Sentence examples for nearly encountered from inspiring English sources

Back in 1976, when Mr. Bloomberg was training to become a pilot, he nearly encountered disaster as he flew alone off the coast of Connecticut.

And Saturday morning, hours before the polls were set to close, Mr. Romney nearly encountered Mr. Gingrich himself, after the two candidates scheduled competing stops at Tommy's Country Ham House here.

What was the worst trouble you ever encountered – or nearly encountered – with the police in those cars?

The gang nearly encounters Ferris' dad at the end of their dining at Chez Quis.

Nearly everyone encountered snow on the ground at South Pass in midsummer.

Due to the short notice of the invasion, the elements of the invading 2nd Army that would make up LI Infantry Corps and XLIX Mountain Corps had to be assembled from France, Germany and the Slovak Republic, and nearly all encountered difficulties in reaching their assembly areas.

Nearly everywhere I encountered precisely what I'd been running away from: poverty, racial tensions, drugs, addiction, smuggling-related violence.

Some had managed to escape the methodical barrage of bullets fired by the gunman, who witnesses said spent more than an hour pacing the island and shooting nearly everyone he encountered.

All the while, they tried to avoid other humans, since nearly anyone they encountered -- government troops, rebel recruitment squads, slave traders and rival tribes -- would very likely be hostile.

His conversion came as public calls to do something about hunger rose — driven, in part, by Senator Robert Kennedy's highly publicized trip to Mississippi in 1967 where he encountered nearly starving children and the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s focus on hunger as part of the Poor People's Campaign.

The co-authors of "The Nanny Diaries" encountered nearly as many obstacles in bringing their next venture to print — the original publishers, on seeing the first draft, demanded the advance back — as its heroine, Girl, does in trying to stay employed without compromising her principles.