Sentence examples for closest approximations from inspiring English sources

Mr. Mandela, whose moral stature helped peacefully end apartheid, will probably be remembered as one of the closest approximations of sainthood in 20th century politics.

Tommy Docherty in 1972 or Ron Atkinson in 1981 were the closest approximations to stellar managerial material, and neither they nor United at the time were in the business of making the rest of Europe sit up and take notice.

By invoking well-known results related to projections in Hilbert spaces, closest approximations of arbitrary potentials to standard (e.g. Ogden-type) models are subsequently defined and characterized by appropriate residuals.

To date, the closest approximations of this ideal in practice have so-called 'step tolls', in which the toll takes on different values over discrete time intervals, but is constant within each interval.

In particular, it is shown that the surrogate model compares very well with reference results at both the macroscale and the structural scale, even for moderate-order expansions, and that the aforementioned closest approximations constitute very accurate approximation provided that the subset onto which the homogenized response is projected is properly chosen.

The closest approximations of both '_:Product1' and '_:Product2' are to bnode '_:Product3'.

The closest approximation of a bad guy is Lieut.

"I was ticked," is the closest approximation to what he really said later.

This method isn't necessarily perfect, but it's the closest approximation possible.

The closest approximation bore the label "special" instead; when asked why, a salesman just shrugged helplessly.

Whiskers may be the pet world's closest approximation of the Park Slope Food Co-op.