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Democrats came close to winning them all – but didn't.
The conference came close to a settlement on this issue.
He came close, Mr Benfey argues, with "The Jungle Book".
Deserae Turner came close to never experiencing any of that.
Against his old friends from Rome, though, Salah came close.
Frankly, I came close to beating it within a day.
Westchester came close, but ultimately went ahead with the services.
Only one other group, divorced men, came close at 39%.
Only Belgium came close to this figure, at 33 percent.
Yes, Ariadna says she came close to taking his mansion.
No Social Security privatization bill came close to a vote.
Liver & kidneys are starting to heal, Came close to dying!
My cover only ever came close to being blown once.
Earlier this week, the index came close to its Dec.
None came close to reducing it to a tolerable level.
In fact, he never came close to losing his footing.
Manafort came close to reaching an agreement in recent weeks.
Last year came close to the record on that measure.
No other province came close to matching Mpumalanga's explosive growth.
He came close to articulating a strategy on North Korea.
He eventually came close to wresting the nomination from Mondale.
Those attacks came close to bringing American military retaliation then.
The two Clinton impeachment articles never came close to succeeding.
While the policy didn't abolish immigration imprisonment, it came close.
One, Betty Broadbent, actually came close to earning a crown.
So, too, does the sorrow, for those who came close.
But a California child psychiatrist, Dr. Arthur Kornhaber, came close.
Neither of these came close to earning $100 million worldwide.
For Justin, no one ever came close to comparing to Selena.
He came close, but I think he never quite achieved it.
He came close-ish but, to my mind, didn't do enough.
Every time our flight departure came close, it was further delayed.
Earlier on in the season, Felix came close to betraying Rafa.
"I came close to decapitating him," McDougald later told Dom Forker.
Lauletta reportedly came close to striking the officer with his car.
No party came close to winning a parliamentary majority on Sunday.
Nobody came close to Bush's +33 percentage point net approval rating.
It couldn't make it up this one (but it came close).
It's been many, many years, numerous decades, and nobody came close.
During more than an hour, this device came close to shtick.
The possibility came close to fruition, but for alleged voting shenanigans.
Smith also came close to scoring an empty-net insurance goal.
She came close to sharing that awkwardness her with the audience.
None of the four came close to matching the Nasdaq index.
A nice chip shot on 18 came close to going in.
I came close to reading the review about seven million times.
O'Rourke came close in 2018, losing to Cruz by three points.
On track we came close too many times, that was clear.
It came close, but the balance, ultimately, landed in the red.
It still came close, despite the protestations of many in the media.
No previous algorithm update ever came close to this level of decimation.
However, neither of those films came close to Detective Pikachu's critical reception.
Corruption came close to destroying the liberties you and I believe in.
The company came close but ultimately missed analyst estimates of $1.6 billion.
It's unclear if the trio came close to coming face-to-face.
Last week, the Index came close to closing above a key level.
As you know, I tried very hard, came close, but didn't win.
Unlike after Katrina, floodwater only came close to their apartment this time.
John McCain dealing the death blow, the tactic came close to success.
Connecticut came close in 2004, when a state House panel investigating Gov.
Trump came close on Tuesday night, speaking for more than 82 minutes.
In 2016, the Democratic base came close to handing avowed socialist Sen.
The cutter came close enough to buffet us with its large wake.
The proposal to visit with New York police officers never came close.
He came close to doing so in the 2628 race against Sen.
Nevada came close to adopting such a strategy: In June, Republican Gov.
No other politician came close in the overall disapprobation of the citizenry.
No team came close to keeping pace with Guardiola's team last year.
Paris firefighters noted that the whole cathedral came close to being destroyed.
I never came close to solving a Rubik's Cube as a child.
Steyer came close to Sanders, with around 1 in 7 black voters.
He came close, though, being denied by the goal frame three times.
President Barack Obama came close to making the genocide declaration several times.
The only faction leader who came close to an apology was Gen.
But Ferrari never came close to winning a single race this year.
Last month the FPO candidate came close to winning Austria's presidential election.
The hard thing is that the Mariners actually came close in 2016.
Good restaurants don't rain down from nowhere, but Crown Shy came close.
Israel came close to returning the Golan Heights in peace talks with Syria.
The Soviet Union and America avoided all-out war, but they came close.
He took Iowa, Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin, and came close to winning Minnesota.
No other week of shopping during July and August came close last year.
Only the rule of law and stopping the war in Chechnya came close.
There are times you came close to death because of that damn clamp.
In the end, though he came close, Nixon would not go that far.
The only establishment presence who came close to keeping up, again, is Christie.
He added that turnout came close was in 28503, when 22019 percent voted.
The GOP came close in 2017, but they couldn't overcome the late Sen.
Some countries came close to that during the commodity supercycle of 2003-13.
Realmuto, who went 4-for-5, came close to hitting for the cycle.
African-American voters and white allies came close to winning the top office.
The only other veggie burger that came close in either category was Gardein.
Last year, Congress came close to pushing this legislation across the goal line.
There were two times that I believe I came close to having sex.
The Soviet Union came close in December 1971 with its Mars 3 mission.
Before NTT, at least two other bidders came close to buying the business.
Tension remains high after they came close to war following February's militant attack.
No. I came close: 48 percent for one City Council race in 2011.
Sinn Fein came close to beating the D.U.P. as the biggest single party.
The family lost its station wagon and came close to losing its home.
No one else came close: Biden had 14.6% and 403% went for Buttigieg.
Foxconn never came close to that level of investment, according to news reports.
Makwala also came close to beating Van Niekerk in a 400 in Monaco.
She came close to winning the race for governor of Georgia in 2018.
But for all their brilliance, they never came close to winning the race.
Q: With your ballooning adventures, you came close to death more than once.
Still, the Knicks came close to stealing a win in the final seconds.
Mr. Sanders drew notice as a novelty but never came close to winning.
Clinton came close in Arizona in 220006, losing there by only 2202 points.
The A's came close to snapping a scoreless tie in the second inning.
Some came close to attaining legal status, but the majority of them are outdated.
Two other dogs, Wild Thang and Tostito, came close to winning the coveted crown.
In March, lawmakers in red-state Utah came close to passing a similar ban.
The snowstorm came close to being the biggest in New York City since 22.
Amid the erosion of multilateral agreements and diplomatic channels, we came close to calamity.
He also came close in Minnesota, and seems to poised to even take Michigan.
Lyft's entrance into scooters came close after its acquisition of bike-share company Motivate.
At times, to be sure, the generals came close to openly defying the president.
Neither Gen X nor the Baby Boomers came close to that kind of spending.
"No previous algorithm update ever came close to this level of decimation," he wrote.
In April, Uber acquired JUMP bikes for a sum that came close $200 million.
One chilly fall morning, at age 17, he came close to ending his life.
"  Cory Doctorow came close to a disaster when he texted his kids' babysitter, "Hey!
Lyft's entrance into scooters came close after its acquisition of bike-share company Motivate.
Like O'Rourke, Abrams and Gillum came close to winning elections in historically Republican states.
Yoda's mini-lectures on the Force came close to starting a real-life religion.
Accounts of how British and EU negotiators came close to a deal on Oct.
No other language even came close to Java in the TIOBE ranking growth-wise.
To be sure, Sarah Palin came close, but she never actually held national office.
Not even Michael Jordan managed it, though LeBron James and Shaquille O'Neal came close.
Once in the championship match, none of these surprise finalists came close to winning.
Labour MPs saying they had no confidence in him, Corbyn came close to quitting.
Russian airstrikes came close to hitting U.S. forces in Syria at least three times.
In the past, fires came close, but this one was different - bigger and faster.
I came close to tears as I waited for the Dutch chemist to return.
In the minutes before the collision, two additional ships came close to the Fitzgerald.
In the case of Sears Canada, Mr. Lampert came close to making a profit.
So every time I came close to caving in, I just think of her.
It was a wildly ambitious goal, but the university came close to reaching it.
And Continental Drift didn't quite match it but came close, with $877.2 million worldwide.
Crossword symmetry didn't make that perfectly possible, but I hope this layout came close.
But no American automaker came close to reaching the existing, lower cap last year.
No private companies have been able to match this feat, though one came close.
Earlier in the interview, Ms. Campion said she came close to terminating her pregnancy.
We dug ourselves a hole and never came close to coming out of it.
Although it came close, the Chartwell Estate didn't quite beat the US sales record.
None of these men came close to Mr. Trump in his capacity to provoke.
Scalise came close to death and is still recovering at MedStar Washington Hospital Center.
Yoda's mini-lectures on the Force came close to starting a real-life religion.
MORE kept predicting 4 percent growth year after year and he never came close.
He came close to graduating on time, but couldn't after he failed one class.
My mother's dream was to own her own home, but we never came close.
None of these factors, even when taken together, came close to accounting for the phenomenon.
No other Republican candidate came close with the New Hampshire residents who held these views.
He came close to his first career shutout while making only his sixth NHL appearance.
In 1981-82, Magic Johnson came close, averaging 18.6 points, 9.6 rebounds and 9.5 assists.
Sabato got it all wrong last time, never came close to understanding the Trump Voter.
Twice, in 2010 and in 2014, the government came close to approving a draft budget.
No other musician came close to what pop sensation Taylor Swift raked in during 2015.
Starr never came close to showing that Clinton did anything wrong related to that deal.
That shark, too, was thought to be disoriented when it came close to the shore.
Late Thursday, he began a series of advertising buys that came close to $2 million.
Clark was a good complement, though he never came close to hitting this well again.
In our hierarchy of goodness, Ghanaians were at the top, and nothing else came close.
Clinton came close to meeting with Kim Jong Il while still in office in 2000.
I came close to getting married a couple of times, but it didn't work out.
Sanders organization  Sanders came close to winning Iowa and then pummeled Clinton in New Hampshire.
The benchmark index came close to 2,900 at its record-making peak in late January.
"I had written a few that came close to being published but not," he said.
I've eaten a couple frozen TV dinners and none even came close to resembling food.
Back in 2016, Disney came close to acquiring Twitter but abandoned the deal last minute.
Nielsen already came close to resigning once last month, according to The New York Times.
This did not destroy my career or my emotional well-being, but it came close.
Croatia has dominated possession since scoring the first goal, and came close to a second.
I came close to throwing this letter away, as I thought it was a joke.
About four years ago, a petition drive came close to making it onto a ballot.
And Michael came close to crying himself, the wave crashing just short of his eyes.
In December, the ratings agency Standard & Poor's came close to downgrading it to junk status.
The reason why Timberlake's career continued to soar, while Jackson's never came close to recovering.
It never came close to reality, mainly due to the deep mistrust on both sides.
" He knows he came close "because a few times I let people call me 'nigger.
"It was always what I wanted to do — nothing else even came close," she tells PEOPLE.
The GOP's internal divisions were Ryan's gravest challenge, and one he never came close to resolving.
Around this time last year, a certain little black dress came close to breaking the Internet.
Other Western company salaries that came close to the Tencent remuneration come from enterprise tech firms.
A teen gunman came close to assassinating Queen Elizabeth in 1981, according to newly released documents.
Then Trump came along and came close to a clean sweep in the region in 2016.
Trump came close to winning Minnesota in 2016, losing to Hillary Clinton by about 44,000 votes.
France recently came close to torpedoing the start of EU membership talks for Macedonia and Albania.
You had a serious heart attack not too long ago, and came close to dying yourself.
President Donald Trump came close to retaliating but called off an airstrike at the last moment.
O'Rourke came close, with 48% of the popular vote — more than Hillary Clinton's 44% in 2016.
Illinois and Minnesota either reached or came close to setting all-time state records on Thursday.
