Provided you and I have different bodies of information, the proposition I am considering when I consider whether if A, B may well differ from the proposition you would express in the same words: the constraints on nearness differ; worlds which are near for me may not be near for you.
Tawanda Majoni, a political columnist, said: "It is clear that the MDC has made several fatal mistakes during the tenure of the government of national unity, from Tsvangirai's love gaffes to the party's cosy approach to politics during the period in question … The MDC should have used its nearness to power to gain some clout, but it didn't".
Marketing emphasises nearness to the customer: Commerce Bank, based in New Jersey, calls itself "America's most convenient bank"; HSBC claims to be "the world's local bank .Much of this survey will explore this change in banking fashion.
He is part of a small band of returnees, who are attracted not so much by the history as the cheap property prices and the nearness of the City.
Walk into a shop here, and the conversation is likely to begin: "Ga i helpu?"Given the nearness of England, an infamous linguistic coloniser, the mere survival of such an ancient language is remarkable.
In Screamin' Jay Hawkins's "I Put a Spell on You," she seethes as the vengeful woman; she floats joyfully into Johnny Green's obscure "I Cover the Waterfront" beside a sublime flugelhorn solo; in Carmichael's "The Nearness of You," she flirts coyly; her authenticity elevates Holiday's "God Bless the Child;" and she reinvents Gershwin's "Summertime" in one take.
This is evident in the liturgical "blessings," where, following the direct address to God in which the second person singular pronoun is used, the verbs are with great regularity in the third person singular, thus providing the requisite tension between nearness and otherness, between the personal and the impersonal.
Sites for economic activity are selected after taking into account factors such as nearness to sources of supply and to markets, availability of labour, climate, taxes, and transportation.
The physical and chemical properties of seawater vary according to latitude, depth, nearness to land, and input of fresh water.
