Sentence examples for close to causing from inspiring English sources

No other drug has come close to causing as much death, illness, violence and lost productivity as alcohol.

Last time around it came close to causing an even bigger shock by outbidding Sky for most of the packages in the first round of the auction.

In that year, the education system was trundling along perfectly serviceably; the financial system, in contrast, performed its job so badly that it came very close to causing global economic collapse.

Only Terry Major-Ball, John Major's eccentric elder sibling, never came close to causing the sort of distractions that Presidents Carter and Clinton suffered from their troublesome brothers Billy and Roger respectively.

As the fund manager George Cooper put it in his book The Origin of Financial Crises: "This financial crisis came perilously close to causing a systemic failure of the global financial system.

The high society fraud case had gripped the nation and even David Cameron came out as a supporter of "Team Nigella"– a move that came close to causing the trial to collapse.

Don't allow the excitement or relief of the close to cause you to break your demeanor or jeopardize the decision.

Nevertheless, these mutants do still show statistically significant (∼50%) impairment of transducin activation by opsin T242B; thus, one would have expected to see some change in fluorescence if they were sufficiently close to cause considerable TrIQ.

The resulting biasing parameters may not push the system closer to, causing a failure in convergence to the target event.

Even if this were not the case, Sagittarius A is 30,000 light years from Earth; it would have to be more than 6 million times closer to cause any gravitational disruption to Earth's Solar System.

The storm made landfall close to Atlantic City, causing extensive flooding at the state's gambling mecca, and has left much of its famous 127-mile shoreline underwater.