She was no distant authority figure.
This also meant that they had gained autonomy from the more distant authority of the Byzantine emperor, with whom they were also often in religious disagreement.
The taxes he collected were resented because they were levied by an unaccountable, distant authority who seemed to care little for those it was taxing.
Adelson portrayed himself as a distant authority and strategic guide for the company who was "not hiring and firing the housekeeping department" when it came to Alves.
"A heaven on earth in which harmonious existence was achieved without coercion on the impositions of distant authority, each individual's enlightened recognition of their mutual respect and dependency," according to Alex Butterworth.
Much of the frustration among the UPC members seems to be inspired by a distant authority making a decision about a conflict it couldn't, in their view, possibly comprehend.
The purpose of social networking is to connect friends and share information, its animating idea being that people will do this more readily and comfortably when the information comes to them from a friend rather than from a newspaper or expert or similarly distant authority they don't know and trust.
(Please retweet!) What we have is a kind of Bermuda Triangle: at one point, there's the self-only version of popularity; at another, the creakily out-of-date "AT40" version, based on some distant and indistinct authority; and at the third, a new-authority mishmash based on clicks and likes and most-e-mailed lists.
For centuries the border, demarcated by the Rio Grande, was entirely porous, and its very length meant that much of Texas felt joined to Mexico a cultural affinity evidenced in the fact that the margarita and the fajita were both invented in Texas.Only recently, at the behest of distant authorities in Washington, DC, has this sense of propinquity seemed to weaken.
Hmmm, "distant authorities".
