(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.
Far
Definition:
(n.) A young pig, or a litter of pigs.
(a.) Distant in any direction; not near; remote; mutually separated by a wide space or extent.
(a.) Remote from purpose; contrary to design or wishes; as, far be it from me to justify cruelty.
(a.) Remote in affection or obedience; at a distance, morally or spiritually; t enmity with; alienated.
(a.) Widely different in nature or quality; opposite in character.
(a.) The more distant of two; as, the far side (called also off side) of a horse, that is, the right side, or the one opposite to the rider when he mounts.
(adv.) To a great extent or distance of space; widely; as, we are separated far from each other.
(adv.) To a great distance in time from any point; remotely; as, he pushed his researches far into antiquity.
(adv.) In great part; as, the day is far spent.
(adv.) In a great proportion; by many degrees; very much; deeply; greatly.
Example Sentences:
(1) These results indicated that the PG determination was the most accurate predictor of fetal lung well-being prior to birth among the clinical tests so far reported.
(2) As far as acrophase table is concerned for all enzymes and fractions the acrophase occurred during the night.
(3) A commensurate rise in both smoking and adenocarcinoma has occurred in the Far East where the incidence rate (40%) is twice that of North America or Europe.
(4) Brown's model, which goes far further than those from any other senior Labour figure, and the modest new income tax powers for Holyrood devised when he was prime minister, edge the party much closer to the quasi-federal plans championed by the Liberal Democrats.
(5) It contains 10,000 apartments so far, in blocks that might appear Soviet but for shades of blue, green and yellow.
(6) But not only did it post a larger loss than expected, Amazon also projected 7% to 18% revenue growth over the busiest shopping period of the year, a far cry from the 20%-plus pace that had convinced investors to overlook its persistent lack of profit in the past.
(7) Mary's grief, which lasts for about the first half of the two-hour premiere special, is the finest work of the series so far by Michelle Dockery.
(8) I hope I can play a major part in really highlighting the need for far more extensive family violence training within all organisations that deal with women and children, including the police and the department of human services,” Batty said.
(9) Reasons for non-acceptance do not indicate any major difficulties in the employment of such staff in general practice, at least as far as the patients are concerned.
(10) Little is so far known of the origin of this syndrome.
(11) Although there was already satisfaction in the development of dementia-friendly pharmacies and Pride in Practice, a new standard of excellence in healthcare for gay, lesbian and bisexual patients, the biggest achievement so far was the bringing together of a strategic partnership of 37 NHS, local government and social organisations.
(12) Unlikely, he laughs: "We were founded on the idea of distributing information as far as possible."
(13) US presidential election 2016: the state of the Republican race as the year begins Read more So far, the former secretary of state seems to be recovering well from self-inflicted wounds that dogged the start of her second, and most concerted, attempt for the White House.
(14) The aim of this paper is to demonstrate that the problems which arise from simultaneously developing regulatory and competitive approaches to health care cost containment can be solved, if recognized, and that those problems deserve more systematic investigation than they have so far received.
(15) In general, air from the mediastinum far more often enters the left pleural cavity than the right one.
(16) In the far east is the arid, depressed country leading down Hell’s Canyon, which bottoms out at the Snake River, which the wolves crossed when they moved from Idaho, and which they now treat more as a crosswalk than a barrier.
(17) We demonstrated that while the protein was incorporated into the cell layer at 6, 24, 48, and 72 hr, a far greater amount was secreted into the media.
(18) Still, even as unknowable as this decision may be for him, as any decision is, really, he is far more qualified to understand his desires and goals that would inform that decision than anyone else is.
(19) They include the Francoist slogan "Arriba España" and the yoke-and-arrows symbol of the far right Falange, whose members killed the women.
(20) For each of the goals, some were far from complying.