Sentence examples for was on close from inspiring English sources

Franco seemed determined throughout the war to remain neutral, though was on close terms with Germany behind the scenes.

BERLIN -- The composer Emmanuel Chabrier was on close terms with Impressionistic painters, even appearing as a subject in Degas's painting "L'Orchestre" and in two portraits by Manet.

As Trajan lay dying at Selinus (Cilicia) in August 117, she induced him to adopt Hadrian, with whom she was on close terms.

In one fascinating set of wiretaps, in the early two-thousands, the Mafia boss Giuseppe Guttadauro, a medical doctor who was on close terms with the governor of Sicily (since convicted of collusion), talked with an associate about his relationship with his priest-confessor.

His main impact was on close readers of poetry e.g., I.A. Richards, William Empson, and F.R. Leavis in England and the critics of the New Criticism movement in the United States, many of whom were also poets besides being political and cultural conservatives.

Although she was on close terms with the most respectable members of the British establishment - from Winston Churchill and Evelyn Waugh (who said her beauty "ran through the room like a peal of bells") to Sir John Betjeman - she admitted having a peculiar affinity with Hitler.

He has long been on close terms with Mr Bush.

The emphasis is on close skills and quick moves.

Murrumu is on close terms with Scullion and regards him as a friend.

About 300 paintings will be on "close view," behind tempered glass.

"Now, we'll be on close to 4,000 screens," Mr. Weinstein said.