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Democrats came close to winning them all – but didn't.
The conference came close to a settlement on this issue.
Deserae Turner came close to never experiencing any of that.
Frankly, I came close to beating it within a day.
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.
One, Betty Broadbent, actually came close to earning a crown.
Neither of these came close to earning $100 million worldwide.
For Justin, no one ever came close to comparing to Selena.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Unlike after Katrina, floodwater only came close to their apartment this time.
John McCain dealing the death blow, the tactic came close to success.
In 2016, the Democratic base came close to handing avowed socialist Sen.
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 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.
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.
Israel came close to returning the Golan Heights in peace talks with Syria.
He took Iowa, Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin, and came close to winning Minnesota.
There are times you came close to death because of that damn clamp.
The only establishment presence who came close to keeping up, again, is Christie.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
But no American automaker came close to reaching the existing, lower cap last year.
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.
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.
He came close to graduating on time, but couldn't after he failed one class.
None of these factors, even when taken together, came close to accounting for the phenomenon.
He came close to his first career shutout while making only his sixth NHL appearance.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 came close to the milestone Tuesday night, hitting the post on an empty Chicago net.
The influential Koch organizations came close to running an extensive multi-million-dollar campaign against him.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
After that, every time he came close to me, my body would tell me to move back.
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.
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.
"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.
Congress came close to fixing this problem in 2011 when it passed the Budget Control Act (BCA).
This came close to this location's hottest reliably measured temperature in recent decades, which was 129°F.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The Dow Jones industrial average came close to hitting 20,000 in recent days, but has since pulled back.
The blow was so deep that the knife came close to passing all the way through Yilmaz's body.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
They received phone calls, conducted loud arguments, yelled their critiques of the movies — it came close to being unbearable.
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.
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.
The party came close to winning a slew of Brexit-voting seats such as Bishop Auckland in north-east England.
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.
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.
But, again, no one came close to the maximum 55 points: London, L.A. and NY got 34.5, and Seoul 33.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
He came close to achieving that with the help of Mr. Demirtas, whose peaceful activists worked as mediators with the insurgents.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 other combat sport athlete came close to earning what Mexican boxer Saul "Canelo" Alvarez did over the course of last year.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
And even that source isn't a sure thing: The work is so volatile, complex and expensive that Lynas once came close to collapsing.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
" 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.
This year, Tronc came close to buying the celebrity magazine Us Weekly from the publisher of Rolling Stone, but that deal also fell through.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
" 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
"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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Windows Phone, Microsoft's mobile platform and the only platform that ever came close to being a serious competitor to iOS and Android in the post-BlackBerry era, is no more.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average also hit an intraday all-time high just after the market opened, and the benchmark S&P 500 came close to yet another record high.
Even in this eventful week, nothing came close to matching the perilous significance of the unprecedented airstrikes between Pakistan and India, escalating the risk of war between two nuclear powers.
Now nuclear powers, they came close to another war when a suicide car bomber, a local Kashmiri, killed 40 Indian paramilitary police on February 14 on a highway near Pinglan.
The FBI came close to uncovering the 2015 plot to attack participants in a contest to draw pictures of the Prophet Muhammad in Garland, Texas, court documents unsealed Thursday reveal.
Lakers guard Lonzo Ball came close to his first career triple-double, finishing with 10 points, eight rebounds and eight assists, though the rookie once again labored with his shooting.
Researchers came close to figuring out that Luzon may have been inhabited by early humans when stone tools and the fossils of large animals were discovered there in the 2700s.
Former state House Democratic minority leader Stacey Abrams (D), who came close to becoming Georgia's first African American governor in 2018, may be considering a run against Perdue as well.
McDaniel, who said he is strongly considering running against Wicker, said Monday that he and Bannon have been in regular contact since 2014, when McDaniel came close to unseating Sen.
I want to tell him that the only time I even came close to being a threat to public order was when I was learning how to in-line skate.
That's the third-lowest score after Britain, which is leaving the bloc, and Greece, which has endured a decade of austerity and came close to quitting the euro in 2015.
The British came close to penning in the entire colonial force after marching through what are now the Flatlands, East New York and Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhoods in a flanking maneuver.
The lack of consensus is so great that the American Psychiatric Association came close to removing"narcissistic personality disorder" from the last edition of Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of MentalDisorders.
Despite a hot-shooting performance, the Jazz lost a double-digit lead and came close to dropping 1 1/2 games behind the Houston Rockets in the Western Conference standings.
