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No, Jamie is still alive, somewhere in the distant past.
Both, in the not too distant past, were economically vibrant.
For Jared, those delicacies are but memories from a distant past.
Such flare-ups are not just things of the distant past.
The best among them have often written about the distant past.
That reverence and enthusiasm seem more suited to the distant past.
However, sometime in the distant past, Mars lost its magnetic field.
This is not the distant past that we are talking about.
All around me, the distant past fought the near past for dominance.
" 'Oumuamua loosely means "a messenger that reaches out from the distant past.
In the not too distant past, many newspapers openly promoted their biases.
Not all the landmarks of tap history are in the distant past.
These eight petroglyph sites provide an illustrated insight to our distant past.
Now all of that goodwill seems like a thing of the distant past.
But just as the distant past doesn't beget optimism, neither does recent history.
In the not-so distant past, large proprietary software stacks ruled the enterprise.
"I can't deny that in the distant past I was antagonistic," he said.
Remember when, in our not-so-distant past, it snowed just before Halloween?
Geneticists have begun using bones to make sweeping claims about the distant past.
Research on these features doesn't just provide a window into Earth's distant past.
Do you think this show could exist in the even more distant past?
Two games later, the Thunder seem like a thing of the distant past.
We have seen this game listed at £49.99 in the not-so-distant past.
We come to ponder the terrible forces unleashed in the not so distant past.
We come to ponder the terrible forces unleashed in the not-so-distant past.
We come to ponder a terrible force unleashed in a not-so-distant past.
But that act in the distant past does not condemn us inescapably to sinfulness.
In the not so distant past, however, it was the only one I knew.
Geneticists have begun using old bones to make sweeping claims about the distant past.
She has a fine feel for the complexities and shadings of that distant past.
At least one scientist was impressed with what this paper said about the distant past.
It's how we understand the distant past and the things that are in the future.
I feel as though the experience happened to someone else in a very distant past.
This region was probably a hotspot for cryovolcanic activity in the not-too-distant past.
At this moment in the not-so-distant past, Luke is checking himself into rehab.
A descent into the absurd, something horrible from MMA's deep, dark, not-so-distant past.
This is a transition that the advertising market faced in the not-too-distant past.
In the distant past, couples had 10 or 12 children because so many died young.
Some of air conditioning's next steps might be a return to the more distant past.
They dug into Demori's distant past to find pictures of him in his early twenties.
And those kinds of remarks are not just rooted in allegations from the distant past.
Some of air-conditioning's next steps might be a return to the more distant past.
He was simply too tied to the sins of the bank's not-so-distant past.
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Now rare, these Earth-like cirrus clouds are a glimpse into the Red Planet's distant past.
Restored in color in The Paper Time Machine, they seem less anchored in the distant past.
Now, scientists have figured out a way to read younger rocks to glimpse the distant past.
Christianity has had its episodes of violent iconoclasm as well, albeit mostly in the distant past.
Scientists have long believed that our planet had a much thicker atmosphere in the distant past.
Meanwhile, Namibia's ethnic Germans are keeping their heads down, wary of recrimination over the distant past.
Ladies and gentlemen, sometime in David Foster's distant past there was a puff of a joint.
There was a time, in the distant past, when studying nutrition was a relatively simple science.
Can it force us to connect our distant past with our distant future, tick by tick?
In Chelsea's eyes, Liverpool is harking back to a distant past; it is old and irrelevant.
Lagos, Nigeria (CNN)Kenya's arid, gullied Lothagam Valley is a throwback to a very distant past.
In the not-too-distant past, the aesthetic bar for internet design was very, very low.
Once intruders burst into the house and overtake the control system, it'll seem like the distant past.
In the distant past, ancient cosmic beings known as Celestials used the stones to assert their dominance.
At some point in the distant past, the Denisovans disappeared — but not before interbreeding with modern humans.
War, revolution, financial collapse — these were things you learned about in school, fossils from a distant past.
The firm has seen some of its portfolio companies acquired in the not-too-distant past, too.
To Jared, it is something from his distant past that he realized immediately after wasn't for him.
How many countries in the distant past have disappeared without us even having heard of who they were?
Still, is it possible the Red Planet was blanketed in a heat-trapping haze in the distant past?
In the not so distant past, Taylor Swift hosting a blowout annual July 4th party was a given.
In the not so distant past, an attack from abroad on the U.S. brought Democrats and Republicans together.
Emulating holy men and women from the distant past is hard -- what would the Buddha do with Facebook?
The programs of American orchestras have remained overwhelmingly tilted toward works of the past, mostly the distant past.
That would have been a politically unspeakable phrase for an Irish leader in the not-too-distant past.
In the not-too-distant past, the ultra-Orthodox community was a champion of scientific knowledge and innovation.
The more important point is that no progress can be made by repeatedly exhuming an increasingly distant past.
He visited the recent past, then the near future, then the distant past, and then the remote future.
I thought the Holocaust was in the distant past, something that had no relevance to the present day.
So while collecting to preserve a distant past, we also collect to reflect contemporary histories and issues as well.
It's even set a few short scenes in the distant past, when the family's progenitor first immigrates to America.
"In the not-so-distant past, I remember oil dictated what the market did," Virtu Financial's Matthew Cheslock said.
Sometimes it feels like going out and getting minging with my mates is a thing of the distant past.
Two of the three had been reported as missing in Springfield some time in the distant past, Gulluni said.
There's an absurd amount to explore at Masada, and it's easy to get caught up in the distant past.
Tony called his with Bombay Sapphire—that blue jewel of the not-so-distant past—and an extra olive.
In the not too distant past, Democrats appointed revolving-door figures to these agencies little different than Republican nominees.
Most Americans see slavery as an artifact of the distant past that has no bearing on the nation's present.
But over the last few years, us hockey fans of the distant past have learned a few hard lessons.
Young's coming-of-age story is timeless, though it suffers from being set in the not-too-distant past.
"I can remember in the not-too-distant past having been discouraged from talking about wages," Ms. Cornell said.
The groups believe their work will clarify how these adaptations would have occurred in real life in the distant past.
In the not-so-distant past, you likely had one, maybe two moisturizing options: lotion, or a slightly denser cream.
Ultimately, sentiment is bleak in the crypto world, with bull runs being seen as a thing of a distant past.
One can only hope that the industry obstacles that once limited her trajectory are a thing of the distant past.
Will's effervescent, charming girlfriend with an unhealed trauma in her not-so-distant past has been sucked into a cult.
Way back in the mists of the distant past, probably sometime in the late 1990s, a man grew a beard.
Also Gaza, a tiny Palestinian enclave on the Mediterranean coast, is filled with relics of the recent and distant past.
"Specimens such as this are what give us insights into the ecology of ecosystems in the distant past," he continued.
Another standard object is the Masonic apron, which represents the protective coverings worn by actual stonemasons in the distant past.
In the not-so-distant past, universities and colleges rarely paid much attention to MBA financial aid or tuition assistance.
As Wenger celebrates 20 years in charge of Arsenal, such parochialism comes as an unwelcome echo of a distant past.
If you look closely you can make out her blue Vans sneakers, a clue to a not so distant past.
For Qvarnström and his team, these bygone poops are packed with untold stories about lush ecosystems in the distant past.
"[Voters] do not look into the distant past, but they do look fairly far, about two years back," Wlezien concludes.
The term "found images" often refers to work from the distant past; the term connotes excavation, the discovery of artifacts.
WASHINGTON — There was a time in the not-too-distant past when President Trump refrained from flamethrowing messages on Twitter.
"In the not-so-distant past, you did have to be a little insane to ride your bike," he said.
This means that in the distant past, Earth wasn't the only planet with oceans—Mars and Venus had them too.
New York Democrats are particularly angered by his previous donations to Republicans, including some in the not-so-distant past.
While some of the creations date to the 16th century, many more were inspired by works from the distant past.
How much the earnestly enacted rites and simple verses used by this group resemble anything from the distant past is unclear.
In the quiet, one could imagine the appeal of this real estate to those who lived here in the distant past.
It's a burgeoning trend that celebrates the unfiltered textures, uncanny models and pixel-ridden maps of the not-too-distant past.
It serves as a reminder of the heights American hypernationalism, anti-interventionism, and nativism reached in the not-too-distant past.
This example isn't from the distant past, either—it occurred earlier this year at one of the venues I work with.
Until that moment, some board members had thought that any questionable behavior by Mr. Shimano had been in the distant past.
I come to you from the distant past of many years or months or days ago, and I bring a warning.
