Sentence examples for close to breaching from inspiring English sources

Thirdly, the Westminster and Edinburgh governments came very close to breaching purdah rules.

Races in recent years have come close to breaching the $100 million level.

The indices had been close to breaching 6,000 points just four months ago.

But Villa's manager John Gregory admitted they too were close to breaching the rule this season.

But on second look, however, two banks came close to breaching the minimum level of capital they required.

Earlier this year, the company revealed it had come close to breaching a lending agreement with its bank.

"As the shutdown drags into its third week and the government moves closer to breaching the debt ceiling, the likelihood that October auto sales will be softer than expected increases," said Lacey Plache, chief economist for the industry researcher Edmunds.com.

Pirlo's well struck free-kick after 23 minutes was superbly saved by Manuel Neuer but either side of that, Bayern came closer to breaching the Juve defence.

No Muppeteer since Jim Henson, Frank Oz, or Caroll Spinney came closer to breaching this threshold, though, than Kevin Clash, who was synonymous with Elmo.

It eventually evolved into something closer to breach of contract by the raped wife, whose family's honor was now compromised, before finally — and relatively recently — building on consent and the notion that a woman's body is hers to control, and that anyone violating that control is committing a crime.

"These results suggest that we may be even closer than we realised to breaching the [2C] limit.