Like so many of us, the first and only time I felt a disturbance in the force here in Washington that came close to this was on September 11, 23.
Then potential round of 16 opponents include Wisconsin (23-10), underseeded at No. 5, or fourth-seeded Kansas State (213-8), which came close to the Final Four last year.
WASHINGTON — President Trump and Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, the top Democrat in the Senate, came close to an agreement to avert a government shutdown over lunch on Friday.
About a month ago, Merkel's coalition came close to collapse due to fundamental differences on migrant policy with her Bavarian partners who wanted tighter national border controls, which she rejected.
With his punishing two-handed backhand and dominating serve, Tiafoe came close to upsetting Roger Federer in the first round at Flushing Meadows a year ago, losing in five sets.
While most Democratic campaigns came close to hitting their turnout targets, fired-up Republicans did better, narrowly prevailing in the two marquee races despite having 257,000 fewer registered voters statewide.
He came close to accepting their offer in the summer of 2013, only to decide he couldn't bear to leave for the United States until he won a Euroleague title.
The Taliban took credit for an attack in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday as negotiations between the insurgent group and the U.S. came close to reaching a conclusion, the Associated Press reported.
The project is a rare recent example of cooperation between the nuclear powers, who came close to war in February following a militant attack on police in Indian-controlled Kashmir.
And on Tuesday, Democrat Jon Ossoff came close to an outright win in Georgia's 6th District House election, a race Democrats painted as an early referendum on the Trump administration.
And this year, no single beauty giftable remotely came close to embodying this on the level of Nars' Inferno Eyeshadow Palette, part of the iconic makeup brand's Studio 54 collection.
Trump and Kelly both seriously considered firing McMaster in November, when they also came close to dismissing Tillerson, but held back when the two could not agree on a successor.
Although none of them came close to matching Giolito's single-season turnaround, a few serve as precedents for a young pitcher surviving a terrible season and eventually becoming a star.
Just last year, Republicans came close to passing a health care bill that would have stripped Americans of protections for preexisting conditions without offering a comparable plan to replace them.
Perhaps only Tesla CEO Elon Musk and former Fiat Chrysler CEO Sergio Marchionne, who died last July, came close to matching the high-profile persona of the 64-year-old Ghosn.
Each time one of their therapies came close to losing patent protection, scientific advances allowed them to introduce a new drug that improved on its predecessor, often with a higher price.
The most likely way another fly could get infected was when a male was attracted to the scent of a dying female and came close to physically inspect the infected insect.
Manuel and Albuquerque came close to pulling off the biggest strategic coup in history, converting Portugal from the most backward fringe of western Eurasia to the center of a global empire.
I was a business school student at Wharton whose then-husband had barricaded me in our small bedroom in order to beat me so badly he came close to killing me.
In her adult memoir, Guerrero reveals the personal costs of being torn from her parents, explaining that she suffered from depression, came close to attempting suicide twice, and cut her wrists.
Paul Davis, the man who came close to beating Brownback in 2014, is going to pursue an open congressional seat after (Republican Rep.) Lynn Jenkins announced she won't seek re-election.
She arrived wearing a plunging white Givenchy top with black skinny pants and a pair of white heels with massive bows on the top that came close to skimming the ground.
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 in Washington closely.
The Austrian government is preparing a package of policies aimed at countering the rise of the far-right Freedom Party whose candidate came close to winning the presidential election in December.
Our sources tell us most of the items in Khloe's registry are pink, but another source says they think Khloe came close to picking out one of everything in the store.
The Patriots came close to losing their third straight game on Wednesday but fought back from a four-point deficit in the final 7.1 seconds to defeat James Madison 76-72.
The two nations came close to conflict last month when Iran shot down a U.S. drone, prompting Washington to order retaliatory air strikes that were called off at the last minute.
Although he kept his composure while talking about the horrors he endured in solitary, he came close to tears—twice—when I suggested that people thought he was a bad person.
Frenchman Hebert, without a European Tour victory, came close to pulling off a stunning upset when he surged from seven strokes behind in the final round, shooting nine-under-par 62.
Until I saw The Big Sick, a romantic comedy out this Friday, My Big Fat Greek Wedding was the only film that came close to encapsulating my family's intercultural, intercontinental situation.
The lack of consensus is so great that the American Psychiatric Association came close to removing "narcissistic personality disorder" from the last edition of Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders .
