Sentence examples for close to attaining from inspiring English sources

FLORHAM PARK, N.J. — Ryan Spadola is close to attaining what he had thought was unattainable.

But for all its feigned superficiality, Superamas is genuine in every way and dangerously close to attaining cult status itself.

It would deny Palestinians the dignity, statehood and international assistance they were recently so close to attaining.

After a shaky start to the crisis,Darling has had a good war and is close to attaining national treasure status.

Launched in late 2004, it is the only mobile handset to have come close to attaining the iconic status of the iPod or the BlackBerry.

These protagonists' supposedly relatable flaws were the exceptions that proved the rule: they were actually pretty close to attaining the unattainable holy trinity of perfect body, perfect job, perfect man.

As a doctor who sought daily to empathise with people of very different backgrounds and perspectives, Sassall, they perceived, came closer to attaining this ideal than most men or women ever could.

For one, it puts them closer to attaining the holy grail of data  — how users spend their money.

For Aristotle, as Skinner would portray him, rocks are conscious beings having end states which they so delight in procuring that they accelerate themselves in exaltation as they grow ever closer to attaining them.

My friends who came closest to attaining the American Dream did it by breaking the rules on how to get there.

There's absolutely no guarantee that the request of $65 billion more (an amount bigger than that budgeted for Iraq) and 17,000 more troops (bringing levels close to that of Iraq) will bring Obama any closer to attaining his goal of zapping al-Qaeda and installing a corruption free, democratic government.