Sentence examples for accepted close to from inspiring English sources

"We are mindful of the situation in Germany, but let me remind you that we are talking about 25,000 Syrian refugees, while Germany has accepted close to a million," said Mr McCallum.

Over the years, the United States accepted close to one million people from Vietnam, beginning with the first rush of 130,000 who fled by helicopter, boat and airplane when Saigon fell in April 1975.

Evidence from Canada (Belzil 2001) and the US (Centeno 2004) suggests that jobs accepted close to benefit termination have a higher dissolution rate, whereas higher benefit levels increase the quality of job matches, as measured by the duration of employment.

Between her first run for US senator in 2000 and the beginning of her 2016 presidential campaign, she accepted close to $1 million in contributions from drug and health companies like Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson, and Bristol-Myers Squibb, according to a public records analysis by the Center for Responsive Politics, a Washington, DC-based non-partisan research group.

If your apology is accepted, close the issue.

Estimates on the amount of this material entering the earth's upper atmosphere vary, with accepted values close to 30,000 ton/yr29.

Ex vivo human placental perfusion provides an ethically accepted model, close to the in vivo situation, to investigate placental transport of xenobiotics as well as NPs (Grafmüller et al. 2013; Malek et al. 2009; Panigel et al. 1967; Schneider et al. 1972).

Now, however, the DLA Piper people have apparently accepted or are close to accepting the agreement, and the Baker interview will be rescheduled.

Banks are so desperate for the security of government paper that they are accepting yields close to zero on three-month Treasury bills.

MIAMI, June 17 (Reuters) - A survey of Cuban Americans in Miami shows eroding support for hardline Cold War-era policies adopted by the United States against Cuba, with a majority willing to accept closer ties with the communist-ruled island.

But her pronouncement, one that might have been accepted as something close to gospel only a few decades ago, especially given the close friendship between Pollock and Matter, proved but an opening salvo in a public battle over who painted the works.