You didn't quite make the grade, you couldn't quite measure up, there is probably something about you that reminds us too much of our own love affair with the nearly-victory.
Incredibly, they nearly steal victory with a mid-race move but are caught close home.
The court required some new oversight by the Justice Department and new rules for accessing the database, but it was a nearly complete victory for the agency.
Otherwise, he would have to pull off a nearly impossible victory in all of the remaining swing states and a Bush-leaning state or two.
But Gabriel Chin, a professor at the University of Arizona School of Law who has studied the law, called the ruling "a nearly complete victory for the position of the United States".
One year after losing a nearly certain victory when he slid off the course on the last lap, Kyle Busch made amends at Watkins Glen International, holding off Brad Keselowski in a two-lap dash to the finish in a caution-filled race.
In his first Test back against a formidable West Indies side, he made 96 and then, with a broken thumb in the second innings, a stoic 30 not out, which nearly brought victory.
Laudrup saw striker Danny Graham very nearly snatch victory at the death in what might prove to be his final game for the club at Sunderland, one of the clubs who have been chasing his signature for several weeks.
(Reuters) — Mattel won a nearly complete victory Thursday in its federal copyright infringement case against a rival, MGA Entertainment, over which toy maker owns the original drawings for the $1 billion-plus Bratz fashion doll franchise.
Chances flowed in the final stages and on 80 minutes Berisha nearly put Victory back in front after a cheeky back-heel from a Daniel Georgievski cross, but it trickled wide.
The proposals, published on Friday and backed by both archbishops, offer a nearly complete victory for the female clergy and their supporters outraged by the failure of the earlier legislation.
