Sentences with phrase «seen from a distance of»

After five weeks in the UK, we drove back through Holland, then Germany, Austria, and Italy; we saw from a distance some of the fairytale castles of Bavaria, had lunch in Innsbruck, and spent a day in Venice.

(An arcsecond is 1/3, 600 of a degree and is equivalent to the width of a dime as seen from a distance of two kilometers.)

Kopeikin estimated that Jupiter caused only a tiny amount of deflection — less than 15 billionths of an arc second, or the thickness of a human hair as seen from a distance of 400 miles.

For many stars, the positional accuracy is 300 microarcseconds — the width of a human hair, seen from a distance of 30 kilometers — positions that will help astronomers better determine the 3D layout of the galaxy.

People with acuity of 20/80 are able to see objects at 20 feet away that those with normal or 20/20 vision can see from a distance of 80 feet.

The star and its planetary system are shown as they would be seen from a distance of 45 light years.

The Sun seen from a distance of 50 light years would be a magnitude 5.8 star, so it also would be a faint point of light barely visible with the naked eye.

Not exact matches

After years of cleaning up her party's name and trying desperately to distance it from her father's racist and anti-Semitic outbursts, it seems that Le Pen believes she has now found the sweet spot between being mainstream enough to get votes but also being seen as enough of an outsider to bring about change.

If you need someone to see through muddled waters, identify opportunities from a distance or raise large capital in a short amount of time, he is the man

And with Bolton in the White House, Trump is going to be advised by a guy who never saw a war he didn't like (when observed from a safe distance, of course)... Let me be clear: Bolton's appointment is on par with most of Trump's personnel choices, which is to say that it's likely to be a disaster

And with Bolton in the White House, Trump is going to be advised by a guy who never saw a war he didn't like (when observed from a safe distance, of course).

You have had hundreds of years to distance yourself from religious extremism, so now when your President puts his hand on the Bible to take the oath of office you don't see anything wrong.

Anyone who has even just perused the book of mormon can see the people followingthis cult, as nice as they may seem, are making a point to distance themselves from the real world.

At the end of Deuteronomy, after Moses» long exhortation to the children of Israel at the boundary of the Promised Land, he climbed Mt. Nebo to see the Promised Land from a distance.

When the members of the congregation saw me in pain, they ministered to me — not from a distance, but as fellow travelers on the same patch of winding road.

That is a long way from love and at that distance you will see very little if anything of God.

As we saw in the last chapter, popular poetry juxtaposes Christian language with contemporary analogues and contrasts and does thereby achieve a kind of ironic distance from that language; but direct contact with traditional language and symbols — what Donne, Herbert, and Hopkins achieved — is not easy, if it is even possible in our time.

But Einstein, 105f, sees that the infinite lines of force on any body would result in a field of infinite intensity, which is impossible; hence he argues that Newton had to postulate for his universe «a kind of centre in which the density of the stars is a maximum, and that as we proceed outwards from this centre the group - density of the stars would diminish, until finally, at great distances, it is succeeded by an infinite region of emptiness.»

He saw that an effective way of dealing with the «anxious self - scrutiny» so prevalent in modern life (and today infinitely heightened by social media) was to establish an ironic distance from «the deadly routine of everyday life.»

I have a truck load of stuff and that's right at the center of it these days — knowing that that person I can see from a distance is actually really truly there

Though the Word now becomes flesh, the fleshly become unaware of their own understanding ways... For as one sees one does nary understand yet as one thinks one dares to know things and while one and all beget themselves they become set apart and distanced from each others ways.

Nature seen at a distance appears to be malleable and in motion; but seek to lay hands on it, to deflect by force even the least of Life's directions, and you will encounter nothing but absolute rigidity, an unshakably stubborn refusal to depart from the pre-ordained path.

In the first place, a «cooler» and more sophisticated scholarship distanced from the heat of earlier controversies has seen new historical nuances and has begun to question the claim of the old Princeton theology to represent the «church doctrine of inspiration» adequately.

The blue policemen and the red pillar boxes, which George Orwell noted as symbols of England, can still be seen, though the police especially are nowadays best examined from a misty distance.