A government committee recommended such a position in 1999, after India came close to war with Pakistan over the disputed region of Kashmir, to ensure the three defense arms operate together.
Malave, who came close to the final eight at his first Olympics in London in 5003, made the cut for Rio last July, along with 2500 other Venezuelan athletes so far.
The courts have held the government to a high standard, refusing to uphold cases in which the conduct came close to the line but never quite crossed over into a violation.
In its wake, what had looked like a deeply unifying and growth-enhancing change in monetary regime in Europe came close to collapse and to tearing apart the European Union (EU).
The only thing in the room that came close to matching her energy was her outfit, and she managed to pull it off in a way that only Mel B could.
It has rained relentlessly for the better part of four days, and we came close to running out of food before making it to a grocery store down the road Wednesday.
Among the 37 brands of gummy multivitamins we examined, none came close to being a good substitute for an ordinary multivitamin tablet like a Centrum, One-A-Day, or similar brand.
This narrow choice of prey helps explain why this feline came close to extinction less than two decades ago, after disease wiped out large numbers of rabbits from the Iberian Peninsula.
SAN FRANCISCO — A decade ago, when the greed and carelessness of the financial industry came close to destroying the American economy, the overwhelming response by politicians and the public was: Meh.
A bill to do exactly that came close to approval in the waning days of the Christie administration and is now in negotiations between the new governor and the State Senate.
Dogged by poor debate performances and squeezed by Biden's post-South Carolina surge, Bloomberg never came close to winning in any state, though he did win American Samoa, a U.S. territory.
Pittsburgh linebacker Vince Williams raced under the floater and returned it 17 yards for a touchdown to give the Steelers a 14-7 lead they never came close to giving up.
As Steyer came close to getting on the stage, some rivals argued the former hedge fund manager used his vast wealth to blanket early states with ads and effectively buy support.
Though he never even came close to bringing any pro-Russian groups to power, Mr. Usovsky was able to identify partners in Eastern and Central Europe ready to accept his help.
A couple of years ago it came close to closure, after plans to sell off land for development were rejected by well-organised locals who feared the loss of green space.
Predominantly Hindu India and Muslim-majority Pakistan have fought three wars since 1947, when the two nuclear powers both gained independence from the UK, and came close to another in 1999.
Developed in 1998, Jabber is an open source instant messaging protocol that came close to mainstream adoption, particularly after Google announced its support for Jabber-compatible messaging in its chat software.
Mr. Wu also came close to sealing a partnership with American political royalty through Mr. Kushner, the New York developer who is a son-in-law and adviser of Mr. Trump.
That happened in 2008, when she nailed then-candidate Barack Obama's larger-than-expected margin of victory, and in 2014, when she was the only pollster who came close to Sen.
Spieth rated it among the top five or six rounds he has ever played in a major, not bad for someone who came close to the Grand Slam two years ago.
"The words people have used to describe 'Girl' came close to my heart because the scenes they are criticizing are scenes that I had in mind during my transition," she said.
A previous offer from the school district came close to meeting the teachers' demand for a 6.5 percent salary increase, but would increase the number of nurses for just one year.
As the Georgetown lead grew, the only point at which the crowd came close to matching the cheer for Mullin was when it was announced that Wednesday was Louie Carnesecca's birthday.
RBI also reiterated its outlook for the year, including a cost-income ratio of 50-55 percent, which it came close to in the third quarter with a figure of 55.6 percent.
Since hitting a historic closing high of 2,130 in May 2015, we came close to passing it in the next two months and in November, then in April, and now this week.
Take the recent spat in Germany, where Horst Seehofer, the interior minister, came close to blowing up the coalition between his Bavaria-based Christian Social Union and Angela Merkel's Christian Democratic Union.
In a six-hour session in front of parliament's Business and Work and Pensions committees, Green was at times contrite, at times exasperated and at one point came close to walking out.
And when you factor in the annoyance of taking out your earbuds, and interrupting Joni Mitchell's "In France They Kiss on Main Street," I came close to endorsing your "Go away" response.
In the early hours of June 7th, the Brexit Party's candidate, Mike Greene, came close to winning the first seat in Parliament for a party that was created just two months earlier.
In 2011, the United States came close to what would have been a historic default as Republicans withheld their support for a debt limit increase in order to win deep budget cuts.
The sector has been recovering since Slovenia's banking system came close to collapse in 2013 and the government had to inject more than 3 billion euros to rescue mostly state-owned banks.
