Sentence examples for closer to present from inspiring English sources

A bit closer to present reality, Orthodoxy flourished among the tens of thousands of White Russian émigrés, and a few Chinese converts, who lived in Harbin and Shanghai in the 1930s.

As you'd expect, given the setting, the cast includes plenty of eye candy past (Henry Winkler), present (Cheyenne Jackson, Daniel Breaker) and sort of in between but much closer to present (Alicia Silverstone).

Thus, separate handling of prokaryotes and eukaryotes does not bring the predicted date of life origin closer to present.

In particular, a lag of 0 resulted in a peak year further into the future, whereas a lag of 15 years moved the peak closer to present time.

Closer to present day, the bodies are thinner and look more uniform.

Closer to present time, Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon and Jim Rash had just won an adapted-screenplay Oscar for "The Descendants".

The decision in United States District Court in Manhattan moves Warnaco closer to presenting its case for who breached the Klein jeanswear license.

The Birch Society's Web site subsequently praised Beck for "getting progressively (sorry for the bad word choice) closer to presenting American history in the way that The John Birch Society has been doing it for over 50 years".

And as speculation has mounted over the last month that Hershey was drawing closer to presenting a formal bid, Cadbury shares have risen as well, making a potential takeover offer even more expensive.

A group of professors from Tokyo University are one step closer to presenting servant robots to the world so we can get fatter and lazier…awesome!

With every step we knew that we were moving closer to presenting our demands to the legislators who could respond to a national crisis with a national solution by making these bills law.