Sentence examples for far from approaching from inspiring English sources

In comparison with Cameron, who splurged on honours for cronies while still droning about "life chances", Corbyn's reversal was far from approaching rank, or even mealy mouthed, on the hypocrisy continuum.

Far from approaching this work with the trepidation of old age, Rameau seems to have felt that he could finally write an opera the way he wanted to, not as the current style dictated.

In terms of the control network (wired), we observe that the bandwidth consumption of the SSH protocol over Ethernet is far from approaching saturation, and that latency is low enough to allow adequate coordination of all nodes.

Long forgotten by wine lovers, sherry is now on its way back, though it is still far from approaching the popularity of its heyday, when it was one of the world's most expensive and sought-after wines.

Such a scenario would have seen the giant green meanie blasted out of the solar system on the orders of an Avengers-like group of superheroes called the Illuminati (Iron Man among them), to a planet without intelligent life where they imagine he can happily smash up the local wildlife far from anything approaching a civilisation.

Planet Hulk begins with the Hulk waking in a SHIELD spacecraft that has been blasted out of the solar system on the orders of a group of superheroes called the Illuminati (Iron Man and Doctor Strange among them) to exile their former pal for ever on a planet without intelligent life (where, it is proposed, he can happily smash up the local wildlife far from anything approaching a civilisation).

"I was very shy, and this was a big help," the governor said of that far-from-last approach to the people.

He even employs the rod to impress his girlfriend, Arzu (Mizgin Kapazan), using it to tell how far the approaching train is from their stop.

"I knew photography and I had done documentaries, but I was far from the approach I would use later," Mr. Pontecorvo said.

But the Yankees were somewhat annoyed that Long discussed the idea of bunting more frequently, because that is far from the approach the team wants to take with a lineup loaded with power hitters.

However, their result is still far from optimal approach.