A Bolasie cross came close to picking out Lukaku at the far post after 14 minutes before the Belgium targetman did make his mark on the scoreboard 10 minutes before the break.
At the Camp David summit in July 2000 we tackled the challenge of overlapping sacred space, but never came close to resolving the competing Israeli and Palestinian claims to sovereignty over it.
They came close to repeating the feat in 2016, and in May this year they nearly overran the western city of Farah before being beaten back with the aid of U.S. forces.
FCA raised its full-year guidance for revenues and adjusted operating profit and kept its debt projection intact, but analysts remained unimpressed, saying the revisions came close to where consensus expectations were.
The Leafs came close to tying with Detroit's Nick Jensen off for holding at 10:15 of the second period when Jake Gardiner's shot from the high slot rang off the post.
A's reliever Joakim Soria (1-4) got two strikes on Ohtani and came close to getting a third, but didn't get the call on a close pitch that catcher Josh Phegley dropped.
The director also revealed that he came close to directing another gay classic, Luca Guadagnino's Call Me By Your Name (2017), which went on to win an Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay.
In addition to Alaba's shot onto the crossbar, Bayern came close to scoring with a header by Javi Martínez in the 56th and a powerful shot by Arturo Vidal in the 73rd.
And two African-American Democratic gubernatorial candidates (Stacey Abrams in Georgia and Andrew Gillum in Florida) upended the party hierarchy, won their primaries, and came close to victory in the general election.
And we rarely elect oldsters: Since 1828, only 20163 Democratic presidents have been in their 60s when inaugurated — and none came close to Sanders, who would be 79 if elected in 2020.
It would be understandable if you missed it because it came close to the end of seven hours of repetitive, somewhat inscrutable testimony, but Special Counsel Robert Mueller did make news Wednesday.
Mathieu, who reached the fourth round twice in Paris and led Andre Agassi two sets to love in 2002 as he came close to a quarter-finals spot, hit back on Saturday.
Oil prices had jumped more than 7 percent on Wednesday and came close to hitting $50 a barrel as Saudi Arabia's oil minister hinted that a deal among OPEC members was close.
The reason for our similarity is the population bottlenecks we faced as a species, during which our numbers dropped as low as a few hundred families and we came close to extinction.
One 1995 game that I never came close to beating was called MayaQuest, where you explore the ruins of Mayan civilization and try to solve archeological mysteries about how the Mayans lived.
No other candidate came close to spending as much money as Michael R. Bloomberg poured into the state, as he blanketed the airwaves for weeks on both English and Spanish television stations.
In my experience, anything even came close to resembling a salad in Belize—potato salad, coleslaw, raw veggies of any kind, even stewed beans and rice—was generously doused in Salad Cream.
Now, the lynx population has rebounded to almost 550 animals, living in nine different parts of southern Spain and Portugal, compared with only two areas when the lynx came close to extinction.
" A prominent agent, Brodie Van Wagenen, came close to accusing the owners of collusion on Friday, saying in a Twitter post that their inactivity in free agency "feels coordinated, rightly or wrongly.
Bruce Headlam, a former editor for the late Times media columnist David Carr, told me that Mr. Carr twice came close to nailing down a story about abuses committed by Mr. Weinstein.
"The charts … suggest that the Dow and the S&P 2800 came close to bottoming, but there might need to be a bit more capitulation before the decline exhausts itself," he said.
The Chicago Bears came close to beating their archrivals, but ended up losing to the Green Bay Packers, 23-16, thanks in large part to a terrible challenge by Coach John Fox.
In 20163, the government came close to not having money to cover benefits, but Congress came through with the funds at the 11th hour, as the fiscal year drew to a close.
The Mets came close to trading Walker to the Yankees at the July 31 nonwaiver trade deadline, but the deal fell apart; the Yankees said there were problems with Walker's medical report.
Don't forget that Mr. Bolton harbors presidential dreams; he came close to a run in 2015, and he maintains a political action committee, through which he doles out money to Republican politicians.
Yet Biden finds himself in an increasingly competitive race with Sanders, the U.S. senator who came close to winning the 2016 Nevada caucus and finds support with some of the same voters.
Forward Majority, founded in 2900, on Friday released a Roadmap 220006 that focuses on 2202 legislative seats in Florida, Texas, Arizona and North Carolina that Democrats came close to winning in 2628.
