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  • adjective comparative form of remote: more remote

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Examples

  • During all the time I was at the front I never once remember any P.S.U.C. adherent showing me hostility because I was P.O.U.M. That kind of thing belonged in Barcelona or in places even remoter from the war.

    Homage to Catalonia 1938

  • Putting aside for the moment all question as to the respective status of the several parts of the Empire, whether before or after 1926, whether before or after the war, whether now or in remoter years, has not the really essential issue always been for an Empire so diverse, so widely scattered as our own has been, to devise means that policy can be so built up and ordered as to preclude or reduce to a minimum the possibility of disagreement between any of our peoples on any question of capital importance, or on any series of questions leading up to such an issue?

    Canada and Great Britain 1929

  • Mars is older than our earth, with scarcely a quarter of the superficial area and remoter from the sun, it necessarily follows that it is not only more distant from time’s beginning but nearer its end.

    The War Of The Worlds by H. G. Wells | Solar Flare: Science Fiction News 2005

  • “Thousands of illustrious families,” a newspaper lamented in 1834, “are compelled to take the situation of tenants, or are scattered into factories, and into the kitchens of the rich—or, more happily for them, driven in exile to the remoter West.”

    A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

  • The central idea had come to him the night before, and he was now reveling in the planning of the remoter, minor details.

    Winged Blackmail 2010

  • But it was their remoter, complicated desires and mental processes that obfuscated him.

    Chun Ah Chun 2010

  • He was put on the island with four other males because there are too few females among those rescued, and the project did not want to sexually overload the groups that have been reintroduced to the even remoter forest.

    Mike Arkus: Going Ape in Central Africa: Meeting Our Closest Cousins in the Near-Wild Within Easy Reach of Major Cities Mike Arkus 2010

  • Many of these she has either cared for herself or overseen their care, sometimes even by phone to remoter parts of Aceh.

    Rio Helmi: Robin Lim: Obsessions of a Hero Rio Helmi 2011

  • Contracted police trainers often cannot or will not operate in nonpermissive environments, thus confning their training to the capital city or secure areas while leaving unsecured remoter areas of a country without desperately needed police trainers and mentors, as is often the case in Iraq and Afghanistan today.

    David Isenberg: The Liability of Using a PMC to Do Foreign Police Training David Isenberg 2010

  • Contracted police trainers often cannot or will not operate in nonpermissive environments, thus confning their training to the capital city or secure areas while leaving unsecured remoter areas of a country without desperately needed police trainers and mentors, as is often the case in Iraq and Afghanistan today.

    David Isenberg: The Liability of Using a PMC to Do Foreign Police Training David Isenberg 2010

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