Thus the body mediates to the soul a knowledge of the outside world, but even here the information is fundamentally about the body and its states, and only secondarily about the more distant sources of the bodily stimuli. (religion-online.org)
They only compute in the context of supplying the U.S., still the world's largest oil market, where they are competing with crude that has to be shipped at considerable financial and atmospheric expense from distant sources like Nigeria and the Persian Gulf. (canadianbusiness.com)
HERA's level of sensitivity — which is one of the things that allows the instrument to collect the faint traces of light from such distant sources — will get even higher with the new grant. (scientificamerican.com)