Sentence examples for distant minor from inspiring English sources
Ephemerides and orbital elements for observable distant minor planets.
The Bling Ring is a very distant, minor cousin to Robert Bresson's Pickpocket or Christopher Nolan's Following.
It's a story about one brief incident in a distant minor league, yet a story that might have forever altered the history of a franchise.
He's shooting the puck a lot more and just it's not going in". The split between the Ducks and their distant minor league affiliate, the Syracuse (N.Y). Crunch of the American Hockey League, appears inevitable.
"Ice dwarf", however, also saw some use as an umbrella term for all so-called "distant minor planets" (trans-Neptunian objects plus centaurs) or other, broad applications; one attempted definition was that an ice dwarf "is larger than the nucleus of a normal comet and icier than a typical asteroid".
Peter Bradshaw, reviewing the movie in The Guardian, said, "'The Bling Ring' is a very distant, minor cousin to Robert Bresson's 'Pickpocket' or Christopher Nolan's 'Following.' The final notes of irony and repudiation may be laboured and obvious, but this is an intriguingly intuitive and atmospheric movie".
It would at least signal the commitment of its generals to opening up the army's local activities to scrutiny, and to carrying out their promise to disarm themselves.With the West preoccupied with its own war over Kosovo, and the prospect of keeping the peace once it is over, East Timor may seem a distant and minor concern.
Operation Gearbox in June 1943 involved a sweep by Duke of York and Anson, in company with the US battleships and, to provide distant cover for minor operations in Spitsbergen and the Kola Inlet, while the following month diversionary operations, codenamed "Camera" and "Governor of Norway", were carried out in order to draw the Germans' attention away from Operation Husky.
Then there's a chilling, loud chord of E minor, with distant drums, to mark the noise from the citadel.
The Consul's father wanders off into the Himalayas and dies, a romantic and mysterious end; an orphan, the Consul is shipped back to England, where he grows up under the tutelage of a poet aristocrat, in the company of a band of drunken sons; then he skirts dishonor during the First World War, and at last is relegated to a distant post in a minor Mexican town.
Teika was born to a minor and distant branch of the aristocratic and courtly clan, the Fujiwara, in 1162, sometime after the Fujiwara regents had lost their political pre-eminence in the Imperial court during the Hōgen Rebellion.
