Sentence examples for closer the topic from inspiring English sources

As the election looms ever closer, the topic of climate change and global warming has been in the air -- with some experts and politicians calling the recent devastation caused by Hurricane Sandy a reality check.

Jones seems about to close the topic, then muses on the notion.

When this strategy does not work, she seeks to bound and close the topic.

Second, when Franco resists this attempt, Barbara moves to close the topic by indicating Franco's psychiatrist as the appropriate recipient for complaints about medication.

As in Extract 8, after Franco has displayed unwillingness to align to Barbara's assessment (which is informed by the compliance assumption), Barbara moves to close the topic, again by indicating the psychiatrists (Sara and doctor Pilla) as the proper recipients of complaints about side effects (lines 9 13).

Secondly -- and this brings us closer to the topic at hand -- Lewis is making a theologically based reflection.

The couple got "very close" and the topic of marriage was raised, but they were forced to wait.

The best-case scenario for retaining comments is providing real-time moderation of them to keep the conversation as close to the topic and as far from being mean-spirited as possible.

And they might ask the obvious questions that those close to the topic can't see.

Costolo closed out the topic by saying that the message he wants to send is that "Twitter will have an advertising business, ready in the near future, and available to partners".

However posting a link to an old 'broadcast only' post in its own right, that managed all of 42 comments before being closed as the topic still unveils new and damning material daily, perhaps served more to confirm the points many outside the BBC have and are making, as opposed to answering anything.