Sentence examples for driven close from inspiring English sources

Logging machinery has been driven close to their tents and cabins at night.

A later artist, working at Lascaux 15,000 years later, depicted mostly bison, bulls and horses rhinoceroses must have been driven close to extinction by then.

Myners said the group's directors had been paid hundreds of thousands of pounds in the last few years as the group was driven close to ruin.

The fish, which grow to several metres in length, are found in southern Florida and have been driven close to extinction due to overfishing and habitat loss.

In Uganda, a species of tree called the Omuboro also known as the "sex tree" has been driven close to extinction by demand for its roots, which are reputed to have aphrodisiacal properties.

Today the rhino has been driven close to extinction because its horn is valued as a traditional medicine when, in fact, it is as effective as a healing agent as a human fingernail.

He suggested that the countries were being driven closer together by their shared commitment of troops in Afghanistan.

The Tories and the Murdochs have been driven closer by political and commercial expediency, as well as ideological conviction, and those ties are further cemented at social occasions.

And both the Kurds and some of Mr. Maliki's Shiite political rivals, who also resent Mr. Sadr's rising power, have been driven closer to Mr. Maliki.

Two or three coaches left almost immediately, but Osama and Tariq had to wait until about 11pm, when they were driven closer to a beach.

The two airlines were driven closer by difficult market conditions.