Sentences with phrase «first is the distance»

The first is distance: the death of it has been overstated.

The first is distance.

The first is the distance down from the top of the head of an average - size male to the top of the restraint.

The first is the distance test.

The first is distancing itself from the character - based strategy of practically every other toys - to - life franchise; in Starlink, the core toys are spaceships, which look like fun to play with on their own.

Not exact matches

If Melania Trump tries to keep some distance from Washington even after she moves, she wouldn't be the first presidential spouse seeking space.

It will be one of many unusual things about a Donald Trump administration: a long - distance first lady.

«But people engaging in this process, using their own first name, are distancing themselves from the self, right in the moment, and that helps them perform.»

«If there is no imminent bid for Norwegian, IAG is just the first vulture to have landed that would like a say in how Norwegian's long - distance fleet... is dismantled and sold,» Norne analyst Karl Johan Molnes said.

McGowan's MCI pioneered a whole new way of providing long - distance service — and was first to offer an alternative to Ma Bell.

When I first began fieldwork the only way to communicate with home was through snail mail or the occasional, expensive long - distance phone call.

President Trump's first hotel - condominium project outside of the U.S. is trying to distance itself from him.

«While Livestrong carries a lot of baggage, it's hardly the first organization to put some distance between itself and a scandal by rebranding.

The first company to publicly distance itself from Rob Ford was the one most closely associated with the Toronto mayor by name.

But as she proved at last year's world championships when she became the first swimmer to win all four freestyle distances — 200m, 400m, 800m and 1500m — distance isn't her only specialty.

With five minutes left, San Francisco was in striking distance, but the Rams were just a few first downs away from ending the game.

«Now, with Hyperloop One, we are on the brink of the first great breakthrough in transportation technology of the 21st century, eliminating the barriers of time and distance and unlocking vast economic opportunities.»

This is not the first time the team has taken on such a feat; for most of them, this is the fifth consecutive year in which they take to the saddle for a punishing long - distance cycling challenge.

However, you do not have to be a first time home buyer, as long as you own no other adequate housing a reasonable distance from the area in which you are buying.

To your first question, one theory is that losing our hair allowed us to better regulate our internal heat and to perspire, thereby allowing us to run further and over longer distances in hunting game.

It was my fourth pregnancy but for the first time, it seemed that we were really going to bring home a baby this time so Brian and I were giddy and young and hopeful at our core as we drove with my sister and her husband and her dog through the mountains as they began to appear out of the distance.

Dominique Lambert explained first some of the background to Lemaître's work: In 1927, Mgr Lemaître was the first scientist to explain what we call today the «Hubble law», stating that the speeds of the far galaxies are proportional to their distances, in all directions of the universe.

Each flower, each leaf, every greeting from a friend, every letter from a distance, every poem and every song strikes with double impact, as if we were sensing them for the first and for the last time.

The breadth of the view in Romance may be exciting at first, but the view does not show the footpath of the mountains in the distance.

He does, however, say that Mary of Magdala, Joanna, Mary the mother of Jesus, and others were the first to arrive at the empty tomb Sunday morning; logic would conclude that these were the same women who watched from a distance, followed the body to the tomb, went home to prepare spices and ointments for embalming, and brought them on Easter morning.

Already in its first days, according to Buber, a child has the fact of distance, that is, the sense of beings as different from and over against him.

The first movement is the presupposition for the second, for we can only enter into relation with being that has been set at a distance from us and thereby has become an independent opposite.

Proust's world was preponderantly made up of subjective emotions and objective observations, whereas Dostoievsky and Blake first participated fully in what they experienced and only later attained the distance which enabled them to enter into an artistic relationship with it and give it symbolic and artistic expression.

First of all, some of these voices convey the impression that such distancing is the very goal for which we should strive, and not a means to our more authentic re-engagement of this same society.

Since A can only be at P or distant from P, its «motion» from P is, first, its being at a particular quantity of distance from P.

This is what decisively distances the Japanese internees and the Holocaust survivors from the slave reparations question, because in the first two cases there were identifiable individuals to whom benefits, restitution, and indemnity could be paid.

In a moment the Ethiopian also came in sight, but as the distance shortened the watchman recognized the first runner: «I think the running of the first is like the running of Ahimaaz, the son of Zadok.»

Although a number of Indian Christian thinkers have tried to interpret Jesus in Indian terms, my first impression of the Indian church in the sixties was that it was very Western and that many Indian Christians wished to maintain a distance from the surrounding Hindu society.

And I didn't just move into residence, I went all the way from my home in Calgary, Alberta to Tulsa, Oklahoma in the days before texting and FaceTime or reasonable rates for long distance phone calls from our plugged - into - the - wall phones (in fact, my first email address was assigned to me from the Freshman Orientation team and I remember saying to my parents, «Why in the world would I need THIS?»).

I have emphasized that the first stage in the act of distancing was the visual one.

It would be foolish to suggest that the psychic act of aesthetic distancing occurred for the first time among the Greeks.

Our modernity means only that the distance is now considerable between the place I myself occupy at the center of a culture and the original site of the first witness.

It is the very first distance between the hearer and the witness of the event.

He argued that the assumption of an absolutely first cognition (one not determined by previous cognitions) is no more required to account for the fact of cognition than the assumption of an absolutely first distance to be traversed is required to account for the fact that Achilles overtakes the tortoise (cf. 5.263).

One is only dependent upon a belief if one is located at a distance from the truth in the first place.

I've been asked about the potential of becoming a stumbling block several times, and at first found myself responding rather apologetically — warning those who are comfortable in their beliefs and wary of new ones to keep their distance.

Western Christendom at the turn of the first millennium, however, may have been the first society to give historical meaning to «progress» by undertaking great social enterprises terminating only at a horizon of unguessable distance.

The biblical evidence itself is ambiguous; for example, the notice of Deuteronomy 1:2 that Kadesh - barnea and Horeb were «eleven days» journey» apart, whereas in Numbers (13:25 - 29; and chapters 19 - 20 where, in the present order, Kadesh is named as the first stop from Sinai) no such distance is imagined.

The first occurs during the engagement period when the couple is getting acquainted on a deeper level and is experimenting with patterns of closeness and distance.

The first is an acknowledgement of historical distance, cultural difference, and, most significantly when it comes to the Old Testament, an era of God's work that applies to us only indirectly because of the advent of Christ.»

Jesus tells us God is a relentless shepherd, and in the next two parables we discover God as a crazy woman tearing the house apart through the night in search of one missing coin, then a loving Father gazing out on the horizon and running into the distance at the first sign of his lost and wandering son.

Back then, during the most magical Valentine's night when I had my very first serving of koreshte karafs, and just recently on my last visit to L.A., when we were once again in awe that neither time nor distance would change anything about our deep friendship.

Back around 1900, when the new Trans - Siberian Railroad began long - distance passenger service, a few of the first - class dining cars and station buffets were sumptuous indeed, serving gourmet dishes, fine wines, and French brandies to well - heeled customers.

The first obstacle is that I work within walking distance of many pretty good take - out restaurants.

Tomy Lee may have been a trifle short while losing his first start at seven furlongs two weeks ago, but Trainer Frank Childs has no doubts about his ability to travel as far as necessary for the classic distances.