Sentence examples for close to a decisive from inspiring English sources
The final image he selected, which foregrounds two mourners deep in concentration, heads resting on hands, is not straightforwardly beautifully or conventionally framed – but it's as close to a decisive moment as you could imagine.
West Brom had came close to a decisive goal in extra-time but Amalfitano hit the bar and saw an effort cleared off the line as he came within inches of saving himself from the spot-kick pain to come.
The global economy is close to making a decisive break away from fossil fuels, but the industry is reluctant to accept that fact, so they'll carry on.
NEW ORLEANS — In a verdict that brought a decisive close to a case that has haunted this city since most of it lay underwater nearly six years ago, five current and former New Orleans police officers were found guilty on all counts by a federal jury on Friday for shooting six citizens, two of whom died, and orchestrating a wide-ranging cover-up in the hours, weeks and years that followed.
Tom Huddlestone saw a shot saved at the start of the second half as Hull began to show a little more urgency, before Barnes went close, just not close enough, to getting a decisive touch to a Matty Taylor cross at the other end.
But even those preliminary results showed one major change in the dynamics of Hungary's politics: a decisive move closer to a two-party system.
Before Gagné began Boston's disintegration, the Red Sox came close to scoring the decisive run in the ninth.
With it, the faith's first period of flowering came to a decisive close (though its actual decline had, of course, begun earlier).
Upon Natorp's death the following summer,[4] Heidegger assumed his chair, thus bringing the department's Kantian orientation to a decisive close.
Federer's sublime touch at the net proved decisive as he moved closer to a record third Hopman Cup title.
