The moment they got close to something, talking over it.
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It also got close to the militia movement, experts say.
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In 2004, it got close to 19943% of the vote.
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He took off his robe and got close to me.
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At peak, I think it got close to 600. Wow. Yeah.
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Suddenly, he took his robe off and got close to me.
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That was probably the extent to which I got close to him.
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Well, I never even got close to the legal limit of THC.
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New York got close to a Victorian dinosaur display of its own.
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It's no surprise Iger got close to his $19 million asking price.
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"I got close to eight new commits, which is WILD," she said.
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Every time they got close to selling the show, Sedaris would pull back.
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It got close to its previous low, and it ran out of steam.
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Of course, prices never got close to the ceiling, so it never mattered.
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Unfortunately for Vegas, the home team never got close to scoring a tying goal.
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"I really got close to him after the birth of my daughter," Lakshmi said.
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Melissa Lauren wrote on Facebook that she got close to Winters through the events.
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But from what I understand, basketball players once got close to boycotting March Madness.
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"We've got close to 3603 percent of our workforce dedicated to Oculus," he told Iribe.
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We're told Luke signed for around $13 million and Lionel got close to $10 million.
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It never really got close to the ceiling and not to any of the artwork.
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Levi got close to Barr working as one of several counselors the attorney general employs.
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The Rams never got close to scoring after that failure to punch the ball in.
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Save the chickpeas, kidney beans and cannellinis for when you've got close to an hour.
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Microsoft advertises nine or more hours of use, but I never got close to that.
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While Lenovo claims up to 11 hours of battery life, I never got close to that.
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The company says it did $6.5M in revenue last year and got "close to break even".
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The winds got close to that, as gusts of 32 mph were recorded in Central Park.
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The company got close to launching on December 12th, getting all the way to a final countdown.
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But they smashed that and got close to what would actually be needed in the real detector.
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Jet has survived collapse once before when it got close to running out of cash in 2013.
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"I wouldn't say I got close to Dan [Radcliffe], Rupert [Grint] or Emma [Watson]," Mitchell says candidly.
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When I got close to 30, I started to realize that I wasn't in my prime anymore.
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Virginia got close to ratifying the ERA last year, but the GOP-controlled legislature ultimately rejected it.
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"Some individuals got close to the police line and covered officers with silly string," the police statement said.
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Virginia got close to ratifying the ERA earlier this year, but the GOP-controlled legislature ultimately rejected it.
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On Thursday, the analyst told CNBC that if bitcoin got close to $2,800 there might be some pullback.
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Jet has survived collapse once before when it also got close to running out of cash in 2013.
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Ravens 23, Packers 0 Baltimore's defense bent, but never got close to breaking in shutting out Green Bay.
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Apparently, when you've got close to 50,000 emails to archive, it takes some time...and causes some problems.
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I sat back off him and he got a comfortable lead and I never got close to him.
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More often than not, I got close to that number, so it deserves a check mark in that category.
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After Scaramucci's then-pregnant wife, Deidre Ball, filed for divorce in July 2017, Scaramucci reportedly got close to Guilfoyle.
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Taylor Swift's boyfriend Joe Alwyn got close to playing the adorable character Sam in the classic film Love Actually.
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The director of photography, Paul Atkins, and his team got close to the volcano, perhaps a little too close.
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As they got close to the target, they encountered stiff resistance from ISIS fighters largely equipped with small arms.
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" Having started in the League, she said, "he got close to CasaPound, all of the movements on the right.
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And neither Despicable Me 2 nor the Minions movie got close to achieving that kind of emotionally moving moment.
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She got close to guitarist Nile Rodgers, the co-producer of "Let's Dance," who was prominent in the backup band.
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SpaceX got close to launching Wednesday morning but was forced to delay another day due to high upper-level winds.
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However, more white women got close to achieving an ideal diet than the Hispanic or black women in the study.
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In Ecuador, I learned so much about individual family's food stories and got close to a local family through food.
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If he got close to someone, he would have to disclose his wounds, and the thought filled him with anxiety.
