Sentence examples for close term from inspiring English sources

These events may produce long-term and permanent effects on how voters see the candidates, but they often overshoot the mark in the close term.

And as the mayor's second and final term draws to a close (term limits preclude a threepeat), the city is about to be inherited by someone of a very different temperament.

He has long been on close terms with Mr Bush.

They told me, 'We know you two are on close terms.

Murrumu is on close terms with Scullion and regards him as a friend.

Richard was also on close terms with some ambitious younger men, notably Robert de Vere, Earl of Oxford, and the knights Ralph Stafford and James Berners.

He was still on close terms with Gill's surviving daughter Petra and her children, descending on their families for the school holidays.

Which is a kind of parable of the fact that you can live in very close terms with people and not know them at all".

He wasn't on close terms with Kelly they had met a couple of times but he knew that Kelly was familiar with the September dossier.

Indeed, the entire brewery fraternity seems to have been on extraordinarily close terms, as if the management of Coke and Pepsi vacationed together.

BERLIN -- The composer Emmanuel Chabrier was on close terms with Impressionistic painters, even appearing as a subject in Degas's painting "L'Orchestre" and in two portraits by Manet.