As men got in touch with their feelings onscreen (or not), it sometimes seemed that the mainstream industry — with its male geniuses, brotherhoods, bad boys and superheroes — came close to abandoning women.
Trade growth came close to a standstill in the first quarter of 217 but has been accelerating gradually since then especially from the fourth quarter onwards ("World Trade Monitor", CPB, May 21.6).
In June, Iran came close to war with the United States after Tehran downed a U.S. drone with a surface-to-air missile, a move that nearly triggered retaliatory strikes by Washington.
Total sugar for day 2: 64gAdded sugar: 39.2gThe average amount of added sugar I should be eating in a day is 25 grams, and today I came close to almost doubling that.
"When people came close to Mica they'd instinctively back up, as if they were invading her personal space," John Monos, Magic Leap's vice president of human-centered AI, said at the conference.
Instead, John Kasich and Marco Rubio won them, despite the fact that neither of them won or even came close to winning any of the states these contests were held in. 22018.
If none came close to a majority, the British people would vote again, on two separate questions — whether to leave the European Union and, if Brexit wins again, how to do so.
They came close to fulfilling Mr. Figueroa's dream in 2013, when they moved to Putnam Valley with their son, who was then 3, trading their Bronx rental for a two-bedroom ranch.
Remarkably, the United States government was able to tax all that productive corporate behavior so much that it came close to paying off all its debts for the first time in 203 years.
While Starbucks shares have risen 24 percent over the last 200 days, on Friday they came close to slipping below their 200-day moving average price for the first time in 15 years.
So the post-Iowa pitch Trump could make is clear: I'm a rookie who came close to winning in Iowa, I learn from my mistakes, and I'm going to win in New Hampshire.
Grant Thornton handles the accounts of Patisserie which has been rocked by an accounting scandal and came close to collapse before getting a 20-million-pound ($25.56 million) lifeline from Chairman Luke Johnson.
"Soldiers thought the woman was a civilian trying to escape the fighting, but as soon as she came close to the soldiers, she blew herself up and killed three," an army officer said.
Japan's Nikkei stock index ended down 247.89 percent, as investors locked in gains after it came close to the psychologically significant 20.1,250.81 milestone this week, above which it hasn't traded since December 21.
Using the National Archives and Records Administration's historical election results database, and news annals, we were only able to find two vice presidential candidates who even came close to Fiorina's ill-fated bid.
He was the right build, from the right area, and was comfortable enough on the ball to pull off a passable King impression, but he never came close to filling those particular shoes.
Equitable Life, established in 1762, has more than 300,000 policyholders and manages assets of 6.3 billion pounds ($8.4 billion), but it closed to new customers in 2000 after it came close to collapse.
India and Pakistan have fought two wars over Kashmir and came close to a third in February, after a suicide attack by a Pakistan-based militant group killed at least 40 paramilitary police.
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's military said on Monday it had shot down an unidentified drone that came close to its Syrian air base at Hmeimim, RIA news agency said, citing the Russian Defence Ministry.
The second man killed was shot when he came close to the border fence in the southern Gaza Strip near the town of Khan Younis and died in hospital, Palestinian medical officials said.
Earlier this year, Anbang came close to executing what would have been the biggest takeover ever of an American company by a Chinese company, offering more than $14 billion for Starwood Hotels & Resorts.
Grassley and Wyden met with each other before last week's July 4 recess and came close to striking a deal, but a key question is how GOP senators would react to it. Sen.
Porto, who had looked sprightly in the opening minutes, seemed deflated, although a curling free kick from Miguel Layun that drifted just wide came close to leveling the encounter 10 minutes before halftime.
Sales plunged, top executives were arrested and the carmaker came close to collapse; it was saved only by an injection of capital from other companies in the loosely allied Mitsubishi group of companies.
He came close to execution in May 2016, after the United States Court of Appeals for the 43th Circuit had granted a stay of execution that Alabama then asked the justices to vacate.
Photographers and videographers for overseas news outlets captured the standoff from the balconies of a nearby hotel, as the tanks tried to maneuver around Tank Man and came close to running him over.
Most recently, Alaska's universities came close to total financial collapse, before a deal could be found that cut only $70 million over the next three years (instead of $136 million all at once).
He could also put Florida in play and perhaps Georgia, especially if he were to have Stacey Abrams, who came close to winning the governorship there in 2018, on the ticket with him.