Netflix came close to touching that level in February, March and April but bounced each time.
And no other Great Lakes state came close to offering the $4.1 billion Foxconn is getting.
The Samsung Galaxy was the only high-end smartphone that ever came close to the iPhone.
But it came close, calling Latin America a "natural extension" and "indispensable participant" in the scheme.
It didn't experience the highest losses but it came close, shedding 19.79 percent of its value.
Murray came close to losing his very first service game, which he took after five deuces.
"Close to Me" singer Ellie Goulding has revealed that she once came close to quitting music.
He's yet to hit 242 percent for a full year, though he came close in 210.
He came close, but as his EST instructor says, he is a machine, trained to respond.
He came close to the milestone Tuesday night, hitting the post on an empty Chicago net.
Only the highest dose of trabodenoson came close but still missed the main goal, data showed.
The influential Koch organizations came close to running an extensive multi-million-dollar campaign against him.
Since then, he has completely shut St. Louis down in every meeting, though Friday came close.
The court already came close to pursuing this path in 2016 in Whole Woman's Health v.
Another came close to capturing the formerly safe Liberal seat covering the steelmaking city of Whyalla.
The company came close to stopping the drought of revenue growth that has lasted 21 quarters.
No homes have been lost although the fire came close to buildings Sunday night, authorities said.
No other chain came close in a Business Insider reader survey conducted in June and July.
Both John McCain and John Kerry came close, but their combat heroism did not prove unassailable.
In that time, 153 countries — including China, Senegal and Bolivia — eliminated malaria and 21 came close.
The coalition came close to collapsing in June over a dispute over immigration and border controls.
But Mr. Earnest came close to suggesting that President Obama saw Mr. Comey's decision as problematic.
The Red Sox came close to preserving their season, and Ortiz's career, in the ninth inning.
Nativists like Pat Buchanan found some electoral success but never came close to winning national elections.
He continued: It's been independent twelve years and never even came close to starting any war.
India has spent billions of dollars to join that exclusive club — and came close to disaster.
In his mind he came close, but in society's mind, he had some distance to go.
The court once came close to ruling that such cases were political matters beyond its jurisdiction.
"It actually came close to a halt as it came over the White House," Trump said.
The WB shot six episodes, but stopped production before any of them came close to airing.
Nothing Ms. Rowan found came close to her previous pay of $17 an hour plus overtime.
Despite being active, Silvestro came close to entering only once, when Rob Ninkovich missed a play.
They came close in 1997 and 2016, losing the World Series in seven games both years.
The week ending March 28, 20203 came close to topping that record, with 665,000 new claims.
But she still came close to running out of food at the end of the month.
Though he never broke skin or came close to doing so, it startled him a bit.
But we know one thing for sure -- Democrat Jason Kander, who came close to defeating Sen.
Goldman Sachs' Lloyd Blankfein was one of the few who came close to criticizing the president.
Conversely, in almost two hours of bowling, Malott never came close to making the 7-10.
Alfonso Cuarón's Roma came close last year, earning 10 nominations (Green Book won the coveted title).
The only candidate who came close to Klobuchar's level of achievement in 2018 was Ohio Sen.
Shasta Fields told CNN that she and her boyfriend, Tom Nolan, came close to the twister.
Mr. Cohn came close to resigning, according to one of the people briefed on the discussions.
No Carolina player came close to touching Hines for the final 23 yards of that return.
Brazil rescued the team from last place in 2016 but neither driver came close this time.
No Carolina player came close to touching Hines for the final 55 yards of that return.
"2019 came close to being the year of executing the innocent," he said in the report.
And nobody onstage spoke with more precision and shrewdness, though Bennet came close a few times.
But each time he came close, the rand would wilt and investors would dump South Africa's bonds.
After that, every time he came close to me, my body would tell me to move back.
It came close in the 2013-14 season but lost to Atletico Madrid in the semi-finals.
In which the world came close to seeing yoga performed on the stage of the #GOPDebate pic.twitter.
One senior official told the outlet that Turkey came close to a similar agreement several months ago.
That was the major decline that came when many financial institutions and industrials came close to collapsing.
Almost two decades ago, the Sisterhood came close to ending as funding diminished and national interest lessened.
While multiple people were targeted outside of Rajneeshpuram, only Rajneesh's doctor, Swami Devaraj, came close to death.
The much-promised "repeal and replacement" of the Affordable Care Act never even came close to happening.
They came close to a four-week low when they fell to $49.13 earlier in the session.
Giving us some indication of which players came close each year would at least be an improvement.
Hillary Clinton came close to nicking the vote there from Donald Trump last November, but fell short.
They came close to a sweep of Boston before losing 5-3 in 11 innings on Sunday.
They came close to a four-week low when they fell to $0003 earlier in the session.
In 1980, Nadia Comaneci of Romania came close, but settled for silver after winning gold in 1976.
"The tandem deal, I never even came close to," said Hemric, who qualified fifth for Sunday's race.
McDaniel rankled the Republican establishment in 2014 when he came close to unseating Cochran in the primary.
He won the Masters and U.S. Open and came close at the British Open and PGA Championship.
It came close twice with a location in Shanghai and another in Beijing, but neither were successful.
Congress came close to fixing this problem in 2011 when it passed the Budget Control Act (BCA).
Season two didn't shit the bed as hard as True Detective's second season, but it came close.
This came close to this location's hottest reliably measured temperature in recent decades, which was 129°F.
South Africa, playing at the Olympics for the first time since 2000, also came close several times.
But none of his films, all fairly formulaic he says now, ever came close to being greenlighted.
Among the groups, only National Rifle Association (NRA) members came close to trans people in unfavorability ratings.
Mr. Sarec, 40, came close to unseating the incumbent, Borut Pahor, in the presidential election last year.
If there was such a thing as disposable video games, Tiger's handhelds came close to being that.
He came close to realizing it five years ago when the retail space next door was available.
On the wall, Trump came close to accusing Democrats of wanting drugs to come over the border.
We have a 90-pound German shepherd, and he never even came close to knocking it over.
There was a moment when I came close to tears, and it involved another set of words.
They came close to agreeing to a Victorian-themed cooking show, but that fell apart as well.
Republicans and Democrats came close, or so it seemed on a few occasions, to a DACA deal.
Though several national polls came close to capturing the final result in the popular vote — which Mrs.
Nothing ever came close to "Blame it on the Pop," though, and its 51 million YouTube views.
Trump also came close to winning Minnesota, which no Republican presidential candidate has done since Richard Nixon.
We came close to spending our first night together last weekend, but she was concerned about protection.
Again and again I came close to falling, and each time my heart leapt into my chest.
That's because, according to the owner, the notebook came close to getting destroyed when Hurricane Katrina hit.
And none of them came close to being as good as "Avengers" is in its worst scene.
A few came close, notably James Mattis, the defence secretary and a thoughtful former four-star Marine general.
Quintero came close in the 56th minute on the break, but his goal-bound shot took a deflection.
Lopez Obrador came close to winning the presidency in 2006 and was runner-up again six years later.
That never happened (and never really came close to happening), as we have chronicled here, here and here.
The rules also came close to wiping a vast swath of the cosmetology school industry off the map.
The only other one that even came close was Bruce Springsteen's halftime show in 2009, which received four.
Only a handful of those protagonists, most notably Mad Men's Don Draper, eventually came close to doing so.
But nothing came close to the box office phenomenon that was this adaptation of the Stephen King novel.
Comey declines, for instance, to say whether the FBI ever came close to closing the book on Flynn.
And Miss Spears will probably never know that her photo came close to being used in international espionage.
But none of these drops came close to corresponding with the huge increase in stop-and-frisk cases.
Ice-T says he came close to shooting an Amazon delivery driver after mistaking him for an intruder.
While he came close to accepting it, he ultimately didn't, but didn't offer any reason as to why.
Auvi-Q, the only thing that came close, was recalled for delivering faulty dosages almost a year ago.
The Daini station also came close to a disaster, but retained enough backup power to keep cooling going.
He never came close to hitting me and he was on the sidewalk before I realized what happened.
In the doorways and on the corners, children and women held platters, stepping out whenever someone came close.
The Dow Jones industrial average came close to hitting 20,000 in recent days, but has since pulled back.
And Williams—though he came close—couldn't edge out incumbent Kathy Hochul to become the next lieutenant governor.
The blow was so deep that the knife came close to passing all the way through Yilmaz's body.
If there is such a thing as a good corporate April Fools' joke, Spotify came close this year.
Britain's economy came close to stagnating again in February, underscoring concerns that Brexit uncertainty is weighing on momentum.
JJ came close to shedding tears when she, apparently, made direct eye contact with Missy during the speech.
On Tuesday, about 1003 short-finned pilot whales came close to beaching themselves on St. Simon's Island, Georgia.
Other former living presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton came close at 63% and 62% approval ratings, respectively.
Mike Levin, an environmental attorney, came close to scoring the California Democratic Party's endorsement at the February convention.
In the interview with RT, Assad said Russia and the US came close to a confrontation in Syria.
This beloved Danish brand almost went to pieces earlier in the 2000s, when it came close to bankruptcy.
Ms. Wu and her partner, Zheng Jiaqi, came close to an upset against Shan Xiaona and Petrissa Solja.
King already faces two Republican challengers and came close to losing against Democratic challenger J.D. Scholten last November.
Seven years ago, he came close to buying English soccer team Crystal Palace because the name sounded cool.
Bottles even came close to hitting Toronto Manager John Gibbons as he went out to argue the call.
The only time a rival came close to Trump's lead in the poll before Cruz was Nov. 7.
Greece survived an exit scare in 2012 when it came close to leaving the 19-country currency bloc.
Wales came close to qualifying again and again, but they hadn't been at a major tournament since 1958.
But no single party came close to winning a majority under the Election Commission's complex and shifting formulas.
In an earlier encounter with Mr. Hyatt's case, the court in 2016 came close to overruling that decision.
They had years when no one came close to them, and then almost overnight they had real competition.
A family picture of mine went missing and I came close to getting into it with another inmate.
She came close to tears as she pulled out a picture of him from the high school yearbook.
Mickey Callaway, the Mets' rookie manager, did not say those exact words Sunday morning, but he came close.
In 153, Beto O'Rourke came close to making part of that happen in a race against Ted Cruz.
Hours later, on Saturday evening, a missile fired from Yemen came close to Riyadh before being shot down.
There was no scoring in the sixth but the Twins came close on a few deep fly balls.
In fact, Eisenhower balanced three budgets in his eight years in office and came close on five others.
The Democrats came close to this level of party loyalty in 1964 when Lyndon Johnson faced Barry Goldwater.
Axne came close to matching Hillary Clinton's 2016 vote total but Young won far fewer votes than Trump.
I cannot recall a time when Cuba came close to abolishing the social ailments that have afflicted us.
The company came close to bankruptcy, but it survived through advertisements on CNN and AT&T TV commercials.
Her spreadsheets showed profitability at 200 ewes and 20,000 pounds of cheese annually, but she never came close.
Samuel Chase came close in 1805, when he was impeached by the House but acquitted by the Senate.
It was a risky strategy, and in some ways it came close to blowing up in their faces.
A Supreme Court case attacking the provision came close to wiping the whole health law off the books.
Hirway is so sweet-natured that it's nearly impossible to offend him, but with this I came close.
The result, as this article shows, was that Toronto came close to not being part of the league.
In November, a ballistic missile fired from Yemen came close to hitting the Saudi Arabian capital of Riyadh.
After five days of outrage, Biden finally came close to an apology on Saturday when he told Rev.
