Many students who support war do so at a distance.
His grace is a good, noble, ducal person; but I am content to think so at a distance, and so – I was not at home.
The 8-million-year old world, about the size of Jupiter but five times as massive, has water vapor in its atmosphere and circles its mother brown dwarf star every 2,500 years or so at a distance of 8 billion kilometers.
Just as Faraday's field interpretation of electric phenomena may be contrasted with action-at-a-distance interpretations, so Riemann's infinitesimal geometric standpoint may be contrasted with distance-geometry, such as, Euclidean and ordinary non-Euclidean geometry.
Rainbows appear to move as you move, because the light that forms the rainbow does so at a specific distance and angle from the observer -- so that distance will always remain between you and your rainbow.
The first has to do with his contact with American cultural anthropology, a relation that is ambiguous since it is so much "at a distance", as was to be his attitude to all other contemporary theoretical influences.
And suddenly Mr. Bush seemed lassoed to the Congressional leaders whom he had once kept so carefully at a distance, as they thundered on his behalf against the "unelected judges" of Florida who were rendering verdicts about the vote.
He is there if anyone really wants to close that space — the whole man, and not a piece of him or an image of him — but many of us may prefer not to do so, because at a distance (from sixty feet six inches away, perhaps) he stands whole and undiminished, and beyond our envy: the athlete incarnate, the player.
Oil derricks are to be seen in all directions so that at a distance Maricopa looks like a seaport city, the hundreds of derricks resembling the masts of vessels in a harbor". In today's Maricopa — population 1,154 — the only thing surging seems to be hard times.
Because remote controlled machines cannot suffer these consequences, and the humans who operate them do so at a great distance, the myth of Gyges is more a parable of modern counterterrorism than it is about terrorism.
It did so at a safe distance of 3km and the gap between them is currently widening, Nasa said.
