My much older siblings would return home from college, usually with interesting new friends from far-off places who could be relied on to entertain and dazzle me.
When news of the incident spread, other migrant workers - most from far-off Sichuan province - went on the rampage, says the BBC's Michael Bristow in Beijing.
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"That unhappiness, far from being off-putting, can actually be a peg on which your feelings of love can hang, " he says.
His showy populism, unseemly slanging matches with the judiciary and bunga-bunga parties now seem to come from a far-off era in a faraway land.
But no help came from that far-off time, and Bartholomew not knowing what he should otherwise do continued to visit the lonely and the sick, to repeat the Te Deum, the Creed, the Litany.
The whole scene, the sad story that had brought them together, was framed for her for a moment as if from some far-off future perspective, and her rage against Yvonne washed out of her.
The reality is that complex wearable computers still seem very far off from mass market consumption.
The design language of the device is simple, clean and, frankly, not too far off from the previous nano.
For one thing, it already had the white-and-green thing going, and ricotta is not all that far off from goat cheese.
Far from putting travellers off, Mr Gous believes the romance of the Leonardo Di Caprio movie has inspired cruise line enthusiasts.
But her case appears to be far from a one off occurrence.
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It's not far off from what Janet Murguia had to say.
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But can a retraction from International operations be far off?
Hopefully we're not far off from a more official debut.
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Total sales in 2013 are expected to hit 16 million, not far off from an annual average of 17 million new vehicle sales in the year before the global financial crisis.
It's a reminder we are not far off from the days when the ugliest aspects of the country were made into law, so it can so easily go right back into it.
Far from being put off by the studios' financial disasters, a growing number of people think that film production represents an opportunity: a fast-growing business in which it is easy to undercut the clumsy market leaders.
However, that awfully familiar-sounding name suggests that Samsung and Verizon are directly exploiting that Odyssey codename which many associated with the ATIV S. If so, we're looking at a device that's not at all far off from a GSM equivalent, keeping the Snapdragon S4, LTE and both 8- as well as 2-megapixel cameras.
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According to its About screen, this "DVT-1" (a late milestone) device packs 128GB of memory -- twice as much as the largest available capacity option right now (remember that 64GB iPhone 4 prototype in Hong Kong?) -- as well as a model number "MC550LL" which isn't far off from those of the fourth-gen iPod touches ("MC54xLL"), though this similarity doesn't help prove its authenticity nor indicate whether it'll make it to the market.
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Only EDF of the big-six has so far held off from announcing higher charges.
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Far from cutting the Palestinians off, the US massively increased its assistance to the Palestinian Authority.
But these are far different animals from the off-balance-sheet monsters that led to the collapse of Enron in 2001.
But her case appears to be far from a one-off occurrence.
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Billed as a "DVD Court presentation", it was titled "DC Collection Vol 164", suggesting this was far from a one-off for the people who made the copy.
"Too many of these companies pick the last dollar out of consumers' pockets, and far from leaving them better off, push them deeper into debt, even bankruptcy, " says Jon Leibowitz, chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, in a statement describing the new rules.
What it comes down to in pollution parlance regarding humans and other species is that kids may demonstrate seven times more inhalation and exhalation rates than their parents, meaning, they absorb far more pollutants from off adjacent freeways into their lungs (a clear-cut case of a social justice issue, among other things).
The western half of the continent can still seem far off when viewed from the middle.
How far off are we from seeing high-end 3D graphics on a mobile?
And I had heard interpretations of intelligence that many of us with deep experience in the region felt were far off the mark from the true threat.
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