How To Use Far-flung In A Sentence
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And the club has been receiving messages of support from far-flung corners of the globe.
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On the ground she was fêted with lavish hospitality by friends waiting at every far-flung airfield to whisk her off to a celebratory feast.
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Sure enough, the book has sex, death, trains and double-crosses in far-flung corners of Nazi-occupied Europe.
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Once upon a time the peasant had been incorporated into the community as a full member, with all the far-flung consequences we considered earlier.
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'World Heritage Sites' (Firefly Books, 2011) takes readers on a tour of the planet's highlights, from the famous (Egypt's pyramids) to the more far-flung (the Wrangel Island reserve in the Arctic, home to many walruses and ancestral polar-bear dens).
An Armchair Tour of World Wonders
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Newspapers originated in early modern Europe as periodic merchants' letters, circulating information about prices, shipments, and commodities among far-flung commercial entrepôts.
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Its production on the moon would enable rockets to re-fuel on their way to far-flung corners of the earth's solar system.
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Some companies with the wherewithal to avoid taxes by magicking profits to some far-flung destination do precisely that.
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But the walls aren't just a protective cocoon for far-flung outposts; ballistic windows offer protection while giving Marines a line of sight and the ability to fire downrange, meaning McCurdy's Armor can be deployed as both a defensive stronghold as well as a tactical firing position.
Neatorama
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In recent decades, it has colonized such far-flung places as Cape Cod, and in 1999 one was captured in New York City's Central Park.
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And what of that other unknown element we find glowing green in the far-flung nebulae -- green as that we had just passed through -- and that we call nebulium?
The Moon Pool
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He is scruffy, self-effacing and funny and conjures up all of these attributes in his perennially popular excursions to far-flung corners of the globe.
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Basing her work on far-flung archives, Ms. Jasanoff takes us on a global voyage from North America to Europe, Africa and even India — and back again — as her subjects cross and recross the Atlantic in search of an elusive utopia.
The Refugees Who Built an Empire
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Yet he could still turn up unannounced at any time in a bar in a far-flung corner of the Highlands with a fiddle under his chin.
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Our job is to organize the company's far-flung offices.
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Even the rare soi-disant "butcher shops" obtain their goods from far-flung and unidentified sources, the product often pre-cut and pre-packaged and pre-almost-everything.
Neil Zevnik: Small Town Hearts in the Big City: A Slow Food Tale
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After an extensive search extending over two or three days I usually come across him in a far-flung corner of the store, trying to root out an obscure type of soy sauce.
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But if you are dreaming of a speedy sale before heading for some far-flung beach, you might have to think again.
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Daily re ports came in from Constantin Demiris ' far-flung empire.
A KNIFE BETWEEN THE RIBS
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It makes a change from the beer-swilling, girl-chasing, drugs-flirting image that he has specialised in back home before disappearing to far-flung parts for his gap year.
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far-flung corners of the Empire
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Some has been spent on a fleet of vans to bring services to far-flung places.
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But for others it can be a difficult period, particularly for those who have lost a loved one or have relations living in the far-flung corners of the world.
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You have to climb far-flung mountain ranges or trek across the desert.
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So they can come with time off work and probably on an expense account, even to a far-flung location.
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Best part of my job Styling models in far-flung locations.
The Sun
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And surmounting a higher ledge beyond this upthrust a huge dome of dull gold, Cyclopean, striking eyes and mind with something unhumanly alien, baffling; sending the mind groping, as though across the deserts of space, from some far-flung star, should fall upon us linked sounds, coherent certainly, meaningful surely, vaguely familiar -- yet never to be translated into any symbol or thought of our own particular planet.
The Moon Pool
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Haller is a Lincoln Lawyer, a criminal defense attorney who operates out of the backseat of his Lincoln Town Car, traveling between the far-flung courthouses of Los Angeles to defend clients of every kind.
The Lincoln Lawyer: Summary and book reviews of The Lincoln Lawyer by Michael Connelly.
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My own heritage is more far-flung, encompassing Wales, England, Germany, and Hungary, as well as countries in eastern Europe that no longer exist, having been bisected and trisected by countless wars.
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State-owned railways and state-funded irrigation schemes helped make farming viable on this far-flung frontier.
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Discarded plastic bags uglify our public spaces, clog our most far-flung beaches.
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Cards loaded in sterling are recommended for use in far-flung destinations, where payment from the card will be converted into the local currency.
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All this may play well to the sensitivities and self-esteem of the far-flung townsfolk in the rest of the country.
