Sentences with phrase «times the distance seemed»

In the beginning, there were times the distance seemed impossibly far, and I wondered if I'd made a mistake.

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«Decisions that seem very sensible, in the distance of time are shown to be not so much.»

In our time, with a little distance from it all, a book like God and Man at Yale and a life like William F. Buckley's seem to call us to a different way of being Catholic in the world.

As an ordered set of such quasi-places, time comprises a field of peculiarly unbridgeable distances, and the account I have just given of Heidegger's notion of Dasein's «free past» will seem to require a metaphysically preposterous «action at a distance.»

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.

«You must excuse me,» he said after a moment, in a voice that somehow was both perfectly audible and yet, at the same time, seemed to emanate from a very great distance; «It was not my intention to cause you alarm.»

Having to go the the library to look up phone numbers (remember all those big phone books for each city taking over a whole section of the library) and then making one long distance call after the other to find out rules and regulations for shipping plants, seems so time consuming today.

and that seems to be the main thing people look at as we get more «clarity of time and distance».

Is he distancing himself from his family or seem sad all the time?

Distancing Labour from the unions probably seemed like a good idea at the time, and it will certainly make the party more electable by pandering to the centre - right.

I wasn't really paying attention at the time, being swamped with work, but from a distance Watson's downfall seemed entirely self - inflicted and entirely deserved.

Musser: Right and even our best microscope or, in a sense, microscope, is the Large Hadron Collider — the one being built or one about to start up, really, now in Switzerland — and it can penetrate to, I think it is 10 - 19 to -20 meters; in effect it's a microscope down to those distances; and the plank scale, the scale at which strings seem to operate these other types of entities is another 1015 times smaller; it is 10 - 35 meters.

Being so far out in space — 110 times the distance between Earth and the Sun — it's hard for astronomers to be sure if what they picked up was the same event, but a sudden change in particles in late March 2016 does seem to correlate with the expected arrival time of the CME.

That may not seem like much, but over distances that are 100 times longer, where an unguided signal would be severely weakened, the signal enhancement could be much greater.

If the plan seems challenging, stick to the minimum time or distance on easy days.

But at the same time, a long - distance relationship with a woman from another country seemed a terrible scenario to me.

I think a reason why overfilling a piston engine mightn't be as bad as overfilling a wankel engine is that in a piston engine there is a much larger distance between where crank is whipping up oil and the vents which are often both in the head, where as a rotary engine seems to have much smaller volume (timing gear inside of the rotor) where extra oil can be whipped around with blow - by gasses furiously blowing by.

Marvel's chief competitor, DC, meanwhile, seems largely out of the picture, for the time being, no doubt watching the returns of the iPad from a comfortable distance (for those keeping track, Apple announced today that it had sold 500,000 of the Wi - Fi units, exceeding expectations so greatly that it has subsequently pushed international sales of the device back by a full month).

If at any time your puppy seems fearful, remove him from the stressful situation, but let him continue to observe it from a distance while you give him some healthy treats for reassurance.

A chance to flirt with the continent of Africa is a mere 2.5 hours flying time from the UK, yet seems a world away from the traditional European offering and still within touching distance of Italy.

Though the distances you might wish to travel in Laos can seem small, don't underestimate the amount of time needed to travel from point A to point B. We've seen proposed itineraries that go from Luang Prabang to Pakse by road in a day (tip: do NOT use Google Maps when calculating travel time) or one week plans that include trekking in Nong Kiaow, tubing in Vang Vieng and some downtime in the 4,000 Islands.

The song can calm even the leggiest of distance or may be on high Sunday drive, always seems to like a good time to play this beautiful song; because music and lyrics of are flawless for any traveler or hiker with the hint of reminiscence.

On one hand it seems mind - boggling that they would choose such an isolated place, but as you walk the grounds and look out over the surrounding mountains it does seem like a majestic setting akin to no other.After hours of walking and admiring, sitting on the hill and occasionally laughing at the hoards of tourists that from a distance looked like tiny ants making their way through the different passages, it was time to leave Machu Picchu.

It seems pretty incredible to think that there could be that much land in this world, but the scale really does seem to hold true based on the number of times we've been back to play and by a rough estimation of Link's walk, draw distance, and comparing the height of objects with their distance to other landmarks.

Too many times, though, enemies seemed to sense my presence, leaving me exposed as I tried to close the distance and perform a quick combo.

When shooting at animals from far distances, the hit detection bullet cam can be buggy at times and the animal AI seems broken in certain areas.

British Pop - Artists do not seem to have enjoyed the classification, and many have spent inordinate amounts of time distancing themselves from the movement, often to the detriment of their subsequent career.

I've visited at one of those times and at a distance, it seems that a lonely man is lost in a sea of blue.

Of this work, Gregory Volk writes, ``... [c] onflating inside and outside space, nearness and distances, architecture and nature, a domestic setting and the vast world, contemporaneity and an immense scale of time, this is a risky, breathtaking work, and the apartment seems like a time - travelling capsule of sorts, visiting «remote pasts» as Robert Smithson once wrote, and also, perhaps, «remote futures» long after this current city has changed.»

Paint's fleshiness is the subject of both scrutiny and amusement in Postauthentic Times, in which neatly stitched linen strips, painted in navy - blue acrylic, seem to rise up and spill over at the edges — from a distance they look like the thick monochrome impasto brushstrokes of early Abstract Expressionism.

And some seem to think in distance past of having Earth have 10,000 ppm CO2 and it being a snowball Earth - both could occur in same period of time.

It seems most researchers are using data over far too much time and distance to derive the feedbacks properly, resulting in a very smeared picture of what's going on.

The latter seems better for long distances unless you have a lot of time.

From the distance of a few months the broader significance of Heenan's collapse seems less clear; it may have been a product of broader challenges and issues in the legal services market, but it may also simply reflect pathologies specific to Heenan at that time.

Here, whatever else is gained in the volume - to - surface ratio, the aim seems to be to use folding to bring certain portions of the string close to each other while distancing certain different portions from each other at the same time.

Over time, I started to like Lovense products because they seem to be the best fit for sexy long - distance dates.

A: As you might have read about in the research you've done, long - distance relationships are full of contradictions.1 For every drawback of long - distance relating — the boring commutes, lonely Friday nights, uncertainty about the timing of the next visit — there seems to be a silver lining.

How to Make Long Distance Relationship Long Lasting: 10 Tips When we hear the term long distance relationship, it might sound strange and may seem difficult to most of the people who have used to spend time with their partner in real time.

Assuming the current tenant would leave in response to a major rent increase, which seems likely, I would then be renting it to someone who might leave after a year, causing me to incur hefty make - ready expenses of 1K - plus and considerable long - distance hassle to get the unit marketed and rented each time that occurred.

«They were so fun, it seemed silly not to do the project,» remembers Henderson, who, at the time, hadn't taken on any long - distance clients.