Viewed from my increasingly distant standpoint, under nine seems a wonderfully simple thing to be.
As the story begins, Eunice has taken Terrell Bernard Alexander Lewiss), a 13-year-old distant relative, under her wing.
Already there are four class-action suits against the churches and the government, which had the churches run schools in distant communities under contract.
The days of Knute Rockne, the Four Horsemen and 11 national championships faded into a distant memory under Davie's tenure.
They discovered his penchant for taking long drives at night, sometimes mailing letters and packages from distant spots under assumed names.
The poorest, those who lived along railway tracks or on pavements, in central Mumbai, have been moved to distant suburbs under two World Bank-funded projects, MUIP and the Mumbai Urban Transport Project MUTPP).
And I don't say that just because I may someday, in the distant future under circumstances so fantastic and remote that I can't even imagine them, want to teach again.
Similarly, the other sectors of Iran's environment have been seriously affected by policies that have overlooked the anthropogenic effects of aggressive development in an era when environmental preservation has seemed a distant priority under the limitations caused by sanctions.
I was slicing onions when I noticed, beyond the kitchen's glass doors, my mother standing in the back yard, staring contemplatively into the distant pines, under that pale vast Shuswap sky.
The mood brightens in Ms. Craddock's seascapes: pictures of foamy, jade-green waves washing up on sand in the foreground, with the horizon a high, distant line under bands of blue sky.
Because I may want to teach there again someday -- albeit in the distant future, under circumstances so fantastic and remote I can't possibly even imagine them -- let's just call the place Flutgers.
