Sentence examples for close to overcoming from inspiring English sources

We are close to overcoming the delays, and will bring this breakthrough plane to our customers".

They had seemed so close to overcoming everything, to stamping a most uncomfortable season with a happy ending.

Mr. Perelman inadvertently exposes the inconsistencies in Mr. Dubus's novel even as he comes very close to overcoming them.

"Making a few changes in a very public setting doesn't seem to me to come close to overcoming the First Amendment right to portray Times Square the way the filmmaker chooses to".

No amount of reality — technical and management weaknesses that led to either deadly catastrophes or astronomic costs — ever came close to overcoming the dreaming (and old-fashioned politics) that carried the shuttle program forward from start to finish.

It might have been a repeat of their victory in London were it not for a brave effort from New Zealand's Rebecca Scown and Genevieve Behrent, who pulled back their lead in the final third, while never looking close to overcoming them.

But are we getting closer to overcoming the uncanny valley?

Thanks to frothy equity markets, the industry is closest to overcoming the first barrier exiting current investments.

All demand evidence of all-round talents, rather than mastery of one – a proviso Bradman comes closest to overcoming, because of the sheer uncanniness of his batting numbers.

But with Congress only in session for one week of that month, and with lawmakers no closer to overcoming the same political disputes that partially closed the agency in July and left tens of thousands without paychecks, some Hill aides are starting to get nervous about the prospect of another shutdown.

The CNSR cohort used in this study had an overall low rate of withdrawal of medical care (12.4%), perhaps allowing us to get closer to overcoming the self-fulfilling prophecy prejudice and take a look at the natural recovery of this disease process.