When Sibyl commits suicide, Dorian distances himself from the blame by viewing her death as a work of art — a sort of tragic drama.

Baden-Powell himself wore shorts as being dressed like the youth contributed to reducing distances between the adult and the young person.

William E. Watson, strongly supports Tours as a macrohistorical event, but distances himself from the rhetoric of Gibbon and Drubeck, writing, for example, of the battle's importance in Frankish, and world, history in 1993:

Taking its point of departure in the French epistemological tradition, it makes few references to Anglo-American analytical philosophy except as to speech act theory, from which Foucault distances himself.

Still, Ovid distances himself in three steps from the horrifying story:

He stops bathing, rarely eats, stops going to work, and distances himself from essentially everyone, all in pursuit of organizing the book into a finished work that, he hopes, will finally bring him peace.

Hank has some environmental leanings ( though he distances himself from the movement at large ), once lamenting about air pollution in Houston, opposing the building of McMansions, and running for city council on a platform of removing low-flow toilets because they waste more water than they save.

" This proves a turning point for Derek, who further distances himself from the Aryan Brotherhood and changes his outlook on life.

By focusing this ability upon himself he can fly at amazing speeds and jump great distances.

Feeling deeply disappointed, Gilbert distances himself from Anne.

Anchored by defensive stalwart Russell, the tough Celtics forced their opponents to take low-percentage shots from farther distances ( there was no three-point arc at the time ); misses were then often grabbed by perennial rebounding champion Russell, who then either passed it on to elite fast-break distributor Cousy or made the outlet pass himself, providing their sprinting colleagues opportunities for an easy slam dunk or layup.

Tobi has displayed a similar ability that allows his to teleport himself and others to another dimension, allowing him to easily escape from capture, as well as to travel vast distances.

He can turn himself into a sandstorm, which enables him to fly great distances and to suffocate his enemies.

This intense and grueling regimen of such extremely long distances ultimately led to a breakdown of his immune system, and he found himself frequently sick, injured, and otherwise unable to continue training.

I am content, SIRE, to have furnished for my Readers a ready means by which to compare the Reign of Your Majesty with the preceding Reigns, and the opportunity to observe, how attentive Your Majesty is to follow in the tracks of the Kings of England which were most distinguished by their virtues, and by their sincere love for their People-and with what care He distances himself from the false paths in which some have unfortunately gone astray.

By explicitly making the narrator a character within the frame story, the writer distances himself from the narrator ; he may also characterize the narrator to cast doubt on his truthfulness.

Skeletor possesses an array of mystic powers and is an extremely powerful sorcerer with control over a vast range of dark magical powers, such as the ability to teleport himself and others over vast distances, send telepathic commands to his minions, grow plants, hypnotism, illusions, reflection, freezing rays, open gateways between dimensions, etcetera.

In the interim Turner has become a deeply troubled man, one who distances himself from Vixen and was constantly egging on Ravan to confront him.

He was referring to his initial exploration of the idea of Dasein, which is then taken further as Sloterdijk distances himself from Heidegger's positions.

TJ takes the junked car for himself after the event, and Samantha, sad and furious about this, distances herself from the player.

Shade is at present one of the best, if not the ultimate, channeler of the power of the Darklands, a quasi-sentient, extra-dimensional mass of malleable darkness which he can channel to various effects, both as an absence of light and a solid substance: he can summon and control " demons " from there, summon and dispel shields and areas of complete darkness, create all kinds of constructs out of shadows ( in a similar manner to a Green Lantern, with the exception of the color of the constructs ), transport himself and others through it over massive distances, and can, if necessary, use it as a last-ditch prison dimension.

The seraglio is a hothouse from which he increasingly distances himself, trusting his wives no more than his eunuchs ( Letter 6 ).

Finishing second behind Dan Jansen in the overall standing of the first distances World Cup in 1986, Mey established himself at the 500 metres world top.

After those Olympics, Gulyayev found himself incapable of competing at the top level of international allround speed skating, so he switched his focus to the shorter sprinting distances.

Howard distances himself from his protagonist's viewpoint by describing himself as being " as working class as curry sauce, processed cheese slices and borrowing money from the credit union.

The distances of these points of light is a problem he cannot master, beyond crude conjectures as to the orderings of the planetary orbits viewed outward from earth.

The formal displacement of the geocentric principle far from being Copernicus' primary concern, was introduced only to resolve what seemed to him intolerable in orthodox astronomy, namely, the ' unphysical ' triplication of centric reference-points: one center from which the planet's distances were calculated, another around which planetary velocities were computed, and still a third center ( the earth ) from which the observations originated.

No attempts to measure the radio emission of the remaining planets have been reported, and, because of their distances, small diameters, or low temperatures, the thermal radiation at radio wave lengths reaching the earth from these sources is expected to be of very low intensity.

At greater distances from the sun, the situation is still less certain.

The distances are at least two inches from any edge of the specimen.

In Chaco Canyon, Chacoan developers quarried sandstone blocks and hauled timber from great distances, assembling 15 major complexes which remained the largest buildings in North America until the 19th century.

For galaxies ( which are of course themselves much larger than 10 parsecs, and whose overall brightness cannot be directly observed from relatively short distances ) the absolute magnitude is defined by reference to the apparent brightness of a point-like or star-like source of the same total luminosity as the galaxy, as it would appear if observed at the standard 10 parsecs distance.

Bow hunting differs markedly from hunting with firearms, as the distances between the hunter and the game are much shorter in order to ensure a humane kill.

Competitive archery involves shooting arrows at a target for accuracy from a set distance or distances.

Le Guin states that she derived the name from " answerable ," as the device would allow its users to receive answers to their messages in a reasonable amount of time, even over interstellar distances.

Black Crystals cut from the same mineral deposit could be " tuned " to sympathetically vibrate with each other instantly, even when separated by interstellar distances, allowing instantaneous telephone-like voice and data communication.

Also, in the real world, quark confinement prevents quarks from being separated by more than microscopic distances.

His application of reference lines, a diameter and a tangent is essentially no different than our modern use of a coordinate frame, where the distances measured along the diameter from the point of tangency are the abscissas, and the segments parallel to the tangent and intercepted between the axis and the curve are the ordinates.

Practical tip to screen distances may range from several centimeters to several meters, with increased detector area required at larger to subtend the same field of view.

Bluetooth is a proprietary open wireless technology standard for exchanging data over short distances ( using short-wavelength radio transmissions in the ISM band from 2400 – 2480 MHz ) from fixed and mobile devices, creating personal area networks ( PANs ) with high levels of security.

These vast distances from the sea have had a profound impact on Chad's historical and contemporary development.

The canals caused price convergence between different regions because of their reduction in transportation costs, which allowed Americans to ship and buy goods from farther distances for much lower prices compared to before.

At the western entrance to the Augustaeum was the Milion, a vaulted monument from which distances were measured across the Eastern Roman Empire.

Specifically, after acknowledging the various popular theories in vogue at the time, of how atoms were reasoned to attach to each other, i. e. " hooked atoms ", " glued together by rest ", or " stuck together by conspiring motions ", Newton states that he would rather infer from their cohesion, that " particles attract one another by some force, which in immediate contact is exceedingly strong, at small distances performs the chemical operations, and reaches not far from the particles with any sensible effect.

Most material ejected from the crater is deposited within a few crater radii, but a small fraction may travel large distances at high velocity, and in large impacts it may exceed escape velocity and leave the impacted planet or moon entirely.

Corcovado hill lies just west of the city center but is wholly within the city limits and visible from great distances.