Sentence examples for distant player from inspiring English sources

With the rise of China as a principal export destination and the visit last month by President Dmitri A. Medvedev of Russia to court Latin American leaders, there are more frequent reminders that the United States is becoming an ever more distant player in the affairs of the region, said Riordan Roett, the director of the Latin American Studies program at Johns Hopkins University.

Within the current battlefield, the United States and its EU partners have been more distant players, supplying funds and armaments to anti-Assad rebels while occasionally bombing Syrian government and Islamist terrorist bases.

But in this drama of dictatorship and promised democracy, there were other, more distant players in Europe whose destiny seemed increasingly intertwined with Colonel Qaddafi's as the stakes rose ever higher.

Lineker thinks the likes of Twitter can help reconnect fans with the increasingly distant players they idolise, and explains its impact in almost punk rock terms: "The gap between footballers and the fans was growing wider, but [Twitter has] pulled them a lot closer together," he says.

If two distant players are competing, their level will be split down the middle between the different local times and terrains.

When you're the distant second player in web search, you've got nothing to lose by making bold moves.

"There is not an immediate benefit likely to be seen by an investor in distant derivative players like a Pfizer, an Eli Lilly or a Genentech," he said, although he owns all three based on other merits.

And that Windows Phone, while still a distant third place player, has managed to functionally cement itself as a player in mobile.

If the deal went through, the merged company would have nearly 130 million subscribers, leaving Spring a distant No. 3 player with about 50 million customers.

This is good for consumers and an acknowledgment of reality for Apple: While it dominates phone software, it's a distant No. 3 player in streaming with the Apple TV.

She is pleasantly surprised upon learning of her link with the seven-time slam winner but such heights remain distant for a player attempting to juggle tennis with motherhood.