Sentence examples for close to ordering from inspiring English sources

One afternoon last week, Deanna Cunneen, a pert young woman whose figure suggested she had never gotten too close to ordering a cheese course, arrived on the eighth floor of Barneys uptown to try on a dress.

In what was nearly a lethal bit of morale boosting, I came close to ordering my men into a truck, arming them with mess kits and making them eat Sunday breakfast up at the Marine headquarters.

Tony Blair has given more details about how he came close to ordering a passenger jet over UK airspace to be shot down "some time after" 9/11 because it was not responding to air traffic control.

JERUSALEM — Amid intensifying Israeli news reports saying that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is close to ordering a military strike against Iran's nuclear program, his deputy foreign minister called Sunday for an international declaration that the diplomatic effort to halt Tehran's enrichment of uranium is dead.

The company is close to ordering four different original series that would take the form of half-hour comedies, sources familiar with Yahoo's plans told The Wall Street Journal.

CHARLESTON, S.C., Feb 19 (Reuters) - South Carolina lawmakers have moved closer to ordering the state to take control of its only public historically black university, which has been dogged for years by troubled finances and dwindling enrollment.

The hydrogenation followed low-order rate towards tetralin and close to first-order towards hydrogen.

We obtain a linear dynamic range of close to three orders of magnitude.

The order is considered to have evolutionary ancestors close to the order Myrtales.

This year's livestock delivery is keeping the team busy in the meantime, with close to 50 orders to fulfil.

We demonstrate close to fifth-order convergence for advection diffusion and for smooth single- and two-phase flows.