Bluetooth, it also packs a range of 10 meters (32 feet).
The chance of injured Lehigh star and preseason All-American CJ McCollum making another big postseason run seems to be getting more remote.
The problem always seems to be that the remote unit first becomes intermittent, then starts to randomly change tracks, then finally dies completely.
Another required feature, in our minds at least, is the ability to record TV and use a remote and it seems Microsoft no longer wants any part in that either.
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Sometimes what I can do to try to improve the economy or to curb foreclosures or to help deal with the health care system -- sometimes it seems so distant and so remote, so profoundly inadequate to the enormity of the need.
Too bad for Herman Cain that day still seems at least a couple of decades remote.
But the more prolonged the current crisis, the more remote and vulnerable this relaxation seems.
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Oddly, not even the remote possibility of such an outcome seems yet to have been factored into Microsoft's phenomenally strong share price.
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Video shot by the robotic submarines (a.k.a. remote operated vehicles or ROVs) seems to indicate that oil is leaking from three spots in a pipe that is laying on the seafloor.
MPs, there is a feeling that the protracted leadership contest is remote from anything that at the moment seems important.
That seems unlikely, given that one of the experiments with a positive result was conducted in a remote area of China while another that had a negative result took place in Belgium, one of the most crowded parts of the planet.
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