Sentence examples for is less close from inspiring English sources

But you can usually skip sending an invitation to someone on the original list who is less close and can't attend — a friend, co-worker or acquaintance.

He is less close to his Democratic counterpart on the House's tax-writing Ways and Means Committee, the more liberal Representative Charles B. Rangel of New York.

By the time a man has reached his 40s, as Mr. Ford and Mr. Browne both have, it is probably useful to accept that one is less close to the playhouse than to the grave.

It is, to put it bluntly, one of the daftest symphonies ever devised, a concise, cartoonesque farrago of daft tunes that nods towards Haydn, but is less close in spirit to Shostakovich's other symphonies than to his cheerful satire of Soviet housing conditions, Cheryomushki.

With its chapters on "Reading," "Solitude," "Economy," "Winter," and "Spring," Walden is more "worked up" than the journal; in this sense, Thoreau came to feel, it is less close to nature than the journal.

But "Vekselberg is less close to him than other oligarchs".

Obama's gambit has served to clarify that the Republican priority is less closing the deficit, per se, than shrinking government and cutting taxes.

There are many reasons why sea level rise might be greater in some places than in others, but in general, when ice melts, sea level rise is less closer to the location of the ice and greater farther away.

Relations with Duncan Smith are less close now.

Both are less close to the earth but very beautiful.

She is perceived as being less close to her father than his other adult children.