Sentence examples for close passage from inspiring English sources

No sooner had he presided over the close passage of a new austerity bill last week, than he was contending with the growing controversy over how much money private banks would contribute by taking on more Greek debt.

At such distances, the orbits of the tiny icy bodies can be disrupted and sent inward by either of two processes: the occasional close passage of a star or giant interstellar molecular cloud near the solar system or the gravitational forces, called disk tides, exerted by the mass of the Galaxy's disk.

This will be an opportunity to observe how the body responds to its close passage to the Sun," he explained.

It was one heck of a roller coaster ride for astronomers tracking comet ISON as it swung in for its close passage by the sun.

In this paper we study a special instance of ballistic capture dynamics: the case in which the capture orbit about a planet experiences a close passage to one or more of its natural satellites.

This view from the SOHO spacecraft dramatically illustrates ISON's close passage through the sun's streaming solar wind and around the sun (here inserted from another image to give a sense of scale).

However, because of the small sizes of NEAs and the short time they spend close enough to Earth to be seen, it is unusual for such close passages to be observed.

The closing passage should have said: "The chairman of the club, Klaus Billep, said it had 1,500 members.

"I was pretty young when I realized that music involves more than playing an instrument," Mr. Hinton wrote in the closing passage of "Bass Line".

It's a remarkable coincidence that what may be the most damaging meteor strike in modern history would happen on the same day as the closest passage of an asteroid as big as DA14.

His decision to make the symbolic move was known only to his deputy, John Prescott, and a few close aides until he dropped it into the closing passage of yesterday's resounding appeal for 'national renewal'.