Let that sink in: Trump's itchy Twitter finger came close to possibly starting a war with North Korea.
Cost-saving and efficiency drives at PSA, which came close to bankruptcy in 2013, have returned it to profitability.
With this change, Republicans found a way to retain power they came close to losing with McCrory's forthcoming departure.
The film previously came close to being adapted into a stage musical but negotiations fizzled in 2007, reports Playbill.
Weeks after suffering a near-fatal allergic reaction to fish, Bethenny Frankel came close to another potential deadly encounter.
It's for this reason that the duo said Hussle came "close" to appearing in season 1 of the series.
Greece has had their bailouts since 2010 and came close in 2015 to crashing out of the euro zone.
I thought about the deal every day they were on sale, and came close to buying them several times.
Sure, Android was growing alongside iOS at that point, but lacked hardware that came close to the iPhone's polish.
Governments rose and fell while Mr Macron drummed his fingers; the transatlantic bond stretched, and came close to snapping.
A year later, Turkey's chief prosecutor accused AK of being anti-secular and came close to having it banned.
But, as confidence grew that Islamic State was in terminal decline, its second quarter results came close to breakeven.
EST: Per Elon Musk, the Falcon 9 came close, but didn't quite stick that ocean barge landing this time.
It came close to unleashing them after being struck by Iraqi Scud missiles during the Gulf war in 1991.
The neighbors came close to war in 1996 over islets known as Imia in Greek and Kardak in Turkish.
Carolina, led by dual-threat quarterback Cam Newton and a strong defense, came close to an undefeated regular season.
White also said rumblings of a possible fight between GSP and Conor McGregor never came close to actually happening.
Clinton came close to ending the Democratic race with her emphatic, 47 percentage point victory over Vermont U.S. Sen.
The west came close to being encircled itself during fighting last month as rebels severed the only road in.
The only year that came close was 2009, when Michael Jackson, Patrick Swayze, Ted Kennedy, and Farrah Fawcett died.
She came close in 2016 when she was beaten in the final of the U.S. Open by Angelique Kerber.
Pastrnak again came close in the third when a deflected shot hit off the crossbar on the power play.
The handlebars never jerked (a common occurrence on smaller products), and I never came close to being thrown off.
Before Giuliani joined the defense, Dowd and Mueller came close to an agreement for the President to voluntarily testify.
But after Jobs died, Apple failed to deliver a groundbreaking innovation that came close to matching the iPhone's success.
But neither of those shifts came close to the level of climate change we're seeing now, new research shows.
Bagley was nearly unstoppable down low as no Vikings player came close to his combination of size and length.
Minshew didn't lead the nation in passing, but he came close, finishing second in yards and fourth in touchdowns.
We came close in 290-2000 and 210-22016, but neither decade quite reached the 22012 million job threshold.
Right after Donkey Kong's release, the North American video game market came close to collapse in the early 1980s.
The party also came close to passing a bipartisan immigration bill earlier this year, but Trump knocked it down.
Chicago came close to breaking its record of 27 below zero when temperatures plunged to 21 below, Hennen said.
At the start of the second half, Chelsea upped the pace and Alonso came close on two more occasions.
She first came close to winning the French Open in 2014, losing a three-set final to Maria Sharapova.
"Growth across the rest of the world meanwhile came close to stalling, registering the weakest expansion since September 2012."
Ledecka has won world championship medals in snowboarding but never came close to winning a World Cup ski race.
City was in full control of the game from the start as Riyad Mahrez twice came close to scoring.
"I wish I could say I came close in those three months, but I didn't," Harden said last week.
In 2012, a second object called G2 was found, and it came close to the black hole in 0003.
In February, they came close to war following a suicide bombing in Indian Kashmir that killed 40 paramilitary soldiers.
At one point, Spain's national lawmakers came close to appeasing Catalan's nationalist sentiment by allowing the region special autonomy.
In February, they came close to war following a suicide bombing in Indian Kashmir that killed 40 paramilitary soldiers.
She came close in 1975, losing to Evonne Goolagong Cawley, 5-7, 6-773, 9-7, in the quarterfinals.
Earlier this year, Taliban leaders came close to pausing the talks in protest at the scale of American bombing.
Anthony Mantha also came close to scoring when the Detroit right winger hit the goalpost in the first period.
Authoritarianism was the best single predictor of support for Trump, although having a high school education also came close.
They received phone calls, conducted loud arguments, yelled their critiques of the movies — it came close to being unbearable.
Biden, the former vice president who will be 22016 in 2020, famously didn't run in 2016 but came close.
One night, when I was about to abandon my table, two hovering customers came close to blows over it.
Both clubs came close to complete oblivion, and the collective trauma felt by their fanbases resonated strongly with supporters elsewhere.
The president came close to backing the replacement for Obamacare being proposed by Republican leaders in the House of Representatives.
Trump won all but Minnesota in 2016, and he came close enough there to convince Republicans their prospects were improving.
He came close to winning in April, but no candidate climbed over the 50% threshold needed to avoid a runoff.
They divvied up their bills, but Alec said he was embarrassed that his income never came close to his wife's.
During out visit to Princi, we didn't taste-taste all 104 menu items, but it felt like we came close.
The party came close to winning a slew of Brexit-voting seats such as Bishop Auckland in north-east England.
No, the human-assisted A.I. didn't win the prize, but it came close — it passed the contest's initial screening phase.
It came close again in the December 2014 quarter, when Apple's sales grew $17 billion over the December 2013 quarter.
Lorenzo came close to claiming his first win of the season but faded as the race entered the final stages.
Halep came close to lifting the Suzanne Lenglen Cup in 2014, but was beaten by Maria Sharapova in the final.
Clinton in her presentation Wednesday came close to directly accusing the Trump campaign and the Russians of coordinating and collusion.
Microsoft came close to publicly testing its browser extensions support for Edge last year, before delaying it to early 2016.
Allegations of money laundering have plagued Slovenia's banking sector since it came close to seeking an international bailout in 2013.
Yates seemed to relish even the harshest exchanges during the hearing, and she never came close to losing her poise.
Sir Paul McCartney has opened up about his post-Beatles depression – and how he once came close to quitting music.
By comparison, last year's Wisconsin team averaged 1.28 points per possession, and never came close to 1.56 points per possession.
To that end, they can draw lessons from the last time that Republicans came close to radically overhauling the program.
In June, Iran shot down an American drone in the same waterway, and Trump came close to retaliating with airstrikes.
Conservative unrest came close to knocking the bill out during a procedural vote on Thursday on the rule governing debate.
Labour's gains will be minimal if they are faring so badly in a seat where they came close in 2017.
Apple, Uber and Amazon also set new three-month lobbying records, but none came close to Google's massive second quarter.
On film, I saw him try double-moves late in the year and defensive backs never came close to biting.
Cohn reportedly came close to resigning after the Charlottesville episode, which may also have damaged his standing with the president.
Europe's currency bloc already came close to fracturing last year when Mr. Tsipras veered toward pulling out of the euro.
Australia's dollar fell 0.23 percent to $0.7072 after weak exports figures suggested its economy came close to stalling last quarter.
The only thing that came close among its fellow nominees was The Carter's iconic "APESHIT" video, filmed in the Louvre.
But, again, no one came close to the maximum 55 points: London, L.A. and NY got 34.5, and Seoul 33.
He didn't quite grow a half-ton pumpkin, but he came close, with a gourd weighing in at 910 pounds.
I never, though, had a patient whose worry about those side effects came close to her worry about the disease.
Trump came close to launching military strikes against Iran in June after the Islamic Republic shot down a U.S. drone.
Two of the women ended up on top of an Olympic podium at these Games and two more came close.
They came close in 2015 when Matt Harvey, Jacob deGrom, Noah Syndergaard and Steven Matz started in the World Series.
He came close, finishing second in the majors in defensive wins above replacement in 1993, but never reached the top.
China was the top U.S. buyer of soybeans until the trade war, which came close to halting the flow altogether.
In Gaza City, the biggest protest area on Monday, only a few hundred protesters came close to the border fence.
HBO has long taken pride in its dominance of the Emmys, an honor that came close to ending Monday night.
The Nets gave up three first-round picks in hopes of forming a superteam that never came close to materializing.
The party also came close to winning the governorship when Stacey Abrams lost in a close race to Republican Gov.
He was the best player on the floor, with 38 points and 8 assists, and no one else came close.
Sadly, nothing else on the program came close to "Eleven," which was granted the most polite applause of the night.
" A statement said the plane "resembled a hostile target" and the "aircraft came close to a sensitive IRGC military center.
Detroit came close to breaking the deadlock in the third, but Bassitt struck out Niko Goodrum with the bases loaded.
But its arch-rival India, which came close to war with its nuclear-armed neighbor last year, wants Pakistan blacklisted.
Neither team scored during a cautious and fast-paced third period, though each came close in the final three minutes.
No state legislature has actually passed a law to legalize marijuana for recreational use, though Vermont came close this year.
The government came close to collapse in 2015 as coalition members struggled to agree on certain aspects of the plan.
The injury came close to severing her spinal cord, leaving her in "chronic pain" and unable to feel her arms.
In the paper, which was based on city survey data, they came close to debunking the very idea of gentrification.
Only Hungary and Israel came close to the U.S.' 2.5% tax-to-GDP ratio drop, at 1.6% and 1.4%, respectively.
No one else came close to attaining the divergent effects of light that he could juxtapose in a single painting.
China was the top buyer of U.S. soybeans until the trade war, which came close to halting the flow altogether.
The deadlock this time may not be as serious as in 2015, when Greece came close to ejection from the euro.
And when they finally got majorities in both houses, no major assault to the bill came close to the president's desk.
Gigi Hadid came close to taking a tumble on her way to Glamour Women of the Year awards on Monday night.
The European Union and China came close to a trade war in2013 over EU allegations of solar panel dumping by China.
Brazil came close to an equalizer four minutes later when France keeper Sarah Bouhaddi tipped a Cristiane header onto the bar.
"There were a few I came close to getting, but nothing felt perfect" in terms of price or fit, she said. 
The U.S. and Iran came close to the brink of war following the U.S.'s targeted killing of top Iranian Gen.
President Donald Trump on Friday again said the world's two largest economies came close to a trade agreement before China backtracked.
Many of the districts reportedly on the chopping block are regions Hillary Clinton won, or came close to winning, in 2500.
Still, he was enough of a boon to the campaign that she came close to choosing him as a running mate.
None of the other games came close to raising that much money — Killer Instinct took third place with $6,143 in donations.
In 1003, the elder said, the group's earnings came close to $62,000, less than half as much as the year before.
To make a long story short, nothing in Joker came close to convincing me that I am wrong about those things.
" At one point, one client even came close to catching him, saying, "Dude your voice reminds me of somebody… Odell Beckham.
America came close to breaching the debt ceiling in 2011 and 2013, when congressional Republicans demanded spending cuts from Barack Obama.
The Predators came close to adding to their lead during the second period while killing off a Maple Leafs power play.
Last year Iran came close to breaking the highest reliably recorded temperature of 54°C, which Kuwait reached the year before.
Yes, 2008's The Dark Knight surely came close, with eight nominations, but it was unable to crack the top category.
Whenever it came close to breaking up, its institutions and governments took painful and politically contentious decisions to hold it together.
Struggling Deportivo came close to finding a winner and becoming the first team to beat Barca in the league this season.
The star, 26, opened up about why she came close to turning her back on acting after filming 2016's Allegiant.
China said it warned that warship, the USS Lassen, as it came close to reefs claimed by China in contested waters.
Fans need to know who was nominated, how many votes they got, and who came close but didn't quite make it.
