Sentence examples for come close even from inspiring English sources

According to Patrick McGurn, special counsel for one of the major shareholder advisory services, Institutional Shareholder Services, shareholder efforts to remove directors in uncontested elections rarely succeed or come close, even in egregious circumstances.

And it didn't come close even to the Tel Aviv Dolphinarium carnage, the killing of students in Maalot or the murder of 39 Palestinians in the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron.

Amazon's sale, promoted on the site and on its Twitter feed, undoubtedly helped the album reach the top, but according to the number-crunchers at Billboard it would have likely come close even without the discount.

Council leaders say that Hammond's claims are completely untrue and that the extra money councils can raise will not come close even to what is needed to meet the cost of introducing the national living wage (estimated to be at least £600m this year).

Since taking office, however, Trump has struggled to come close even to 3%.

(WWF Raw doesn't come close, even if you can make a sumo wrestler cannonball the ring and knock out five men).

Nobody else comes close, even though track announcers keep mentioning Andretti and Fittipaldi, real racing stars.

Not even the Chicago River comes close, even on the day that they dye it greener than it usually is.

No one in international cinema came close, even Marilyn Monre (blondes anyway are an acquired taste in non-Western cultures).

Alex Cox came close, even getting Richard Gere to give a verbal commitment, but Gere bowed out and the financing never shook down.

Ike came closest; even the much loved Reagan slumped into the low 40s.