They turned away from simplistic stories about the distant past in favor of much more detailed attention to specific societal dynamics.
While social media is a part of parents' everyday lives, the ravages of vaccine-preventable diseases are in the distant past.
This evolution makes it almost impossible to compare quarterbacks from today's game to those from even the not-so-distant past.
Oil would become much more expensive, and oil price shocks have helped set off recessions in the not-too-distant past.
By extension, it's probably true that Hyperion gives us a glimpse of what nearby superclusters looked like in the distant past.
American Express® Gold Card — This is another card whose annual fee has gone up in the not too distant past.
The Doug of the distant past had to pick the flowers himself, and he ended up with a positive points distribution.
"Stuff from our distant past reappears when copyright goes away," Christopher Sprigman, a law professor at New York University, told Motherboard.
While Mars has long been a favorite in the hunt for signs of extinct life, there's growing evidence that Venus could have been habitable in the very distant past—some models suggest that in the distant past, the planet had liquid water oceans for up to 2 billion years, which is long enough for life to evolve.
Although they were made in the 70s and often take place in the more distant past, Wertmüller's political burlesques feel astonishingly contemporary.
Their analysis revealed key mutations some time in the distant past that could relate to its ability to produce its namesake chemicals.
The tension between Ravi's present relationship and not-so-distant past fling certainly provides juicy drama for the actor to play with.
In contrast to the sour-tasting brews of China's distant past, craft beer's future on the mainland looks likely to be sweet.
In the distant past Nokia had an app called Sensor which could broadcast a little web page about yourself to those nearby.
But at some point in Mars' distant past, much of that water disappeared, leaving behind polar ice caps and a complex geology.
When we call something bad 'medieval,' it's an attempt to purify the present by reassigning that objectionable thing to the distant past.
It's been tried before In the not-so-distant past, there were notions of mosquito eradication, but history quickly taught us otherwise.
The party of the middle class, advocating for equality and progress, while the Republican Party, is ... well ... stuck in the distant past.
One of the main themes running through the exhibition seems to be the juxtaposition of the distant past with the modern present.
This might seem like the distant past, but the threat remains as real today as it was when Richard Nixon took office.
I love going out and dancing, but my days of wearing glow paint and getting "wasted, wasted" are in the distant past.
On Thursday, the full moon brings clarity about your emotions from the distant past, or that have been inherited from your family.
As an archaeologist who studies the processes that have shaped the cultural and natural world, I immerse myself in the distant past.
The first detailed report about 'Oumuamua, which loosely means "a messenger that reaches out from the distant past," was released in November.
TechCrunch: You've talked and blogged in the distant past about passing on investing in the Accel fund that ultimately invested in Facebook.
It fits within a long tradition of books suggesting that our planet's distant future might look a lot like the distant past.
The two groups diverged from a common ancestor in the distant past, but when and how that happened has been a mystery.
The 405,000-year cycle, they found, has held uniform into the very distant past — back to at least 215 million years ago.
Every detail from the dramatic sloping roof to the bright orange leather seats transported me straight to the not-so-distant past.
Completed before we started consuming and disseminating information digitally, the two series now nostalgically remind us of a not-so-distant past.
In extreme contrast, many artists employ surprisingly old-fashioned techniques to reinterpret historic events and stories of the near and distant past.
But all this seems to be in the distant past now, as the endless cycle of Trump-caused controversies has continued on.
Eric Kurlander: There's evidence that many Germans and certainly some leading Nazis believed in supernatural beings and forces, especially in the distant past.
It's an important practice given Apple has come under fire in the not-so-distant past for its factory workers' hellish working conditions.
What that means is that at some point, in the distant past, the paternal benefactor of our gene pool was the same person.
The girls were all quick to laugh at their earliest screw ups — and a few that aren't so far in the distant past.
Incredibly, YouTube user RubarGar _ found the front door of the building unlocked, making his odyssey into the distant past all the more eerie.
In the not too distant past, water negotiations were zero-sum, given the limited supply of water between the Mediterranean and Jordan River.
In the not-so-distant past, medicine offered a comfortable job, of science and service to others within a tried-and-tested model.
In the future, the researchers hope to study older fossils and learn more about a day in the life of Earth's distant past.
Through Walter's memories, "The Inheritance" summons a not too distant past when gay men were not just marginalized but reviled, because of AIDS .
But before he dwells on who's got next, he may well want to heed an experienced voice of the not-too-distant past.
Fashion Diary Occasionally, and especially when one's own gym visits have receded into the distant past, one finds oneself face-to-navel with greatness.
Most of all, you'll see the traces of the not so distant past: shot up school buses, never opened dry-cleaned suits, and dolls.
Corpses of TransStar employees let you embrace a distant, past, long-dead voice that reminded you there was something here before all this happened.
A return to the major leagues after having a third Tommy John surgery has been done once before, in the not-so-distant past.
The grotty broke-living authenticity of the early years, which were far from glossy or aspirational, are now a thing of the distant past.
Scientists have uncovered evidence that decades-long "megadroughts" have occurred in the distant past, and could well occur again in the Southwest going forward.
Retellings of the more distant past dwell on Britain as an island nation, a place where foreign invaders were repelled and distant lands seized.
Fertile ground for terror groups As things stand, the near future in Iraq appears to replicate the conditions of the not-so-distant past.
While he carried the pitch around for a decade and a half, the beginnings of For Honor are rooted in a more distant past.
It feels like I have been transported to the distant past, where spices were transported en masse via caravans to city vendors like Yuqing.
And North Korea faded into what seemed like the distant past, another pile of wreckage in the great ruin that this president has made.
Know this: Almost all believe this never gets to trial and many also believe allegations from the very distant past may not be admissible.
Working with a detective (Sara Dogg Asgeirsdottir), he uncovers multiple deaths linked to the suicide, all connected by a crime in the distant past.
That the Dene have developed different terms and hunting tactics for each type, says Polfus, suggests that the caribou diverged in the distant past.
For Bangladeshis, who tend to gloss over its brutality as a pathology of the moment, it is but an echo of the distant past.
At first sight, the landscape seems fixed and timeless, but you soon sense that there was violent change in the not so distant past.
They may have been revered in the distant past, but their elites behaved with virtual impunity because allegations of harassment were so widely disbelieved.
Longtime Spotify users may remember a time in the not-so-distant past when Carter&aposs music was available on the music streaming service.
In the not-too-distant past, not every company had a website and many that did offered a very basic site without much utility.
It is hard enough comparing the living standards of different countries today, let alone doing so in the distant past with far less precise statistics.
Kingdom Come: Deliverance was staked much of its identity and setting on this idea of there being something concrete and quantifiable about the distant past.
It, first of all, taps into the agonizingly pleasurable notion of nostalgia; bringing back the words and music of the—sometimes not so distant—past.
Maybe, once in the distant past, you remember when keyboards offered something in return: A "click clack" that stood as an auditory proof of productivity.
"We come to ponder the terrible force unleashed in the not so distant past," Obama said after laying a wreath at a Hiroshima peace memorial.
In the not-too-distant past, vinyl records and turntables seemed like relics — items of kitsch from a bygone period, like bellbottoms or aerosol hairspray.
There's plenty of work to do: Twitter's suspension of Weinstein accuser Rose McGowan's account reminds us that silencing isn't a relic of some distant past.
When megadroughts struck the Southwest in the distant past, the impacts on water supplies and agriculture were enough to destroy or break apart prehistoric civilizations.
Repeatedly, Trump is stuck in a distant past that he perceives to be glorious, which is distracting him from creating a better future for America.
A study published Monday in the journal Astrobiology cites two time periods during the moon's distant past when conditions on the surface were potentially habitable.
The tenses flow into one another, the distant past into the pounding present, the declarations of known history with the floating inscrutability of human emotions.
Paula S. Fass, a prominent historian of childhood and education at the University of California, Berkeley, is very much at home in the distant past.
While both of these forces matter, the article is written as if discrimination and systemic racism in housing markets were things of the distant past.
Proponents of these laws argue that litigating a case based on events from the distant past runs the risk of lost evidence and faulty memories.
Mr. Gulluni said that the women's families were "distraught and heartbroken" and that two of the women had in the "distant past" been reported missing.
Healthy forests that are allowed to burn at a low level periodically, as they did in the distant past, are less prone to extreme wildfires.
He advances that memory is holographic, explains that in the distant past people needed to memorize entire books, and there were strategies to do it.
Another glimpse of the distant past can be had at the gingerbread-trimmed house of the photographer Alice Austen, where Hylan Boulevard meets the sea.
