Sentence examples for distant problems from inspiring English sources

At the Tashan mine this week, the complexities of China's coal situation were distant problems.

Distant problems that could previously be ignored have suddenly popped up in America's backyard.

The world economic crisis makes that even harder as few societies choose to spend money on distant problems when they face more immediate challenges such as unemployment and poverty.

Long live the intellectual at the Riche Café  Hurray hurray hurray  Stuck up and sleazy  A bag full of words  With a few empty ones and a few terms  He fabricates quick solutions to distant problems.

The Ebola crisis provides a clear example of the perils of turning a blind eye to distant problems.

This is not a remote or distant problem.

"We want to emphasize to the public, this is not some distant problem of the future.

This isn't a distant problem that will hit schools in five or 10 years' time – it's happening right now.

Lest legal workers consider this a distant problem, one conclusion of Venkatesh's work is that the underground and mainstream economies are intimately entwined.

In fact, Green Alliance's analysis says that people react more strongly to opportunities than to oblique threats, and that "people are more motivated by the prospect of a positive low-carbon future, than by thinking about an unwieldy, distant problem".

Americans, he suggested, no longer saw poverty just "on the other side of the tracks" in their towns and small cities, but as a distant problem of the inner city, glimpsed only fleetingly from commuter trains or highway traffic.