These lines,or circles,are parallel -- meaning that they are equally distant from each other at any point around the world.

VOA: special.2010.07.14

The movie is about a man who travels to a distant planet about one hundred fifty years in the future.

VOA: special.2010.01.01

His distant cousin, Franklin Roosevelt, began his presidency in nineteen thirty-three and served until his death in nineteen forty-five.

VOA: special.2009.07.24

Mars landers and rovers were designed to look for signs of liquid water that may have flowed on Mars in the distant past.

VOA: special.2010.07.28

Theodore Roosevelt was a distant cousin of Franklin Roosevelt, a Democrat who became president in nineteen thirty-three.

VOA: special.2010.09.16

Lena Horne once said she felt a need to act distant on stage to protect herself.

VOA: special.2010.05.23

Alfred Wegener said the mountains and fossils were evidence that all the land on Earth was united at some time in the distant past.

VOA: special.2010.01.12

It was still outside, with no sound except the distant notes of the accordion.

VOA: special.2009.06.27

From nineteen twenty-two on, Edwin Hubble began examining more and more distant objects.

VOA: special.2009.04.29

The object moved slowly in the sky like a distant planet.

VOA: special.2010.07.11

Astronomers now agree that far distant galaxies do exist.

VOA: special.2009.04.29

This describes Raptorex Kriegsteini a distant relative of T.Rex.

VOA: special.2009.10.13

And he pointed to a distant corner. I walked through the crowds of purchasers and salespeople, and around the counters and tables filled with goods, to the far room to the left.

VOA: special.2010.08.21

You treat them in a distant,cold way.

VOA: special.2009.12.13