So far from being a distant prospect, the vuvuzelas are already here.
Suddenly, universal health care went from being a distant progressive dream to something you could actually envision happening in the next administration.
Vimpelcom, meanwhile, has gone from being a distant second to breathing down their necks.
When they look at applicants, they check that they have a degree; where the degree came from is a distant second to other criteria.
As a result, delayed departures of flights from distant cities are a "distinct possibility," said Doug Church, a spokesman for the union, the National Air Traffic Controllers Association.
Furthermore, the availability of genetic material from distant environments is a possible font of novel gene functions for lateral gene transfer.
The need to channel water supplies from distant sources was an outcome of the growth of urban communities.
When an ensemble visits from a distant land it is a de facto emissary of that country's musical culture.
What these three books offer, beyond rip-roaring adventure stories from a distant past, is an opportunity to understand pirates as they truly were — and to be grateful that the worst of them, at least, are gone.
They are based on the premise that a small financial penalty temporally distant from the event is a deterrent".