Mr Ryan unveiled his plan in June of last year, long before election day, in a distant past when Republicans were less supportive of trade restrictions.
But in this case, we're talking about the distant past: the final stand of the woolly mammoths on St. Paul Island, Alaska, some 5,600 years ago.
It's possible that Ceres was much wetter in the distant past, and that an early period of intense cryovolcanism dramatically altered the surface we see today.
And while finding technosignatures on our planet might be tricky, places like the Moon or Mars might offer a more pristine record of the distant past.
An outsider on campus, he finds much-needed connection in Phoebe, an effervescent and social woman with a dark trauma in her not-so-distant past.
Reinforcing this sense are views of objects from the distant past: a gramophone, a bent-neck mandolin, clothing from the early part of the 20th century.
This week we look at the ongoing reaction to the Academy's representation problem, and how it tackled a similar situation in its not-too-distant past.
"Mercury is not a body where most of the activity has occurred in the distant past," lead author and Smithsonian senior scientist Thomas Watters told Motherboard.
Within the dream, distant past and distant futures are irrationally fused in a bizarre, iconic vision of martyrdom where animals are citizens and people are drones.
All within the not-so-distant past, their malfeasance has crashed the economy, hobbled governmental institutions, mired the country in endless war, and frayed societal bonds.
For most people, simply looking through a newly opened window into the distant past satisfies a basic human need to know and requires no further justification.
Like the others in the series, this one largely takes place in the not-too-distant past, which lends a little atmospheric exoticism to the tale.
Beyond this glimpse into the distant past of bedbugs, the team outlined how the pests seized on parasitic opportunities that eventually landed them in our beds.
Referencing Tucker Carlson's vocal disdain for feminism, Mirabella-Davis sees the gaslighting his grandmother experienced in the 40s as something not only of the distant past.
This modern man lived in this not-so-distant past, but in terms of the attitudes and the laws it feels very alien to us now.
He was by then working at a good job for a big company, hoping to keep his former contacts with the hijackers in the distant past.
A library takes center stage as Jam and Pet pore through old books and photos looking for clues about monsters from the not-so-distant past.
The Star Wars franchise may take place in a distant past in a distant universe, but one problem remains disappointingly Earthian: a lack of woman directors.
Even emails on threads from the distant past appeared to be fair game for questioning of Kavanaugh in our new era of perpetual electronic information storage.
Still, Giovanni Fernandes, the custodian of the Positivist Church, sometimes lets a visitor or two slip inside, offering a glimpse into Brazil's not-so-distant past.
It was refurbished by the British interior designer Anouska Hempel with plush chinoiserie furnishings and décor that gives a big nod to the neighborhood's distant past.
In the panoply of Trump controversies that they have relished, rolled their eyes over and forgiven, posing as his own spokesperson in the distant past barely registers.
This situation happened long before Trump's election, in a distant past where Democratic incrementalism seemed reasonable and it was easier to handwave away these types of incidents.
Daniel Everett, a linguist, claims that Pirahã, an Amazonian language, lacks recursion, and that its speakers do not talk about the distant past or future at all.
A billionaire businessman and reality TV star who has been a Democrat in the not-distant past becomes not only the Republican nominee but also the President!
In the not-too-distant past, Europe was clearly spooked by what they believed was the "cowboy" approach to foreign policy of then-President George W. Bush.
In the not-too-distant past, you used to be able to buy a smartphone knowing that any pair of headphones you bought would work with it.
Unfortunately, however, as Fass moves beyond the distant past and starts to write about the period that corresponds to her own life, her historian's remove falls away.
It is hard to believe that in the not so distant past, Republicans Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan were each reelected with massive victories across 49 states.
It has happened before, in the distant past when Marx's original vision of industrial capitalism giving way to democratic worker-ownership was still relevant to historical conditions.
The residential and commercial stories of the Gowanus continue to overlap with its distant past as a pre-colonial salty marsh on the edge of the harbor.
In the Middle East today as in Europe's not-so-distant past, the transition from authoritarianism to popular sovereignty seems to run through ethnic or religious purges.
Nostalgia seemed to have infected its customers, who would examine products as if they were looking for some distant past in the Christmas stollen and marzipan figurines.
In France, the state was accused of selling out to the European Union, to global finance and, in the National Front's not-so-distant past, to Jews.
"There was a time in the not too far distant past when this committee cared for facts, data and results," said ranking member Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.).
Designed to last just a few months, the rover roamed for over 14 years, snapping pictures of a strange landscape that revealed glimpses into Mars's distant past.
The idea is to illustrate that people in the distant past were also clever technologists, while also reconnecting students to the notion of making instead of merely consuming.
In the not-too-distant past, a pitching matchup featuring Stephen Strasburg against either Noah Syndergaard or Matt Harvey would've been among the most anticipated of the season.
Most of us fondly remember a time in the not-so-distant past when the United States had many more airlines and much more vigorous competition between them.
Jason Momoa, star of Aquaman and also our hearts, got up close and personal with a real, live bear at some point in the not-too-distant past.
Overwatch: Insurrection takes place in the not-too-distant past when the titular Overwatch team (starring Tracer, Reinhardt, Torbjörn and Mercy) took on the Omnic uprising in London.
What we desire, Vigderman rightly says, is both closeness with the distant past and experience of "something uneaten by time, by time that makes the past" (p. 153).
The legacy of colonialism is not a matter of the distant past, but rather an ongoing and in many cases hugely important issue in much of the world.
You'll notice that, as a result, they skew toward my favorite era of Lil Wayne, 2295-295, at the expense of the present and the more distant past.
Often, as in his tweets on health care over the past 12 hours, he says things that directly contradict things he's said in the not-too-distant past.
Any such feedback loop would be a slow process (at least as reckoned by the humans themselves), most of which would have taken place in the distant past.
Bonds issued in the distant past to build bridges, highways and other projects also must be paid — even as the projects themselves could by now use expensive makeovers.
In the not-too-distant past, America got its news from the purchase of a periodical, a handful of radio stations, and a couple of nightly news broadcasts.
He — batons are still almost exclusively wielded by men — is a kind of medium between composers, usually from the distant past, and players who actually make the sounds.
We've learned in the last 30 years that rocks from Venus, Earth, and Mars may have—very infrequently in the distant past—traveled from one world to another.
In 1987 alone, roughly a third of all M.L.B. teams changed uniform styles, with each change characterized by a return to elements influenced by baseball's mythic, distant past.
One day in the not too distant past, I couldn't tear my younger daughter away from her puzzle building refuge, and the next, it was all but forgotten.
It's one thing when it's a pair of tricky heels, but quite another when you're made up to look like racist caricatures from the not-so-distant past.
Part of the fun of medium format is using equipment from the distant past, and shooting in some ways the same way someone might have shot a century ago.
He's understandably shaken, and while she assures him things are over, Arie is worried about the presence of a seven-year relationship being in Becca's not-too-distant past.
Like postcards from the not-so-distant past, clothes can instantly transport you to the optimism of summer, at once electrifying and dozing-off-under-a-wide-brim lazy.
If microbial life did arise on Mars in the distant past, it might be clinging on in just such an isolated pocket of water below the planet's surface. Perhaps.
Politics may no longer be a matter of life and death (though a bomb scare in Omagh on Remembrance Sunday was a reminder of the not-so-distant past).
"We will all have to get used to the idea that steadily rising living standards may be a thing of the increasingly distant past," IFS director Paul Johnson said.
Dittrich's book, and the reaction to it, highlight why the lessons learned from his life cannot be limited to those stemming from a single act in the distant past.
In the resale market, the pieces from earlier high-low collaborations are now considered high-ticket relics from a distant past — except, as Fashionista discovered some are being mislabeled.
The object, nicknamed 'Oumuamua, meaning "a messenger that reaches out from the distant past" in Hawaiian, was discovered in October 2017 by the Pan-STARRS 1 telescope in Hawaii.
CreditCreditVincent Tullo for The New York Times Say the phrase "classical music" and many will imagine a renowned symphony orchestra playing masterpieces of the distant past at Carnegie Hall.
The creators attempt to look beyond headlines to timeless themes of migration and optimism, beginning in the distant past and ending far beyond our moment of crisis and uncertainty.
For many on the other side, that was the power of Christine Blasey Ford's testimony: She told the country that a traumatic experience from the distant past still matters.
It also said that the United States remained poised to act if China did start to meddle with its currency, as it did in the not-too-distant past.
During natural variations in the distant past, carbon dioxide levels took thousands of years to change as much as humans have raised the levels in less than a century.
