Sentence examples for more than distant from inspiring English sources

They were more than distant".

In 2003, many theatergoers probably felt nothing more than distant sympathy for the 20-somethings and their woes.

But in the mechanics of the universe nearness counts for more than distant mass, and when all the mathematical calculations have been made, we find that the moon's power over the tides is more than twice that of the sun.

No places suffered more than distant, rebellious provinces: East Timor, where an Indonesian invasion to squash the left-wing Fretilin cost 200,000 lives, and Aceh, where unrest from the mid-1970s onwards led to hundreds of killings and disappearances.The private, inner Suharto was very rarely seen.

A dim optical companion has been observed, which is possibly gravitationally bound, but it is more than distant from the primary.

However wildly different the scenarios get, until writers' obsession with this mundane "naturalism" ends, long-held ideas of Britain's capacity for groundbreaking television comedies will be little more than distant memory.

"Immediate rewards are more motivating than distant ones," she added.

The recent past, says Holman, can be more problematic than distant history.

For example, friends stay together longer than strangers, and colleagues or classmates meet more frequently than distant relations.

This is driven by the fact that sensor nodes in proximity to each other communicate more frequently than distant nodes.

As gas giants go, Saturn is smaller and less active than Jupiter, but larger and more active than distant Uranus and Neptune.