Sentence examples for closed to fix from inspiring English sources

Weeks earlier he had issued a challenge to US West Wireless Chief Peter Mannetti, one of the few survivors among the Bell's brass: If Mannetti wanted to keep his job, he had 30 minutes after the takeover closed to fix the giant sign–"US West Wireless"–on the office building down the street from Qwest's in Denver.

Some weeks earlier he had issued a challenge to U S West Wireless' chief Peter Mannetti, one of the few survivors among the Bell's brass: If Mannetti wanted to keep his job, he had 30 minutes after the takeover closed to fix the giant sign–"U S West Wireless"–on the office building down the street from Qwest's in Denver, Colorado.

In this case, one can consider points close to fixed points, which we call approximate fixed points.

Boeing is said to be close to fixing the problem.

As Mr. Obama has driven deportations to record levels, he has gotten no closer to fixing a failed system.

Property company Land Securities said it was close to fixing the problems at its Walkie-Talkie City skyscraper after the glare from the building melted car parts on the street below over the summer.

While those initiatives will not come close to fixing next year's $6 billion shortfall, administration officials say Mr. McGreevey is committed to holding firm on his no-tax-increase pledge, although he recently revised that promise by saying that he was referring only to the income and sales taxes.

This obsession with data is based on an untested and widely held assumption that if we can discover how many slaves there are in the world; if we can somehow rank each country's response from worst to best, then we are closer to fixing the problem.

But Greece points out, fairly, that Mr Tsipras is hardly a maverick: Matteo Renzi, Italy's prime minister, dropped in to see Mr Putin a month ago.The bigger problem is that Greece seems no closer to fixing its problems at home, and uninterested in repairing the frayed trust with its euro-zone partners.

Google isn't close to fixing that problem.

The end condition for the tested built-up members seated in track is determined to be semi-rigid, but generally closer to fixed than pinned.