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It is the sad spectacle of a man whose torment appears to have begun when he got close to Trump.
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"We've got close to 100 restaurants, big grocery stores and boutique food shops, lots of wine shops," Mr. Vincent said.
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The winds got close to that, as gusts of 32 mph were recorded in Central Park shortly before the event.
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I feared that an evil thing had attached itself to me, and could injure anyone who got close to me.
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Even the new Labour government's agriculture minister admits that the nation may have got close to the "maximum number of cows".
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It was an easy hour and a half drive to Louisville on Saturday morning, until I got close to the track.
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He would go with Trump to dinners, fashion shows and baseball games -- always restricting who got close to the boisterous businessman.
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"As I got close to it ... it rapidly accelerated to the south, and disappeared in less than two seconds," he said.
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So. I'll tell you what you'd see, if you entered the room as we got close to solving The Tin Soldier.
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"When I got close to 500, I was conscious of the chance of 'dogging it,' what we call choking," he said.
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When Piper got close to Jo's TV, it also interrupted the broadcast as if an electromagnetic source was overpowering the station.
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Over the course of two days at four different restaurants, the company got close to 75 applications in person, it said.
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"I got close to him, laid down, unpacked some items to eat and a new toy I'd purchased from him," she wrote.
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"The guy got close to my face and his fists were kinda balled up and I felt threatened," Amal told BuzzFeed News.
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You could spend a lifetime unfurling a long parchment scroll of bad Rap Genius annotations before you got close to a conclusion.
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One girl told me that when she got close to the entrance, someone paid her $50 to cut in line with her.
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"And when we met the Patz family and got close to Stan, it was evident we were a family now," she said.
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A statement from Iran&aposs military said it shot down the plane by accident after it got close to a military base.
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Only the Senior House boys, who took A-level classes with the Mary Wards, got close to them—and even touched them.
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The vehicle got close to the military convoy, and despite many warning by the troops, the car did not avert its direction.
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The toddler could be heard screaming "Wee!" as Jenner attempted to kiss her every time they got close to one another while swinging.
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It had reached a fever pitch as it got close to Christmas, and people were doing absolutely insane things to get these dolls.
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After McIlroy left the seventh green, one fan got close to him and shouted something obscene before being escorted away by security personnel.
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As Hopkins got close to the sideline, he flipped the ball to Watson, who dove for the end zone and scored the touchdown.
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"I think people were excited to see the combines and see what we were doing as we got close to harvest," Johnson says.
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Nestled just beneath my skin, the magnet tugged and tickled when it got close to hard drives and speakers; around microwaves, it outright buzzed.
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Locals said none had got close to catching him when he came and went, primarily, they said, to visit his aging mother, Consuelo Loera.
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Mr Deng got close to him: when Mr Li wanted a relative's remains moved somewhere with better feng shui, Mr Deng made the arrangements.
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The last time we got close to this was the most recent season of Bachelor In Paradise when Jaimi King came into the picture.
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"I never really got close to any of them… I had to figure it out on my own for over a decade," Baby said.
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He said Christian Toro was also feeling lonely, and it was during that stretch that he got close to the 15-year-old girl.
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Such wanderers would manifest themselves as comets when they got close to our sun, vaporizing and lighting up; however, they have not been seen.
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But really it wasn't until I got close to this point that I began consuming capsules of Advil as if they were raw almonds.
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"Hug the ones you got close to you a little longer, tell the ones you love, you love them a little more," Kelley, 32, said.
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But talks never got close to a deal because of concerns over structure and valuation — particularly because Deutsche Telekom felt Dish stock was severely overvalued.
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Last year, CBS and Viacom got close to announcing a merger with an exchange ratio of 0.6135 CBS share for every Viacom Class B share.
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Each time I got close to a wall or piece of furniture, the lines showed up as expected to let me know to back up.
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By Saturday, the two-time presidential candidate and current governor Henrique Capriles Radonski, claimed that the drive had already got close to two million signatures.
