Sentence examples for distant actors from inspiring English sources

We find robust support for the proposition that socially proximate actors have the greatest advantage over distant actors for knowledge of moderate complexity.

We ask, when will an actor socially close to the source of some knowledge have the greatest advantage over distant actors in receiving and building on the knowledge?

Yet the complex technical and normative challenges certification aims to address, and its engagement of diverse and distant actors, are more about trust than certainty.

To test this hypothesis, we examine patent data and compare citation rates across proximate and distant actors on three dimensions: (1) the inventor collaboration network; (2) firm membership; and (3) geography.

Simple knowledge diffuses equally to close and distant actors because distant recipients with poor connections to the source of the knowledge can compensate for their limited access by means of unaided local search.

We are living in a city bequeathed to us by those distant actors, and it is impossible to comb through that volume without noting the selectivity with which we decide what to remember about the past.

The capacity of distant constitutional actors to effectively communicate and change, monitor and enforce rules is limited (Cooke and Tahir 2012).

The Courtyard, for all its supposed intimacy, also thrusts much of the action upstage so that the actors often seem distant even from the front stalls.

The plot pits a human army against an alien army on a distant planet, bringing live actors and digital technology together to make a large cast of virtual creatures who convey emotion as authentically as humans.

For instance, in the 1964 movie "A Distant Trumpet" the Navajo actors were told to translate their lines into their own language.

"Edwin Booth", after the famous 19th century American Shakespearean actor and distant relative.