And yet, when he talks about students who don't invest energy in his classes — not a majority, he stresses, but a persistent minority — Dr. Kopf's eyes go distant.
We went to distant neighborhoods to buy vegetables because the ones they sold in our bodegas were hardly edible.
In some cases, traders from elsewhere settled in India, such as the Arabs on the Malabar Coast; in other cases Indian traders went to distant lands.
WORLD TRAVELERS (Saturday) The voyagers are children 4 to 7, who are invited to go to distant lands — no tedious plane trips required — in a program of stories, games, music and puppetry hosted by Barbara Frankel, a music educator.
There was little money in it, and the parents heard of a way out: friends from Henan had gone to distant Xinjiang and were making enough money to support relatives back home.
"liberal élites" from national institutions and mainstreaming homophobia and anti-Semitism, would be thrilled by Rousseau's warnings about the "cosmopolitans who go on distant bookish quests for the duties which they disdain to fulfill in their own surroundings".
But locals' doubts about mining, and their suspicion of foreign mining firms, run deep.Opponents say mines often pollute nearby rivers and seas, damaging the livelihoods of farmers and fishermen; and local communities' rewards for running such risks are paltry, because most tax revenues from mining go to distant national capitals, and the profits disappear abroad.
Mr. Egeland at the United Nations said that in some of the hardest-hit areas, so much unsolicited assistance was arriving that airports could not handle the traffic and planes had to go to distant airstrips where there was no transportation to get the materials to where they were needed.
Once gone, only distant owl calls interrupt the sound of wind rushing through the treetops.
Since we've joined a union, our managers have gone very distant.
Simoni went to distant mountain communities to eradicate blood feuds, which are a serious problem in Albania.
