Sentence examples for close to the capability from inspiring English sources
The administration dismisses that argument as overblown, an effort to kill a deal that Israel has made clear it detests, because it could enshrine the current status quo — with Iran close to the capability to build a weapon.
Now we've seen attempts to give Palm-based handhelds GPS capability before and none of them have come remotely close to the capability of a dedicated handheld GPS reader like those that companies like Garmin, Magellan and a few others make, which are typically geared toward outdoor enthusiasts.
The relatively muted official response to Iran's offer to negotiate reflects the wariness of American and European officials who fear that Iran would merely use negotiations to ease international pressure while continuing to pursue activity that could bring it closer to the capability to build a nuclear bomb.
"A successful launch puts North Korea closer to the capability to deploy a weaponised missile," said Denny Roy a senior fellow at the East-West Center in Hawaii.
International nuclear inspectors describe a nuclear program that is speeding up — moving the country very close to the nuclear capability that the United States, Israel and Iran's Arab neighbors say they cannot abide.
That hurdle overcome, a country such as Iran can come perilously close to the military capability it is suspected of seeking, even while it virtuously sticks to the letter of the IAEA's tightened verification rules.Heightening suspicion, Iran's enrichment programme was not declared to the IAEA as it should have been, but uncovered last year using information from the regime's opponents.
It really shows what a force for good in the world the Pentagon could be -- no other organization comes close to the logistical capabilities of the American military.
Although it is not behavioral imitation as such, this definition comes close to the definition 'the capability to imitate a demonstrator's behavior', a type of learning often studied in monkeys and apes (Choleris and Kavaliers 1999).
China's navy is not anywhere close to have the capability.
Following the cancellation, the Defence Secretary Liam Fox used the Nimrod MRA4 procurement as an example of the worst of MOD procurement performance: "The idea that we ever allow ourselves into a position where something that was originally Nimrod 2000 – where we ordered [21] was reduced to nine, spent £3.8bn and we still weren't close to getting the capability – is not to happen again".
