Sentence examples for nearly faced from inspiring English sources

Daugherty faced bitter public opposition when Harding named him attorney general, and he nearly faced impeachment proceedings in 1922.

In a long-term joint effort, city and state biologists are identifying, monitoring and studying the falcons, which nearly faced extinction in the 1960s from the pesticide DDT.

It would be personal, pitting opponents with deep history from their home base who nearly faced off for the Senate seat Mrs. Clinton won in 2000.

Parents have so come to expect the safe fare (and cheaper prices) of a children's menu that Fornino, a pizza restaurant in Park Slope, nearly faced a boycott when it opened earlier this month without one.

And he said that Kingfish Hall, his restaurant in the Faneuil Hall marketplace in Boston, would go through a similar makeover after business slipped during the recession and the restaurant nearly faced eviction.

Mrs. Clinton, a leading candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, and Mr. Giuliani, a leading Republican candidate, nearly faced each other in the New York Senate race in 2000.

At full speed (40 miles an hour), the ride uses centrifugal force to turn passengers nearly face down some 900 feet above the pavement.

The big difference is that the war in Afghanistan was a proxy war against Russia; in Syria the two countries' militaries are nearly facing each other.

The issues that impact technology and startup entrepreneurs are issues nearly everyone faces, nearly every day.

Just a few nights earlier, he recounted, he came nearly face to face with a wolf.

Given the refined 3D structures of quinoxaline and Rebek's acridine diacid, the EUDOC program generated a complex nearly identical to the crystal structure of form A (mwRMSD: 0.7 Å) but not the proposed complex with nearly face-to-face π-stacking.