And David Gallagher, stretching the distance to 30 yards, agrees: "As obscene a goal as you're likely to see".
L'Enfant's expansive avenues were easily adapted to automobiles, and the low, widely separated buildings (whose height is limited by law) stretched the distance between destinations.
Then he'd circle again, stretching the distance, and adding yet more miles on La Motta's ring shoes, while he doubled or trebled or quadrupled his jab.
At 08 00, with Boston 4 nautical miles ahead and stretching the distance, the French captain abandoned the chase and turned back towards New York.
When dawn rose on 28 July, it was clear that Hortense and the other leading vessels were stretching the distance between themselves and Mars but that the rearmost French ship, the frigate Rhin was struggling to keep up.
Specifically, the current limiting measures, on the one hand, reduce short circuit current, on the other hand, stretch the electrical distance between DC inverter stations.
With one foot up against the front side of the box and the other leg flexed, the subjects must stretch the longest distance possible from a seated position.
They stretch into the distance: the ten-year deficit is projected at $2.7 trillion, even after a lot of dodgy accounting.
Rows of young potato plants, lush and green against the deep brown of the wet soil, stretch into the distance almost as far as the eye can see.
On 145th Street in southeast Queens, just south of Linden Boulevard, attached brick homes with tidy, fenced-in gardens stretch into the distance.
