Raan Jay Fai opened far from central Bangkok, near the older part of town, which contains a large percentage of vendors who have stuck to traditional recipes.
But lately, the seaside playground has found a cooler, local groove away from the beach: a handful of cocktail bars, homey restaurants and boutique hotels — some imported from New York — have opened far from the hubbub of Ocean Drive and the frat-crush of Wet Willie's.
On the edge of the city's Bois de Vincennes, in a comfortable neighborhood, it has opened far from the poor suburbs where Muslim youths rioted a couple of autumns ago, burning thousands of cars partly in protest against Nicolas Sarkozy, then interior minister, now president.
But since this is Le Carre, the story naturally opens far from Ingushetia, at the country retreat where narrator Tim Cranmer, swept into early retirement by the new brooms at the British Secret Service, has been keeping himself occupied since the Cold War ended by cultivating a wayward vineyard along with a not much more dependable love affair.
Hindu tradition, seen for example in the "Laws of Manu", a Hindu text some 2,000 years old, encourages defecation in the open, far from home, to avoid ritual impurity.
Why did the U.S.G.A. make such an unusual departure from its tradition and bring the Open to Shinnecock? Hannigan and his predecessor, Harry Easterly, are the men most responsible, acting on their conviction that the course would make for a perfect setting but knowing the difficulty of holding an Open far from a major metropolitan area.
Golfers are probably at greatest risk, because they are likely to be caught in the open far from shelter.
At 3am Pen was woken up with a shuddering jolt as a new [crack] opened not far from the door – around 10 metres.
When Tex Perkins opened his Far from Folsom show at Parramatta Gaol on Friday night with a suitably gravelling "Hello, I'm Johnny Cash" and a ripping version of Folsom Prison Blues, audiences knew they were in for a rock'n'roll treat.
The borough's largest library branch, the Bronx Library Center, opened not far from our house in 2006, and has become a vital source of computers, Wi-Fi, job fairs, and community events.
"When the club called Moscow Country Club opened not far from where I live, in Nakhabino, trainers went around local schools and invited kids to join the youth section for free.
