Sentence examples for close to sustaining from inspiring English sources

Clijsters could not come close to sustaining her form, losing the second set in 23 minutes by the same score as Williams cut her error rate and finished off points at the net.

"Inception" and "Toy Story 3," virtually alone among the scores of summer releases, came close to sustaining the dream of Old Hollywood, spawned back when the movies enjoyed a monopoly on visual entertainment and preserved the utopian capitalist ideal of the summer blockbuster.

He gave the Dodgers an interesting final six weeks last season (.331), but could not come close to sustaining it.

Many of the identified associations have not been successfully replicated in independent studies, and although p values have been nominally significant, none of the findings are close to sustain the correction for a GWA study.

Phil Hughes and Chamberlain have come closer to sustained success, and Kennedy is a prospect in their category.

African civil society rejected the alliance as part of a "new wave of colonialism", and War on Want has accused the If campaign of being too close to power "sustaining the very food system that makes its objectives unachievable".

Users behave as half free riders; they receive information (rewards) from non-reciprocal friends, but respond only to information from reciprocal close friends to sustain SNS (because the articles posted by close friends are likely to be interested).

Australian pro surfer Mick Fanning fought off the shark and escaped injury, though terrifying video of the incident shows just how close he came to sustaining a bite.

Given the limited cast of characters, Downing must draw on almost Dickensian reserves of coincidences and close calls to sustain the suspense of his basic hide-and-seek story line.

In the next two years one of his most significant legacies became apparent: the willingness and ability of his closest supporters to sustain the ideal and the reality of one Muslim community under one leader, even in the face of significant opposition.

In 1957, as another worldwide economic downturn loomed, Black Mountain closed, unable to sustain itself fiscally.