Studies of people who came close to dying from suicide attempts, but lived, show that about one-quarter went from deciding to kill themselves to making the attempt in less than five minutes.
The two came close to war in 1974, when Turkey invaded Cyprus and occupied its north in response to a coup by Greek Cypriots who wanted to unite the island republic with Greece.
But it badly needs U.S. support, both in handling its severe balance of payments problems and in dealing with its nuclear armed neighbor India after the two came close to war last year.
In the Emnid polls, AfD has consistently remained above its 12.6% level of support in the 2017 general election and recently came close to becoming the largest party in two eastern German states.
When the German carrier Air Berlin came close to bankruptcy in 2017, the government granted the airline a bridging loan of 150 million euros, about $165 million, that allowed it to continue flying.
Major League Baseball is on a record-shattering pace for homers this season, but no one came close to clearing the walls until Charlie Blackmon connected in the sixth for the National League.
But those familiar with his harassment knew the investigation was years in the making, with Weinstein using his power and resources to quash the story anytime someone came close to revealing his wrongdoing.
The last major figure in Republican politics who came close to Trump's brand of nationalism was Pat Buchanan, the former Nixon aide who ran for the Republican Presidential nomination in 1992 and 1996.
No group came close to securing an absolute majority on March 4 and a matrix of vetoes has prevented the parties from doing a deal, with friction and frustration growing by the day.
A spokesperson for Kirstjen Nielsen rejected the idea that the Homeland Security secretary, who reportedly came close to resigning earlier this year, had authored the piece, saying that she had more pressing concerns.
The pension overhaul, seen by investors as crucial to plugging Brazil's budget deficit, came close to a lower house vote in late May, before stalling for months due to a corruption scandal involving Temer.
They have fought two wars over the territory and came close to a third this year after a car bomb set off by a Pakistan-based militant group killed dozens of Indian paramilitary police.
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Kim Kardashian and Kanye West on Wednesday donated $500,000 to firefighters and victims of a massive Southern California wildfire that came close to destroying the celebrity couple's own multimillion-dollar mansion.
Previous negotiations came close to provoking a trade war ahead of the 2013 ICAO assembly as the European Union, which was frustrated with slow progress, ordered foreign airlines to buy credits under its scheme.
In 2015 Greece came close to dropping out of the euro before its newish prime minister, Alexis Tsipras, buckled down to the task of pruning the budget as part of a third bail-out.
None may wish an end to the deluge more than the good people living downstream of the Oroville Dam, 75 miles (120km) north of Sacramento, which came close to failing catastrophically on February 12th.
Nothing else in the studio's slate even came close to breaking $1 billion, though Ralph Breaks the Internet and Mary Poppins Returns are notably still in release with more overseas openings still to come.
Some of the language used by the CSU MPs in the Bundestag's lobbies today came close to justifying a vote of confidence in the chancellor, prompting angry exchanges with Merkel loyalists in the CDU.
IT LASTED only six hours, but the battle in the sky above Syria and Israel in the early hours of February 10th came close to turning a bloody civil war into a regional one.
The Keeping Up with the Kardashians star and her rapper husband hired a private team of firefighters to fight the blaze, which came close to their Hidden Hills home on Friday, according to TMZ.
Neither however came close to pop star Taylor Swift, who was named the top earning celebrity of 2016 earlier this year, pulling in an estimated $170 million from record sales and her world tour.
The two foes came close to direct military conflict last month when Iran shot down a U.S. drone and President Donald Trump ordered retaliatory air strikes, only to call them off minutes before impact.
Iran came close to conflict with the United States last month after the Islamic Republic's unprecedented shoot-down of a U.S. drone with a surface-to-air missile nearly triggered retaliatory strikes by Trump.
Britain's economy came close to stagnating again in February amid Brexit nerves and sluggish global growth, a picture repeated in the euro zone where a series of weak economic reports have confirmed a slowdown.
The 35-year-old, who only started running marathon events in 2014, came close to breaking the record in Berlin last year but lost out by six seconds, after being hindered by muscle problems.
And while the ZTE restrictions sent most of the optical equipment stocks lower — shares of Oclaro sank 15 percent and shares of Finisar declined 4 percent — none came close to Acacia's 35 percent nosedive.
Foreign investors are happy to lend it tens of billions of dollars, but that does not mean the government, which came close to eradicating its debt three years ago, is happy with the process.