When I moved to New York City from Beijing in 2013, I had the surreal feeling that I had come from the future to a not-so-distant past.
While broadband was considered something of a luxury in the not so distant past, it's grown into an increasingly essential aspect of modern existence, from work to health to entertainment.
You'd be forgiven for thinking that the show sounds like a recursive nostalgia loop, designed to cash in on our seemingly endless appetite for fetishizing the not-too-distant past.
From meteorites, we know that Earth and Mars were swapping material in the distant past, prompting astrobiologists to wonder whether the Red Planet could have seeded our world with life.
The geneticists on the team extracted the bison's evolutionary history from its ancient DNA, revealing a hybridization event in its distant past that involved the Steppe bison and the aurochs.
The idea that repeatedly shocking someone with an electrical current will change their sexual orientation or gender identity is so barbaric that it seems like something from the distant past.
No doubt there would have been a time in the not-too-distant past when Sanders' Jewish faith would have subjected to him anti-Semitic attacks and been an obstacle.
Likewise, when we look at Plainview now, we may see something we hadn't expected: a rapacious, destructive force of the present rather than a remnant of a comfortably distant past.
Most notably, it was again Obama's personality and speaking abilities that were put front and center, while Kerry's distant past as a Vietnam veteran was the hallmark of his campaign.
Much of the rest can be attributed to the way, in the not-so-distant past, fishermen ate off banana leaves that they could toss off the boat with impunity.
In the not-so-distant past, 2000-2009, your decade long investment resulted in a loss of -9%, or a loss of -0.9% a year on average for ten years.
Their floppy haircuts, enormous phones and quaint dating rituals belong to a distant past, in which coffee was seldom pumpkin-spiced and people jotted down their contact details on napkins.
The unexpected shape of the comet — like a rubber duck instead of a simple sphere — was most likely the result of a merger of two comets in the distant past.
It's not just that these events upstaged him—they were a reminder, from the distant past and a possible future, of how outdated our traditional notion of albums has become.
As a reminder that we're actually living in the future of a not-so-distant past, we present to you a list of the most futuristic things that happened in 22017.
A genome, then, is at least in part a record of the useful knowledge that has enabled an organism's ancestors—right back to the distant past—to survive on our planet.
There's an alien Engineer in the beginning of the film, seeding a new world, which might be Earth in the distant past, or might just suggest how the Engineers created humanity.
In the not-so-distant past, this standoff in a forest clearing would've been improbable: a 38-year-old black man denying passage to older white people deep in rural Georgia.
Trump cares little for debts and deficits, and his protectionist view on trade runs directly counter to the free trade policies advocated by Republicans in the not-at-all distant past.
Maven of Modernism reveals Scheyer'ss influence in shaping the public perception of European modern art, as well as a glimpse of a not-too-distant past chillingly similar to our own.
Aso in turn said U.S.-Japan trade friction, which soured ties in the 1980s and 1990s, was in the distant past and the allies were now entering an era of cooperation.
I've yet to invest in day-to-day pants, but I find myself trying them on in stores, something I wouldn't have dreamed of doing in the not-so-distant past.
The President, and all Americans, need to remember our unfortunate, not-so-distant past and also what this country stands for, both to us and to the rest of the world.
If it were to froth over, as scientists think it has in the distant past, it could generate huge explosions and smother towns and villages in dense clouds of carbon dioxide.
And in the more distant past, there were outbursts that were deadlier than the Orlando shooting, whether in the category of terrorism, race riot, pogrom, ethnic cleansing, genocide or military action.
We never see that in the girls' neighborhood, which seems like a relic of the more-distant past with humbly sewn clothing — can we talk about poor Lenù's homemade bathing suit?
In the not-so-distant past, she — like my father and me, though not like my wife or my mother — would have been enslaved by people who looked just like her.
He also remembers historical facts, though he cannot place them in the correct context or chronology, so that recent events can have the same weight to him as the distant past.
Yet despite all its mystery, memory also feels palpably alive in Roberts's music: Stories from the distant past are vested with a kind of heady impatience usually reserved for the present.
The debate centered on whether a person currently in prison on a drug crime who had been convicted of other offenses in their distant past should be excluded from law changes.
Joachimides writes: Picasso, of course, was considered an anachronistic figure from history, who had achieved a great invention in the distant past, namely cubism, thereafter producing work of little innovative consequence.
But films like last year's breakout hit Lady Bird, set in 2002, are proving that moviegoers are eager to move on and revisit a new distant past with the early aughts.
But a few years ago the Belgian band Dez Mona, which had previously been known for its theatrical jazz-tinged glam rock, sought inspiration from a largely uncharted continent: the distant past.
Her 1975 novel The Female Man is widely considered one of her best works, and follows four women who live in parallel worlds, ranging from the distant past to the far future.
For the sake of cinema, the cast — ranging from ages 493 to 19 — trotted back to the not-so-distant past, where braces reigned supreme and social currency was the only currency.
The only thing we can all agree on is that today sucks, and some point in the recent or distant past, depending on your experience or your favorite media, was discernibly better.
In the not-too-distant past, lawmakers viewed themselves as more independent, separate and even superior to administrations that came and went while members of Congress built long careers on Capitol Hill.
"By finding bodies that were water-rich in the distant past, we can discover clues as to where life may have existed in the early solar system," Raymond said in a statement.
Who wants to go back to the not-so-distant past when people were denied health-care coverage, lost their coverage or had non-covered expenses because of a pre-existing condition?
What games have you played, recently or in the more distant past, that you know you've kinda sucked at, but that hasn't mattered a damn because they were still so much fun?
But in the not-so-distant past, both parties prided themselves on setting aside their differences at the water's edge and working together constructively to protect the American people from foreign threats.
Thus, I was only about a decade or so removed from the characters in the film, and yet they seemed a curious cultural artifact to me — a glimpse into the distant past.
This week, Walsh announced a long-shot primary bid against President Donald Trump and went on TV to apologize for saying incredibly incendiary and racist things in the not-so-distant past.
It's a familiar design, one that briefly gives the film a "once upon a time" flavor, as Jackie tells her story, moving, often briskly, among the present, near past and distant past.
Opportunity, the longest-lived roving robot ever sent to another planet, explored the red plains of Mars for more than 290 years, snapping photos and revealing astonishing glimpses into its distant past.
It seems remarkable to remember that in the not-so distant past, there really was a time in which both parties competed almost everywhere in the country, as truly moderate broad national coalitions.
But at the time, psychology and neuroscience were only beginning to understand that delay; even now there remains tremendous cultural anxiety about the reliability of memories from the distant past, especially from childhood.
They also show just how complex the interactions between species can be, and how an encounter between two organisms in the long-distant past can ring down the ages to the present day.
While it may seem like a moment in the very distant past, and something many fans hoped to just forget, it's one storyline that demands to be sorted out before the series ends.
It's a millennial stereotype to have nostalgia for a distant past or to believe they were "born in the wrong decade," longing for flapper dances, or '50s diner milkshakes, or seeing Nirvana live.
Victor Baker, a palaeohydrologist at the University of Arizona, studies floods far away in time and space (he is particularly renowned for his work on catastrophic torrents in the distant past of Mars).
Although Adele clearly possesses the wisdom and heartbreak you can only build up over centuries, she will never stop reminding you of ages she used to be in the not-so-distant past.
For a traditionalist Christian church that stresses unbroken continuity with the faith's earliest days, any discussion of how things should be managed now has to be rooted in arguments about the distant past.
By the 1960s, prime-time television was barely two decades old, and it was already a little nostalgic and class-neutral, broadcasting shows safely ensconced in either the suburbs or the distant past.
Though Layla angrily asserts, "Forgetting is in the American grain," her near-future story serves as a potent and impassioned reminder of what American nationalism led to in our not so distant past.
Mr. Trump represents this dark side of America, its xenophobia in the 1920s and the acute, violent racism personified by the emergence of the Ku Klux Klan in the not too distant past.
They also held themselves "personally responsible" for "treasonable mistakes" made by the left in the distant past, such as during the constitutional revolution of 1906, which took place long before they were born.
Two had been reported as missing in the distant past, and Lyden had been reported missing in December, according to a Springfield police Facebook post, that had asked for information on her whereabouts.
One of the most provocative stories in this collection is "The Truth of Fact, The Truth of Feeling" which parallels two protagonists set in the near future and the not-too-distant past.
It theoretically could have been used to deny entry to me for this reporting trip, as I've written about my personal decision to boycott settlement-made goods in the not-too-distant past.