The Enterprise came close to destruction in the last Star Trek film in 2013, so the tradition is alive and well.
Then Sanders came close to winning in Iowa and handily won the New Hampshire primary, throwing Clinton's presumptive nomination into question.
The WSJ found that no other top 27 ETF issuer came close to the scale of J.P. Morgan's captive asset generation.
In fact, nobody came close to being indicted, probably because the people who joined us were there for the right reasons.
The companies came close to a merger agreement in November, before SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son pulled out after weeks of talks.
The US and USSR came close to all-out war because of the Bay of Pigs and the Cuban Missile Crisis.
SoftBank has offered to bail WeWork for $9.5 billion, as the office-sharing firm came close to running out of cash.
Trump came close to achieving the impossible feat of obstructing the investigation into a crime that did not, in fact, occur.
De Leon came close to winning the state party endorsement earlier this year during the party's pre-primary convention in February.
O'Rourke and Abrams, both liberals who came close to winning in conservative states, highlight the new approach some Democrats are taking.
A number of other states, like Florida and Georgia, came close to breaking up the Republican stranglehold on their respective governments.
The first mention of the Indiana governor came close to an hour into the night's speeches, from oil billionaire Harold Hamm.
Ossoff came close to winning the race outright, falling about 28503 points short of the 22019 percent plus one he needed.
Confronting Mr. Schumer's overwhelming advantage as a longtime incumbent in a heavily Democratic state, Ms. Long never came close to winning.
He and Democrats came close to forcing a brief government shutdown as they fought to extend the benefits for a year.
They came close this time, and they'll just need to put forth an attractive package for voters in the 2018 midterms.
We maybe didn't lose our baby but we had to have our baby readmitted to the hospital, or it came close.
Atlas thinks he came close to knowing what his subject felt in the years he spent investigating the poet Delmore Schwartz.
In the last presidential election, in 2011, one of those reality show celebrities, Sean Gallagher, came close to defeating Mr. Higgins.
As a result, the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the S&P 23 both came close to record highs on Thursday.
"I came close to identifying the American way of life with the kingdom of God," Mr. Graham later told Christianity Today.
Sneed, who is now 74 and finished his career with four tour victories, never came close again to winning a major.
He came close to achieving that with the help of Mr. Demirtas, whose peaceful activists worked as mediators with the insurgents.
The champions were still all over Spain though and Rapinoe twice came close as Heath tormented the defense on the right.
Businessman Tom Steyer -- who exited the race later Saturday night -- came close to Sanders, winning around 1 in 7 black voters.
Reuters Breakingviews' estimate of the likely annual cost savings came close to the $500 million promoted in the official release Monday.
As she tried to learn John Zorn's song cycle "Jumalattaret," the soprano Barbara Hannigan came close to concluding it was unsingable.
As a statement, it was almost as loud as the rowdy finish-line terrace, and none came close to answering it.
Daniel, a golden retriever, came close but won the hearts of many observers (including but not limited to your Briefing writer's).
Anbang came close to investing in a Manhattan real estate tower with President Trump's son-in-law and adviser, Jared Kushner.
The Charlie's Angels star was just 20 when she was involved a terrible car crash that came close to killing her.
Norway had the best chances in the match and came close during extra time after Australia's Alanna Kennedy was sent off.
Carmen Cincotti finished second with 60 hot dogs and his rival, Matt Stonie, never came close ... finishing third with 48 franks.
The duo came close to getting physical on the finale episode of season 4, which Kennedy was ready rekindle at the reunion.
Diaz came close to finishing it in the third but McGregor somehow stayed on his feet despite a series of heavy blows.
No state's local brick-and-mortar banks have an average interest rate that came close to even 1 percent, according to DepositAccounts.
No other candidate even came close Biden's number when voters were asked if they thought each individual candidate could win against Trump.
Separately they each made an impact, but when they crossed paths, the pair came close to blowing at least one celebrity's mind.
Guerrero had an immediate effect when he came on minutes after the Danish goal and came close to scoring on several occasions.
India and Pakistan, both countries that possess over a hundred nuclear warheads each, came close to the brink of war this week.
Slovenia's banking sector has been plagued by allegations of money laundering since it came close to seeking an international bailout in 2013.
"In the past I've considered changing it, but never to the point where I've came close to actually doing it," he said.
Malcolm X's eldest daughter, Attallah Shabazz, came close to tears recalling the man who was the last close connection to her father.
After spending some time trying to navigate the crowd, Misik said, she came close to the first row of riot police assembled.
Epiphany If Hopkins ever came close to having an epiphany, it would have been on a trip to Egypt in February 21968.
At one point, he was down to just 67 pounds and Hope had to watch as he came close to death — twice.
Any time she even came close to the fence she either circled out or drew the engagement and weaved out under it.
It came close to that level before bouncing back at the year's lows in early June, and previously at the December bottom.
But for a well-designed portable hub with the port selection that it offers, nothing else came close at the price point.
Kamala Harris, former Texas congressman Beto O'Rourke and South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg -- but no one came close to Trump's haul.
Polling on none of the other belief systems and their perceived connection to terrorism or violence came close to matching those numbers.
The Wii U's equivalent never came close to matching it in depth or breadth, and the Switch doesn't have one at all.
"On both sides, even if they came close to half their rhetoric, it wouldn't be a very business friendly environment," he said.
"She fell down before the elk came close enough to hitting her, and when that happened the elk backed away," Tibbitts said.
Then Patrice Bergeron came close to getting the Bruins on the board, but Price got the leg out to make the save.
The Australian dollar dipped 0.20 percent to $0.7072 after weak net exports reading suggested Australia's economy came close to stalling last quarter.
The only thing that came close to matching the Sony prototype's crystal-clear picture was yet another prototype, this time from Sharp.
Gray came close to being put to death in 2008, when then-President George W. Bush signed a warrant authorizing his execution.
The district is reliably Republican -- Price never came close to losing a race -- but saw a marked shift in its presidential results.
But they do announce nominees and later finalists, which at least gives fans some idea of who came close and who didn't.
He did not win in 2018, but came close several times and once the floodgates open there might be no stopping him.
We have owned smart TV's before in the past but nothing even came close to the quality and features of this one.
The maker of Peugeot cars, which came close to bankruptcy in 2013-14, has rebounded under Tavares to record levels of profitability.
None of the Republican contenders came close to Sanchez, 56, who was firmly in second place with 16 percent of the vote.
Nokia had been working on a smartwatch, codenamed Moonraker, which came close to launching alongside its Lumia 930 handset back in 2014.
India has to hold its venom on Pakistan, which it came close to doing in its statement Tuesday responding to Trump's address.
One can see why, as the Tax Reform Act of 1986 came close to meeting all the criteria of good fiscal policy.
The San Jose Sharks were a popular pick to win the West last season, and they came close, reaching the conference finals.
Not even recent smash hits like Deadpool, Deadpool 2, and It – all of which earned more than $700 million worldwide – came close.
If he came close enough to the nomination, I assumed that both would have no choice but to reluctantly unite against him.
Parnell, who came close to defeating Norman in a special election last year, jumped into this year's race as the front-runner.
As in the film (due out April 15), Mr. Carney played in a group that never came close to hitting the charts.
Whenever the government came close to addressing the growing climate crisis, fossil fuel companies were there to claim the science wasn't settled.
He came close last year at the U.S. Open, where he finished a stroke behind champion Brooks Koepka after a closing 63.
Pakistan and India have fought two wars over Kashmir -- in 1947 and 1965 -- and they came close to a third in 1999.
Another Democrat came close to unseating Marshall in 2013 — Atif Qarni, who some said didn't stand a chance as a Muslim candidate.
Butler came close, twice, but the last time a basketball team won the tournament for the first time was 2006 (Florida again).
But Gillibrand hasn't been able to generate a spark or a moment that delivered (or came close to delivering) on that promise.
I came close to a nervous breakdown, and hid out for long enough that their baby company began to crumble without me.
And Ms. Rodriguez de Jesus, who mistakenly drank a poison in the dark and came close to becoming another uncounted hurricane death.
At the time, Ciudadanos was a centrist party and came close to forming a coalition government with Mr. Sánchez and his Socialists.
I would also argue that some other recent troubled, corrupt or corrosive politicians came close to the definition without receiving the designation.
Predominantly Hindu India and Muslim-majority Pakistan have fought two wars since 1947 over Kashmir and came close to another in 1999.
"But as we came close, I noticed they were not wearing military shoes," and were speaking a local dialect, Ms. Ibrahim said.
Though they came close, Dominion Resources, Duke Energy and DTE Energy were unable to garner majorities for climate-related proposals in 2017.
Goalkeeper Fernando Muslera was way too casual on the ball, and Griezmann came close to blocking his rushed clearance into the goal.
Newman came close to beating Lipinski in 2018, and on Tuesday night, the Congress member lost a seat he's held since 2005.
Several noted Chicago medallion prices never came close to New York prices, which they said proved there was no wrongdoing in Chicago.
Mr. Wood, of the LiveSciFi channel, said revenue from that feature came close to matching his channel's estimated ad revenue in April.
No one else came close, and it didn't seem to matter whether you wore headphones or listened directly to your phone's audio.
No other combat sport athlete came close to earning what Mexican boxer Saul "Canelo" Alvarez did over the course of last year.
He even came close, he said, to being fired on the first movie, until his agents flew in to straighten him out.
It also came close to tipping U.S. stocks into a bear market, defined as a sustained decline of 20 percent or more.
In September, Parliament came close to passing an overhaul of the criminal code that would have effectively outlawed gay and lesbian relations.
ET. Bitcoin came close to hitting its lowest point of the year, last seen on June 18 when it retreated to $5,785.
Credit-rating agencies cut America's perfect AAA rating to AA+ in 2011 when the government came close to missing a debt payment.
The EU and China came close to a trade war in 2013 over EU allegations of dumping by Chinese solar panel exporters.
McDaniel, a Tea Party favorite, rattled the establishment in 6900 when he came close to unseating Cochran in a brutal primary fight.
The Australian dollar dipped 0.25 percent to $0.7072 after weak net exports reading suggested Australia's economy came close to stalling last quarter.
Bond yields were higher Friday morning, after the 25-year Treasury and 2-year yields on Thursday came close to inverting again.
"2019 came close to being the year of executing the innocent," Robert Dunham, the director of the center, said in a statement.
Malaysia and North Korea came close to snapping ties over the case until a swap deal was agreed upon on March 30.
And this, the equivalent of the Vietnam War, two of those things, and the incumbent party still nearly won, or came close.
We saw a man chasing another man with a pipe, and our taxi driver came close to wrecking us on the Brooklyn Bridge.
The two companies came close to announcing a merger in 2014 but called it off at the last minute due to regulatory concerns.
When we asked him if anyone came close to keeping pace in the partying department ... he gave props to some L.A. based rockers.
Only the Palm Pilot — and its descendant, the Treo — came close to the dream, but they were limited and lacked large platform ecosystems.
After dropping its prices, the service came close to financial ruin and has been attempting to find a viable business model ever since.
Only the Palm Pilot, and its descendant, the Treo, came close to the dream, but they were limited and lacked large platform ecosystems.
The economy also came close to breaking a record stretch of job gains in February only adding 1,000 jobs, according to revised figures.
Moreover, the Hollywood-backed campaign came close to matching what all of the top 10 campaigns of 23 combined earned (about $23.5 million).
They are also reminding Team Trump about recent statewide races, such as Ed Gillespie's Senate run against Mark Warner, where he came close.
The Devils came close to pulling even in the final minute of the opening period when Mrazek could not control Jiri Tlusty's rebound.