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The Pistons logo was close enough for Steph to let it rip and start backing up before it even got close to the rim. 4.
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According to public documents, the undercover agents posing as developers got close to city officials and lobbyists in an attempt to snuff out public corruption.
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Everything from producers, to pipelines, to frackers, a group that faced particular hardship as oil prices got close to $26 a barrel in February last year.
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Cerrone shot one of his awkward takedown attempts as he got close to the fence and Perry easily reversed, tripping his way around Cerrone's guard altogether.
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He got close to Jimmy Lee, the legendary banker known to throw his weight behind his favorites and reel in some of the industry's largest deals.
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When you got close to it, though, you saw where they had just blended the colors in so you'd get the impression that it was complete.
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"When the airplane got close to where he wanted to deliver his bombs, he realized he had an F/A-18 behind it," said Lt. Gen.
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At one point, the defenders watched as the attackers got close to the part of their clients' network where the most valuable intellectual property was housed.
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After four successive open enrollments run by the Obama administration, the program never got close to the percentage of the eligible pool needed to be successful.
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You can't take away from how well Canada played but on the other hand we never got close to them physically or put them under any pressure.
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When searchers got close to debris found in the Mediterranean Sea they realized it didn't come from the missing airliner, EgyptAir's Vice Chairman Ahmed Adel told CNN.
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As soon as I got close to the mailbox, I realized another player was waiting there with the express purpose of killing me and stealing the mail.
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Very quickly she got close to the people she was meeting and talking with and you felt as though you knew them and you cared about them.
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Before Columbus, only one team got close to the win streak record: the 2012-13 Penguins, who won 15 in a row in a lockout-shortened season.
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Our sources say as part of the contract, Ray got close to 19 million LOOPShare shares, and will remain as a consultant to help the biz grow.
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LEVIN: And even if the movement got close to having a convention of states, I think that would wake up Washington like they&aposve never been awakened before.
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Once they got close to O'Sullivan, an officer jumped out and fired at the suspect while the others ran out to pull her inside the vehicle, Chandler said.
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It's smaller than, but comparable to, the huge amounts of rain we saw with Hurricane Harvey in Houston (some areas in the city got close to 29 inches).
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The new Silverado and Sierra got close to the Ford truck's weight using seven different grades of steel in the cab, aluminum hoods, door exterior panels and tailgates.
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But the Canucks got close to winning the Stanley Cup only once in the Sedin era, in 2011, when they lost to the Boston Bruins in seven games.
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"(His actions) have deterred a part of the electorate, especially more moderate elements which had recently got close to the League," Corriere della Sera said in a commentary.
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I had the right to vote most of my life, but there wasn't a real public push for equality, and we never even got close to wage equality.
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Shannon Jackson, Our Revolution's executive director, says they've already got close to 200 events planned around the country and will be rallying outside nearly every Republican congressional office.
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Any time Groenhart got close to the ropes he would step in with the body shot and angle off, then jab at Holzken as he turned to follow.
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They got close to a deal with a billionaire from Qatar, Hamad Jassim Al-Thani, the country's former prime minister, and with Anbang, a giant Chinese insurance company.
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It's smaller than, but comparable to, the huge amounts of rain we saw with Hurricane Harvey in Houston (some areas in the city got close to 50 inches).
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They invested money, got close to businessmen, and were therefore able to invest in an invisible way, so that now they don't necessarily need to do anything heavy-handed.
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The video got close to 40 thousand upvotes on Reddit, and a high-profile retweet from Chrissy Teigen no doubt helped propel it to 12 million views on Twitter.
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HONG KONG (Reuters) - A long-awaited link between the stock exchanges of Shanghai and London got close to the launch pad last week, but there was no blast-off.
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We're guessing (hoping) there was also an adult in the driver's seat to hit the brakes when the car got close to Odell ... so tack on another 200 pounds.
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A recent report from Dr. Jada E. Watson of the University of Ottawa in consultation with WOMAN Nashville quantified a backlash to progress that never got close to parity.
