This consistency gives us confidence that the pro-ban side very nearly commands a majority of support, but is not quite there.
"HIGHLIGHTS IN JAZZ" Christian McBride's ambition is matched by his nearly unparalleled command of the bass.
My household is staring down seven required-reading books, two reading journals and two hefty math assignments, plus the pointed suggestion (nearly a command) that each girl make a long list of the books she reads "for pleasure".
Though there are four real buttons on the side of the device, you execute nearly every command by pressing on one of the four sides of its gently tilting face.
Using the edit function on the GoogolPlex's website, a user can add nearly any command.
On the one hand, if the first kind of contingency held but the second did not, the physician would have a nearly sovereign command of health.
Barbara Boxer always looks more vulnerable than she turns out to be, and after nearly taking command of her race against ex-Hewlett Packard CEO Carly Fiorina at the beginning of the month, experienced slippage in private and some public polling.
In 1871 a roving war party nearly killed commanding general William T. Sherman and his small escort outside Fort Richardson.
And as Mr. Thompson was quick to point out, in person Mr. Kuti can be nearly as commanding a presence as his father.
On the final day of Steele's command, nearly three thousand Rakkasans waited in the rain to shake his hand.
