Sentence examples for is only distant from inspiring English sources

To many others, though, it is only distant history with no enduring relevance, which is why any discussion of it already requires the brief background given above.

The observation that polyclonal antibodies to FBNYV-Eg gave weak and strong reaction with SCSV and MDV, respectively [ 27], and that 16 of the 19 MAbs to FBNYV-Eg cross-reacted with MDV and only one of them with SCSV [ 13], suggested that the serological relationship of FBNYV to MDV is close and that to SCSV is only distant.

"I wish I could say that racism and prejudice were only distant memories.

Although they were only distant acquaintances, she accepted and they were married on June 27 , 1925

Far away, the army fought, but "to the urbane consumer back on the Campus Martius, it was only distant noise".

In the words of former Associate Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, "I wish I could say that racism and prejudice were only distant memories.

More likely they are only distant in one context but are close in another.

Thus, just as a day in the future is only finitely distant from today, so any day in the past is finitely distant from today.

However, recovery is only a distant goal.

In the backwater that was Norfolk, the turbulence of the century is only a distant roar.

And of course a beaver, though one that is only a distant relative of today's species.