(adv.) At, to, or from a great distance; far away; -- often used with from preceding, or off following; as, he was seen from afar; I saw him afar off.
Example Sentences:
(1) Iraqi police have also executed detainees in Tal Afar and government-allied militias opened fire on a mosque in the Khanaqin district northeast of Baghdad killing 73 men and boys, Pansieri said.
(2) Until now, at least for those watching from afar, the Trump show has been a spectacle.
(3) It also was recovered from El Bur and one with similar microscopic characters has been seen in Chad and also in "territoire français des Afars et des Issas".
(4) Changing the political landscape is going to take much longer than organising a fundraiser from afar.
(5) Erotomania, the persistent delusion of being loved from afar by another person, has defied easy categorization for years.
(6) In March, Page told Bloomberg that his experience on the ground doing deals in Russia and Central Asia would make him better placed to give advice than “people from afar, sitting in the comfort of their think tanks in Washington”.
(7) Word spread of an uprising to challenge the park development and we went to watch from afar, uninvested.
(8) Whether witnessed close-up, as in Mitchell's case, or from afar, in the exaltation of Sir Ranulph as he escorts his wig to the Antarctic, a narrow model of male prowess is actively damaging huge numbers of non-dominant, powerless or jobless men, who struggle, the charity explains, when they are unable to meet expectations.
(9) Based in Paris – ostensibly the city of love – she will travel anywhere in France and provide a photographer to capture the point at which the question is popped, snapping the couple from afar as marriage is proposed – for €400.
(10) It is a purposeful, proactive designation by other people – often strangers – who see you from afar and admire some quality.
(11) Better to blockade and pummel from afar, if the sanctity of human life is not a concern.
(12) The 21 photographs posted on a website that frequently carries official statements from the Islamic State group document the destruction in Mosul and the town of Tal Afar.
(13) But Michael Gove continued to rely on him from afar and, when Coulson resigned, the education secretary rapidly appointed him.
(14) It is easier, after all, to upbraid a Chinese writer from afar than to risk public scorn and official disapproval in America by upholding the rights of Bradley Manning .
(15) On the marshy plain near Gewani significantly higher infection rates occur among Afar females than males.
(16) The power station will become a big Westfield with a shopping centre inside.” But Tincknell says the height of the new buildings will be capped at 60 metres, which means the brick colossus’s four white chimneys will be visible from afar.
(17) Residents of Tal Afar, a city north-west of Mosul with a large Shia population, said reinforcements, most of them Shia irregulars, had been flown in to try to regain control from Isis jihadists who took the city on Monday.
(18) During an entomological survey conducted in French Territory of Afars and Issas from November 1973 to June 1975, eight Anopheles species were collected: A. rhodesiensis, A. azaniae, A. dthali, A. macmahoni, A. gambiae, A. turkhudi, A. salbaii and A. pharoensis.
(19) The preliminary results of an entomological survey of the potential arbovirus vectors in the French Territory of Afars and Issas are exposed.
(20) Maliki pledged that Tal Afar would be retaken by Thursday, and fighting late on Wednesday appeared to be tipping the battle in favour of Iraqi forces.
Alar
Definition:
(a.) Pertaining to, or having, wings.
(a.) Axillary; in the fork or axil.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the infant and small child, when most repairs are done, nose tip projection is due more to the alar dome component than to the columella.
(2) We conclude that the alar plate of the prosencephalon at 7-10 stage is not definitively determined and may retain an ability to differentiate into the optic tectum, whereas the prospective fate of the rhombencephalon has already been determined at 7-10 stage.
(3) Functional loss of the alar ligaments indicates a potential for instability which, however, must be determined in conjunction with other clinical findings, such as neurological dysfunction, pain and deformity.
(4) Conflicting guidelines for excisions about the alar base led us to develop calibrated alar base excision, a modification of Weir's approach.
(5) After transection of the left alar ligament, the percentage increases in neutral zones (NZ) and ranges of motion (ROM) were documented at both the C0-1 and C1-2 joints.
(6) For the same joint, cutting of the left alar ligament resulted in a significant increase in neutral zone in right lateral bending but not in left lateral bending, whereas there were no significant increases in the ranges of motion.
(7) The CD system using sacral pedicle and alar screws in the adult patient does not appear to offer advantages over alternative techniques for achieving arthrodesis to the sacrum for adult deformity.
(8) Comparing right and left axial rotations, after transection of the left alar ligament, showed greater percentage increases for the right, as compared to the left, axial rotation, at both C0-C1 and C1-C2 joints.
(9) In this case, there was bony avulsion of the alar ligament from the occipital condyle.
(10) In such cases, full-thickness resection of the alar bases is necessary.
(11) In the craniocervical joint, the alar and transverse ligaments provide much of the stability of the healthy spine.
(12) The removal of ear cartilage is performed via a posterior approach for the concha cartilage associated with a septum or an alar cartilage removal.
(13) Both the transverse and the alar ligaments consist of collagen fibers, with very few elastic fibers in the peripheral layer.
(14) Ruptures of the alar ligaments were typically involved in extended ruptures of the ligamentous apparatus (see Figure 6a involving the ligamentum apicis dentis, ligamentum transversum atlantis, m.atlanto-occipitalis anterior, m.tectoria, m.atlanto-axialis anterior et posterior).
(15) Where the inferior view shows a "tent tip" skyline, lateral crus advancement is required and can be achieved in asynchronous repairs by Pigott alar leapfrog at primary repair or by Potter V-Y advancement at the time of forked flap columella lengthening.
(16) Results of directly excising the alar rim and its indications are presented with adequate follow-up.
(17) This result does not agree with the long-held hypothesis that axial rotation is limited only by the alar on the side opposite rotation.
(18) The facial artery terminated as an angular facial artery in 34 (68%), a lateral nasal vessel in 13 (26%), and a superior labial vessel in 2 (4%); in 1 (2%) the facial artery terminated at the alar base.
(19) The purpose of this in vitro experimental study was to determine the role of alar ligaments in providing flexion, extension, and lateral bending stability to the upper cervical spine.
(20) Increases due to subsequent cutting of the right alar ligament were, on average, only 0.5 degrees and statistically not significant.