Sentence examples for relations close to from inspiring English sources

"Because of its irresponsible and thoughtless attitude, they have put our relations close to breaking point".

Leaked documents reveal a crisis in the £15bn Crossrail project, Europe's largest construction site, with industrial relations close to collapse and workers too scared to report injuries for fear of being sacked.

Figure 1a shows the typical dispersion relations close to a Dirac point and the corresponding 1D DOS for semiconducting SWNTs.

For the past seven years Canberra's close relations with George Bush's presidency have overshadowed, and sometimes bedevilled, relations closer to home in the Asia-Pacific region.

Finding the best value for η is a difficult task when relying upon analytical methods; one can think of numerical methods to tackle a relation close to optimal solution.

Seeing chimpanzees, our closest relations, close enough to expect a Christmas card, was potentially much more fun and, at $90 a pop, cheap as chimps.

Judging by the reaction of local schools and youth groups at the time, community relations was close to an oxymoron.

Amid this perfect storm for a decisive reset in U.S.-Saudi relations, sources close to the kingdom paid close attention to Murphy's speech.

The size of the extent to which comorbidity and stage influenced the relations was close to those in the main analysis (data not shown).

If matrices almost satisfying a group relation are close to matrices exactly satisfying the relation, then we say that a group is matricially stable.

The measured exponent in the TDF-I relation is close to one half.