Sentence examples for faced closer from inspiring English sources

No Houston hitter has ever faced closer Bobby Jenks, one of the hardest throwers in baseball.

I wonder, at times, whether the same treatment is given to everyone whose last name just happens to be McVeigh (as in Timothy)" However, where the article attracted most controversy was over troubles the actor faced closer to home.

After being overwhelmed in the eighth in their first encounter with the hard-throwing Cuban left-hander Aroldis Chapman, who was throwing 99 miles per hour, the Yankees faced closer Sean Marshall in the ninth, trailing, 6-3.

The district has faced close calls.

Hearing that San Cristóbal faced closing unless it found €4,000, or $5,176, Raúl wrote the check that settled the debt.

Cambridge officials say a new company is taking over a landmark Harvard Square newsstand that had faced closing.

They faced close questioning from the bench about their sobriety, mental fitness, free will and understanding of the charges.

He said the cost of providing armed police bodyguards faced close scrutiny.

But Japanese banks, too, are expected to face closer scrutiny.

Even without the new-technology passports, visitors from these 27 nations will still face closer scrutiny.

By injecting assets from unlisted state parents into listed subsidiaries, groups such as Citic will face closer market scrutiny.