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the West's far-flung mountain ranges
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RENEE MONTAGNE, host: Bill Bryson is an author known for exploring far-flung places.
At Bryson's House, 'Home' Is Where The History Is
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The exhibition is arranged to present a number of narratives, beginning with the devotees setting out from far-flung corners of the earth.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Except that texts confirm the fact, we would not know they are members of the far-flung tribe.
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He visited the far-flung corners of his empire, bucking up his troops but also stamping out incipient rebellions.
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His CV is littered with victories in far-flung places and obscure races.
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A more apt context in which to situate the 1960s projects is the realm of similarly category-resistant works by a far-flung confraternity of independent artists.
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He doubtless will go on about the need to replenish reserves from far-flung parts of the world.
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Other able researchers were members of our “moveable feast” research seminar over the five years of this project, analyzing data and reviewing far-flung literatures in sociology, psychology, political science, history, constitutional law, philosophy, theology, and yet more.
American Grace
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Filming in such far-flung locations can be dangerous.
The Sun
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The trading networks which played such a crucial role in the development of the Muslim empire were able to carry new ideas to far-flung corners of the world.
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He didn't care for the preservation of peasant songs in this far-flung outcrop of Europe: four ducats a song, however, he could not refuse.
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And what of that other unknown element we find glowing green in the far-flung nebulae — green as that we had just passed through — and that we call nebulium?
The Moon Pool
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The brothers had spectacularly yo-yoing lives, but all the expeditions to far-flung places and fraternal love-hatred have not been harnessed into a shapely book.
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The scouting reports she was pouring over had nothing to do with far-flung picket ships reporting back targets of opportunity.
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Battalions of rig builders, engineers, and drillers were airlifted into far-flung, often dangerous, sites.
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Klein and Reid's inspiration comes from such far-flung sources as American diner china, antique Asian celadons, and Dutch tulipieres, which inspired their crushingly elegant series of rose bowls and tulip vases.
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far-flung trading operations
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The news spread to all corners of our far-flung empire.
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 Lyra leads her women across the ruins of a future New York, revealing the deaths of the “overmen” and encountering a group of male savages, apparently emulating the long-dead Wolverine, still overexposed in the far-flung future.
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Her fame has reached the most far-flung corners of the globe.
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Because of their small numbers - a few hundred - and their remoteness in sparsely inhabited fringes of the Sahara, the far-flung combatants were long regarded as a less potent threat than the main al-Qaeda units inside Algeria, and far less worrisome than Pakistan - and Afghanistan-based militants more directly tied to bin Laden.
'Emir of the south' Abu Zeid poised to take over al-Qaeda in NW Africa
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Public schools back then had to prepare boys for a life that would see them squatting in a muddy trench being shot at, or dying of diphtheria in some far-flung corner of the empire.
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Geography and mapping was important to a dynasty that had far-flung outposts to administer.
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Far-flung outposts include the Canary Islands and two north African enclaves called Melilla and Ceuta.
At-a-glance guide to Spain
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Taking on the chaplaincy is a big challenge, as the University is in a sense a far-flung organisation, with many students living some distance out of the town, and many on part-time courses, and considerable difficulties to be faced in trying to establish contact with the Catholics among them and communicate the message that there is a Chaplaincy there for them, a centre for evangelisation and faith.....
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He doubtless will go on about the need to replenish reserves from far-flung parts of the world.
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Rumors reach Jerusalem that Paul was preaching to the Gentiles in the far-flung corners of the Roman Empire.
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And when they do hit the news, it is often for questionable behaviour in far-flung corners of the world.
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Having gap-yeared and backpacked around far-flung destinations, young safari trippers crave more than adventure.
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Unlike Howie, Madeline had resurfaced a handful of times, demanding money in far-flung locales, and twice Beth and Hammer had flown wherever it was and tried in vain to intercept her.
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The news spread to all corners of our far-flung empire.
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The result is that patients from far-flung areas have begun to displace local patients, causing the latter to be shunted elsewhere or simply refused admission.
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Sports fans are like some new species of migratory bird, season after season winging across the world to some far-flung field to unfurl the flag and imbibe the beer.
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Casting the net for Nessie has meant research extending not only to the four corners of Britain, but to loci as far-flung as Canada and Australia.
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The family came to prominence when Francesco della Rovere, a Franciscan friar from an obscure noble family based in the far-flung Marche region, became Pope in 1471.
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So, for a last chance to jive and mingle with the last remaining fellow citizens from far-flung corners of the globe, get there now!
