Sentence examples for distanced in terms of from inspiring English sources

Bisexual as a youth and later gay, the objects of his romantic and sexual desire – often distanced in terms of age, geography or affection – fuelled his work.

Thus he could compute the solar distance in terms of the lunar distance and thence the terrestrial radius.

The bee measures the distance in terms of how much energy she expends in travelling to the food source.

But for the two teen-agers Fryeburg is the defining experience through which they'll measure their distance, in terms of values and cultural perspective, from their parents.

I could always see it from a distance in terms of looking across the water at all the millionaires in their mansions — I always saw a glimpse of it, but I was never a part of it.

AS a former army field commander, Ariel Sharon puts great stock in holding the physical high ground, controlling the lines of sight and measuring distances in terms of artillery range.

The Johannesburg BRT is serving to help bridge the distance in terms of investment in Soweto versus Sandton and represents the boldest reform of urban transportation services in Africa.

In a game low on quality, the decisive moment came in the 31st minute as Craig Conway, who is leading the way by some distance in terms of chances created in the league, whipped in an inviting ball that Hyam could only divert past Lee Camp.

"It's important for Americans to recognize that China has in a very short time covered an extremely long distance in terms of nonproliferation and arms control," Mr. Holum said, noting the various treaties and other agreements it had joined over the last decade.

This leads to the concepts: producing a distance by an amount equal to itself; dividing a distance into equal parts; expressing a distance in terms of a number by means of a measuring-rod (definition of the space-interval between two points).

Because Bode's law (which gave the sequence of planetary distances in terms of a numerological formula) implied that there should be a planet between Mars and Jupiter, Olbers proposed that asteroids are the broken-up remnants of a medium-sized planet that once orbited in the asteroid belt region.