Sentence examples for close to prevailing from inspiring English sources

But now, more than four years after federal agents seized the test results as part of the investigation into the drug-distribution activities of the Bay Area Laboratory Co-operative, the government appears close to prevailing in the legal battle, which could set off another round of federal drug investigations.

The setting of the indicator thresholds for maximum payment close to prevailing practice may have provided little incentive for further improvement.

So far, advocates appear no closer to prevailing this year than the last time the Senate took up the issue, in late 2009.

Hillary Clinton won the Puerto Rico Democratic primary on Sunday, moving her a step closer to prevailing over her rival, Bernie Sanders, in the fight for her party's presidential nomination.

Ireland and Sweden, for instance, underwent a spectacular catch-up from the time of the Great Famine to World War I. "Ireland was transformed from a poverty-stricken peasant economy to an economy that boasted urban wages close to those prevailing in English cities," says Williamson.

These affinities are close to the prevailing intracellular cofactor concentrations.

The GC content of the sequence was about 37.4%, close to that prevailing in both Arabidopsis thaliana [ 23] and Vitis vinifera [ 24].

But the closer Assad comes to prevailing in the war, the less need there is to keep that diplomatic exit open.

There, the Greek prime minister, George A. Papandreou — who is making painful budget cuts at home — wants a specific European promise of help to arrange financing at rates closer to the prevailing market rates of around 3 percent than the 6 percent or more the financial markets are demanding.

For example, self-employed women may be treated differently from self-employed men because self-employment is perhaps closer to the prevailing masculine norm.

For Philip Larkin, famously, sexual intercourse began in 1963, and this has become something close to a prevailing view of our times.