• The sum of it was a too distant cousin of the German biergarten ideal I sought.

    BBC: The wiedergeburt (rebirth) of New York��s biergartens

  • That is essentially the century-old idea of Progressivism, and of its not-too-distant cousin, fascism.

    WSJ: Best of the Web Today: Fascism by the Numbers

  • In 1985 Wayne Dumond was convicted of raping a teenager, a distant cousin of Mr Clinton's.

    ECONOMIST: Mike Huckabee throws his hat in

  • This is instead a teachable moment not only for football, but also for its distant cousin, soccer.

    FORBES: What Soccer Can Learn From the NFL Referee Lockout

  • He was also a distant cousin of former Vice President Al Gore.

    BBC: US author Gore Vidal dies aged 86

  • The drug is a synthetic version of interferon gamma-1b, a distant cousin of the more famous virus fighter used against hepatitis and cancer.

    FORBES: Scar Wars

  • Consider, for example, what has recently become the biggest security concern of this and many other countries: transnational terrorism (as well as organized crime, its not-so-distant cousin).

    FORBES: Current Events

  • The results were more of a distant cousin to the Manhattan, with his version of a Trilby having a distinct smoky flavour from Islay scotch and the Tipperary being slightly more herbal, thanks to chartreuse.

    BBC: The Manhattan mistake most people make

  • That took place some years after her death when France's Henry IV ordered them for his wife, Maria de' Medici, Caterina's distant cousin who was to become the last Florentine queen of France.

    ECONOMIST: Renaissance tapestries

  • By the time he reached his late teens, Philip's dashing looks were turning heads, including the 13-year-old distant cousin (they are both great, great grandchildren of Queen Victoria) who would later become his bride.

    CNN: Prince Philip: The man behind the queen

  • His claim to the English throne was based on the assertion it had been promised to him in 1051 by his distant cousin Edward the Confessor - a promise that Harold, Duke of Wessex, had sworn to uphold, he said.

    BBC: 1087: William 'the Conqueror' dies

  • They also bear witness to the peculiar sexual arrangements in the house, in which Roosevelt (Bill Murray), carried from room to room by a servant, appears to be having relations with his secretary, Missy LeHand (Elizabeth Marvel), and also with his distant cousin Daisy Suckley (Laura Linney).

    NEWYORKER: Hyde Park on Hudson

  • It is paradise without a passport (if you are an American) and it calls my name on every cold winter's day walking around New York's distant archipelago cousin, where I live and work.

    BBC: This is Hawaii week

  • Even with our potentially top player on injured reserve (the Atlantic sturgeon is currently under a commercial fishing ban), companies like Sterling, Tsar Nicoulai and Seattle Caviar are offering subtle, very caviary-tasting roe from the Pacific Coast white sturgeon, the lake sturgeon of the Great Lakes and the Mississippi, and even from the oddly abundant paddlefish, a distant sturgeon cousin.

    FORBES: Roe Rage

  • But I'll admit that I look more like a chimp than I look like my cousin the shrimp or my distant kin the lichens or the snowy egret or the moss.

    NPR: Serenading Science In A New Rock Album

  • This weekend I was visiting with family, including a cousin who recalled his not-so-distant high-school football days.

    WSJ: Tom Brady, Kurt Warner: Football, Fathers and the Future

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