Sentence examples for make it closer to from inspiring English sources

On the spectrum of modern walls, that would make it closer to the Mexican border fence than to the Berlin wall.

We're happy for the walk to be anywhere up to 40 minutes away, although you might choose to make it closer to home.

"The Labour Lords had an opportunity to improve the IP bill and make it closer to becoming a surveillance law fit for a democracy not a dictatorship.

"I think he will take interreligious dialogue among people, he will make it closer to people, not confined to theological exchanges among scholars, or political, territorial and international conflicts," he said.

That was a laudable Bloomberg goal all along, and the completion of the extension as planned in 2013, even with just one strategic stop, will make it closer to reality.

Her family owned one of the Spanish surrealist's early works – a portrait of the painter's sister called Figure at a Table – and she was hoping he might embellish the painting with some surrealist flair to make it closer to his later work.

A type of weatherstripping installed by a carpenter can be aesthetically discreet and make it close to airtight.

Since clinging to a mid-September date would make it close to impossible to satisfy the 45-day rule, an earlier Primary Day may be in our not-too-distant future.

Among its many provisions related to derivatives — all designed to lessen their systemic risk — is a series of rules that would make it close to impossible for the likes of JPMorgan to pawn risky derivatives off on municipalities.

Indeed, the new edifice's dual proximity to the isthmus and industrial areas make it close to a worst-case scenario from an infrastructure and economics perspective, losses not calculated in this case study example.

I felt fast and a quick glance at my watch told me that I might actually make it close to my goal time -- four hours and 30 minutes.