Sentence examples for closer to possessing from inspiring English sources

Iran would have a green light to be as close, if not closer to possessing a nuclear weapon than it is today.

This atomic test - North Korea's third since 2006 - is expected to take Pyongyang closer to possessing nuclear-tipped missiles designed to strike the United States.

WASHINGTON — For more than five years now, President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney have made clear that they did not want to leave office with Iran any closer to possessing nuclear weapons than when they took office.

Today's test will add to fears that the North is moving closer to possessing the ability to mount a nuclear warhead on long-range missiles that are capable, in theory, of reaching Hawaii and Alaska.

In "This Is How You Lose Her," that space helped me chart one cheater's tortured journey through to real heartbreak, a crisis from which he emerges, if not necessarily cured, at least closer to possessing something we could call an authentic human self.

The EU - and Miliband was right on this - is itself not remotely close to possessing the kind of firepower that would underpin the vast ambitions of its more ardent supporters.

Some appear to think he's the devil: "What he's doing is cool and awestruck [sic] but the only person even close to possessing god-like powers is satan".

The imagination at work in nonfictional prose, however, would hardly deserve the august name of "primary imagination" reserved by the 19th-century English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge to creators who come close to possessing semidivine powers.

The cost to the mullahs of bombing Israel, with a weapon they are not yet close to possessing, would be massive retaliation by Israel, whose nuclear arsenal is estimated between 200 and 300 weapons.

The Third Quartet (2010-14) comes dangerously close, by Wandelweiser standards, to possessing a conventional structure: it progresses from dusky, almost Chopinesque chords at the outset to something like luminous E-flat major at the end.

Yesterday's test will add to fears that North Korea is moving closer to ­possessing the ability to put a nuclear warhead on long-range missiles that are capable, in theory, of reaching Hawaii and Alaska.