Sentence examples for which distances from inspiring English sources

These movies have long enough titles as it is, and anything which distances Abrams's movie from the horrors of Jar Jar Binks has to be a good thing.

It is astounding that the EC is proposing a unilaterally implemented fundamental change to market operation which distances Eurozone markets from other continents.

Readers of the Suffolk volumes in the Buildings of England series, if they are new to this odd, intriguing writer, may be surprised to find themselves sent on "perambulations" around towns, on which distances are measured in yards.

Categories of competition during the season include time trials, which can be an individual or team event; one-day, or classic, races in which distances can vary between 200 and 280 km (124 to 175 miles) for professionals and 140 to 200 km (87 to 124 miles) for amateurs; and multiday, or stage, races, basically a series of classic races run on successive days.

The French have an all-volunteer military, which distances the population further from the cost of war and makes soldiers "less visible to the populace at large," notes Sébastien Jakubowski, a sociologist at the University of Lille who studies the army.

The idea would be not to look for a concrete material stand-in for absolute space but to discard systematically the commitments of Newtonian mechanics regarding absolute space that do not bear directly on the rates at which distances between particles change over time, keeping all and only those that do.

At which distance is that a fair race?

Using projections meant that the action was continually played behind a scrim, which distanced the singers from the audience.

Hobsbawm espoused Italian Eurocommunism, which distanced itself from Moscow (he found its late guru Gramsci "marvellously stimulating").

In a world in which there's no more "away" and in which distance has disappeared, do road movies still have a reason to exist?

Most were in their mid-twenties, the age at which distance runners reach the peak of their mental and physical development.