Sentence examples for close to statements from inspiring English sources

[Of course, there is nothing the President has said that even comes close to statements made by FDR ("economic royalists"), JFK ("all steel men are sons-of-bitches") or even W himself, but why quibble over facts].

She also claimed to be able to recall "pretty close" to verbatim statements by Bacanovic two years earlier and hundreds of meetings ago, including some statements that were not reflected in the notes.

"We hear, even from people close to Putin, statements that emphasize authoritarianism, that emphasize decisiveness and that suggest that democracy can only be achieved far into the future," Mr. Gorbachev said.

It's a fair question for the threnodist of a literary culture challenged by the belligerent and anonymous boors of the blogosphere, but it amounts to something perilously close to a statement of the bleeding obvious.

Before the gig started, the compere's assertion that "this is the best band on the planet at the moment" sounded like foolish hyperbole; by its end it feels close to a statement of fact.

This is not conjecture, it is as close to a statement of fact as can be made before the actual cameras are tested against the competition.

Although this statement refers to carcinoma and not to the broader class of chronic diseases, it seems to be very close to my statement (Kundi 2006) that Goldstein criticizes.

That is about as close to an emotional statement as you are likely to hear from the club's medium-cool Swedish coach.

Coming perilously close to a direct statement, Ford writes in "One Figures," "I hate to lie, but unfortunately have come to loathe / the insatiable, unsheathed claws of truth".

The type of information we received from respondents is very close to the short statement format given in Table 3.

"I haven't even talked to Jack Clark in close to 10 years — his statements are simply not true," Mihlfeld said in an e-mail.