Sentence examples for close to upsetting from inspiring English sources
Zhanna Pintusevich of Ukraine, who came close to upsetting Jones earlier this season, was second in 11.05.
He was virtually alone among unaffiliated political analysts to forecast in 2009 that Mr. Thompson would come close to upsetting Mr. Bloomberg.
None of the outsiders has been disgraced and several of their players have made big impressions as individuals, but none has come very close to upsetting the existing hierarchies.
He'll be absent on Gold Cup duty for the arrival of Chivas, who are beginning to stabilize a little and went very close to upsetting a teetering Montreal last week.
Though Rollie Massimino's Wildcats had twice come close to upsetting the Hoyas during Big East conference play, few people outside of Villanova's coaches, players and fans believed they had a chance to derail a Georgetown team gunning for their second consecutive national championship.
For the tourists, having come so close to upsetting England in the first Test at Trent Bridge, England's 347-run victory in the second Test at Lord's could quite easily have snuffed out their spluttering spirit and nudged them over a cliff.
Last season, when Miami went undefeated to win the national championship, the team that came closest to upsetting the Hurricanes, on this same weekend, was Boston College.
That is something the Sharks can only guess at, no matter how close they came to upsetting the order of things, Tim Kawakami writes in The San Jose Mercury News.
Nelson said he would not coach the Lithuanians in international competition again because of how close they came to upsetting the United States.
Maurice Linton had a career-high 16 points, including a crashing layup with 59 seconds left, as Wisconsin roared from behind in the closing minutes to upset No. 14 Indiana, 56-53, yesterday in Madison, Wis.
SEATTLE — Cassie Harberts scored 10 straight points for USC in the final three minutes, and the Trojans held on in the closing seconds to upset No. 4 Stanford 72-68 in the Pac-12 tournament semifinals on Saturday night.
