Mer Girl begins with a sound that suggests a distant, eerie telephone – messages from the deep – and a woman running away from her mother ("who haunts me, even though she's gone"), a man she "cannot keep", and a daughter "who never sleeps" (perhaps baby Lourdes?).
"There were clearly other issues going on and Robin sounded distant during the telephone conversation.
More distant applications: picture telephones, home shopping and airplane avionics.
There has been a shift from out-of-hours care provided by local general practices and their co-operatives to more distant emergency clinics or telephone advice [ 20].
Apart from language, this study suggests that the use of distant communication technology (letters, telephone calls, e-mails, e-health information, and leaflets) at the institutional level also negatively affects access to available health services especially for migrants with low literacy skills.
Computer generated randomisation for sequence and side were held centrally, and accessed by telephone to a distant co-ordinator prior to treatment.
As indicated by current guidelines, we preferred to adopt a 'soft' attitude, avoiding direct telephone calls to distant relatives of the proband and encouraging relatives to talk each other about the risk of cancer running in the family, and the possibilities of prevention and early diagnosis.
To accurately follow the direction of travel arrow, look down at the arrow, then focus on a distant object like a tree, telephone pole, or other landmark, and use this as a guide.
Soon cable TV will be a distant memory, much like a landline telephone's busy signal.
For instance, because a computer-tailored intervention is not usually person-delivered, we chose a more distant medium (i.e., the telephone) for motivational interviewing delivery.
