A common fiscal policy remains a distant dream, as does a genuine political union.

For the first time in its troubled history, Romania has nothing to fear from its neighbours. Russia, the hereditary enemy, now seems far away and consumed by its domestic troubles.

Russia, the hereditary enemy, now seems far away and consumed by its domestic troubles.

The French perceive Europe as distant, technocratic, and often the Trojan horse of liberal globalization and deindustrialization.

As a result, Full recovery still looks a very long way off, he warned.

The event was carried out in an atmosphere far from the debate about the possible halt of a project to widen the Canal.

We have often been promised dramatic cuts in CO2 emissions far into the future, only to see the promises vanish when we got there.

Utopian schemes such as a global government or a global bank answerable to all nations are a distant dream.

When wealth, houses, cars and a good life are distant dreams, he sees no future, only doubts, illusions and frustrations

Most people s only goal is to survive the journey a lofty, and in many cases, unobtainable hope.

Certainly, the news and images of drowned migrants were dreadful but the tragedy occurring south of Italy, Greece, and Malta, seemed a long way off.

After all, if you walk along Tel Aviv s beaches, the dramas of Hamas controlled Gaza and Hezbollah controlled southern Lebanon seem so far away.

In the Pacific, Vanuatu and the Solomon Islands, at the far southeastern margin of the malaria endemic zone, have embarked on an eradication campaign with support from the Australian government.

Indeed, 2010 will determine whether US President Barack Obama s vision of a nuclear free world will remain a distant but achievable hope, or must be abandoned.

For too many people the dream of home ownership has become all too distant, and the indignity of rough sleeping remains all too real.

Although the notion that Armenians and Azerbaijanis are unable to live together is commonplace, that is very far from the truth outside the conflict zone.

In Colombia s south where the heavy presence of illegal armed groups makes social peace a distant dream I went to visit a secondary school, as part of a needs assessment.

Whatever the scenario that ends the calm, today s age of low volatility will seem like a distant dream to most of us and a forgotten nightmare for ambitious financial traders.

And it was really moving. And this picture here was taken the final night from a distant cliff about two miles away, where the contents of the capsule were being beamed into space.

For us, the elections in the US are still far from the biggest concern, and most of our focus goes to the fight with our athletes, which it perceived as a far more serious swipe at Russia by the West.

In contrast, it might be more difficult for a migrant in a distant country to assess the extent to which family members back home, knowing that they can always rely on the remittances, are responsible for other forms of income loss.

But, despite the best efforts of governments, reaching those goals by the 2015 target date still remains a distant prospect for many countries, not the least of in Africa.

This time, in fact, the smartphone tablet story is associated with a sense of foreboding, for the wealth that these devices generate seems to be concentrated among a tiny number of tech entrepreneurs who probably live in a faraway country.

That threat might seem far off while growth continues at relatively high rates but, unless workers see the benefit of their labors in the form of improved living conditions, protests could ensue.

After Macchako's family lost their house in that very conflict, they stayed with relatives for several days. After that, they moved to an acquaintance's house in the mountains of the rural and remote Shimane Prefecture, where they lived as evacuees until the end of the war.

An individual who didn t distinguish between his or her own child and an unknown child in a faraway land who felt the same love and the same obligation toward both would hardly be human anymore.