The Premier League title does not seem such a remote notion.
In his note of thanks, Darwin wrote: "From quotations which I had seen I had a high notion of Aristotle's merits, but I had not the most remote notion of what a wonderful man he was.
College was only a remote notion; a series of low-paying jobs were unsatisfying, while two tries at joining a trade union failed, which Mr. Boehner attributed to not having the right connections.
To the Han majority, which comprises about 92% of the total population, bilingualism has remained a remote notion and it has hardly, if ever, appeared in their education literature.
After the kind of year that no country ever wants, with its government in crisis, repression replacing even the most remote notion of good government, political assassination, and terror standing in the wings, Pakistan elected a new parliament in February.
A theme in many Hong Kong historical movies is a desire for revenge, a universal sentiment, while Japanese period pieces often turn on the two-way pull of duty and inclination, a notion remote from most modern audiences.
But now that the newspaper recounts show that Mr. Gore's chance of winning under the Florida court's standards were remote, the justices' notion that they alone could save the country seems shrill and overwrought.
For Mr. Blum and other elite gallery owners, there is sincere dread at the notion, however remote, that Mr. Cohen may one day be sidelined.
Along the way, Project MAC's remote terminals planted the notion of a "home information center"an idea that would float around in the technology community's collective consciousness until the 1970s, when it would inspire a generation of young hobbyists with names like Jobs and Wozniak to market something called a "microcomputer". And it all began, ironically enough, with a MAC.
The paper, A Formal Foundation for Secure Remote Execution of Enclaves, introduces a formal modeling and verification methodology for secure remote execution based on the notion of a trusted abstract platform.