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Note that the other time the ACA got close to being above-water in the polls was early 2011, right after Republicans swept to a majority in the House.
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She had a big grin on her face, and as she got close to me, she turned to her sons and said, 'Boys, I want you to meet Senator Biden.
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"Oh my God Kim, this tree is huge," Cheban said as he got close to the stunning spruce (or fabulous fir?), adorned with white lights and faux snow-covered branches.
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Rocket Lab tried again on December 12th and got close to launching, too; the Electron briefly ignited, but the vehicle's computer aborted the mission right afterward, preventing a take off.
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When I got close to home (a suburb outside the City), I paused the podcast and just listened to the neighborhood sounds with ambient sound turned up to the max.
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Oblak came up big every time Leverkusen got close to his goal, proving crucial for Atlético as it protected its 4-2 first-leg victory in the round of 16.
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Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii, both of whom got close to qualifying for the third debate, the decision to stay in and hope to qualify for the October debate is easy.
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In season three, Pennsatucky (Taryn Manning) got close to guard Coates (James McMenamin), but the burgeoning friendship turned sour when he raped her — all while whispering that he loved her.
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Throngs of protesters marched to parliament in Cape Town singing songs and waving "Zuma must go" placards, although the crowds never got close to the tens of thousands promised by COSATU.
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Ms. Butina was arrested last month and charged with acting as a covert Russian agent who got close to prominent American conservatives and infiltrated the National Rifle Association, among other organizations.
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Yesterday I got close to six hours of screen time with both displays switched on, one of them constantly streaming various live sports while I used the other for general phone things.
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Ball claims Foster intentionally got close to his family knowing he was one of the best basketball players in the country and would likely go on to make millions in the NBA.
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Some of them got close to the president, the vice president, and members of Congress to try and get a better understanding of not just American reality, but the new Trump reality.
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Not only was he not as well known, or beloved, as his opponent Hillary Clinton, but didn't I know that he'd be harmed if he even got close to the White House?
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Strategists say while China has been criticized for letting the currency fall, it actually has worked to hold the currency back from falling further since it got close to the key 7 level.
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When the match ended, fans marched down Al Arbaeen street in Omdurman singing and chanting until they got close to the river, where they were blocked by security forces, one witness told Reuters.
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So, specific to technology, while our biggest hub is in Eden Prairie here, I think we&aposve got close to 700 people in our technology and engineering organization here, on our corporate campus.
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The Rangers got close to taking the lead early in the third amid a flurry of activity in front of the net with Raanta out, but the puck bounced away and was cleared.
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"I saw a pool of wine, and it was flowing lightly down the hill, and as I got close to it, I noticed that it was bubbling," photographer Josh Edelson told the news outlet.
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I never plotted to cheat on you or got close to it (the closest I came was groping someone when paralytically drunk, which was mortifying, but I don't honestly count that as "thinking"). 19.
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Perhaps because never she cracked coding, never got close to the machine, was only adjacent to it, more looker or lurker than full-bore liver, she can't find connections, these novel ways of seeing.
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"We were certainly hoping we'd see new phenomena and new processes when we got close to the sun - and we certainly did," Nicola Fox, director of the U.S. space agency's heliophysics division, told reporters.
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It was not until I got close to the Model 3 and started examining the all-electric 153-door sedan, which starts at a mid-range-friendly $35,000, that I noticed the mostly subtle differences.
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China has been criticized for letting its currency fall, but strategists say the country actually has worked to prop the currency up since it got close to the key level of 7 yuan per dollar.
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When his administration on its 100th day in office got close to pulling out of NAFTA, it came as news to the president that some of his voters benefited from membership of the trade block.
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The Garden Bridge Trust and TfL have already spent £37m of public money on the project and even now may have to spend another £9m, despite the fact that construction never got close to starting.
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If the star system that 'Oumuamua came from has giant gas planets and it got close to those planets, it might have been torn into pieces as it was ejected, hence its long, thin shape.
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On today's episode: • Sheryl Gay Stolberg, who covers Congress, describes the timeline of the so-called Dream Act since its introduction in 2001 — the times it got close to passing, and why it never did.