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In our rush to forge new businesses in far-flung destinations, we must not neglect trading partners closer to hand.
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Our first big influx of Ended Auctions means our first big "outflux" of items needing packaging and posting off to far-flung places around the globe.
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My far-flung net of significant others helps me to find meaning and purpose in a random and chancy world, and I hope I reciprocate to some degree.
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Each innovative, far-flung album such as Vuelvaland's ambient textures intertwined with techno beats, dub, and Krautrock.
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It is also that he has fully embraced the sporting rivalry between the mother country and the far-flung descendants of its Victorian criminals.
The Sun
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Marooned in this far-flung corner of the world by the tyranny of distance and outrageous airfares, the only way to get out of it is to, well, get out of it.
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A holiday company that specialises in rail journeys to far-flung locations could soon be sold for up to 50m.
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On the outside, things will be less copacetic, as Nancy's plan to reunite her far-flung family won't go smoothly, as not everyone will want to see her.
Mega Buzz: Mentalist's Red John Dilemma, Weeds' Family Trials and Minds' Return
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You have to climb far-flung mountain ranges or trek across the desert.
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Read this site carefully, especially when visiting a far-flung country that you know little about.
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Marooned in this far-flung corner of the world by the tyranny of distance and outrageous airfares, the only way to get out of it is to, well, get out of it.
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But if you are dreaming of a speedy sale before heading for some far-flung beach, you might have to think again.
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Others are pioneering expeditions to far-flung corners.
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These characters were from far-flung corners of the world, and each had their own fighting styles.
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Being a mirthful mundivagant of sorts, I decided it was high time to don my gallant gumboots, garish gunnysack, and goose-down garb to take a gander at some far-flung places in need of my presence.
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The Centre must also realise that people in far-flung corners of the country are as important as those in Uttar Pradesh or Karnataka.
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It sits at the centre of a network of roads leading to far-flung corners of the tribal region.
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All the far-flung stars must be cataloged, so as to chart a course for sailors over the oceans of the Earth.
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Hogarth's `business trip' had been a visit to one of the more far-flung regions to purchase a mail order bride.
TICKLED PINK
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What if you want to share some of those family pictures with far-flung family members?
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Want to brush up on your management skills, but posted in some far-flung corner of the world?
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Rumors reach Jerusalem that Paul was preaching to the Gentiles in the far-flung corners of the Roman Empire.
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And as she had expected, for Magatha was no fool, the tauren in more far-flung places such as Feralas and of course the druidic stronghold Moonglade had already begun their rebellion.
The Shattering
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He yearned for years to link his far-flung programming assets with satellite distribution in the U.S.
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While he sits at the apex, it is likely that his top deputies and their lieutenants are largely responsible for coordinating the activities of the far-flung cells.
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The streets were thick with cabs, the sidewalks clogged with tourists speaking languages as far-flung as Ukrainian and the slightly closer-to-home dialect known as Brooklynese.
Georgia’s Kitchen
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The Wari are described as a militaristic state that conquered many groups, built roads to facilitate travel, and managed their far-flung territories through a combination of local lords and heartland bureaucrats living in state built installations.
Digging at Peru's Cerro Mejía
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The unit was noted not only for its hard-fighting abilities, but also for its varied and far-flung field of service, stretching from tidewater Virginia all the way to the plains of Texas.
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It never ceases to amaze me why people feel they have to travel to far-flung corners of the country to go on a good shopping spree.
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The data net is so low-tech that it has to overnight mug shots of terrorists to far-flung offices.
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The far-flung views offer one of the most superb blends of seascape and mountain possible.
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Another day, another drilling report from one of our oil explorers in some far-flung corner of the globe.
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Zig-zag roads and serpentine rivers criss-crossing different valleys of this far-flung district, make the landscape even more fascinating.
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She recalled that nasty little Kipper fellow saying he wanted his own wife to live in some far-flung godforsaken village.
THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
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Using his clipped voice and precise prose, he brings to life conflicts and tragedies from far-flung locations.
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‘The number of dead is expected to rise as we go into the far-flung and inaccessible areas,’ he said.
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Mr. Martino's is one of a dozen such services thriving on Calabrian mothers' steely determination: to cater, literally, to their far-flung adult children.
Italian Mammas Put Meals on Wheels, Say 'Mangia!' to Faraway Offspring
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Power is vested in him through the votes of far-flung football federations.
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The dynamic boom in global investing and bank lending that fueled far-flung industrialization during the nineties has tapered off dramatically.
