Nearby shoot tips are more likely to affect each other than those that are far apart from each other.

VOA: special.2009.10.13

We often say the two of them prove the proverb that the apple does not fall far from the tree.

VOA: special.2009.08.30

When that war ended, he was sent to an army base far from his wife and children.

VOA: special.2009.09.03

At that time, young American women did not travel far away from home by themselves.

VOA: special.2010.01.17

Opponents argued that Alaska was far away, disconnected from the other states and little populated.

VOA: special.2009.03.02

And it was overseas naval bases that could defend American interests far from home.

VOA: special.2010.07.08

Mister Amaya even buys the flour for his pastas from an American producer so that he does not have to import flour from as far away as Italy.

VOA: special.2009.04.10

She found that the treatment was far from satisfactory.

VOA: special.2010.05.04

This is how she described what she could see from that house on a hill: "The far-off mountains in all their grandeur, and the deep valleys, and widely extended plains, and more than all, that little village below, containing only a very few white houses, but more than those young eyes had ever seen."

VOA: special.2010.06.27

Nesterenko says much will depend on the form and mission that result from NATO's announced transformation process, which is far from complete.

VOA: standard.2009.04.02

South Carolina Senator Jim DeMint told Fox News that the fight over health-care reform is far from over.

VOA: standard.2009.12.27

While that rate is far from ideal, Lo points out that the lower rate will still be a significant improvement for Cambodian families.

VOA: standard.2009.11.10

"In our pandemic work, we were really focusing on the avian influenza, mostly in Asia and Africa, so the assumption that the next pandemic would start overseas, far from the U.S., turned out not to be true."

VOA: standard.2010.04.29

Pelosi has faced opposition from fiscally-conservative Democrats still nervous about the longer-term cost of the legislation,and opposition from some her in party who assert that language in the measure does not go far enough to ensure a continuing ban on the use of federal funds for abortion.

VOA: standard.2010.03.19