Sentences with phrase «watch from a distance as»

It has consequently been difficult for me to watch from a distance as the....

How would I have felt watching from a distance as an independent Scotland had to deal with the fallout of a banking collapse?

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I knew some American Missionaries India who retired back in the USA in their late 70's, sadly left the Christian village they had started 40 years earlier with a school and hospital, and watched it fall apart from a distance as money stopped pouring in and apparently sincere believers of decades grab the next benefactor.

I'm thankful to have had the opportunity to watch them compete as high school players and follow their careers from a distance.

Are you really naive enough to believe that Wenger would bring anyone into this current locker room that is going to be given a strong voice... have you not been watching, listening or reading about our club for years... Lehman is a blind Wenger follower, which is the only reason he was even considered... just for a second think of all the strong personalities that have played for this club that have never been seriously considered even though they have expressed legitimate interest in participating in the coaching process... even worse, think of all the former greats who aren't even allowed on the same pitch as Wenger because they have offered their advice and / or criticism to the infallible one... I dare you to find a manager that has distanced himself from his former players as much as this man... it's the very reason why only one player I can think of has ever returned to play for Wenger and that was Flamini, which was hilarious considering we were desperately looking for a top quality defensive midfielder but Wenger could somehow find no one better than Flamini in the whole wide world... let's face it this club was simply trying to appease it's disgruntled fans by declaring that Wenger would no longer be given Ca rte Blanche when it came to the backroom staff so they probably asked him to give them a list of those who he would allow in the locker room... on that list he wrote Lehman, Pires and Bergkamp, likely because the first two are the only former players who haven't publicly questioned his horrible decision - making and the last one because he won't get in an airplane

@ jo jo i am in total agreement with you as i expected today almost everyone is going on about how bad we are ect i just watched the highlights again to make sure i wasnt watching another game we out played the spuds for over 30 mins in the first half lioris had to make 4 good saves and all were shoots from distance wilshire was very good as with ramsey we then dominated again in the second half with more good shoots and saves buy the spud keeper yes its disapointing but we were much the better team maybe you all listened to phill neville but you should know by now we have to have an amazing game to be given any credit by pundits and talk of chelski scoring 8 against us when they beat villa 3 — 0 have some respect for your club lads we need to do better but i think its coming have a little faith

As we began to watch our children grow from a distance, we tried to move forward.

Although most of the current research is still lab - based, scientists have already imbued test participants with the sense of moving from their own bodies into another form, such as a Barbie doll, or watching themselves from a distance in a willful out - of - body experience.

Kepler measures the size of planets and their distance from stars using a technique known as transit photometry, in which the telescope watches for small decreases in the light visible from specific stars, indicating that a planet has passed in front.

You still need to be in a cinema or watching a home cinema's large screen to register all the details of the horrifying scene in which Chiwetel Ejiofor's Solomon is choking in a noose, his feet barely touching the ground, as fellow slaves go about their business, children play games and captors watch from a distance.

They are completely in their roles, completely invested in the seriousness and truth of their characters» thoughts and emotions, but they are aware, as if watching from the tiniest of distances, that they are playing ridiculous people.

Dayton and Faris handle their burgeoning relationship, including a sex scene, free of exploitation or voyeurism, instead focusing on their growing emotional intimacy, an intimacy Jack — the odd man out who's treated with sensitivity and empathy — watches from a distance, acknowledging their relationship initially as «just a phase,» before painfully accepting that Billie's ultimate happiness means an end to their marriage.

Earning back its budget several times over, the much - watched, much - quoted film quickly etched a place in the cultural zeitgeist alongside Animal House and The Blues Brothers as modern marvels taking funnymen from «Saturday Night Live» to heights and distances that weekly sketch comedy TV couldn't.

Admittedly, I never did hang it up, as an 8 - inch screen seems too small for watching movies from any sort of distance, but still, it's a cool feature, and one that's much more useful on the larger 10 - inch and 13 - inch models of this tablet.

Longtime dog lover Tamandra Michaels has long enjoyed the sport of dock diving — where dogs leap long distances from a dock into a swimming pool — but as a wheelchair user, she could only watch the events from the sidelines.

With smiles as wide as the Pacific, we then went to watch four other bears, one a big older boy and three younger bears, all at a respectable distance from each other, turning the beach rocks like they were feathers as they dug for clams and crabs.

The Whale Cove is within walking or driving distance from the beach, shops, restaurants, as well as various activities such as shark cage diving, fishing, and whale watching in season.

You will be accompanied by a knowledgeable guide and will watch from a safe distance as the sailfish hunt their prey.

As the test subject you might expect to be quite involved in the storyline, but you're little more than a bystander who watches from a distance.

As I progressed through the valley, I could see his eerie, tall figure, watching me from a distance.

What most of us did was express our understanding and then watch with no little bemusement as skeptics and warmists distanced themselves from us.

The planet when understood, is in constant change from water loss to space to distance changes from the sun... but a general assessment of areas for decades is possible with watching salt ocean patterns as that dictates evaporation.

We could see from horizon to horizon from the Buddha tower and watched the massive black cloud appearing in the far distance being driven by the wind towards us, which on reaching us poured rain into all the ingenious levels of gutters and channels designed to capture it as it passed over the city abandoned from lack of water.

When I got the Watch back after the plating process, I was surprised to see that the gold doesn't look like what I had inaccurately thought of as gold — I have a pair of high - end sunglasses that look gold, but they are actually brass, which has the same look from a distance but is a lot stronger of a color.

Admittedly, I never did hang it up, as an 8 - inch screen seems too small for watching movies from any sort of distance, but still, it's a cool feature, and one that's much more useful on the larger 10 - inch and 13 - inch models of this tablet.

In the Fitbit app, you can customize the Surge's watch - face home screen, and if you swipe left or right from the clock, it will show you stats such as steps taken, current heart rate, distance traveled, calories burned and floors climbed.

Bring the watch closer, however, and you'll start to see on - screen edges and details aren't quite as fine as a high - end smartphone display, but it's far from terrible, and you certainly can't see any individual pixels at any distance.

I saw it all from a distance, and I thought my heart would surely explode as I watched him flip through it for the first time from the room next door.