Sentence examples for close to designating from inspiring English sources

But when it came to the global stage, Obama appeared to have come close to designating a successor – at least that was how Trudeau described it.

In proposing to grant the biggest financial firms special legal status as "Tier 1 financial holding companies," the Treasury came close to designating them as too big to fail, thereby encouraging them to take more risks.

In 2000, the agency came close to designating coal ash a hazardous waste, but backpedaled in the face of an industry campaign that argued that tighter controls would cost it $5 billion a year.

At the same time, the city, the state and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey are close to designating a developer for a two million-square-foot office complex, hotel and conference center at the center of Queens West, a one- to two-block-wide sliver along the East River from Newtown Creek north to 46th Avenue.

"It's very hard, in a building that is 30percentt sold and closed, to designate the balance of the building affordable housing," Ms. Cohn said.

Of all the more than 3,000 landmarks named for President Ronald Reagan — from scores of schools and highways to an aircraft carrier and a mountain — nothing comes close to this: designating 3.4 million square nautical miles of ocean as the biggest, wettest and most ambitious Reagan memorial yet imagined.

Vultures at all study sites had access to dead domestic animals from nearby livestock operations; our LOW PIG and MED PIG sites were near major cattle and sheep operations [45] and our HI PIG site was in close proximity to designated California condor feeding stations where dairy calf carcasses are put out as a source of food for condors.

The site is close to Cresswell Pond, designated as a protected Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI), and The National Trust owns a portion of the bay.

Barefoot India, a major Indian travel company, has just won a high court case that will allow it to build an eco-resort at Collipur, close to the designated Jarawa reserve.

On Thursday, the military's chief advocate general ordered an investigation into a soldier's account of a sniper killing a woman and her two children who walked too close to a designated no-go area by mistake, and another account of a sharpshooter who killed an elderly woman who came within 100 yards of a commandeered house.

Last week, visiting Moscow, Mr. Juppé, who is close to Mr. Chirac, designated Russia as one of the poles and said that the idea of a "strategic partnership between the European pole and the Russian pole" did not exclude "dialogue with the other poles, the American pole, of course, and China".