Sentence examples for close to leaking from inspiring English sources

Even water pumped from outside the city risked contamination with sewage when it reached the squalid streets, and the wells still in use lay dangerously close to leaking cesspools.

While individual sites can have varying slow leak rates without undermining effectiveness, the system as a whole must be close to leak-free.

Detecting leaks by sensing a pressure gradient close to leak openings is a novel idea, Chatzigeorgiou says, and key to the effectiveness of this method: This approach can sense a rapid change in pressure close to the leak itself, providing pinpoint accuracy in locating leaks.

The house included a basement pool (which eventually closed due to leaking), a stone fireplace 10 feet in width, and small square windows.

The diagnosis of urinoma is confirmed by enhancement on excretory-phase scanning, with inhomogeneous opacification (denser close to the leaking source) which progresses on repeated delayed scanning.

Mr. Carville admits how close he came to leaking to The New York Times an unfounded rumor of "an excessive dose of some kind of thyroid medication" that President Bush was on.

Comey revealed that after Trump tweeted about the possible existence of tapes, he asked a "close friend" to leak contents of one of his memos to a reporter in the wake of his firing.

Perhaps to quell some of the speculation about Haley's political ambitions, people close to her leaked the suggestion that she's looking to make money in the private sector.

In September of last year, McChrystal (or someone close to him) leaked to Woodward a document that essentially forced President Obama's hand.

Mitchell Englander, a member of the Los Angeles city council member who represents the district closest to the leaking well, said that the disaster has forced about 4,500 families — or about 15,000 people — to relocate.

A Coast Guard investigation, closed in July 1977, pointed mainly to leaking hatch covers.