Sentence examples for close to fighting from inspiring English sources
Twice he has been close to fighting Mayweather, frustrated each time.
The escalation of violence is so serious that the American army this week announced plans to send its troops back into rural parts of northern Iraq where Kurds and Sunni Arabs are close to fighting over oil-rich land.
Football is as close to fighting a war as one can come without guns and explosives.The generals would thus be chagrined to hear Mr Freeney say that while playing football has made him better at the video game, the video game has not affected his real-world performance.
ONLY a few months ago, an historic reconciliation between Greeks and Turks NATO "allies" who had come quite close to fighting one another on a couple of occasions in the 1990s seemed well on track, thanks to some courageous efforts on both sides to overcome the legacy of history.
Lutfur Rahman, standing under a Tower Hamlets First ticket, was close to fighting off a challenge from Labour candidate John Biggs amid claims that the incumbent was the victim of a campaign by the media to keep him out of office.
Phase II, Hodges said, would involve training the forces that have been closest to fighting with separatists in eastern Ukraine the regular Army.
Bill Clinton, the unusually unsmiling former American president who had probably come closer to fighting North Korea than any president since the Korean war, was in Pyongyang to win the release of two female American journalists facing 12 years of hard labour.
"Day by day, Syrians are closer to fighting each other," said a 30-year-old activist in Arabeen, near the capital, who gave his name as Abdel-Rahman and joined a protest of about 1,000 people there on Friday.
Patients arrived here after being transferred Tuesday from a field hospital close to the fighting.
Women such as my great-aunt, Sister Edith Appleton, who served from October 1914 until Christmas 1919, often very close to the fighting.
If Which Way expresses any criticism of its subject, it's that Hetherington was perhaps a little reckless in his eagerness to stay close to the fighting.
