What's the difference between afar and people?

Afar


Definition:

  • (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.

People


Definition:

  • (n.) The body of persons who compose a community, tribe, nation, or race; an aggregate of individuals forming a whole; a community; a nation.
  • (n.) Persons, generally; an indefinite number of men and women; folks; population, or part of population; as, country people; -- sometimes used as an indefinite subject or verb, like on in French, and man in German; as, people in adversity.
  • (n.) The mass of comunity as distinguished from a special class; the commonalty; the populace; the vulgar; the common crowd; as, nobles and people.
  • (n.) One's ancestors or family; kindred; relations; as, my people were English.
  • (n.) One's subjects; fellow citizens; companions; followers.
  • (v. t.) To stock with people or inhabitants; to fill as with people; to populate.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The percentage of people with less than 10 TU titers is under 5% after the age of 5 years up to 15 years; from 15 to 60 years there are no subjects with undetectable ASO titer and after this age the percentage is still under 5%.
  • (2) This may have significant consequences for people’s health.” However, Prof Peter Weissberg, medical director of the British Heart Foundation, which funded the work, said medical journals could no longer be relied on to be unbiased.
  • (3) It afflicted 312,000 people and claimed 3200 lives.
  • (4) The sound of the ambulance frightened us, especially us children, and panic gripped the entire community: people believe that whoever is taken into the ambulance to the hospital will die – you so often don’t see them again.
  • (5) I'm married to an Irish woman, and she remembers in the atmosphere stirred up in the 1970s people spitting on her.
  • (6) Would people feel differently about it if, for instance, it happened on Boxing Day or Christmas Eve?
  • (7) Then a handful of organisers took a major bet on the power of people – calling for the largest climate change mobilisation in history to kick-start political momentum.
  • (8) People should ask their MP to press the government for a speedier response.
  • (9) Hoursoglou thinks a shortage of skilled people with a good grounding in core subjects such as maths and science is a potential problem for all manufacturers.
  • (10) This frees the student to experience the excitement and challenge of learning and the joy of helping people.
  • (11) People have grown very fond of the first and fifth amendments,” she reports.
  • (12) But the sports minister has been clear that too many sports bodies are currently not delivering in bringing new people from all backgrounds to their sport.
  • (13) The way we are going to pay for that is by making the rules the same for people who go into care homes as for people who get care at their home, and by means-testing the winter fuel payment, which currently isn’t.” Hunt said the plan showed the Conservatives were capable of making difficult choices.
  • (14) She was organised, good with people, very grown up and quickly proved herself to be indispensable.
  • (15) Suggested is a carefully prepared system of cycling videocassettes, to effect the dissemination of current medical information from leading medical centers to medical and paramedical people in the "bush".
  • (16) There have been numerous documented cases of people being forced to seek hospital treatment after eating meat contaminated with high concentrations of clenbuterol.
  • (17) (Predictive value positive refers to the proportion of all people identified who actually have the disease.)
  • (18) According to some reports as many as 30 people were killed in the explosion, although that figure could not be independently confirmed.
  • (19) In documents due to be published by the bank, it will signal a need to shed costs from a business that employs 10,000 people as it scrambles to return to profit.
  • (20) The high frequency of increased PCV number in San, S.A. Negroes and American Negroes is in keeping with the view that the Khoisan peoples (here represented by the San), the Southern African Negroes and the African ancestors of American Blacks sprang from a common proto-negriform stock.

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