The phrase "a remote relation" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a family member who is not closely related, such as a distant cousin or great-aunt.
Example: "At the family reunion, I met a remote relation I had never heard of before."
Alternatives: "a distant relative" or "a far-off kin".
"Europe has a set of primary interests, which to us have none, or a very remote relation.
We are justified in saying so when, from the character of the law and the subject upon which it legislates, it is apparent that the public health or welfare bears but the most remote relation to the law.
In the case of individual real things, by contrast, the affirmation or negation of everything that can be affirmed or denied must be established and decided and, conversely, that of which everything down to the most remote relations is established and decided, actually exists.
A Venn diagram of 'overlaps' between the five methods clearly illustrates that the capabilities of each method to detect remote relations are different and often non-overlapping (Fig. 1).
Immediately recognized as a classic, it illustrated with enormous erudition Haskell's later insight: every aesthetic system "is inextricably bound up with a whole series of forces, religious, political, nationalist, economic, intellectual, which may appear to have only the remotest relation to art, but which may have to be violently disrupted before any change in perception becomes possible".
Here, we demonstrate similar interference effects, even if participants know they are in a remote environment with unknown spatial relation to the learning environment.
Descriptive analysis used cross-tabulation to examine the distribution of GP characteristics in relation to the two outcomes (working in a remote practice; working in a deprived practice).
He committed suicide while walking in a remote area, according to an announcement by Bolton & Quinn, a public relations agency in London; no further details were given.
PERCHED on a remote hillside, the 11th-century Preah Vihear temple has become a flashpoint for Thai-Cambodian relations.