Peel's predecessor, Cathy Gale (played by another real life martial arts student, Honor Blackman) came close to what she was doing on screen.
The Sabres came close to tying it shortly thereafter on an Evander Kane breakaway attempt but Condon denied the winger with his blocker.
Some of those rockets came close to landing in tact on the ship, but SpaceX has yet to recover the vehicle at sea.
It probably came close to breaking even — or even turned a profit — after you add marketing costs to the reported $125 million budget.
VirnetX also came close to nabbing a "running royalty," which would have earned it one percent of iPhone and iPad sales going forward.
The Daini station, which has four reactors, also came close to a disaster, but retained enough back-up power to keep cooling going.
Heavy fighting was also reported in the western province of Farah, where the Taliban came close to overrunning the provincial capital in May.
Sanders has had little to show for his endorsements this cycle — special election candidates in Montana and Kansas came close, but ultimately lost.
Key timing As with a number of previous North Korean tests, the timing of Monday's launch came close to a key international event.
On Monday, the QQQ ETF, which tracks the big-tech-heavy Nasdaq 100 index, came close to recording a historic run ... very close.
In January, the U.S. giant came close to shutting down a second smelter near Melbourne after power outages cut operations by two-thirds.
With her next major effort, "Haze and Fog" (2013), Ms. Cao came close to making a conventionally fictional, albeit surrealistically disjunctive, cinematic feature.
"I Am The Pretty Thing That Lives In The House" came close to being fresh for critics, but audiences were decidedly less impressed.
U.S. officials and Levinson's family told me that Deripaska's efforts came close to securing Levinson's freedom before the State Department scuttled a deal.
Although the Leonov came close to the coast, it never entered U.S. waters which extend 12 miles out from the shoreline, ABC noted.
No Democrat has won statewide office in Texas since 1994, but O'Rourke came close last November when he challenged Republican Senator Ted Cruz.
Martin came close to a third home run, but Jacoby Ellsbury caught the fly ball against the center-field wall in the eighth.
However, the Commission on Presidential Debates intervened, and the women — Juanita Broaddrick, Paula Jones and Kathleen Willey — never came close to Mr. Clinton.
Prior to Monday, New Orleans reportedly hadn't received an offer that came close to its desired compensation for the six-time All-Star.
His tenure came close to the staffer with the second-shortest term, Kenneth Duberstein, who served under Ronald Reagan, only lasted 203 days.
The two companies came close to announcing a merger in 2014, but called it off at the last minute due to regulatory concerns.
Rodriguez landed the big low kicks at range, while Fili got in with sharp jabs on the occasions the two came close enough.
And even that source isn't a sure thing: The work is so volatile, complex and expensive that Lynas once came close to collapsing.
Blac Chyna might not be on Nicki Minaj's level, but she came close Wednesday night on the set of a new music video.
Trammell never came close to election during his 212 tries on the Hall ballot in voting by Baseball Writers' Association of America members.
She dazzled from the start with a score of 93.75 on her first run, and no one came close to beating that mark.
Still, two Wall Street giants — Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley — came close to falling short on one of the Fed's financial-health gauges.
The wind developer returned the next year with a new proposal that came close to approval a number of times, but fell short.
They rarely came close against Verlander, who was every bit as dominant as he was in beating the Yankees twice in the playoffs.
The Sabres came close to scoring at 26:5003 of the first period, but a video review determined that there was no goal.
He came close to flipping Georgia's conservative 6th Congressional District in a 2017 special election but was ultimately defeated by now-former Rep.
Puerto Rico came close to hitting a constitutional limit on its capacity to issue general-obligation bonds, but it still needed more money.
Interestingly, in the county encompassing Pittsburgh, Clinton outperformed President Barack Obama, and in the county encompassing Philadelphia, Clinton came close to Obama's turnout.
On Thursday, the yield came close to a four-year high of 21 percent that had helped trigger Monday's stock market sell-off.
During the global financial crisis, taxpayers in a number of EU countries had to fund bailouts for banks which came close to collapse.
Massa, 35, began racing in 2002 and came close to the title in 2008, losing by one point while with the Ferrari team.
No Republican candidate has won statewide in Minnesota since 2006, though Trump came close to winning the state in the 2016 presidential race.
It not only threw away the promise of its predecessor, it also came close to destroying the ethical basis for the Doctor's character.
The Rules Committee hearing comes as part of discussions to reinstate earmarks after House Republicans came close to reviving them in late 2016.
China's indexes reached an all-time high in 2007 but came close to that record during the mid point of the current decade.
Just this week, the National Snow and Ice Data Center reported the Arctic sea ice shrinkage came close to a record this summer.
Memphis came close to derailing SMU at FedEx Forum, but the Tigers could not make a field goal in the final 2:53.
But, of course, the 1995 incident was hardly the only time in the nuclear area we came close to an accidental nuclear exchange.
In particular, there is no empirical evidence for the claim that we collectively came close to solving the climate crisis in the 20093s.
The "Speechless" singer came close to meeting the ground during her Thursday Enigma residency performance in Las Vegas, according to video captured by fans.
Fitbit's CEO James Park also came close to buying the company, some of the people said, but both sides couldn't agree on the terms.
Joey Slaight came close to dying when his mother, a recovering methamphetamine addict and schizophrenic, shot him point-blank in the head on Jan.
Gerard Butler came close to losing his life after he was hit by a car while he was on his motorcycle in Los Angeles.
A biological engineer at Duke, Bursac came close in 2015, when his lab became the first to grow functional human skeletal muscle in culture.
Rocketman may be focused on the life of Elton John, but it came close to featuring a surprise cameo from yet another famous rocker.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average, which came close to the 20,000 mark earlier this week, looked set to record its seventh straight weekly gain.
"We tried for Indy last year, came close, but just missed out," added the Spaniard, who led at Indianapolis before a late engine failure.
The S&P 500 briefly surpassed its closing record of 3,210 from July 210 and came close to overtaking its all-time intraday high.
The S&P 500 briefly surpassed its closing record of 3,210 from July 210 and came close to overtaking its all-time intraday high.
At that time, she was one of the two "official" princesses whose melanin levels came close to that of my permanent Afro-Latina tan.
He came close to admitting that he didn't pay federal taxes, saying that "makes me smart" and that the money "would be squandered" anyway.
As we came close, the boat slowed and we could hear the sea sizzling as a giant white sulfurous plume boiled into the sky.
Britain's major banks still dominate consumer and small business financial services, but came close to collapse during the 2008 financial crisis, costing taxpayers billions.
Polls predicted it would come a distant fourth but in the end it came close third, winning 69 of the 350 seats in parliament.
But still, as of 224, none of these groups came close to matching the 22016 percent rate among the 18- to 54-year-olds.
Christie, who came close to being chosen as Trump's running mate, assailed Clinton for her record on Libya, Cuba and Iran, among other places.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average, which came close to the 22.0,20.1 mark earlier this week, looked set to record its seventh straight weekly gain.
It led polls for more than a year with support above 30 percent and its candidate came close to winning last year's presidential election.
In 2006 he came close to selling Facebook to Yahoo for $1 billion, but pulled out when it tried to negotiate the price down.
IBM came close to stopping the drought of revenue growth that lasted for 24 quarters, but didn't manage to do that in the end.
After falling behind 2-0 in the second set, Murray came close to breaking Gasquet in the fourth game but failed to do so.
Once, he said something that I thought was really quite mean and I came close to leaning forward and ripping off his fake mustache.
In 2010, when Congress, then controlled by Democrats, came close to closing the loophole, Schwarzman compared the proposal to the Nazi invasion of Poland.
At one point, she came close to hitting one of the balconies at the resort -- so close that she could hear the people screaming.
Democrats also came close to unexpectedly winning the Virginia House of Delegates, which a month later still has not been formally called amid recounts.
The-Dream came close to getting his asking price for his ATL pad ... he fell a tad short, but still made a respectable profit.
The banks lost their access to the ECB's regular funding operations early last year when Greece came close to being ejected from the eurozone.
The report touches on wildfires that came close to Space Launch complexes and a southern California base, as well as thawing permafrost in Alaska.
Not even close The law's insurance marketplaces never came close to hitting the projection from the nonpartisan number-crunchers at the Congressional Budget Office.
Jair Bolsonaro, a populist candidate, came close to an outright victory in Brazil's presidential election on Sunday, capturing about 46 percent of the vote.
In my previous session, while I came close, it didn't matter whether or not I reached orgasm, leading to a more calming experience overall.
Some of them are likely to hold on, but Jones at least is likely to fall, and Shaheen and Warner came close in 2014.
" Robb says he's voted for Republican candidates in the past, but that they never came close to being candidates he felt were truly "acceptable.
This year the court came close to banning the extremist right-wing National Democratic Party but determined the organization was too weak to outlaw.
I came close to the government's fuel economy rating of 26 miles per gallon in the city, 280 highway and an average of 25.
Wright came close to avoiding a runoff in March, winning 28500 percent of the vote to 6900 for Ellzey in an 2628-candidate field.
And in Tuesday's primary, Democratic turnout came close to matching Republican turnout — Democratic primary voters made up 48 percent of those who turned out.
He was occasionally mentioned as a candidate for subsequent N.B.A. openings, but never came close to landing another head coaching job in the league.
Economic growth in 2018 came close, at 2.9 percent, the same level it hit in 2015 under President Obama, but has since come down.
This year, Tronc came close to buying the celebrity magazine Us Weekly from the publisher of Rolling Stone, but that deal also fell through.
Three presidents in a row — Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama — made campaign pledges to double the number but never came close.
The strong Democratic turnout wasn't the only reason Mr. Ossoff came close to winning last Tuesday's election, and could still win in June's runoff.
A few times I came close to quitting, and like clockwork, just before I pulled the plug, I received a bonus or significant raise.
The deal was struck last year when the country's peso lost half its value against the dollar and inflation came close to 50 percent.
Through the help of a physiotherapist, she was able to start swimming again, but "never came close to her previous level," the researchers report.
He came close to making the 2012 Olympic track team for the Netherlands, but an injury kept him off and sidelined his track career.
In an exclusive clip from The Wendy Williams Show, Fergie came close to crying after talking about just how difficult the past year has been.
If, 49 weeks from now, President Rubio is sworn in, Democrats will remember that he came close to calling Mr. Obama anti-American and Mrs.
So they ended up instead putting together a narrower "skinny" repeal bill that came close to passing but ultimately failed due to three GOP defections.
The only other moments that came close to rivaling the applause she received were those following Trump's entrance and at the conclusion of his speech.
Cameroon substitute Henriette Akaba came close to an equalizer in the closing stages before Miedema scored her second goal to put the result beyond doubt.
Now it hangs in my office as a reminder of how the greatest success story in the history of television came close to getting canceled.
Back in 2014, The Atlantic gathered the privacy policies of 50 of the world's biggest websites, and determined they together came close to 145,000 words.
Most viewers who followed Downton through all six seasons will agree that it never surpassed or, for that matter, came close to, matching season 1.
In the years following his release, Anwar rebuilt his following and came close to defeating Najib, another Mahathir protege, in the disputed 2013 general election.
On Monday, they came close to a deal that would have seen a socialist Dutchman as Commission chief, but it was scotched by eastern countries.
Nichols famously came close to leaving Star Trek after its first season to pursue more substantial roles in theater, until King convinced her to return.
" Key quote: "Before Giuliani joined the defense, [Trump's former lawyer John] Dowd and Mueller came close to an agreement for the President to voluntarily testify.
These games went above 100 frames per second at times, though, none of them came close to taking full advantage of its 144Hz refresh rate.
