Sentence examples for close to glory from inspiring English sources

Why else would we be placed this close to glory but to win what was rightfully ours?

Getting knocked out on your own patch so close to glory would not normally be the time for such a response, but few home supporters can have arrived in Dortmund thinking that Germany had not already achieved much simply by being here.

Henman, who is English and therefore entitled to this trophy, will never feel this close to glory again.

Will it get you that much closer to glory, like the winners of last month's "Wild West" contest?

Appalling injuries that would leave most athletes in the training room are shrugged aside to push a team closer to glory.

Yet then he plays a low percentage shot, trying a backhand drop shot from out wide - it just about reaches the net - and Murray edges closer to glory with an ace.

Sixty years to the day since the old West Germany fashioned the Wonder of Berne to beat Hungary in the final of the 1954 World Cup, Joachim Löw's current crop produced a performance of cool authority to edge one step closer to glory.

Boxing is where he came closest to glory, winning a silver medal after a controversial defeat in the middleweight division final to Johnny William Henry Douglas, another man of multi-sport talent – Douglas would later captain the England cricket team and was awarded the Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1915.

One step closer to glory.

Profits could reach around €6 billion a year as early as 2016, analysts reckon, close to the glory years pre-2007.

Despite going close to title glory with Tyrrell and Wolf, it was with Ferrari's ground-effect car that he did the business.