In recent decades, U.S. presidents have taken a hands-off approach to Fed policy, but some in the more distant past were occasionally vocal in their displeasure or impatience with the central bank.
One of the most provocative stories in this collection is The Truth of Fact, The Truth of Feeling which parallels two protagonists set in the near future and the not-too-distant past.
But it also offers a fascinating snapshot of the  life-and-death struggles  of species in the distant past, said study co-author Paul Selden, a professor of geology at the University of Kansas.
Their strong form in the qualifying campaign seemed like a distant past, and talismanic striker Robert Lewandowski summed it up with his nonchalant comments after the defeat to Los Cafeteros at the Kazan Arena.
There were, of course, in the distant past, edges to the control of different groups, but they weren't depicted on maps, and they weren't fixed lines in the way that we imagine them today.
As a result, when you pull numbers on the not-so-distant past, the commonplace becomes exotic: On May 20113, 1996, 34.3 million people watched the season finale of ER — at the same time.
As she explains in the documentary, Gaga constructed the personal concept for Joanne by turning to the very distant past: a memory of an aunt she never met, who died of lupus at 19.
In can recognize faces in your photos and group by person, but it also has advanced object recognition, making it possible to find images of any number of different things from your distant past.
It recently sent back data indicating that the asteroid's surface is littered with clay-like minerals that indicate that parts of this space rock had liquid water at some point in its distant past.
Notably, he did say separately that a DFJ company that he declined to name "went to Japan and sat down with [Softbank founder] Masayoshi Son" in what sounded like the not-too-distant past.
Given that the building blocks of life—simple chains of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen—probably came from outer space, studying patterns of chirality beyond Earth offers a tool for peering into our distant past.
As Rabbi Falcon puts it, sacred writ contains passages of universal, eternal importance as well as statements that responded to particular historical circumstances, like the needs of a nomadic people in the distant past.
Screenshot: ThrowflameThere was a time in our not-too-distant past when the idea of a personally piloted object that spits fire would seem totally batshit insane—in fact, it still seems batshit insane.
But Delrahim, who has lobbied on behalf of AT&T in the distant past, said in an interview on Canadian television last year he didn't see the deal as having a major antitrust problem.
But the government has also engaged in a brutal battle with the European Union on issues like environmental policy and migration, and has sought to reshape national memory over the recent and distant past.
VOORHEES, N.J. — The Philadelphia Flyers cannot ignore their brilliant but distant past, because they walk past an enormous reminder of it on the way to the practice rink from their dressing room every day.
And the vast expanse of time — extending from the far distant past long before I was born and then into the far distant future long after I will die — seemed compressed to a dot.
Photograph by Steve Jennings / Getty The old-style rock concert, where a bunch of lads in suits would play, miles from the audience, surrounded by stacked speakers, is a thing of the distant past.
What's most surprising isn't the dedication to preserving their rich cultural heritage, but rather the massive throngs of religious pilgrims, solemnly paying tribute to the Shinto deities and esoteric Boddhisattva's of the distant past.
Our placid day of foraging was a reflection of the unprecedented peace and prosperity that Poland enjoys today, but the very landscape we walked was indelibly marked with reminders of the not-so-distant past.
I went from 'Hey, here's this event in the distant past that happened, I think I was one of the only ones, I feel kinda crappy about it' to 'Oh my god, we're an army.
Arabia Terra is thought to be one of the oldest landscapes on the red planet, with some segments dating back nearly four billion years, so these features are important in understanding the planet's distant past.
The show will cover some seriously creepy material, ranging from the 19th-century Spiritualist movement, to a village mob who believed werewolves were prowling through their streets, and the not-so-distant past of lobotomies.
As Cronin noted, Mars and Earth may have been involved in cross-contamination at some point in our distant past—an exchange of materials that may have contributed to the rise of life on Earth.
Geologic evidence suggests that Mars was much wetter in the distant past, although whether the Red Planet had liquid water oceans or was frozen under a mantle of ice is still a matter of debate.
In the not-so-distant past, there were two main options when it came to skin care: Things that were backed by scientific studies to prove they work and those that were natural, but unproven.
But don't be fooled; unlike in the not-so-distant past, these days there are some damn good options out there that offer exceptional quality and won't take a huge bite out of your budget.
Elsewhere at Sundance, the docuseries Lorena and Leaving Neverland reassessed two other major news stories from the not-so-distant past: Lorena Bobbitt's attack against her husband, and the child molestation accusations against Michael Jackson.
Although all of this family drama takes place in the not-so-distant past, certain moments throughout the season 3 premiere, "The Law Of Vacant Places," remind us this is all very much a throwback.
The director has said he felt the immediacy and visceral nature of "Son of Saul" was necessary in an age when many people, especially younger generations, see the Holocaust as something from the distant past.
"In the 1960s and 70s, when people came up with the notion of plate tectonics, they didn't think about what it was like in the distant past," said Jun Korenaga, a geophysicist at Yale University.
Cantonese opera is one of the most popular versions of traditional Chinese opera, which combines acting, acrobatics, dance and singing in works set in the distant past performed with the accompaniment of a live orchestra.
We identify because the events in Atwood's novel — which not so long ago felt like something that could only happen in the distant past or in distant parts of the globe — now feel frighteningly real.
The scenes of tens of thousands of refugees streaming across Europe, crashing through borders, whipped up deep, dark memories from the distant past, of Arab armies poised at the Pyrenees, of Ottoman armies besieging Vienna.
The infamous oil sector expropriation of 1938, while in the distant past, makes foreign companies nervous, and U.S. business groups wanted some guarantees that they would not be badly treated if they invested in Mexico.
But the Trump campaign's brief moment of victory at the vice presidential debate feels like the distant past, as Trump will look to somehow defend himself in the face of troubling history of overt misogyny.
There's nothing in his more distant past that provides immediate answer, but you might be surprised to learn how much Hugh's history with Picard and the U.S.S. Enterprise links up with the story that's currently unfolding.
But clues from the geologic record suggest that the climate change driving  ice loss in Antarctica  is doing so much faster than during its periods of ice loss in the distant past, Shepherd told Live Science.
In the Philharmonic's elegantly impassioned performance, the symphony seemed intent on preserving, as if in amber, the spirit of a distant past — but also on puncturing it, over and over, with the violence of the present.
This underground system, along with its visible embankments, would, both directly and by example, save countless lives in the developed world during the next century—making cholera epidemics, for instance, a thing of the distant past.
Really, though, the novel is about swinging time: The chapters alternate between the recent past (narrator in Africa, narrator on a date) and the distant past (narrator in dance class, narrator at home with her parents).
The threat of vape lung seems to have receded to the distant past now that we are all facing the coronavirus, but new research has shed light on the nature of that much more limited epidemic.
One of them, recounting the propaganda of the day, chillingly recalls how "The Left became a demon that had to be eliminated," a state of affairs that evokes both a distant past and our immediate present.
Captain Marvel is gearing up to be one of the biggest superhero movies of the year, sending the Marvel cinematic universe into the distant past (the '90s) to give us the story of Carol Danvers, a.k.a.
Image: GizmodoOnce upon a time in the not-too-distant past, getting an email or a weather forecast popping up on a smartphone felt like magic—but now the technological novelty of these alerts has worn off.
Just look at the success of Stranger Things, which has proven that sentimentality for the not-too-distant past isn't just fun to watch, but it's also an easy way to sell things (welcome back, New Coke).
Dragonfly's primary mission will be to search for signs of life, flying to diverse sites, including organic dunes and an impact crater where scientists believe water and prebiotic materials may have existed together in the distant past.
Nakamura front-loads his narrative with tantalizing strangers and enigmatic acquaintances from Yurika's distant past, yet the novel's initial allure gives way to a surfeit of existential window dressing and brooding meditations on that old devil moon.
The result is an effect more usually associated with fiction than history, of inspiring a powerful imaginative empathy—not only towards characters in the distant past but towards the strangers all around us, whose humanity we share.
These "submarine slides" have happened in the North Atlantic in the distant past, and there's a possibility that, owing to climate change, the rapidly warming conditions in the Arctic could make them more likely in the future.
Though Dr. Simons's career took in myriad fossils, including whales' feet (in the distant past in which his professional life was lived, the footed whale was no oxymoron), he was concerned in particular with the earliest primates.
It was a far cry from the not so distant past when he turned up at the Maranello factory with his late godfather Jules Bianchi, then a member of Ferrari's young driver academy, and was denied entry.