It is a rugged and strong land, a land whose charm is austere: rocky hills climbing their juniper studded slopes steeply to the sky - line, narrow glens, hasty watercourses, but ever the sudden view from a hilltop over peopled valleys and far regions where mellowing distance clothes the hills in a veil of allurement and entices one on to things that the eye hath not seen nor the ear heard.

Further identification in the way of clothing, jewelry, etc. that I can see from a distance is most welcome.

Here were people who had been distanced from a grand narrative of the spiritual and the sacramental and I was reminded of Mother Teresa's words that she had to come to the West to see «spiritual» poverty».

I saw the same solitary dome of Mount Tabor looming in the distance when I would go to fetch water from the well there as I do here in Nain, but still it is different.

For, as Augustine says, «It is one thing to see from a mountaintop in the forests the land of peace in the distance..

Referring to the above correspondence between the Patriarch and the Metropolitan, Mingana observes that we can infer from the correspondence that «there was a considerable number of bishops and priests in India, whose sees and parishes were apparently scattered in the vast country to the distance of one thousand and two hundred parasangas.»

Thus the believers will only accept a certain measure of the truth, meaning the percentage of the truth that can still be seen when being located at a distance from it.

In the world view we share we have all been made aware of the rather insignificant role played by the planet on which we live; we know something of the solar system, and we have had impressed upon us the unbelievably immense distances which separate us from most of the stars we see in the sky with our naked eyes.

The writer suspects many people live their spiritual lives from a distance, in a threshold of silence, having not seen, yet believing.

I have a friend who claims to have seen a UFO from distance of a few feet, another friend who claims to have been within a foot of an alien from another planet and another who claims to have visited other times.

Her own sympathies, at least with respect to causation, focus upon Whitehead's early philosophy of nature: «I now find myself distanced from his later writings, but increasingly sympathetic to the middle ones [e.g. SMW], especially as he was working towards a generalized notion of «organism,» and when his «passage of nature» could be seen not as one datum after another, but as a pattern - forming and pattern - sustaining process which could support a dynamic view of a causation underlying more restricted kinds» (CE vii).

While it may feel good to distance yourself from other followers of the bible who don't see it the same way as you, and extremely convenient to dismiss or explain away the parts of the bible that don't fit with modern society, the fact is that you are inseparably tied to them whether you like it or not.

As the years fly by, it's amazing to see how so many of my friendships have survived the test of time and distance, and I am still very close with so many people that I've moved away from or haven't seen in way too long.

You can't fail to notice the Frutta & Verdura produce shop on main street — the colorful merchandise in front of the business can be seen from a distance.

You can see the tops of blue mountains in the distance from the park.

Perhaps looking from a distance, seeing a team consistently in the last sixteen of the Champions League is very impressive.

The Kickball League got turned upside down on Sunday afternoon while the Floor Hockey League saw the rich get richer and start to really distance themselves from the middle of the...

The Kickball League got turned upside down on Sunday afternoon while the Floor Hockey League saw the rich get richer and start to really distance themselves from the middle of the pack.

The meeting saw a variety of distances from 600m to 5000m contested, and the centrepiece was the elite mile races.

Aside from the roster of celebrity investors, change of colors, and shiny new downtown - adjacent stadium — which I will forever condemn for destroying one of the great temples of rock - n - roll history — it is hard to see much distance between the old and new versions of Chivas USA.

Lets work on his marking and tackling (which we have not seen yet) with all the rest of his attributes plus the fact he likes to shoot from distance he is sounding like a young Xabi Alonso.

It's worth it, even if it's hard to see the use of it from a distance.

From a distance, which is how much of Oregon's potential talent sees the program, 5 - 0 is 5 - 0 is 5 - 0.

Alvaro Quiros, also from Spain, has seen García up close and from a distance and watched the ebbs and flows of his countryman's career.

The other game tonight sees second placed Cardiff City take on Norwich from the Welsh capital with the Bluebirds able to go within touching distance of Wolves if they can take three points tonight

Against France, we saw two disciplined, tight, well - drilled banks of four squeeze the life out of the game, pinching a goal from a set piece while restricting technically superior opponents to shots from distance.