Sentence examples for close to declare from inspiring English sources
Other prominent races in Carabobo, a state with a large industrial base, and Táchira, a state on the border with Colombia, were apparently too close to declare a winner, Mr. Chávez said.
We're still very hopeful". Carona, who watched returns intently as his lead expanded slightly shortly before midnight, said the race was too close to declare a victory.
In 1890, the United States Supreme Court came close to declaring the punishment to be unconstitutional.
On Sunday, for example, U.A.W. negotiators seemed close to declaring an impasse, which could have led to a walkout.
They had come this close to declaring that New York had run out of cash and would default on about $100 million in borrowing due that afternoon.
The city came perilously close to declaring bankruptcy when its pleas for a rescue by the federal government fell on deaf ears.
The International Atomic Energy Agency is moving close to declaring Iraq free of nuclear weapons, and some American experts are raising alarms and charging the agency with complacency.
Pope Francis has come close to declaring that Mr Trump is not a Christian at all – a Christian should build bridges, and not walls, he said last year.
He told the crowd that he was close to declaring a place and time for a peace conference he had proposed on Darfur involving regional leaders.
7.58pm BST Guardian correspondent Ewen MacAskill analyzes some of what we've heard so far: Barack Obama has come close to declaring The Long War - the war on terror - is over.