WASHINGTON — Federal Reserve officials not only decided against raising interest rates at their most recent meeting in March, but they also came close to ruling out an increase at their next meeting this month.
The exchange follows months of tension between the two countries, which came close to war in February over the disputed region of Kashmir, which both sides have claimed since independence from Britain in 1947.
The welterweight came close to getting his UFC debut at the same event that will see McGregor rematch Diaz as he put his name forward to step in on short notice against Tim Means.
GM used its Hanoi plant to assemble Chevrolets with parts imported from South Korea - a country where the U.S. automaker came close to bankruptcy as it struggled to turn around its debt-laden unit.
Holder's replacement, Loretta Lynch, later authorized the department to move forward with the investigation, but her announcement came close to the end of the Obama presidency, effectively punting the case to the Trump administration.
Mr. Ossoff was a true political novice and still came close to winning, and the 2006 and 2010 wave midterm elections are full of examples of fairly weak recruits who pulled off important victories.
It may not be fashionable to be wistful about the British Empire but it's certainly popular to enjoy delicacies from former colonies, as well as from countries Britain never even came close to invading.
The Falcons came close to qualifying several times, and finally put it all together this time around with a run that included a victory over Spain, the defending European champions' only loss in qualifying.
SANA, Yemen — A ballistic missile fired from Yemen came close to the Saudi capital, Riyadh, on Saturday and was intercepted by the Saudi military over the city's international airport, the Saudi defense ministry said.
Elsewhere in Texas, a slew of Democrats, including 2014 gubernatorial nominee Wendy Davis, are vying to win the nominations in a half dozen GOP-held seats that came close to flipping in the midterms.
Philadelphia's Nicolas Aube-Kubel, who has a five-game point streak, came close to snapping the scoreless game when he received a pass and fired a wrist shot at 6:03 of the second.
Jair Bolsonaro, who came close to an outright victory in the first round of voting this month, with 46 percent, will face Fernando Haddad of the left-wing Workers' Party, who received 29 percent.
Sometimes I came close to sleep, but better were the stretches of time that I was conscious but not needed, awake but not being woken, touching parts of the bedding but not being touched.
Uneasy NATO allies Greece and Turkey are historic regional rivals who came close to war three times in the past half-century, and even before this crisis relations were tense over undersea exploration rights.
CNN poll: Democrats' edge dips to 6 points in midterm race for control of Congress All the candidates are running in districts that Democrat Hillary Clinton won or came close to winning in 2016.
The government still controls about 44 percent of the banking sector, which came close to collapse in 2013 under the weight of bad loans, pushing Slovenia to the brink of requiring an international bailout.
Tillerson spoke at a hastily scheduled news conference after NBC News reported that he came close to resigning this summer but was urged to stay in the job until the end of the year.
Anwar says the accusations aimed at removing him from his post at the time, as leader of the opposition, which came close to defeating Najib Razak, another Mahathir protege, in the disputed 2013 election.
That book, and the ensuing movie starring Emily Blunt, used a cleverly devised unreliable narrator, focused on interrelated couples, revealed all its characters to be untrustworthy and came close to bursting at its seams.
Congress came close to passing such a measure this year but left the policy out of a year-end spending package after lawmakers became reluctant to pass a measure that would cut doctor pay.
Ghafoor told CNN that the countries "came close" to conflict but the release of Indian Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman from Pakistani custody last Friday brought the two neighbors back from the brink of war.
The appeals court judges sometimes seemed taken aback by the assertiveness of the administration's position, which in places came close to saying the court was without power to make judgments about Mr. Trump's actions.
Britain's pound was helped back towards $1.32 by services data while the Australian dollar fell 0.20 percent to $0.7072 after a weak exports survey suggested the Australian economy came close to stalling last quarter.
In Missouri, state Attorney General Josh Hawley, a top Republican Senate candidate for the race, came close to a million, bringing in $958,000 and ending the year with nearly $1.2 million in the bank.
The dollar's slide came close to wiping out the year's gains, as the pound and a clutch of trade-sensitive currencies rallied on improving U.S.-China trade relations and the outlook for global growth.
Cragg had slowed her pace significantly to sustain her flagging partner, and she came close to sacrificing her victory to ensure that they both finished in the top three and qualified for the Olympic team.
The Andean nation's capital, Bogota, came to a standstill as people tuned in to watch the 'Cafeteros', with electrifying roars and loud gasps surging throughout the city each time either team came close to scoring.

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