The IAEA, of course, serves an international function, but its critics say it is too close to the promotion side of the business.
It has said no, preliminarily, to efforts by a Vermont artist to patent his "Eat More Kale" T-shirts, after complaints from the Chick-fil-A restaurant chain, which said it is too close to its "Eat More Chicken" slogan.
Gliese 581e is a rocky planet like Earth, but it probably could not sustain life; it is too close to its star for liquid water to survive on its surface.
For its part, Goldman Sachs is trying to do away with the perception that it is too close to its regulators.
Yet Amnesty has "taken their research from them, they have shared logos with them, they have produced briefing papers together, signed letters to the government together".Amnesty hotly denies it is too close to Cage or endorses its ideology, though a spokesman says it is "highly unlikely" it would now sign a joint letter with it.
Both partners in the coalition government are committed to abolishing the trust, fearing that it is too close to the BBC's management and that its remit is fuzzy: the trust is supposedly both a regulator and the defender of the BBC and the licence fee-payer's interests.
"It is too close to call.
They say it is too close to call.
Hamilton's problem is that it is too close to Toronto and Buffalo.
At this stage, with only 2,000 sales between them, it is too close to call.
"It is too close now," he said within minutes of the final whistle.
