Sentence examples for formerly distant from inspiring English sources

Such displacements provided opportunities for mate exchange among formerly distant indigenous populations.

The forces which will bring about these changes are many and varied: new technologies which will drive down the cost of production, new distribution channels, which will bring together formerly distant and almost inaccessible markets, and a demographic shift of epic proportions amongst the publishers' customer base — the readers.

Speaker J. Dennis Hastert of Illinois opened 21 hours of formal House debate, saying that before the Sept. 11 attacks Americans had lived in "splendid isolation," but that the nation now realized it could be touched by those in countries that formerly seemed distant.

Windows Vista, formerly code-named Longhorn, is still a distant prospect for most people.

Instead, the area will become a lawn, hemmed in by meadow sprouting grasses like rye and fescue, across which a distant body of water - formerly obscured by the grove - is visible.

A distant American illusion implied by formerly banned Western commodities, aspirations and ideals served my generation as a colorful escape from the mundane reality, providing us with a faint glimmer of light at the end of the tunnel.

Pluto, large, distant member of the solar system that formerly was regarded as the outermost and smallest planet.

After her return there was an announcement of her betrothal to her distant cousin Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten of the Royal Navy, formerly Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark.

So the close-up scrutiny formerly provided by local taxpayers has given way to a comparatively distant and casual management by government officials in Hartford.

The family bears a superficial resemblance but a distant relationship to the water lilies (family Nymphaeaceae), where they were formerly included.

Figure  2A-C visualise the evolutionary split and relocation of a compact segment to three distant chromosomal regions in human and shows that these three - formerly adjacent - segments remain connected by long distance interactions.