As these factors are increasingly brought under control or eliminated, the actual length of life will approach more closely the span of life.
Among Christians, the Quietists, with their uncritical reliance on inspiration, may be regarded as having approached more closely to the fatalistic norm of behaviour than any of the commonly recognized partisans of determinism, such as Calvinists or Jansenists.
Marching on streets that pass within a block or two of the White House, which they were not allowed to approach more closely, the protesters flooded nearly a dozen blocks of city streets in a sea of colorful and often angry antiwar banners and chanted slogans.
If the target can be approached more closely, the sensor can detect fine features such as the movement of people on a ship deck.
When compared with the standard greedy relay selection method, the previous stage decision is more accurate and the global optimum can be approached more closely.
Coloured filters can be used with spotlights to reduce a badger's awareness of the spotlight, allowing teams to approach more closely, or take more time on a shot.
Thus scientific progress involves, on this view, the abandonment of partially true, but falsified, theories, for theories with a higher level of verisimilitude, i.e., which approach more closely to the truth.
One is canonical law, which governs relations between the individual and God, including "prayers and the methods of praying, how an individual can approach more closely the creator".
Maurice Huggins calculated that several non-bonded atoms of the cyclol fabric would approach more closely than allowed by their van der Waals radii; for example, the inner Hα and Cα atoms of the lacunae would be separated by only 1.68 Å (Figure 5).
