As a result of these changes, Washington's ability to influence distant events is becoming increasingly problematic.

For most, the crisis had seemed a distant event.

There is no purpose in moralizing too much about distant events.

The program realized television's potential for bringing distant events to the viewer as they occurred.

But the event, oddly distant from reality, gave the general public little basis for choosing one or another as President.

That ability to see distant events is what led me to Charis at this time.

That she was observing the current events from very far away, from another life many years in the future, safe and distant.

History sometimes exhibits weird symmetries between events distant from one another in place and time.

Switch on the television or radio, and the graphic details of distant events are instantly available to us.

Who is left, whether victim or accomplice, to testify about these distant events?