Peru's Camisea field is too distant for fuel to be brought in by pipeline.
But the sheer size of Sudan means that to many people in the centre, rural carnage is too distant to be of much concern.
But the timetable for that may already have slipped into 2012, which is too distant for those trying to oust him.Not only is Fukushima Dai-ichi's owner, Tokyo Electric Power (TEPCO), struggling to keep the plant under control.
Life would struggle to gain a foothold on Enceladus if it had no internal heating system because the Saturnian moon is too distant to be warmed by the sun.
The ships are, however, not expected to enter service until 2012 and 2015, and that is too distant a prospect to yield much hope in a town that once drew great economic benefit from its location.
The Grand Canyon is too distant for a day trip, but OAK CREEK CANYON near Sedona (the local tourist bureau is at 928-282-7722) is only about two hours away, straight up Interstate 17.
The stage is too distant, the drama plays out too slowly and the economic interests are weighed against the activists, who are often accused by their enemies of holding back development.
Nonetheless, to those stuck in the war zone, caught between two clumsy foes, the prosperity of the south is yet another reason for grievance.For those in the south, who are mainly Sinhalese (as, presumably, are most of the hardworking women in MAS's factory), the war is too distant to cause much pain.
Bam is too distant, its concerns too peripheral, for its agony to have much effect on building techniques in vulnerable cities like Tehran, where developers and regulators pay scant attention to best practice.But the catastrophe may have one benign effect: a lessening of the Islamic republic's distrust of foreigners.
Get-tough policies, like cutting off access to benefits after a fixed number of years, won't motivate people to find jobs: a deadline of several years is too distant to feature in the calculations of people only concerned with paying the next bill.
He wrote that "lawyers for Lazaro Gonzalez -- and they are Lazaro's lawyers, not Elian's -- seek to use machination and legal sleight of hand to turn this court into the arbiter of an intra-family dispute in which the primary antagonist is too distant a relative to be considered even 'extended family' under Florida law".
