Sentence examples for close to denouncing from inspiring English sources

Poor countries may need extra time, but it is they who could benefit most from America's idea of emissions trading—which China, India and others came close to denouncing as a neocolonial plot.

Tom Petty and Heartbreakers' album "The Last D.J.," due in October, vents its outrage close to home, denouncing the corporate takeover of rock culture.

A general once close to Chávez has denounced a looming coup d'état.

In a graphic sign of Iranian mistrust, the hardline newspaper Kayhan, which is considered close to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has denounced Ross as a "Zionist lobbyist".

That said, The Globe and Mail reported earlier today that sources close to RIM have denounced the rumors as short-sighted and untrue.

Independence advocates on Taiwan have used that experience to denounce closer relations with the mainland.

The Libyans' Justice and Construction Party is now calling for Mr Zidan to resign.The Islamists now vilify members of more liberal parties as azlam, "remnants" of Qaddafi's regime, who in turn have begun to denounce anyone close to the Brotherhood and its Islamist allies as "extremists".

Local politicians and health care workers rallied outside the hospital on Wednesday to denounce the closing, and several elected officials said they would continue to push for the creation of an urgent care center in the Village that would provide some of the services of an emergency room.

Take for example the behind-close-doors argument, often exposed to denounce governmental or multilateral meetings.

But beyond the manicured lawns of his headquarters, Arabs and Turkomen (a minority ethnically close to Turks) speak bleakly of Kurdish threats to denounce them to the Americans as Baathists.

Khan has long publicly opposed the Taliban and in 2008 he gathered a "jirga" of locals to denounce the extremists for forcing schools to close down in Swat.