Sentence examples for causes close to from inspiring English sources

Longtime board member of the National Dance Institute, Himalayan Healthcare and the Kathmandu Valley Preservation Trust, causes close to her heart.

According to World Health Organization research on the environmental burden of disease, outdoor air pollution causes close to one million premature deaths worldwide each year, with particulate matter as one of the leading contributors.

The personal donation to "charities chosen by the Dowler family that represent causes close to Milly and those that provide support to other victims of crime" could help cushion the blow and assure investors that News Corporation and its leader are remorseful.

How ironic, then, that one of the best white champions of Civil Rights and causes close to the African-American community was shouted off the stage in Seattle this weekend.

Globally, inactivity causes close to 2 million deaths each year (Ezzati et al, 2002).

The disease causes close to five million deaths per year and accounted for global healthcare expenditures of 465 billion USD in 2011 alone.

That led to a flood that caused close to $2 billion in damage to downtown buildings as the water spread underground.

Maria caused close to 3,000 deaths, amid widespread criticism of the federal government's stalled response to the disaster.

Fires, caused by arson, had swarmed across the island, charring roughly a fifth of the park and causing close to $90 million worth of damage to this Unesco World Heritage site.

The first site will be built next to Cunningham Park in Joplin, where residents are recovering from a May 22 , 2011 tornado that killed 158 people, injured more than 1,000 and caused close to $3 billion in damage.

There were 17 cases of any of those diseases in the United States in 1982 and nine deaths; in contrast, gun injuries caused 33,000 deaths and were estimated to have caused close to 200,o00 injuries.