Sentence examples for closing in on the target from inspiring English sources

Overall, about 252,000 Latinos had signed up through Covered California — making up more than a quarter of the total and closing in on the target of 265,000, Lee said.

Four Seasons recently cracked the century mark in terms of locations for its deluxe hotels and resorts while Shangri-la is closing in on that target.

The government is closing in on its target of cutting the banks' bad-loan ratios to 4% of all loans by the end of March a goal that looked dreamy when Heizo Takenaka, the economic-policy chief in Junichiro Koizumi's cabinet, announced it in late 2002.

As the Austro-Russian cavalry was closing in on its target, they were steadily met by four of Nansouty's regiments (the two Carabiniers regiments and the 2nd and 3rd Cuirassiers).

Now he is closing in on his target weight of 6 kilogrammes and has almost fully recovered.

The remarks by Mr. Rumsfeld and other senior military officials today reflected the fierce, though often sporadic, fighting in Baghdad and elsewhere in Iraq, as well as the Pentagon's desire to temper public expectations of a campaign rapidly closing in on its main target: Baghdad.

A south of Scotland theatre which has suffered repeated problems with flooding is closing in on a fundraising target for "crucial" protection work.

To that end, we used two complementary experiments to record the beam pattern and signal frequency content of echolocation clicks from harbour porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) closing in on targets.

That is closing in on Sherrick's $38 target price.

The Rams are also closing in on a deal for defender Craig Forsyth and are targeting three further signings.

And there have been shifts in emigration as well as immigration.Over the past couple of years the government has tended to blame its inability to close in on its target in part on the fact that fewer people were leaving the country.