This was also the case when Teachers A and B encountered some students who used the strategy of whole-number-based splitting the dividend (see Table 5 (d)), but split the dividend into two or more whole numbers in a rather far-fetched way (for example, 594 is split into 180 and 414).
Their learning abilities are far-fetched, and the way that their constituent free-flying motes maneuver and communicate seems hard to square with the laws of physics.
The hypothesis that intelligent behavior in plants may be an emergent property of cells exchanging signals in a network might sound far-fetched, yet the way that intelligence emerges from a network of neurons may not be very different.
The far-fetched plots derived ways of getting the trio to reveal their shapely figures as bikini-clad beauty-pageant contestants, maids, nurses, models and roller-derby girls.
"It was something that was way far-fetched for me," he said.
There are several far-fetched but technically possible ways for Argentina to get out of the standoff.
I played a lot of snooker [but] the thought of turning professional seemed way more far-fetched than trying to be an actor.
Bradley D. Simon, a former federal prosecutor turned criminal defense lawyer with offices in New York and Paris, thought the idea "far-fetched" and said, "The only way there can be a setup in the first place is that there is an acknowledgment that he is predisposed to such actions".
Hmmm, that last one seems a bit far-fetched considering there's no way to distribute tunes to the iPod wirelessly via iTunes, but to each his own.
During most of that time, homosexuality was listed as an illness by the American Psychological Association, so it wasn't really far-fetched that I thought this way.
In one way these far-fetched scenarios have prepared us for the situation we face at the start of this new millennium.
