Sentence examples for close to directing from inspiring English sources

She will be the first female director of a mainstream comic book movie in a long time – Patty Jenkins came close to directing 2013's Thor: The Dark World but left to be replaced by Alan Taylor.

Jean-Luc Godard had come close to directing it as his first Hollywood film; by the time the Brazilian director Walter Salles approached Coppola with the ambition to do it in 2007, the original travelling-light encounter with the American road was freighted with all sorts of baggage.

But Ms. Poon said the election had one clear result already: "It's moved us closer to directing our resources and focusing our energies to get what we need to stand up against the attacks on pensions and other unfair demands".

The warning brings Mr. Obama, who has brushed aside calls to impose a no-fly zone or to arm the Syrian rebels, a step closer to direct American engagement.

With Engage's new service, advertising online is moving closer to direct marketing without losing the benefits of media buying.

The GOM has been closed to directed fishing for bluefin tuna since 1981 [14] but observer and logbook data from the National Marine Fisheries Service NMFSS) and scientific longlining data indicate that there is substantial bycatch of bluefin tuna in the GOM during the breeding season [8].

Beverly Art Center, Chicago Park District, and Lakeshore Learning are the closest to direct alternatives.

SF8 has a large proportion of PS origin and can therefore be used to produce AA, SFA97 constitutes a group closed to direct foreign influences, whereas SFB98 individuals can have a parent from another breed (under some conditions).

Two-stroke engines have generally been lighter, cheaper and simpler because they did not need an intricate system of valves that open and close to direct air and fuel into the cylinders and to let burned gases exit.

"When the Fed has reached the limits of expanding U.S. demand and monetary policy works primarily on the exchange rate, rather than on expanding spending, then it comes dangerously close to direct exchange-rate intervention," Mr. Rajan said.

Our validation in human and mouse also showed that genes with the highest expression change found with limma are not usually close to direct targets of small molecules.