Sentence examples for that they were approaching from inspiring English sources

On Tuesday, when he saw on their Web site that they were approaching the $50,000, he decided to put them over the top.

But several money managers said late Friday and over the weekend that they were approaching the coming week cautiously, not planning on buying aggressively in case the market dropped further.

Giving unexpected testimony to the tribunal in Darwin on Wednesday, Nitschke said he was often approached by people expressing a desire to end their lives but that they were approaching him as a euthanasia advocate, not a doctor.

Although half the patients were not expected to survive when they were admitted, doctors failed to make the judgement that they were approaching the end of their life which would have enabled medical staff to provide appropriate care.

Although some people close to the negotiations said Thursday night that they were approaching a resolution, the senators emerged after 6 tonight only to cancel the budget committee meeting that was supposed to have begun at 1 this afternoon.

Research in the Lancet medical journal last week found that GP workloads in England grew by 16% between 2007 and 2014 and that surgeries were now so busy that they were approaching "saturation point".

United Airlines and American Airlines both said that they were approached to provide information as part of the probe.

Police officers reported that they were approached by many wide-eyed residents wondering whether a new wave of terrorist attacks had begun.

The pair have been setting up a series of events under the umbrella known as the World Snooker Series (WSS), and it was in that capacity that they were approached.

The Comedy Cellar's longtime booker, Estee Adoram, said: "I heard from a customer that they were approached and told, 'You don't have to wait in line.' We worked 30 years to develop our reputation.

Several Pakistani journalists and scholars in the United States interviewed over the past week said that they were approached regularly by Pakistani officials, some of whom openly identified themselves as ISI officials.