Sentence examples for approaching the intensity from inspiring English sources

The two bad tackles in the game came from Daniele De Rossi on Tom Cleverley and a cruncher from Federico Peluso on James Milner, but both were incidents in a game that lacked anything approaching the intensity required to create controversy.

As the date approached, the intensity of work increased.

Van Gundy says his coaching career will never approach the intensity of his four playoff series against the Heat.

American reactions to the rankings do not nearly approach the intensity of those in Europe.

Indeed, in many respects the buzz at East End galleries in August approaches the intensity of Chelsea in Manhattan in the fall.

I train almost robotically, but as a tournament such as Wimbledon approaches the intensity ramps up and I focus more on my technique.

The vice president, who does in fact have a scruples gap, has always known that a run for the White House is not a civics lesson, but an exercise in political combat that can approach the intensity of a holy war.

"Single-brand" retailers (eg, shops selling only Nike goods) are glad to have been allowed this year to open stores in India; general retailers such as Wal-Mart would like to be allowed in next.None of these moans, however, approaches the intensity of the Japan-bashing of the 1980s or the China-bashing of today.

Where Hay cultivated his abrasiveness, Wisdom — whose emergence as a star coincided with the coronation of Elizabeth II, and Britain's emergence from a postwar culture of shortages and rationing — exhibits a need to be loved that approaches the intensity of Jerry Lewis.

But none of the incidents Sunday approached the intensity of Saturday's melee, officers said.

Though well-done and expressive, his early drawings do not approach the intensity he developed in his later work.