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Her pages are packed with the stories of bewildered individuals who, finding themselves in difficulties on a variety of far-flung frontiers, struggle to adjust to their immediate situation.
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Her fame has reached the most far-flung corners of the globe.
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Or that we just have to take more arts to more places in far-flung regions.
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The age that stippled the continent of Europe with buildings of incomparable beauty, massive and soaring and delicate all at once, that invented the university, and far-flung capitalism, and the chivalric romance; that gave us the great and wise Dante and the greater and wiser addle-pated Francis, that age had to be "honored" with papers on "fecopoetics" and "menstruating male mystics" and Xena, Warrior Princess.
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Rather than dreaming about the far-flung places she will visit on her journey, which include Brazil and New Zealand, the level-headed yachtswoman says she will be concentrating on practicalities.
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Here's a selection of far-flung locations that offer at least a few of the comforts of home.
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He visited the far-flung corners of his empire, bucking up his troops but also stamping out incipient rebellions.
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Bon Dieu, they surely were not attempting to emulate the Welsh in far-flung outposts!
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Email enables far-flung friends to keep in touch.
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He doubtless will go on about the need to replenish reserves from far-flung parts of the world.
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With five of us it was only a few hours of work, and I had a great time watching the more athletic ones hang from branches trying to grab that last far-flung, beautifully ripe orange.
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One of the risks of far-flung markets with poor regulation is a lack of dependable financial data.
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‘Our nature consists in motion,’ wrote Pascal - a pensée purring beneath the far-flung dispatches of his first book.
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This allegedly causes supply shortages, which lead to higher soy prices, causing people in far-flung markets like Brazil to deforest more land for profit from soy.
Josh Tickell: Where's My Orangutan? Why Biofuels Don't Kill Apes
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For they did look devilishly far-flung, except for Visbec.
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It does not matter if a bookshop is located in an obscure alley or a far-flung locality as long as a discount has been announced or a rare book is known to be available.
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The sprawling army ordnance community—known as the ordnance corps—was a network of arsenals, laboratories, and far-flung commands that together had evolved into an empire within the armed services, replete with its own biases and mores.
The Gun
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So they can come with time off work and probably on an expense account, even to a far-flung location.
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But she has compensations: there's never a dull moment; she's always read everything; the clothes she gets sick of and passes on are fantastic, as are the presents from far-flung lands.
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While monster-hunting on this far-flung island's shores in 1998, I was enthralled to see otters gambolling playfully in the sand dunes.
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For, as we know, English was born of “mixt” and “mangeled” tongues, and has only grown increasingly “mixt” since then—perhaps especially during the Renaissance, when far-flung non-Indo-European “tungs” added long lists of new reasons for some to cheer and others to despair.
The English Is Coming!
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Buyers sick of the dismal British weather are increasingly buying homes in far-flung destinations.
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And surmounting a higher ledge beyond this upthrust a huge dome of dull gold, Cyclopean, striking eyes and mind with something unhumanly alien, baffling; sending the mind groping, as though across the deserts of space, from some far-flung star, should fall upon us linked sounds, coherent certainly, meaningful surely, vaguely familiar — yet never to be translated into any symbol or thought of our own particular planet.
The Moon Pool
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He visited the far-flung corners of his empire, bucking up his troops but also stamping out incipient rebellions.
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To take action in a far-flung country he will be urged to form a coalition of superheroes with local support.
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Discarded plastic bags uglify our public spaces, clog our most far-flung beaches.
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I have paid visits, including the occasional prolonged one, to friends and family in far-flung corners of foreign provinces.
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From an early age I could picture myself in a helmet and flak jacket, bringing the latest dispatches from far-flung battlefields as the tracer fire soars overhead.
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Yet he could still turn up unannounced at any time in a bar in a far-flung corner of the Highlands with a fiddle under his chin.
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One friend, a lawyer, swears by e-mail because it helps her keep in touch with far-flung friends.
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A diving photographer looms over a spectacular sea garden off the coast of Ambon, an island in a far-flung corner of eastern Indonesia.
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With images that stir such flights of fancy, it's no wonder that Scotland's far-flung locations are a magnet for film-makers.
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Power is vested in him through the votes of far-flung football federations.
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The company has struggled for years to prove that synergies among branches justify the inherent unwieldiness of a far-flung conglomerate.
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One cannot escape the feeling that, for these slim tales, appearance between these covers is a kind of cacophonous family reunion, where the relatives have long been far-flung across continents, and yet immediately have thousands of things to say.
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Ever since then, linguists have found all sorts of evidence that these far-flung languages must have sprung from some common source.