And just last week, the Brearley School, an all-girls school in Manhattan, announced it was investigating allegations of abuse that occurred in the "distant past," and asked anyone with information about sexual misconduct to come forward.
These artists inadvertently highlight the fact that alternative realities exist today beyond the digital world, creating images of fantasy, mystery, and new memory from processes that point to both the near-future and the now-distant past.
Scientists hope they can get a look into the distant past of the solar system, when protoplanet encounters created Earth and destroyed other would-be terrestrial planets — like the one whose remnants are floating between Mars and Jupiter.
Okay, it's kind of a stretch to put this under "bad," because I won't deny that I giggled a little bit when Anthony Hopkins turned up in Bernard's extended journey into his memories of the (how distant?) past.
Instead of seeking justification for their culture in progress and the promise of the future, Germans looked to the distant past to confirm their sense of national greatness, elevating folklore and myths to the pinnacle of high art.
Meanwhile, over on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Triumph the Insult Comic Dog—another beloved character from the distant past of the late 1990s—reemerged to savagely roast Ted Cruz in honor of the midterms (please vote).
While these analogies are terrifying, they also suggest that the challenges of the moment are in fact hardly new at all, that the sources and solutions to contemporary problems can be located in the near or distant past.
People with violent crimes in their past—even their distant past—do not qualify for inclusion in most "comprehensive" reform discussions or proposed statutes that attempt to ease prison populations because of the serious natures of their crimes.
But in an extensive interview, Mr. Schneiderman said that his investigation was focused less on the distant past than on relatively recent statements by Exxon Mobil related to climate change and what it means for the company's future.
It felt as though I'd been transported back in time, to Todos Santos' distant past, save for the men in machine-made boots carrying plastic cups of Quezalteca, a Guatemalan cane liquor that tastes like watered-down moonshine.
While foreign aggressors were biding their time to strike back, the Suldlom Collective was almost torn apart from the inside, and longed for a distant past when its "essence" and ideological "purity" was still undiluted by alien elements.
New Utrecht Reformed Church, with its sprawling green lawn in an otherwise packed urban setting, is a relic of an even more distant past, summoning a time when the area was a village and congregants were largely farmers.
But it is because they see so much of themselves in each other that this — for all United's current travails, or Liverpool's troubles in the not-so-distant past — remains English soccer's biggest game, its red-letter day.
Moving away from the stifling format of every 3D Zelda before it, Breath of the Wild infuses its own distant past with modern trappings, creating an adventure that captures the wonder, mystery, and playfulness of the first game.
In this surrealist form, the vehicle served as an absurd canvas for another series of colorful projections, like a relic of a not-so-distant past in need now of new purpose in our world of digital constructions.
" Invoking the memory of Robert Kennedy, Judge Wald wrote, "I recall a time in the not-too-distant past when many of my generation passionately believed in an alliance of government and the people for positive social change.
Time will feel like a strange concept when it comes to love—you'll feel like you've known someone you just met forever, or run into someone from your distant past and feel like you only saw them yesterday.
That is, in order to create change, one is to indicate grievous injury on the basis of things which, in the not too distant past, even politically concerned people considered something to walk on by, or make fun of.
In the not too distant past we fought to create the food stocks to survive, and then many of us, having secured that, fought to create and guarantee a certain lifestyle, and now we fight to maintain that lifestyle.
If not for this whole episode, the next time he praised me on Facebook might have been on hearing news of my death (hopefully so far in the future that Facebook will be a thing of the distant past).
I am visibly nervous, and he does his best to calm me by swapping stories about old New York sideshow legends of the distant past like the great sword swallower Estelline Pike and Al Flosso, the Coney Island Fakir.
"We have recently been made aware of possible sexual misconduct, not related to current faculty or staff, which occurred in the distant past," school officials said in an email sent to alumnae, staff members and families of current students.
Evidence from the distant past, when the Earth was a few degrees warmer than it is today, suggests that sea levels were 20 to 30 feet higher — which can only be explained by very rapid collapse of ice sheets.
And when he winds up somewhere in a distant past and realizes that someone else was humming that same melody, hundreds of years away — that sense of authorship falls away at that point, because the song is no longer just his.
"Attempts to use the Olympic Games as some kind of political weapon ... I thought that was all in the distant past," said Zhukov, referring to Cold War sporting tensions between the Soviet Union and the United States in the 1980s.
Back then, shares of Netflix — under pressure after the company upped prices for its newly separated DVD-mailing and streaming services — dropped 7003% over the course of several months, a vicious decline that now seems part of the distant past.
This shows that a line between the intolerable and the just about tolerable, between the past and the distant past can be drawn—and moved—without a free-for-all in which vast amounts of art are suddenly up for grabs.
I'm fortunate to have never known such horrors firsthand, but seeing this living record of what happened drove home the reality of something that, I think for a lot of people today, is an indistinct horror story from the distant past.
At some point in the not-so-distant past, April Fools was about pranks and hoaxes, but given that we apparently have enough of those on the web, the day has somehow morphed into a celebration of random jokey things.
That doesn't mean the Trump White House won't try to put as much distance as possible between themselves and Flynn of course, just that it won't be easy because of what Trump has said in the not-very-distant past.
In the distant past of 2009, when both Knowles and her co-star Idris Elba were on a somewhat lower tier of fame, it made sense for them to take the leading roles in the studio-fronted erotic drama Obsessed.
I predict that this logic, which has now inspired film adaptations of theme park rides and mobile video games, will become even more prominent as another beloved medium of the not-so-distant past reaches the point of nostalgia: web videos.
With his political career long behind him and this election in the not-so-distant past, he's looking forward to getting back to his family and his store in Los Angeles and doing what he does best: making T-shirts.
Sports of The Times As a child, I read and reread a Ray Bradbury short story about a hunter who traveled back to the distant past to bag a dinosaur, illegally stepped off a levitating walkway and mistakenly crushed a butterfly.
Correction (April 16th 2019): Almost as if to illustrate Johnson's point that African American English has a consistent internal grammar, this column made a mistake in it: the distant past is "I been did that", not "I been done that".
Going deeper into his subject through the artful deployment of his materials, the biographer inhabits his subject's life as if he had been there — as if the events he's relating hadn't occurred in the distant past but had just happened.
When I say that Republicans have been more protectionist than Democrats, I'm not talking about the distant past, about the high-tariff policies of the Gilded Age; I'm talking about modern Republican presidents, like Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush.
My main point was that we should be judged on the totality of our work, and that we are more than just a collage of quotes from our social-media history or some foolish utterances from the near or distant past.
Metropolitan Diary Dear Diary: In the far distant past, my father and I flew to New York one June for what was to be my first visit to the city that I have now known as home for many years.
As identity politics the world over channel popular anger at the injustices of an increasingly aggressive winner-take-all global economy, Conflicting Images is an occasion to slow down and take a close look at the not-so-distant past.
To fix their coverage of racism, journalists must first confront the false assumption at the core of current coverage: that attitudes like white supremacy are artifacts of a distant past, that they reflect a lack of education, style, and sophistication.
That said — and this is no excuse for the Sanders camp — it would be good to have Biden explain why, in the more distant past, he went along with the Beltway consensus that Social Security needed to be pared back.
Historians of the period will learn nothing new from the movie, yet it remains a stirring enterprise, especially when it peers back, beyond the bright public record of Gorbachev's heyday, into the mist of what feels like a distant past.
Those aren't in the distant past: She is 18 and graduated last year with a critically beloved EP called "Habit" under her belt and ideas in her head for her first full-length album for the storied label Matador Records.
After 20 years of hearing tales about the fight in Fengchen, Xiaomei Chen, Ying Guan Chen's daughter, said she still had a hard time believing that something from the distant past — and from another continent — had caused her father's death.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, the handsome, charming champion of Western liberal ideals of diversity and inclusion, is facing a mounting political crisis after revelations that he appeared in brownface on more than one occasion in his not-too-distant past.
A plurality of survey respondents in two states, Kentucky and Tennessee, listed their ancestries simply as "United States," suggesting that they view their roots as more tightly connected to this country than to some far-off region from the distant past.
Image: MotorolaIn the not-too-distant past, buying a mid-range phone meant a woefully out-of-date operating system, sluggish performance straight out of the box, and cameras that could easily be outperformed by the webcam on the front of your laptop.
Photo: APIt's becoming clear that at some point in the not-so-distant past, a group of assholes at Facebook dreamt up a plan to prey on users who desire better mobile security but can't be bothered to read the fine print.
