Sentence examples for close to embarking from inspiring English sources

MUMBAI — India had seemed tantalizingly close to embarking on the same dash for economic growth that has lifted hundreds of millions of people out of poverty in China and across East Asia.

Christian Streich's merry men came pretty close to embarking on this flight of fantasy, too, but at the end of 90 nervous minutes, Schalke smuggled three points to make it on to Uefa's standby list.

We go on to joyously spend our way through the month of December until stores close on Christmas Eve — only to embark on the after-Christmas-sales surge on December 26.

If his close political allies seem ready to embark on his political rehabilitation, others will judge that DSK can be personally reckless and now represents a moral and political liability for the Socialist party.

Seasons ago, before I knew of any potential reality hits on anything close to my ethnicity, I decided to embark on a novel about two of my worst nightmares: the first Iranian-American reality television family and war with Iran.

The Allies' retreat to the coast now became a race to embark before the Germans closed their pincers.

He is closer to his hometown, Peekskill, N.Y., and is ready to embark on a campaign to jump-start the upstart 76ers.

Demand growth accelerated by the late 1990's, prompting companies to embark on a fresh investment binge that is starting to close the gap today.

They're painting a skewed reality for kids: that, come closing time, there'll always be words to say, songs to be sung, or a great adventure to embark upon in somebody's memory.

Time to embark on the cure.

We need to embark on massive training".