Sentence examples for close to obtaining from inspiring English sources

While they were never close to obtaining Marbury, they will go after him again this summer if he continues to struggle in Phoenix.

RUPERT MURDOCH finally seems close to obtaining a satellite television system in the United States, but investors are fretting that he might overpay for a slowing business.

The investigation was stopped when the SFO was getting close to obtaining bank records alleged to contain evidence of huge sums being channelled to the Saudis.

He watched running back Frank Gore bound up the left sideline, toward the end zone, the 49ers so close to obtaining their first lead.

In the southern city of Seville, Muslims are close to obtaining a plot of land for a mosque after years of bitter local resistance; in 2005 protesters dumped a pig's head on a plot originally chosen.

[A7] DISPUTED DISCOVERY -- The head of Poland's military intelligence said terrorists may have been close to obtaining munitions containing the deadly nerve agent cyclosarin that Polish soldiers recovered last month in Iraq.

For example, a needle must move forwards to pierce tissue or the jaw of a clamp must close to obtain a sample [ 32].

The only other transcriptomic study of Cx. pipiens f. molestus to date found that the relationship between species was sufficiently close to obtain reliable mapping results [ 26].

Both SNPs were sufficiently close to obtain phase information from the RNA-seq 45 bp PE reads (using novoPhase, see Materials and Methods) and these data confirmed that the same haplotype was over-represented at both SNPs.

The Justice Department also sought injunctions against promoters of tax evasion schemes in Tampa, Fla.; Newark and Nashville and moved closer to obtaining such injunctions in Cincinnati and Harrisburg, Pa.

A project which aims to preserve one of Scotland's most significant surviving Art Deco buildings has edged closer to obtaining £2.7m of lottery funding.