Fewer Americans had engaged in these kinds of sex in the past year, however, suggesting that a lot of their exploration was in the distant past—months or years earlier—even though many people still found these kinds of sex to be appealing.
ALEX SMITH, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, AMERICAN RISING PAC: Well, if you look at the not-so-distant past, in 2010, when President Obama had a Supreme Court pick come up, you know, he nominated Kagan in May, and she was confirmed by August.
I told him about my trials and tribulations with Time Warner Cable in New York City, and he tried to drum up some empathy from a distant past in which he used to send medical imaging studies on a T1 line in Boston.
"We know that we had other animals, we had other plants, we had other climate—but if you ask what type of meteorites fell on Earth in the geologically distant past, no one will be able to give you any answer," he said.
For those who see "man, the hunter" and "woman, the nurturer" when they imagine life in the distant past, Mr Fuentes points out that there is no evidence from archaeology to support the idea that roles were assigned according to gender or age.
Well over half of the Greenland ice sheet appears to have melted to bedrock in the not-too-distant past, when temperatures weren't much warmer than they are today, according to new research led by paleoclimatologist Joerg Schaefer of Columbia University's Lamont Observatory.
In the not-so-distant past the benefits of doing this were outweighed by the hassle of having to get everything reformatted and reinstalled, but the most recent versions of Windows 10 and macOS Sierra make the whole process much more straightforward.
My English-Irish parents never explained why I didn't look like them except to say—when pressed—that I was a brown-skinned miracle baby who had inherited her melanin and mixed-race features from ancestors rooted in the very distant past.
" Tsipras said that Steinmeier's visit was a chance for a fresh start in bilateral relations, but added: "Of course, this doesn't mean that we must forget or that we can sweep any of our differences from the distant past under the carpet.
And unlike Michael Bloomberg&aposs inclination for sexist commentary, the hostile workplace allegations cannot be dismissed as a relic of the distant past: The company has faced eight discrimination suits since the former mayor regained his perch as president and CEO in 2014.
If and when she does testify, you can bet that Republican senators will try to undermine her explosive claim on the basis that the memory of an event that occurred 36 years ago must be unreliable because it happened in the distant past.
But Mr. Malakhov, who set off from Dillingham, Alaska, last month and returns from the wilderness this week, believes that politics is secondary to "people-to-people contacts," and that a friendlier future can be reached by a detour through the distant past.
A June debate attack on Biden for his 1970s opposition to cross-district busing was impressive in the moment, but ended up making Harris look like just another politician out to score points by dredging up an issue from the distant past.
In the not-so-distant past, makeup and skin care companies used to get new customers by hiring celebrities to be official ambassadors for their brands, buying TV ads, and working with beauty editors at magazines to secure editorial placement for their products.
And although the paintings portray a distant past, reinforced by the exotic-seeming clothing, they recall a particularly vibrant time of Spanish art, which positioned Seville at the center of a global exchange that stretched all the way to the New World.
Researchers created a new classification for these interstellar objects, and gave it a Hawaiian name that "reflects the way this object is like a scout or messenger sent from the distant past to reach out to us," according to a Minor Planet Center communication.
But it is worth remembering that in the distant and not-so-distant past, the authorities took it as read that certain ways of thinking and speaking were so manifestly dangerous and disruptive to society that they should be prevented in every possible way.
Given Galaxy's fondness for pop culture of the not-too-distant past — the new movie hinges on the 1972 single "Brandy (You're a Fine Girl") and drops in references to Mary Poppins, Heather Locklear and Pac-Man — this is not too crazy a suggestion.
There is an emphasis on the area's place at "the heart" of the Silk Road's history, suggesting that the value visitors will see in the area is linked directly to its distant past; centuries between the Silk Road and the 1970s are simply ignored.
"The problem is the market has been complacent in the not too distant past, having left itself very exposed to Brexit which resulted in some very aggressive moves in the early hours of June 24," Oanda senior market analyst Craig Erlam said in a note.
The region has already produced fossilized remains of the massive cannibalistic Majungasaurus dinosaur, the flying raptor Rahonavis, and the ten-pound frog Beelzebufo, so there's no reason to expect it to stop churning out the skeletons of weirdos from the distant past anytime soon.
In the not-so-distant past, deregulation combined with tax cuts for the wealthy inflated the mortgage bubble, worsened income inequality and precipitated the Great Recession, which left working people economically marooned even as wealthy Americans recovered their losses and ascended to new heights.
Editorial Observer For those of us who worked in the old Soviet Union as reporters or diplomats, all the talk of "kompromat" and "dezinformatsiya" that has emerged with the Trump dossier — unverified — has been a blast from what we thought was a distant past.
That America may seem today to be a thing of the distant past, but its shade is still with us and asserts itself from time to time, reminding us of what America has meant to so many generations of its citizens and its friends abroad.
Even though major collisions might seem like something that only affects the distant past or remote areas—a headache for T-Rexes and Russians, but not you—the fact that more population centers haven't been in harm's way so far is basically down to random chance.
The argument for a Plutonic ocean—advanced by teams led by Francis Nimmo of the University of California, Santa Cruz, and James Keane, of the University of Arizona, Tucson, centres on Sputnik Planitia, a basin 1,300km across (see picture) caused by a collision in Pluto's distant past.
In a country where forgetfulness and forgiveness are interchangeable and there is collective mental bias for the immediate present than the distant past, Marcos' blitzkrieg campaign of "historical revisionism" has proven increasingly effective, especially among the youth and those who are critical of the Philippines' oligarchy.
Destroyer jumps back in forth in time, between the distant past, when a young Erin went undercover with a cult-like criminal gang, and the present, when she's terrorizing the L.A. underworld, trying to track down the man who controlled that crew and ruined her life.
The president is best understood not as a figure who harkens back to the distant past, evokes other lands, or foreshadows the future, but one who is representative of this very moment in America, where media overload is destroying the sense of a shared public reality.
Julie Tarney's MY SON WEARS HEELS: One Mom's Journey From Clueless to Kickass (University of Wisconsin, $24.95) and Steven Gaines's ONE OF THESE THINGS FIRST (Delphinium, $24.95) are set in earlier decades, yet they make Conley's ordeal seem like a grim chapter from a distant past.
When rates of HPV-related head and neck cancers in men started climbing, he says that the initial thought was that those cases must have been recent—that the patient must have had oral sex with a woman who had HPV in the not-too-distant past.
Mr. Staley thought the letters were malicious, because Mr. Main's issues were in the distant past, he had successfully surmounted them and he had maintained an unblemished record since then, according to a bank employee familiar with the matter but not authorized to discuss it publicly.
"Porgy and Bess" comes to the Met at a time when the United States is consumed with conflicts over prejudice, demonization of the "other," economic inequality, sexual assault and an opioid crisis, issues that the opera grapples with in various ways, even from the distant past.
It's possible that not even the most famous or infamous people of the recent or distant past — say, Barack Obama, Osama bin Laden, Bill Clinton, Richard Nixon, Michael Jackson, Muhammad Ali or Adolf Hitler — dominated media as thoroughly at their peak as Mr. Trump does now.
It's also a comedy that's rooted in its time (which, if you couldn't tell from the Dennis Rodman and LL Cool J cameos, is the late '90s), not a distant past or the Tyler Perry universe, the predominant settings for the stories Hollywood tells about people of color.
Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Arizona State University; analysis: IRSPS/TAS-IThe two sites in question, Oxia Planum and Mawrth Vallis, lie just north of the equator, and are both feature geologic deposits that are thought to have formed under wet conditions at some point in Mars' distant past.
While this new ice cap work doesn't necessarily change our understanding of Martian habitability in the distant past, it does help scientists further refine what Mars looked like thousands of years in the past, and help predict what it may look like thousands of years in the future.
Change and iteration is the theme of the day, it seems: today, Yahoo Mail's parent Oath (which is also TechCrunch's owner), also announced a new president and COO, K. Guru Gowrappan, who joins from Alibaba and had in his distant past once also worked at Yahoo, Quixey and Zynga.
Yes it mapped on to Thomas Jefferson's thinking about this, but to summarize what I'm doing with the slaveholders of our distant past and talk about these things as though it's a single set of ideas, it's completely unfair journalistically, and it has the consequence that I've described.
If genetic mutations could produce brains that were smaller and more efficient but still worked well enough to master the skills of survival, it makes sense that those who had them would live longer in the times of scarcity and famine characteristic of our not-so-distant past.
While there is no specific sequence for exploring the exhibition, the installations on the lower level deal with the more distant past while the upstairs portion spills into the present, complete with a "Peoples Theater" that invites viewers to act as performers and participate directly in the exhibition.
