Sentence examples for distant things from inspiring English sources

This work corroborates Tobler's first law of geography "Everything is related to everything else, but near things are more related than distant things" but also provides practical guidance.

In those days, my facile anger was as often burning against distant things as close.

Only then, when we have an intimate knowledge of our neighbors, should we, journey farther afield to learn about more distant things.

In the spring of 1609 he heard that in the Netherlands an instrument had been invented that showed distant things as though they were nearby.

This indicated that the LWLI was as effective in predicting the potential UHI as the combination of several pattern indicators, echoing Tobler's first law of geography, which states that "all things are related, but nearby things are more related than distant things".

"On the Web there is no cue as to distance, so there's no way to make a mental map where distant things are smaller and nearby events loom large".

"I always felt like it was this distant thing that I couldn't touch.

A leg jerks but it's a distant thing, floating to a different orbit.

He made whatever awaited us after high school seem like the most thrilling, yet distant, thing ever.

In countless villages such as the sleepy hilltop one of Owo, where Fadoyebo lived, the bloodshed had been a distant thing rumbling on in remote lands.

And it shows that slavery is not this remote and distant thing, but part of our intimate and personal family histories".