Sentence examples for close ruling from inspiring English sources

Labor, the Greens and crossbench senators have promised to support a new Senate inquiry into conditions in the offshore camps and the PNG supreme court has ordered the Manus Island centre to close, ruling it "unconstitutional and illegal".

The Motion Picture Association of America has a Title Registration Bureau, which arbitrates disputes between filmmakers over titles that seem too close, ruling in 1992 that film director Ridley Scott needed to change the title of his film Christopher Columbus after a Dutch company had already registered its own Christopher Columbus -- The Movie.

That precipitated a divisive meeting on March 7 of the party's Standing Committee, the nine-person body that effectively rules China, according to two people close to ruling circles.

The investigators are close to ruling out mechanical failure as the cause of the accident, which killed 19 marines, and have found no indication of recklessness by the pilot, Maj.

But the prime minister came close to ruling out immediate changes to sentencing policy arguing it was "nonsense" to claim that the jails were packed with people who don't deserve to be there.

Democratic aides said lawmakers were focused on an income tax increase for the highest earners and were close to ruling out a proposed tax on sodas and other high-sugar drinks.

Now it contains sculptures by Leone and Pompei Leoni of the Spanish king who came close to ruling Britain and his parents, Charles V and the Empress Isabella: there could be no more telling embodiment of a family ambitious to unite Europe under Catholic rule, with funds generated by the exploitation of the Americas.

"This Is America" starting as high as a song can climb is huge for Gambino, who has never before come even close to ruling the ranking.

A third alternative, noting that Edward in 978 was very close to ruling on his own, proposes that Ealdorman Ælfhere was behind the killing so as to preserve his own influence and to prevent Edward taking revenge for Ælfhere's actions earlier in the reign.

Foreign policy is the realm where a president comes closest to ruling by diktat.

Emma Sinclair-Webb, a Human Rights Watch researcher who attended the hearing as an observer, called the closed-court ruling a travesty.