Each stirred great enthusiasm among voters but also met stiff resistance within their parties, a major reason none came close to taking the White House.
THOUGH IT DOES not believe in saints, the Communist Party of China came close to canonising its former paramount leader, Deng Xiaoping, back in 2004.
Britain's economy came close to stagnating again in February against a backdrop of Brexit nerves and sluggish global growth, a private survey showed on Tuesday.
The billionaire had loaned the operation money -- and would subsequently forgive those debts -- so he came close, but his pledge to eschew donors ultimately failed.
In the last general election in 2013, the opposition CNRP came close to pulling off a surprise victory, winning 44 percent of the popular vote.
Greek banks lost their access to the ECB's regular funding operations early last year when Athens came close to being ejected from the euro zone.
No one came close to ending her run on Friday as she romped to victory by a margin of 15.28 points over Canadian Kaetlyn Osmond.
The marksman also came close when his audacious backheel trickled past a helpless Schmeichel and the post as Peru continued to be denied an equalizer.
Last time we came close to getting even a glimpse was in April 2017, when a pap got a pic that partially showed his face.
The FPO presidential candidate last year came close to becoming the first freely elected far-right head of state in Europe since World War Two.
Democrats, meanwhile, were characteristically slow to grasp that the seat could be in play and never came close to meeting the GOP dollar-for-dollar.
A baby born to a woman patron afflicted with salmonella came close to death as a result of contracting the illness in her mother's womb.
What we got was indeed zany, but nobody even came close to torpedoing their own career and dragging down hundreds of their coworkers with them.
He came close to ending the game in overtime on a dazzling rush, but Jets goalie Michael Hutchinson just got a piece of the puck.
No other militia came close — certainly not the Turkey-backed Free Syrian Army, which looked like a collection of middle schoolers with guns in comparison.
He said Boehner's staff never came close to a compromise on the $1.2 trillion plan and was holding firm on the limit of $700 billion.
The Democratic primary, of course, was a much more drawn-out affair: Neither Barack Obama nor Hillary Clinton came close to the nomination until May.
State Representative Linda Lawson, a Democrat who opposed the measure, said the new law came close to an effective ban on abortions in the state.
Babbitt has been buried on the bench most of the season and could not recall the last time he came close to a double-double.
Rawlings came close to finishing the fight in the second round when she took the back of Ham and worked for a rear-naked choke.
President Clinton reportedly came close to pardoning Mr. Milken in the waning days of his presidency, but didn't after an outcry from Justice Department officials.
Democrats say it would ensure that typical workers came close to maintaining their full salaries if they were forced off the job during the crisis.
Jackson came close, so close, to the moment where all things start to fall in place, where winning begets winning, and the nomination takes hold.
In a state with a Latino population of about 30% and a strong base of organized labor, no one else in the field came close.
Jones noted that a similar arc played out during the 1962 Cuban missile crisis, when two nuclear-armed powers also came close to military conflict.
Trump also has repeatedly said he wants to talk to Iranian leaders, and he came close to doing so during September's United Nations General Assembly.
The Awami League came close to doing just that in recent years, bowing to Islamists' requests to prove to them that it is Islamic enough.
And their moment came long before the United States, often regarded as less sexist than Latin America, even came close to electing a female president.
In these cases, the Court came close to saying, but never quite said, that publication of the truth was always protected by the First Amendment.
Perhaps the only other Democrat who came close to holding the floor on the shutdown as often as Schumer and Pelosi did was Illinois Sen.
The rivals have fought three wars since independence, two of them over the Himalayan region, and came close to another after the February bomb attack.
The only plan that came close to a majority was a proposal that Britain would remain within a permanent customs union with the European Union.
But through the first seven "reputation levels" (about 212 hours of play) in MechWarrior 173: Mercenaries, I never came close to going into the red.
Fowler on the sixth came close to sinking a chip for eagle and left McIlroy leaning on Olesen to make birdie and halve the hole.
Trump came close to declaring an emergency after competing proposals to end the government shutdown both failed in the Senate at the end of January.
Even in the grip of the sell-off, the ETF came close to its 200-day moving average, but did not break below that line.
Kasper Dolberg came close to tying the score on a break in stoppage time, but Courtois got a hand up to block the awkward shot.
He insisted he wasn't pitching a "Buttigieg Doctrine," but South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg's sweeping foreign policy speech Tuesday came close to accomplishing just that.
And last month, Virginia came close to being the 38th and final state needed to ratify the amendment — until the state House killed its progress.
He came close to finding a full-time job in 2001, but the offer was rescinded two days after the collapse of the twin towers.
The Manchin-Toomey bill, the only gun legislation in Congress after Sandy Hook that came close to becoming law, didn't even establish universal background checks.
So in a night when Clinton and Bernie Sanders came close, and both Cruz and third-place finisher Marco Rubio exceeded expectations, who really wins?
I started working on this in late spring, but every time I came close to publishing it, doubt started worming its way into my heart.
Why Other Methods Paled in Comparison We tried them all, and none came close, although as with pizza, there's really no such thing as "bad" bacon.
In tests that also included the Fitbit Charge and Mio Fuse, none of the trackers got exercise heart rate readings that came close to the ECG.
Mitrovic came close in the 19th minute when he controlled a cross from Branislav Ivanovic on his chest and sent a bicycle kick over the bar.
And if any of their bills had passed — and some of them came close — the health care system would have been far worse off for it.
In January, Britain's construction sector came close to contracting for the first time since September as uncertainty linked to Brexit caused new orders to dry up.
Another attempt at turning phones into laptopsSamsung's DeX Station came close to letting your phone serve as a decent desktop, it just needed a little refinement.
Woods never came close all week to replicating his 15-stroke record runaway of 2000, not that it was realistic at age 43 to expect it.
Speaker Paul Ryan came close to finding out when a family of the critters infested his SUV while it was sitting in storage this past winter.
Tyler O'Connor never came close to winning the starting job until his senior year, and he's waffled between starter and backup as he's struggled this season.
Hemsworth drew in $76.4 million for his work with Marvel and the reboot Men In Black: International, while Downey Jr. came close behind with $66 million.
The last time the survey came close to showing these levels of gloom, businesses were still shedding about 22016,21.3 jobs a month because of the recession.
Instead Tsipras beat him and presided over the chaotic summer of 2015, when banks were closed for weeks as the financial system came close to collapse.
At 32 Branden Jacobs-Jenkins has already snagged a MacArthur "genius" grant and several top playwriting honours, and he came close to winning a Pulitzer prize.
The agency and tribes came close to an agreement early in the year, but newly confirmed Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke in April decided against moving ahead.
In April the president supposedly came close to pulling out of the North American Free-Trade Agreement (NAFTA), which would have been cataclysmic for many firms.
This social night with friends was one of the few moments when DPR23's personal life, and that of his illegal empire, came close to colliding.
The prisoner deal was the culmination of months of contacts, secret talks and legal manoeuvring which came close to falling apart on at least one occasion.
Gerard Pique came close to giving Barca an early lead when his header was tipped away by goalkeeper Andres Fernandez who also saved well from Messi.
"We did not find any holes," the Freedom Party's deputy leader, Norbert Hofer, who came close to winning last year's presidential election, told the news conference.
The only other duo that came close to their star power also happened to be their best friends, Elizabeth Taylor and her husband, producer Mike Todd.
Kenya and Jamaica were two of the smaller and poorer countries that came close to Brazil in the gold-medal race, finishing 15th and 16th, respectively.
They came close to a third in February after the suicide bombing of a convoy claimed by a Pakistan-based militant group killed 40 paramilitary police.
She also accuses chief of staff John KellyJohn Francis KellyMORE of firing her when she came close to getting audio of Trump using the N-word.
One bipartisan compromise bill came close, falling six short of the 60 needed to advance legislation in the Senate, after being aggressively criticized by the administration.
" Still, after waiting 20 years to use it, the self-described "Seinfeld nerd" confesses he came close to chickening out, worried that it might be "crass.
Houston did not run a play in the Patriots' territory until the last two minutes of the third quarter, and never even came close to scoring.
Defense experts have long called for such a post, recommended by a government panel in 1999, after India came close to war with Pakistan over Kashmir.
Each time shale driller Halcon came close to violating debt limits set by its backers, the company's lenders—JP Morgan Chase and Wells Fargo—loosened restrictions.
The wooden-hulled fishing boat came close to shoal when China's coastguard blocked them and ordered them to go back to the Philippines, the group said.
The FPO's anti-immigration message is drawing support; it has surged in opinion polls and its candidate came close to winning the Austrian presidency last year.
Taliban forces came close to over-running Kunduz last month, a year after briefly capturing it in their biggest success in Afghanistan's 15-year-long war.
Death Valley, California, has set the record for the hottest month ever recorded in the U.S., and it came close to a world record as well.
The divers came close to reaching the group last Tuesday when the water level was lower and they were able to get around the narrow opening.
They came close to doubling the tally six minutes into the second half but Jonathan Ikone's attempt from just inside the box crashed against the post.
The Parliament came close in 2011 to passing harsh limitations on the shelters, and in 2013 it tried to gut a law barring violence against women.
But there was also heartbreak, as Republicans increased their margin in the Senate and some acclaimed liberal hopefuls in the South came close but fell short.
Other than the financial crisis, the only other time similar stock-bond inversion came close to happening was in July 5003 — right after the Brexit vote.
But Iran said the attack was an accident, spurred by fears that the plane posed a threat after it came close to a sensitive military site.
I'm sure you've both seen many more 2019 movies than me, but Us is the only movie that really came close to Parasite in my book.
Mr. Walker came close to dying in a freak accident on a ski trip in 1973 when he stumbled and a ski pole pierced his heart.
When the two sides came close to an agreement in the spring, outlined in a 150-page document, Mr. Xi appeared to balk, scuttling the process.
Instead, he came close to humiliating Mr. Putin to his face, about chemical weapons in Syria on Monday, in the deliberately chosen grandiose setting of Versailles.
At the rebuilt One World Trade Center, he came close to completing a work that, in vertical terms, would have been the capstone of his career.
No company in the history of the U.S. stock market has ever lost $100 billion in market value in just one day, but two came close.
The companies came close to a merger agreement in November before SoftBank's chief executive officer, Masayoshi Son, pulled out of the talks at the last minute.
The 30 minutes of extra time was not much different, although Vargas came close for Chile and Aguero had a header brilliantly tipped over by Bravo.
He came close to scoring with a booming shot from a free kick less than 10 minutes into the match but had few opportunities after that.
He came close, capturing around 262 percent of the vote, though the final tally was still not in when the results were projected early Wednesday morning.
He came close, capturing around 48 percent of the vote, though the final tally was still not in when the results were projected early Wednesday morning.
But many in Congress saw it as another nod to Mr. Putin and came close to overturning it with bipartisan votes in both houses last week.
Neeson's recent revelation, in a newspaper interview, that he once came close to acting out his own racist revenge fantasies might spoil some of the fun.
The case has reignited a fierce debate over reproductive rights in Argentina, which last year came close to legalizing abortion for pregnancies up to 14 weeks.
Cormier's aggression was simply walking at Jones, eating strikes en route, and letting Jones circle out each time the two men came close to the fence.
Both Mr. Clinton and Mr. Bush came close to brokering a major peace agreement between the Israelis and the Palestinians, only to see their efforts fall apart.
The broader NSE index came close to test the key psychological level of 10,3.43 points, shedding as much as 1.2 percent to its lowest since March 26.
A few years later Schengen came close to buckling, as over 1m migrants exploited the borderless zone, testing the asylum systems of some countries to the limit.
From May 2016 to May 303, as cameras came close to being fully installed, incidents dropped nearly 80 percent from the last year without cameras, to 13.