A month after Seth makes a routine excursion through Washington Square to record the sonic detritus of park life, the partners isolate on the playback a song that doesn't belong, sung by a singer who wasn't there, that sounds as if it has floated in from a distant past.
It may seem like a fairy tale from the distant past, now that your next date is just a right swipe away, but meeting a new partner randomly at a bar or house party (or even because you got on the wrong bus) was actually common just one generation ago.
Duff's couple's costume from hell can best be described using the title of her own song: It was, in fact, "So Yesterday" — "yesterday" in this case referring to a time in the distant past when it was socially acceptable to wear insulting costumes that mocked the indigenous people of our country.
In The Very Distant Past: The Tesseract (The Cube That The Flerken Throws Up In Captain Marvel & The One Tom Hiddleston Is Holding Above) Is Created The Tesseract, the glowing blue box seen in many MCU films, is the containment vessel meant to hold the power of the Space Stone.
While the prequel being set in the distant past means you're probably not going to see any familiar faces from "Game of Thrones," the Age of Heroes did feature distant ancestors of some of the most popular "Game of Thrones" characters, like Brandon the Builder, the legendary founder of House Stark.
America's defence secretary, Ashton Carter, said China could be erecting a "great wall of self-isolation" by undercutting principles that other countries have sought to establish for use of the seas, the internet and management of the global economy, which reflected "the region's distant past, rather than the principled future".
He is there in the future, when the modest house is pulled down and an office building erected in its stead, and he is there in the distant past, when a pioneer family pitches camp, and the father stakes his claim—knocking poles into the earth, to mark his dwelling place.
In The City in the Middle of the Night, the new novel by science fiction author Charlie Jane Anders, the protagonist, Sophie, meets members of an alien species whose telepathic links mean that they are essentially forced to remember everything that has ever happened, stretching back into their distant past.
Knowing his job was on the line, Mr. Moonves used all his persuasive charm to reassure shocked directors that, while there may have been a few episodes with women in his distant past, others mentioned in the article were "grossly overstated" or simply false, according to people at the meeting.
Created by Paul Attanasio ("Bull" and "Homicide: Life on the Street"), "Tommy" is in some respects as familiar as cop shows of the distant past -- think "Ironside," for those old enough to remember -- but freshens the formula by incorporating timely storylines, and a wry sensibility that plays to Falco's strengths.
A long time ago, in the distant past of the 1990s, before sad à la carte fruit and cheese plates and $11 spinach wraps for purchase became the culinary rule of the American skies, airlines served hot meals even to the huddled masses seated in coach on long domestic flights.
Mr. Cruz and the "super PACs" supporting him have criticized him for this line of attack and are doing everything they can to erode faith in Mr. Trump and to exacerbate doubts in those who are considering him, pointing not just to remarks from the distant past but to more recent ones.
If none of them refers to the attributes that have earned Mr Varadkar global attention—that he is half-Indian, gay and, at 38, his country's youngest-ever leader—that is testament to a society that has lost interest in the bigotries that marked public life in the not-too-distant past.
"We know absolutely nothing about what types of meteorites fell on Earth in the distant past, before one or two million years [ago]," said Birger Schmitz, a professor in geology at Sweden's Lund University and the lead author of the paper outlining the discovery, which was published on Tuesday in Nature Communications.
Weisselberg, his colleagues, and the documents under their control could tell us a lot about not just the Trump Organization's distant past but also its present — who is paying Trump and how involved he is in its operations — and the House of Representatives is the right group of people to ask him.
To get a picture of which genes came from the distant past, researchers took a look at a map of the neanderthal haplotype—the many variations of genes that a species carries—and compared it to the genes carried by 28,000 Europeans who'd had their genetic profile linked to their medical records.
Our passion for newness is a facade, as proven by the fact that we are apparently all clinging to our dusty old iPhones as if they are headphone jack-equipped talismans connecting us to a distant past when we could still force our crushes to listen to Coldplay songs through drugstore earbuds.
"This means that either a large part of the population does not perceive such instances as emergencies, perhaps because they occurred in the distant past or the victim is not in imminent danger, or the barriers to intervening outweigh the benefits, even when an incident is perceived to be an emergency," the study states.
Editorial The Obama administration has worked diligently over the last five years to ease the marginalization of more than 70 million Americans with criminal records that can shut them out of jobs, housing, higher education or the consumer credit system — sometimes for minor offenses in the distant past or arrests that never led to conviction.
The Nationals tacked on three more runs in the eighth and ninth to gain a comfortable lead, and with the final out, they joined the other successful baseball clubs from Washington from the distant past — including the old Senators and the Homestead Grays, the Negro League powerhouse that played many of its games in Washington's old Griffith Stadium.
In the not-so-distant-past, citizen journalists were a limited number of random people who happened to have a relatively bulky video cameras on them at the time an event was unfolding in front of them — think of the Rodney King beating by police captured on video by citizen journalist George Holliday back in 1991, for example.
But my angst about the holiday season is not exactly unique, even among the people I'm close to: Right now, I am confident, there are an untold number of people out there feeling similar anxiety about the prospect of remembering and then obtaining something I mentioned I might like to own at some point in the distant past.
Some might try to argue that after the destruction of the Temple in A.D. 70, Israel was returned again to the realm of Jewish idea, where it remained for nearly two millenniums, until in the early 20th century it shifted from an idea about origin, about the distant past, to an idea about being and about the near future.
The trippy, densely packed first season of Ms. Bamford's sitcom, created by Mitch Hurwitz (of "Arrested Development") and Pam Brady, detailed her character's ups and mostly downs in three time lines — the not too distant past (personal and professional meltdown in Los Angeles), the recent past (recovery of sorts in Minnesota) and the present (starting over in L.A.).
Religious people will have to try describing to non-religious people what it means to live according to a text or a narrative that was formed many centuries ago; and to explain that for them, texts written in the distant past can be of decisive importance to life in the year 2017, because these eternally significant words are perpetually gaining new meanings.
"The name, which was chosen by the Pan-STARRS team, is of Hawaiian origin and reflects the way this object is like a scout or messenger sent from the distant past to reach out to us (ʻou means reach ou for, and mua, with the second mua placing emphasis, means first, in advance of)," according to the Minor Planet Center.
When MacCallum invited him to attack Biden as a centrist or South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg for suggesting Sanders might be too old, Sanders demurred — pointing out that Biden was a friend and that the primary was for voters to hear differences and make up their minds, or half-joking about his distant past as a long-distance runner.
Just look at 22003 winner Green Book.) What probably took it down in the end was a vague sense that it spoke to the distant past — not just because it talked about World War I, but because it felt like a throwback to All Quiet on the Western Front, literally the third Best Picture winner ever (and a terrific movie).
I know I can't fix it, he said, I know it's too late, we can't go back, he spoke of it as if it were the distant past, and this made me angry, since what was the point of his message then, why had he sent it to me, why had he drawn me back to him, drawn me back but only so far.
Much of what's here is, indeed, archival, in the sense of its recycling material from a near and distant past, as in Maya Mackrandilal's takeaway photo tributes to historic female activists; Zinnia Naqvi's real and re-enacted family pictures; and in the binders of the information compiled by Chitra Ganesh and Mariam Ghani on South Asian immigrants reported missing in the United States since Sept. 11.
Borat was the height of humor, Mark Zuckerberg controversially opened up Facebook beyond college campuses, and the internet still felt like something mildly idealistic (if a little absurd.) In the not-so-distant past of 2015 game designer Kyle Seeley released the freeware title Emily is Away, a romantic epic divided into five virtual acts told through the nostalgia of an AOL Instant Messenger chat with the titular Emily.
In another gallery, fleshy paintings by Eugene Leroy, sensual abstractions of the figure like "Petit nu profond (Small profound nude)" (1997), are again linked to the distant past with a neighboring bust of "Madonna and Child from the Altarpiece of St. Mary in St. Kolumba" (1677), which was rescued from the ruins of the church and restored from 70 fragments after having been destroyed by American and British bombs in 1945.
From there, the exhibit lunges into recent history, with Michael Galinsky's photos of the day the KKK came to Chapel Hill in 1987; leaps into the present, with Diego Camposeco's stylized portraits of Latin-American immigration; flings itself back to the distant past, most forcibly in "I PUT A SPELL ON YOU" (2015), Jeffrey Gibson's Everlast punching bag covered in faux-Native-American beadwork, where we seem to come to the fundamental crime.

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