Sentence examples for close to popular. from inspiring English sources

The location of much of the crime tends to occur close to popular drinking areas.

The proposed hotel would also be close to popular destinations farther east.

The 72nd Street station on the Upper West Side is considered ideal, being situated inside a small park and close to popular destinations like Fairway and Trader Joe's.

Baited hooks aimed at catching sharks who stray close to popular West Australian beaches will remain in the water, after a legal challenge by marine activists Sea Shepherd failed.

Yet, it may still be possible to realise our dream if we can keep close to popular consensus, which in Egypt's case has growing influence within the lower ranks of the army, who are overwhelmingly patriotic.

Budget: The Sheraton Four Points, Santa Magdalena 111, (56-2) 756-2300, fax (56-2) 750-0350, or www.fourpoints.com, is conveniently located in the heart of Providencia, just a block away from Los Leones subway stop on the area's main shopping street and nearly as close to popular stores, restaurants, and the bars and nightclubs of Avenida Suecia.

For similar reasons, the highfalutin world of literary novels is much closer to popular culture in the US than it is over here.

As the gamer track took me closer to popular culture, I decided to allow only one tattoo from the world of entertainment: a forearm bearing the glowing, artificially intelligent eye of HAL 9000 from Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey.

The Economist thought an answer might be found by looking at a leading member of each party and, perhaps more revealingly, at the districts that send them to the House of Representatives in Washington, the chamber the Founding Fathers designed to be closest to popular opinion.In the House, Dennis Hastert is the Republican speaker, Nancy Pelosi the leader of the Democratic minority.

Hualien is one of Taiwan's most popular tourist hubs, a port city that lies on the picturesque east coast rail line, close to the popular Taroko gorge.

Their agency covers the region that includes Todi, a picturesque hill town close to Rome popular with foreigners.