Still, the euro zone's integrity was again threatened in 2015 when Greece came close to crashing out of the single currency at the height of its crisis.
In fact, the only one that came close to Princess Anne was her older brother, Prince Charles, who had 507 total events compared to his sister's 518.
"I had a chance to come back in the third set but every time I came close to pegging her back, I missed the opportunity," she added.
In 2000, negotiations between then-Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and then-Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat reportedly came close to dividing the city between the two peoples.
Samsung advertises a maximum transfer rate of 2,800MB/s read, 2,300MB/s write, and the MacBook Pro that I tested on came close to meeting those claims.
Amazon and Microsoft are undoubtedly looking at the same incomprehensible viewing stats as Google is — Twitch came close to a billion hours watched in January 2019 alone.
I'm more than happy to forget the films, though, because they barely came close to inducing any of the same emotions I experienced when reading Rowling's stories.
But as on Monday, one of the most emotive issues remained Catalonia and the region's botched 2017 independence bid, which came close to triggering a constitutional crisis.
The family expresses outrage about Mr. Sadequee's more than three years in solitary confinement awaiting trial, when, his relatives believe, he came close to losing his mind.
There have also been various reports about acquisition conversations, but at least one source with direct knowledge claims the parties never came close to finalizing a deal.
The country came close to eliminating malaria in 1963, when numbers reach just 19693 cases that year, compared to 2.8 million cases in 1946, according to Alonso.
They resumed those talks in May of last year and came close in September to reaching a deal, only for Sprint to call them off in October.
Peres was never elected prime minister, although in 1996 he came close, when he was running after a Jewish terrorist opposed to the Oslo peace assassinated Rabin.
He never hit the 3 percent annual target Trump has said he's aiming for, but he came close, with GDP reaching 2.9 percent annual growth in 2015.
The Brazilian bantamweight took on Japan's five-fight UFC veteran Michinori Tanaka and came close to finishing him twice, before the judges' verdict went in his favour.
The crew of the USS Boxer took defensive action against the Iranian unmanned aerial vehicle after it came close to the US naval ship, the official said.
After taking no-hitters into the eighth innings of consecutive starts last June, Estrada (4-2) came close again Sunday — but couldn't get the job done again.
Bogaerts came close to re-tying the game with two out in the eighth, hitting the ball near or at the red line atop the Green Monster.
SLOWLY, SLOWLY Britain's economy came close to stagnating again in February against a backdrop of Brexit nerves and sluggish global growth, a private survey showed on Tuesday.
They came close on the opening weekend to achieving a nine-points-to-one upset against a sluggish France, but as so often before, fell just short.
On Wednesday, NBC News reported that Tillerson came close to resigning this summer but was urged to stay in the job until the end of the year.
Ojeda received nearly 2000,2297 votes in the primary, which came close to matching the total combined votes for the top four vote-getters in the GOP primary.
His website began making about $210,220 per month, and freelance writing allowed him to make another $2000,22013 per month, which came close to replacing his auditor salary.
Iranian aggression in the Persian Gulf came close to sparking military confrontation that would have pitted the U.S. Navy against the world's leading state sponsor of terrorism.
Last year, Nairo Quintana, a Colombian on Team Movistar, came close to snatching the lead from Froome on an Alpine stage on the second-to-last day.
Hard-line nationalists already hold ministerial posts in Finland and Norway, and Austria just came close to electing its first far-right president since World War Two.
Boston Consulting said almost 21,2500 extra jobs could be created in Paris alone by 21 if it came close to matching the London or New York levels.
Congress recently came close – yet again – to passing legislation that fixes the budget problem while providing targeted reforms to land management that can speed up restoration activities.
That year, many voters dissatisfied with President George Bush flocked to the independent Ross Perot, and neither Mr. Bush nor Bill Clinton came close to a majority.
They came close to setting the record outright, opening a 21-point lead in the fourth quarter before the Magic trimmed the margin late in the game.
In the first movie, Gerard Butler, who plays Banning, came close to the likably taciturn effect he was going for, but here he's just boring and annoying.
Security forces were rushed in to defend Fara city after it came close to being overrun last week but commanders say the immediate threat has since subsided.
According to the department, only three of the district's 16 elementary schools had kindergarten classes last year that came close to the 67 percent-33 percent breakdown.
The performance by the president was ostensibly for candidates facing a tough midterm election climate in a state that Mr. Trump came close to winning in 2016.
But in the rush of catharsis, it's important not to lose track of some of those old conceptual conversations, because we never came close to finishing them.
Mr. Gillum, who would have become Florida's first African-American governor, came close to succeeding, garnering over a million votes more than Mr. Scott did in 2014.
In 2013, the Bloomberg administration came close to signing a deal with the New York City Football Club to build a 13,000-seat stadium on the site.
For 18 years, I've believed that only immediate mourners—and those who came close to losing their own lives—should be allowed to talk about 9/11.
The Democratic challenger, J. D. Scholten, who came close to unseating Mr. King in 2018, raised $415,000 in the two months after announcing he would run again.
Although all the banks passed, some came close to missing a key financial hurdle known as the supplementary leverage ratio in the toughest part of the exam.
While he came close to matching Clinton among young voters of color (black and non-black voters), he lost older voters of color by about 60 points.
If you leave the city at the end of a tournament, you may not have seen much, but at least you won or came close to winning.
He came close to doing so only at the 2012 French Open when he pulled a muscle in his side during a practice session before the event.
That combination has produced 12 straight victories, and during that span no team came close to putting the breaks on Jackson and the league's highest-scoring team.
A Florida native, he had come to Alaska last year for more training, but none of it came close to the conditions he was now looking at.
Jon Ossoff, the Democrat and documentary filmmaker who came close to flipping a conservative House district in Georgia in 2017, will challenge Senator David Perdue next year.
It included tax cuts for lower income taxpayers and small businesses, even as it came close to sticking with the country's target for reducing its budget deficit.
Johnson came close to achieving the necessary percentage, but ultimately fell short and was not included in the event that could've largely exposed him to potential voters.
It came close in 2013 when talks ended with Malaysian lender CIMB Group Holdings Bhd, and again in October last year with Japan's Mizuho Financial Group Inc.
Mr. Bloomberg came close to running for president in 2016 as an independent candidate, but ultimately concluded that only the nominee of a major party could win.
No team has ever done that, and no team this season came close to topping the Huskies' senior trio of Breanna Stewart, Moriah Jefferson, and Morgan Tuck.
Previously, I mentioned how Chernow came close to fawning over Washington and how Cheney's reexamination of Madison was set up to put a positive spin on Madison's tenure.
Britain's construction sector came close to contracting for the first time since September last month as uncertainty linked to Brexit caused new orders to dry up, data showed.
Kardashian West and her husband hired a private team of firefighters to fight the blaze, which came close to their Hidden Hills home on Friday, according to TMZ.
Chaminade has won just seven games since it began hosting this tournament in 1984 and came close to its eighth Tuesday against Connecticut before eventually losing 93-82.
There were numerous near-misses, he claims, saying they came close to catching him in the Baghdad district of Mansour, then in Adamiya, where he was spotted driving.
But there was never anything that came close to these beetles for me and the funny thing is, they're so tiny, you know, they're a few millimeters long.
Klay Thompson and David West added 10 points for the Warriors, while Draymond Green came close to a triple-double with nine points, 12 rebounds and seven assists.
Attallah Shabazz The eldest daughter of Malcolm X, Attallah Shabazz came close to tears recalling the man who was the last close connection she had to her father.
We've seen some creative proofs of concept on Alloy, going far beyond ordinary VR. At CES, its RealSense cameras also came close to matching the Rift or Vive.
Germany came close to scoring on the counter-attack in the last minute when Charlotte Stapenhorst cut into the circle on the right but her shot was blocked.
Christie was a loyal adviser to Trump for much of the campaign, offered a key early endorsement and came close to being the businessman's pick for running mate.
Leaders of the disbanded party, which came close to pulling off a surprise victory in the last general election in 2013, are urging a boycott of the vote.
Austria came close to electing a far-right, and anti-EU, president in May and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban wants to curtail EU involvement in domestic policies.
Last week, parliament raised the government's debt ceiling to 9 trillion shillings ($86.87 billion) after the government came close to hitting the earlier ceiling of 6 trillion shillings.
Lawmakers came close to passing the bill as part of the year-end spending package in December, but it was derailed due to differences among competing House committees.
They came close to a third war earlier this year after a suicide car bomb by a Pakistani militant group killed dozens of Indian police in the region.
World Cup qualifiers Saudi Arabia offered little threat for the first hour yet came close to morale-boosting draw in the second half after falling 2-0 behind.
This tied the all-time highest temperature for Pakistan, and came close to tying the world record for hottest temperature on record, set in Mitribah, Kuwait, in 2016.
For example, the airbags for five cars allowed the crash test dummy to slide too far forward so it either hit or came close to hitting the dashboard.
Meanwhile, more moderate anti-Trump forces are split among John Kasich, Marco Rubio and Jeb Bush, none of whom came close to Mr. Trump in the primary contests.
I know we're just about out of time, so let me ask you this final question: You came close to running for president as a third-party candidate.
It has had to repeatedly inject equity into Takko after its bid to sell more expensive clothes failed and the firm came close to breaching its debt covenants.
The family's opposition to re-election of the company board came close to removing Tsukioka, along with other board members, in a vote at last year's shareholders' meeting.
If not quite on the same level of stardom as Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne or Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy, Ms. Jackson and Mr. Wallach came close.
After international pressure, Ranariddh was allowed to contest elections a year after, but never again came close to winning and entered on and off alliances with Hun Sen.
That came close to the UK government's hopes that the EU would help Johnson turn Saturday's vote in the UK Parliament into a "deal or no deal" issue.
The Hill's Juliegrace Brufke tells us how conservative unrest came close to knocking the bill out during a procedural vote, and more on how the deal came together.
The Avangard program itself has faced major threats in the past, as the Kremlin came close to canceling the program in 2014 following a series of failed tests.
The market came close to regaining all the ground it lost since the vote last week, ending the week up 3 percent — its biggest weekly gain since November.
Energy companies climbed again as the price of oil came close to a six-month high, and technology stocks were battered after Apple and Twitter posted weak results.
At the time it debuted in the early 2000s, however, the ultrathin clamshell phone's metallic build, electroluminescent keyboard, and long battery life came close to mobile phone nirvana.
None of the high-end VR headsets like the HTC Vive or Oculus Rift came close to the Gear VR in terms of the research firm's sales estimates.
All eyes will be on Minnesota, where Democrats are now poised to turn the state blue two years after it came close to going for Trump in 2016.
Once a part of Yugoslavia, Macedonia peacefully seceding in 1991 but came close to civil war in 2001 when ethnic Albanians launched an armed insurgency seeking greater autonomy.
Neither the Quinnipiac men nor the women have won an N.C.A.A. championship, although the men came close in 214, when the Bobcats lost to Yale in the final.
We definitely had a lot of pains with unreliable contractors who weren't getting the job done to spec or on time, or things that came close to fraud.
The Wirecutter says that Pyrex makes the best measuring cups for liquid ingredients, and couldn't find many comparable alternatives that even came close to challenging the Pyrex cups.
But Durbin's push indicates that Warren was on the White House's radar quite early on, and perhaps came close to taking a top spot as a financial regulator.
The awkward coexistence between Greece and Turkey since the mid-1990s, when the two countries came close to war, could be at even greater risk of lasting damage.
This approach proved effective at times during the Obama years and was nearly enough to lift Mr. McDaniel in 2014, when he came close to unseating Mr. Cochran.
