Sentence examples for close to outright from inspiring English sources

Final polls had put him close to outright victory.

The pace of growth is falling and is perilously close to outright contraction.

The opening of Joe Wright's entertainingly nutty action thriller, "Hanna," comes close to outright parody.

He even came close to outright blaming the producers for his death.

But China, the biggest of them all, is now skirting close to outright falls in prices across a wide swathe of the economy.

Their absence helped Iraq's 15% Kurdish minority make big gains in the new order, winning terms for autonomy that come close to outright independence in the north.

The crisis continues to draw closer to outright confrontation between Chad and Sudan.

We're already closer to outright deflation than at any point since the Great Depression.

Closest to outright revolt is the small state of Manipur, sandwiched between Assam and Myanmar, with a population of about 2.5m and a patchwork of ethnic rivalries.

Those in power felt that the Beeb's independence would need to be curbed during wartime, to be replaced with something closer to outright propaganda.

Whitmarsh shows that this claim was closer to outright atheism than agnosticism, since Protagoras went on to argue that what cannot be perceived does not exist.