Sentence examples for a rather distant from inspiring English sources

As oppositions go, though, the 1997 opposition was a rather distant one.

My only fear is that I am a rather distant figure.

She kissed other heads of state, but gave him a rather distant handshake.

The dog's classic cartoon antagonist, the cat, runs a rather distant second.

The air of casual intimacy threw some weight behind her claim, even if home was a rather distant proposition.

But there is much more to Redouté than those rose illustrations - of which the reproductions that we normally see come at a rather distant remove from the originals.

Tyr71 is located in an advantageous position to mediate the oxidation of substrates binding at a site, rather distant from the heme (named GUA1 in Figure 2), which has been recently reported in the CcP crystal structures with bound guaiacol and phenol molecules.

Her 8-year-old brother, an upper-classman, sat beside her, wearing a strained & rather distant expression.

He included among them Foreign Secretary Jack Straw, a Christian, whose rather distant Jewish family connections are very unlikely to make him a Likudnik.

God has become a mysterious and rather distant figure in this world.

What Holbrooke was finally offered was the ambassadorship to Germany; it was a small and rather distant perch, but he accepted.