Only one option, which would have kept close economic ties to the E.U. with a customs union, came close to winning a majority, losing by just three votes.
Other than the financial crisis, the only other time when a similar stock-bond inversion came close to happening was in July 2016, right after the Brexit vote.
The two currencies came close to that event on June 13, when ethereum had roughly 33 percent of digital currency market capitalization, while bitcoin had about 40 percent.
Investors moved to the safety of U.S. Treasuries following the data that came close on the heels of a contraction in euro zone manufacturing earlier in the day.
All that aside, none of the Democratic candidates came close to matching the Trump campaign, the Republican National Committee (RNC) and their affiliated groups in fundraising last month.
As for Soulja, he's been flirting with stepping into the ring for years ... and even famously came close to fighting Chris Brown in 2017, before Breezy backed out.
The companies came close to a merger deal in November before SoftBank Chief Executive Masayoshi Son pulled out of the talks at the last minute over valuation disagreements.
Sixteen other #naughtybirds were listed, though none came close to amassing quite as many questionable supporters -- the blue duck was the second-highest offender with 28 problematic ballots.
Platt's said that when Hurricane Irene came close in 2011, Colonial Pipeline made tentative plans to shut down but didn't have to — but that this storm looks worse.
In 1997, Texas came close, putting eight inmates to death in May and again in June, but not over such a short number of days, the group said.
As President Donald Trump took the stage in El Paso, Texas, to advocate for his border wall, Beto O'Rourke, the Texas Democrat who came close to unseating Sen.
One ingenious student came close with "You have a warm heart for cold men" — a possible meaning, though it makes Antigone's care for her brother's corpse sound like necrophilia.
CHICAGO (Reuters) - U.S. Republican lawmakers came close to staging a damaging raid on retirement savers this week to pay for a massive tax cut for corporations and the wealthy.
Even so, he came close to admitting that nothing in the Internet of Things world can ever be 100 percent foolproof as humans still have to administer the tech.
When Scotland held an independence referendum in 2014, a YouGov poll using similar methodology to its poll on Thursday came close to accurately predicting the outcome of the vote.
The company had in recent years canceled dividend payments and came close to a delisting following an accounting scandal and massive cost overruns at its U.S. nuclear business Westinghouse.
The yield rose to what turned out to be a high for the year of 2.6 percent in March then came close to breaking below 2 percent in September.
Similarly, AQAP operative Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab came close to detonating a device that he'd prepared inside a lavatory on a flight from Amsterdam to Detroit on Christmas Day 143.
Us even came close to surpassing last year's other huge horror hit, the 11th entry in the Halloween franchise, which brought in $7.73 million domestically on its opening weekend.
In a recent interview with Porter Edit, 26-year-old Woodley opened up about why she came close to turning her back on acting after filming 2016's Allegiant.
They personally attacked the top elections official in Maricopa County — and came close to alleging outright fraud, though they were forced to rely on innuendo rather than hard evidence.
Now, this new report that the president's two eldest children came close to being indicted offers a small window into how the family conducted their businesses before Trump's presidency.
They danced, gestured and waved a painting one of them had drawn, until Hanako raised her trunk and came close to the edge of the pen, perhaps in curiosity.
It gets loud when you run it at settings needed to get a decent filtration rate (medium or higher), but no other purifier came close in our VOC test.
He came close to achieving his counterpart's combination of qualities in flashes but was never given enough of an opportunity to truly become an all-time great unto himself.
France came close to ending a long medal drought in Olympic fencing, but a breakout performance by 43rd-ranked Lauren Rembi came up short in the bronze medal bout.
The last-minute conflict came close to unraveling a prisoner swap that was negotiated during 14 months of secret talks and that had already been announced to the world.
WASHINGTON, Oct 28 (Reuters) - A Russian fighter jet unintentionally came close to a U.S.-led coalition aircraft over Syria earlier this month, a U.S. defense official said on Friday.
Jonathan Lucroy singled to center with one out and went to third when Aaron Hill lined a two-out single to center that shortstop Semien came close to snaring.
Similarly, Greece's former finance minister rose to fame (or infamy) at the height of the country's financial crisis in 2015 when Greece came close to exiting the euro zone.
Mexican soldiers and U.S. agents came close to Guzman on several occasions, but his layers of bodyguards and spies always tipped him off before they stormed his safe houses.
When he came close to striking an officer's vehicle, cops proceeded to shoot at the fleeing car from behind, which didn't stop until it crashed into another cop car.
India, which in February came close to war with Pakistan over the disputed region of Kashmir and which accuses Islamabad of supporting militants, will be watching the talks closely.
Repeated injections of this extract came close to abolishing Alexander's infection, but the two scientists ran out of their home-brewed drug before the bacteria had all been killed.
SBG jiu jitsu virtuoso Lee Hammond came close to finishing Ryano's Eric Nolan early in the night, in a bout that was contested as a world amateur championship qualifier.
The Dutch may have missed qualification for Russia, but they came close in a much tougher confederation despite a population of only 17m largely because of their youth programme.
On June 6th, Davis came close to resigning over the wording of a "backstop option" for Britain's future relationship with the E.U., should the rest of the talks fail.
With Brazil's dreams of gold in danger of being shattered, Neymar came close in the 77th minute with a little jink and a shot from the outside the area.
The Delaware legislature came close to abolishing the death penalty directly this year, but the debate was put on hold to await the ruling by the state's highest court.
" Raskin told me that the foreign-emoluments clause "doesn't get enough play, because it's unfamiliar, and it's unfamiliar because no other President ever came close to violating it before.
To be sure, American-Russian hostility is nowhere near the height of the Cold War, when the world came close to annihilation in confrontations like the Cuban Missile Crisis.
"In a few instances noted, several of the defendants' actions came close to crossing the line from activity protected by the First Amendment to conduct prohibited by" state law.
In 2011 Mr. Gallagher came close to making the leap from reality show performer to head of state — five years before President Trump — but lost out to President Higgins.
He came close to losing his composure at only one moment on Tuesday, when he was asked what prompted him to turn against the technology he had helped create.
Clinton obtained an agreement to contain North Korea's nuclear program and came close to a visit to Pyongyang after sending his secretary of state, Madeleine Albright, there in 2000.
Booker was targeting Joe Biden as much as anyone else, yet his attacks were launched through a bright demeanor that never came close to getting mean-spirited or personal.
No plan won a majority, although a few alternatives came close, including one option that would keep the UK in a customs union with the EU after the breakup.
"I was horrified at how my attempt to share generally my experiences were handled," she said, adding that she came close to leaving the Air Force after 18 years.
He came close, leading Southern food into a new chapter begun by Hominy Grill, the original Watershed restaurant in Atlanta, and before them, Highlands Bar & Grill in Birmingham, Ala.
The Inrockuptibles controversy came close on the heels of the Weinstein allegations, which resulted in President Emmanuel Macron announcing that Mr. Weinstein would be stripped of the Légion d'Honneur.
Woods only once came close to bogey, making a 230-foot par putt on the par-268 268th hole, and gave himself ample opportunities in his round of 66.
Those forecasts all came close, despite unprecedented turnout — nearly 114 million votes were cast, The Times estimated, shattering the previous high of 83 million in 2014, which complicated modeling.
With nearly all votes counted, Mr. Netanyahu's Likud party appeared to win two seats fewer than Mr. Gantz's Blue and White party, and neither came close to a majority.
Formerly many thousands strong, trained and equipped by the United States and allies until two years ago, it came close, according to supporters, to toppling Mr. al-Assad's government.
It also said that while residues levels in some samples came close to the very high levels of glyphosate "tolerance" established by EPA, they did not exceed those levels.
Take Odissi (from the state of Odisha, on India's east coast), which, though one of the world's oldest dance genres, came close to extinction in the mid-20th century.
A one-bedroom condo in a former office building came close, but the large kitchen wasn't enough to make up for the small bedroom and the sole bedroom closet.
Mechel, which is controlled by businessman Igor Zyuzin and came close to bankruptcy last year, had circulated the final draft of a restructuring proposal among its creditors last week.
Also in play are two competitive House seats, including the Sixth District, a longtime Republican stronghold where a Democrat came close to winning in a special election last year.
Go deeper: Our reporters pieced together the story of how American officials secretly planned the attack on the general — and why the two countries came close to open war.
As we talked outside an area where children (and some adults) could test their vertical leaps, one teenager came close to hitting the top vane of the Vertec device.
Finally, Bolton fought tooth and nail against the disastrous agreement that Trump came close to striking with the Taliban at a surprise Camp David summit planned for last weekend.
It's also an elegy for a time when Eisenberg came close to her own self-prescribed destruction among the same towering loblolly pines and bending rivers of Pocahontas County.
Prior to Jackson, the last time Vick's record came close to being beaten was in 2014, when Russell Wilson came within 190 yards of the accomplishment, according to ESPN.
But he also likes Judge Hardiman, whom advisers say Mr. Trump came close to picking in 2017 before choosing Neil M. Gorsuch to fill his first Supreme Court vacancy.
The Supreme Court said yes in 1979 but came close to overruling that decision in 2016, in an earlier encounter with Wednesday's case, Franchise Tax Board of California v.
As you may have heard, things were pretty tame in Cleveland last week—nothing came close to the shit people had been expecting to pop off around Trump's nomination.
There's one case that came close to it, which I recall, which I can't really name, but I never saw it, which is a reasonably good record of conduct.
The rapper also revealed in 800 that when he was first starting out in his music career, he came close to being signed by Kelly, who is also from Chicago.
" He came close to taking his own life, but then, he told me, "I thought about my kids, and them having to come home and find their dad hanging there.
Now on a pro-Western path, the country peacefully seceded in 1991 but came close to civil war in 2001 when ethnic Albanians launched an armed insurgency seeking greater autonomy.
The fact that the machine Theranos developed never came close to working as promised didn't prevent her from making deals to provide testing to live patients, with notoriously unreliable results.
At its peak in the Reagan-Bush years of the 1980s, the Christian right came close to believing that it had realigned America's political majority with an underlying moral majority.
He qualified for the first two debates in June and July with a handful of 1 percent polling results, but never came close to reaching the higher thresholds that followed.
And while the president kept talking about how athletes were "disrespecting" the flag, nearly 20173,000 Puerto Ricans were forced to flee their homes as a dam came close to collapsing.
She found a record label after the show — she didn't win, although she came close — and now, moving forward is a matter of establishing a voice that feels her own.
A devastating Taliban attack that came close to hitting the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan inflicted even more damage on the American military brass than they were willing to admit.
When Ranieri, a former Chelsea manager, took over a Leicester team that came close to being relegated last season, his mission was merely to keep Leicester in the top flight.
"The reason Texas is this year's California for the [Democrats] is because you have a handful of these districts that came close last cycle without fielding strong candidates," said Morales.
Mexican soldiers and U.S. agents came close to Guzman on several occasions but his layers of body guards and spies always tipped him off before they stormed his safe houses.
Will Harris recovered both fumbles for BC. PICKS Blackman threw one interception in the first half, and came close on a couple of others but BC defenders dropped the ball.
Clinton, who supported the controversial oil and gas extraction process as secretary of state under Barack Obama, came close to backing a ban at a 2016 primary debate against Sen.
No other series even came close to these major triumphs, leading the 4553 Emmys to make the strongest case in years that women are the most dominant force in television.
The North African country used to produce some 1.6 million bpd before the unrest and briefly came close to those levels after Gaddafi's death during a period of relative peace.
Last winter, Arctic sea ice set a record for the lowest sea ice maximum, but the melt season did not end up at a record low, though it came close.

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