Sentence examples for distant ideal from inspiring English sources

That remains a distant ideal in a crazy-quilt voting system variously managed and mismanaged by the 50 states and some 8,000 local jurisdictions.

4. As consumption accelerates everywhere and world population rises, it is no longer sufficient to work towards a distant ideal of sustainable development.

Spread out over five books, L'Esprit de la Revolution is inconsistent in many of its assertions but still shows clearly that Saint-Just no longer saw government as oppressive to man's nature but necessary to its success: its ultimate object was to "edge society in the direction of the distant ideal".

Despite the persistent efforts to curtail gender injustice by the Governments, non-governmental organizations (NGO) and feminist movements over many decades, gender equality remains as a distant ideal in many LMICs.

Democracy south of the Sahara may be sloppy and haphazard, but electoral contests and term limits are increasingly accepted as fixed rules, to be flouted at a would-be ruler's peril, rather than distant ideals.

Why was that "W" word popping up with this W.? Was it the bad luck of drawing this particular opponent, someone who can speak knowingly about self-sacrifice to spoiled boomers, while W. can only embrace such notions as distant ideals?

1. Making sustainability personal: Rather than emphasizing abstract and distant ideals, greater leverage is generated when benefits are personal and tangible.

The image that opens the exhibition, a horizontal human face, surreal -- almost Bunuel-like -- is surmounted by models of a distant but ideal village of one's youth.

Yet in a day spent behind the great stone walls of the United States Military Academy -- in classrooms, faculty lounges and the cavernous cadet mess -- it becomes evident that General MacArthur's invocation has become a distant and elusive ideal in a post-Communist world of ethnic flare-ups, alliance politics and fuzzy missions.

I had several ideal distant models, such as Sophocles' "Oedipus Rex," whose protagonist investigates the murder of his father only to discover that he himself is the murderer; "The Monkey's Paw," by W. W. Jacob, the perfect story in which everything that happens is accidental; Maupassant's "Boule de Suif"; and so many other great sinners, may God keep them in His holy kingdom.

Small nations are reticent toward the large context for exactly the opposite reason: they hold world culture in high esteem but feel it to be something alien, a sky above their heads, distant, inaccessible, an ideal reality with little connection to their national literature.