more distant

While the Party heavily censors its own history, from the Tiananmen Square massacre to more recent crackdowns, it encourages remembering a more distant past – with an outside enemy.

Carter continues to share his experience, because “as a weak-kneed progressive, I always fancied we could change the situation ... and that some sense of fair play could bubble up. I’m still walking up that road, but it seems more distant.”

The Houthis, while more distant in Yemen, have still been able to fire the occasional salvo of missiles into Israel.

For more distant tsunamis, where hours may be available for an evacuation, scenarios can vary.

“The monkeys are a more distant evolutionary distant species, and so perhaps that there is some gradual development in the course of primate evolution,” Hattori told Salon in a video call.