Sentence examples for a distant concept from inspiring English sources

War, for us, had become a distant concept.

Before Sept. 11, the military was a distant concept to Jennifer Lynn Stermer, a junior.

The disarming of the population, an oft-expressed goal, is at best a distant concept.

In places like the Cretan port of Rethymno, the debt crisis seemed a distant concept at times.

Mr. Chen's victory reflected, in part, a demographic trend that bodes ill for the Nationalists and also for China's hope of peaceful reunification: many younger people have no allegiance to the Nationalist Party their parents long served, and think of China as a distant concept.

On the other hand, of all the hundreds of donor families I have met, I can scarcely remember one who regretted the decision.If this is correct, the solution is clear: just as with any other important decision, families should discuss the options in calm conditions, when death is still a distant concept.

On Friday, Gingrich doubled down and told a campaign crowd that "the idea of work" seemed to Williams "to be a strange, distant concept".

But he's ignoring the fact that most of the best-known superheroes debuted at least 50 years ago, prior to the successes of the US civil rights movement, the 1960s and 70s wave of feminism and the decriminalisation of homosexuality in many western nations (let alone the dim and distant concept of legalised gay marriage).

While ideals are distant concepts like ideologies, ideas, and values, the concept of an ideal interest refers to a case in which such distant concepts are associated with actual behaviors and revealed as values, motivations, and behavioral characteristics.

Those were still distant concepts.

More distant concepts are out near the rim.