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In his suit, Lonzo claimed Foster intentionally got close to his family knowing Lonzo was one of the best basketball players in the country and would likely go on to make millions in the NBA.
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Big Lenbo I have a friend who works with Logic (the rapper) and managed to send him a free SwiftDeck and he did a tweet and an Instagram post which got close to 30 thousand likes.
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Beto O'Rourke's best day was by far also his first, when he got close to 4,000 unique donors — and the last days of the first and second quarters have been the closest that he's come since then.
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Before long he would glow a dull red color before getting brighter and brighter and whiter in color before he began to emit X-rays and finally deadly gamma rays, killing anyone who got close to him.
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He's got close to 30 years on me, but while I grew up with indoor hobbies very much available, from video games to VHS marathons via action figure throw-downs, I pretty much did the same thing.
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The only thing that mattered was that at the end of the day, that I can watch it and feel like I got close to the truth — that Garry was a mystery to a lot of people.
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Sullivan noted that although she never got close to Madison, she would leave food and water out for the dog, and even put a piece of clothing that smelled like Gaylord on the property for Madison to smell.
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As we got close to polling day, the people who are making up their minds late will think a lot about the economy, their own prosperity, that of their families, and veer away from the risk of Brexit.
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She got close to Muammar Qaddafi and Yasser Arafat, but, as this intimate biography by Lindsey Hilsum, a fellow (female) reporter, shows, her gift was writing, passionately, about ordinary lives during war; "humanity in extremis", she called it.
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It was probably forming in the giant planet region and grew to be several Earth masses in size, and then it got close to one of the giant planets and was thrown out into the outer solar system.
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In one instance, a would-be assassin got close to his targets, a husband and wife who were soldiers in a Ukrainian paramilitary unit, by posing as a journalist seeking an interview for the French newspaper Le Monde.
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A limited bipartisan background checks bill got close to passing in the months after Newtown but ultimately failed, and the Trump administration has moved to ban "bump stocks" that let semiautomatic guns achieve near-automatic rates of fire.
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Clinton did worst, and Sanders did best, in the rural districts that elect Republicans; he got close to 80 percent in the 4th District, which cuts down the middle of the state and includes the city of Yakima.
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"[E]very time one of these governments got close to opening their doors, the phone would ring in their foreign ministries and on the other end of the line would be a very senior American official," he said.
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Cosby's new defense lawyers — most notably Tom Mesereau, who won an acquittal in Michael Jackson's 2005 child molestation case — called Constand a "con artist" and "so-called victim," who got close to Cosby because she wanted his money.
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Planet Nine was probably forming in that region and grew to be several Earth masses in size, and then it got close to one of the giant planets and was thrown out into the outer solar system, Sheppard said.
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Ironically, it seems like being a sexual harasser gets you more financial compensation than being a victim, since none of the five women who settled got close to the $25 million dollars O'Reilly will reportedly receive to leave Fox.
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Even before the Adpocalypse, the top 3 percent of YouTubers got close to 90 percent of all traffic and even then, their average income was around $17,000 a year, according to a study by Mathias Bärtl, a professor at Offenburg University.
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Lawmakers haven't passed a stand-alone spending bill for the agency since 2009, though House Republicans got close to pushing one through last year before a fight over the display of the Confederate flag at national cemeteries sunk the legislation.
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Lawmakers haven't passed a standalone spending bill for the agency since 2009, though House Republicans got close to pushing one through last year before a political fight over the display of the Confederate flag at national cemeteries sunk the legislation.
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We're not saying Democrats can suddenly win all of those, but the fact they got close to winning in this Republican stronghold, which has sent a Republican to Congress for the past 50 years, recasts what's possible for them in 2020.
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For years, Apple had very ambitious ambitions in TV: Steve Jobs wanted to build an integrated TV set/pay TV service, but he never got close to the terms he would have needed from TV programmers to make it work.
