"They can touch the world just sitting in this house, " Jan said.
At the same time, the royal family does touch the real world, albeit the part of it inhabited by what remains of the landed upper classes: a life of moors and deer-stalking, of summers under Scottish rain, dogs and horses, the church, the armed forces, the same few boarding schools and the right sort of nightclubs.
We were in touch with the world and knew what was going on.
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Alan Greenspan took his short-wave radio to stay in touch with the world.
In a powerfully written conversation with Sands, Father Dominic Moran (Liam Cunningham), a tough priest, accuses him of not loving life, of having lost touch with the world and any rational political purpose.
Sir Brian Kerr bristles at the suggestion that his plush wood panelled chambers are in effect an ivory tower, and that he and other members of the judiciary are out of touch with the real world.
While disconnected from the world at large I, again like countless others up and down the Eastern Seaboard, also fell out of touch with the sports world.
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It's become a bit of a must-attend event for auto lovers too, with more and more major manufacturers showing up each year, rolling out their high-tech wares to show the industry just how well they're keeping in touch with the broader world of tech.
At any rate, we're definitely looking forward to seeing this thing finally materialize so the Touch Pros and X1s of the world can start duking it out in those rough, dog-eat-dog professional trenches of the world.
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They are putting people in remote communities in touch with the outside world.
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Seen as in touch with the modern world, he has already invited journalists, some 5, 600 of whom are in Rome to cover his election, to an audience on Saturday.
"We have always wanted the 2010 FIFA World Cup to touch the lives of as many South Africans as possible, " local organizing committee boss Danny Jordaan says.
Mahendra Singh Dhoni was the captain with the Midas touch, leading India to dominate the world of cricket in all formats of the game, including the fickle Twenty20.
Maybe not quite the new Posh and Becks, more Posh and Ex, but the couple's horsing around is adding a touch of glamour to the equine world.
The new iPod touch comes with iOS 6, the world's most advanced mobile operating system with over 200 features, and for the first time, features Siri, the intelligent assistant that helps you get things done just by asking.
Barbara Cooper tells the site how she and the "Old girls" of Saltley Grammar in Birmingham celebrated their 60th birthdays with a reunion of friends from all over the world who got back in touch via the internet.
He envisaged "an entire generation opting-out of the real world and a paradoxical decrease in productivity as the people who provide the motive economic power no longer are in touch with the realities of the real world".
In that hourlong meeting the budding entrepreneurs showed the Omanis an onscreen world manipulated by touch using a tabletop display the pair had built from scratch.
As it stands, the case involves seven patents that mostly touch on staple technologies of the modern mobile world, such as syncing messages between devices and bookmarking media playback on one device to resume on another.
Like most saints or zealots, Mr Eigen sees the world a touch too simply.
We live in a time where a sneeze in one corner of the world can touch off a pandemic that infects people many thousands of miles away.
Despite his admirable achievements over more than a 30-year career, McChrystal is simply the latest 4-star officer to show the world that some remain woefully out of touch with the press, and at times, reality itself.
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The opposite is equally true: companies that have not increased the number of women on their boards run the risk of being seen as irresponsible and out of touch by the most significant consumer base in the world.
The DuoSense pen offers the return of the lost art of handwriting and together with the true multi-touch solution opens up a whole new world of personal choice for the user in deciding how to interact with their computing devices.
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Its website allows people to stay in touch with friends and family around the world.
In the same way that social media has helped people all over the world stay in touch and grow closer, so can a social network bring a workplace together.
The revolutionary App Store offers more than 775, 000 apps to iPhone, iPad and iPod touch users in 155 countries around the world, with more than 300, 000 native iPad apps available.
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Two new entrants to the hardware world, the CrunchPad and Always Innovating's Touch Book, have already begun panning for gold with their Linux-based tablets.
Banks, even those that appear to be far-flung in Europe, touch nearly all businesses and individuals around the world.
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Designed with touch screens in mind, Microsoft surprised the world when it announced that it was developing its own tablet, Surface.
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