Sentence examples for close to conducting from inspiring English sources

"It's on the E-1 test stand now," at NASA's Stennis Space Center in Mississippi, "and we're close to conducting the first firings," said Brett Alexander, director of business development and strategy for Blue Origin, who is based in Washington, D.C. Rocket motor testing at Stennis is scheduled to start in May, Alexander told SPACE.com.

The fact that the soundtrack for We Need to Talk About Kevin slips from eerie Jonny Greenwood to upbeat Lonnie Donegan with ease merely reaffirms Ramsay's intuitive ear – like so many visionary film-makers her art often seems closer to conducting than directing, as if she listens with her eyes.

Scottish scientists developing synthetic human blood have moved a step closer to conducting clinical trials.

So each network is taking extra cautionary steps, including adding reporters in states where races are too close to call, conducting polls separate from those of V.N.S., and conscripting outside election experts.

It suggests that terrorist fighters may blend in with the Iraqi civilian population to get close enough to conduct strikes against allied troops during an invasion, officials said.

I was not completely alone, however, for soon a river otter and her offspring came close by to conduct a lesson on fur maintenance (see video below).

The territorial behaviour and habituation to people allows for approaches close enough to conduct playback experiments [ 37, 56].

Critics of how the matter was handled have contended that top officials of the agency were too close to have conducted an aggressive investigation.

He said that while he had no specific knowledge of this year's process, a very complex polling process was almost certainly going on beneath the surface, one that would consume perhaps $400,000 over the next few weeks as people close to Mr. Gore conducted focus groups across the country.

Scientists are closer than ever to conducting research on Kennewick Man after a U.S. appeals court ruled last week that a law protecting Native American human relics does not apply to the 9300-year-old 9300-year-old 9300-year-old

In a sign of a return to normality on Friday, Tokyo Disneyland reopened with limited hours, after closing a month ago to conduct repairs and conserve electricity.