Sentence examples for associations almost from inspiring English sources

The island owes its fame almost solely to its classical associations, almost no mention of it appearing in writings of the Middle Ages.

Applying the direction filter to the post-control-filter results eliminates only a further 5.84% of preliminary results, yielding a total of 320,188 associations, almost exactly the same quantity as when the direction filter was used alone.

Ms. Mastin said people began feeling the sting of association almost immediately after Mr. McVeigh was arrested in Oklahoma and Mr. Nichols turned himself in to the police here.

McQueen allows us to register the word-association almost subliminally: the vital sheen of porn-indifference he needs is killed by the fatal spark of gentleness and intimacy.

Since taking over the racing association almost six years ago, Noe's plain-spoken and direct style has inspired both admiration and enmity, but little in between.

When a clutch of owners of small apartment buildings banded together to form an association almost three decades ago, one word was notably absent from the name they gave themselves.

But city officials say the association almost certainly will not be the winning bidder, because others have bid more and because legal troubles at the association have concerned the mayor.

Then on our way home, beside the footpath in a patch of sunlit grassland among trees, we found them: two magnificent flower spikes surrounded by speedwells, pignut and meadow cranesbill, an association almost as unlikely as the orchid itself.

The papers said Mr. Peres's election was more or less assured by his towering reputation as a peacemaker and as a major figure in Israeli governments since the 1960's and by his association, almost from boyhood, with most of the major political icons of Israel's history.

In our study, the analysis of mineral profile showed that symbiotic association almost doubled the concentration of both P and Zn in leaves and roots of the rice plant.

The situation is so dire that, according to the American Medical Association, almost one third of all emergency rooms in the country have closed since the mid-nineties.