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For viewers at home, there were map overlays that showed where the various teams were hiding out, and multiple camera angles that made it possible to see when players got close to each other and a skirmish was about to break out.
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Mankins got close to seeing the idea make it into reality, with support from the Bush White House and Congress in the 217.5s, and positive reviews from the National Academy of Sciences and a national security unit within the Department of Defense.
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Ross: Yeah, like a lot of conservatives, I rolled my eyes at Betomania, but he got close to Cruz and had coattails, so props to him — but the liberals who want him to run for president seem a little ridiculous to me.
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"Nate really got close to them and became part of their team and their circle, and I think that opened his mind to what he really wanted to do," said Rachna Shah, a partner at KCD who served as his immediate supervisor.
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Christie circled back too frequently to his beloved, overworked boast that he would make sure that Hillary Clinton never again got close to the White House, but he had a terrific retort to Cruz's and Rubio's explanations of their legislative histories on immigration reform.
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In a year where investors have never really got close to fully pricing in a move, short-term U.S. rates now put a 75 percent probability on the Federal Reserve raising official borrowing costs for only the second time in more than a decade.
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"Many thought that by the time we got close to the election, some middle ground would be found, and that is not what we are seeing," said Monica de Bolle, director of Latin American studies program at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.
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The person said that after a vehicle laden with explosives rammed into the rear of the compound, several suicide bombers got close to breaking through, but they were probably gunned down by elite forces who arrived at the scene about 20 minutes after the explosion.
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Coming off a Tristan Thompson miss, Curry passed up a chance at a contested 213-pointer with Kevin Love in front of him, and then also deferred when he got close to the basket by passing out to a wide-open Draymond Green, who missed.
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And he became a lot less exciting and a lot less fan friendly, but a lot more effective in the ring because he fought tall, he never fought on the inside and if you got close to him, he draped his body over you and held.
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Nixon has criticized Cuomo in the past few months over the dire state of the New York City subway system, a pair of corruption convictions that got close to -- but never implicated -- him and, most recently, his refusal to return campaign donations Trump made before he became President.
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It was only when we got close to the front line, which divides government-controlled Syria from rebel-held territory, that things changed dramatically: Streets were emptied out, and some parts of the city, including the old city — a Unesco-designated World Heritage site — were sealed off by the military.
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After being given a new motorbike by his girlfriend—a Norton Commando 850 to which he added a roadster fuel tank and a red light on the back in the shape of an eagle—the photographer got close to another group of bikers: the Hells Angels of the République area.
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The Ukrainian authorities have mostly blamed the Russian secret services for plotting the killings — which were carried out with bombs and in one case by an assassin who got close to his targets through a sophisticated ruse — although the police suggested that one recent bombing was related to an organized crime dispute.
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When the players were making a run across the court at the start of each possession, the central camera position provided a great view, and I experienced their speed and size in a way that I don't when watching TV. But when the action got close to one basket, the limitations of this camera emerged.
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He said that he got close to 15 percent of African-Americans' votes, though exit polls suggest it was just 8 percent, and he asserted that their modest turnout was in fact a huge compliment to him, demonstrating that "they liked what I was saying" and thus didn't bother to show up for Clinton.
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Given the incredible commercial momentum of the DS, it was unlikely that, whatever the games or the deals or the uniqueness, that the Vita would ever have got close to the 3DS range's sales of close to 60 million worldwide; but it could have been better than this, sales of something like 12 million and a resigned sigh of a retirement.
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There was Marie Sara, a former bullfighter, who lost narrowly in an effort to unseat the Front National for En Marche; Marion Buchet, a female ex-fighter pilot who lost to an incumbent from the Socialist Party and Isabelle Laeng (aka Cindy Lee), a former stripper who ran for the presidency on behalf of the "pleasure party," and got close to 200 votes.
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A 1981 Philadelphia Inquirer article, published around the time Ronald Reagan infamously fired thousands of striking air traffic controller union employees, explains how the use of the "slew ball" played out in action as a plane got close to the airport: In many ways, the slew ball was the one thing separating humans from a mission-critical application, and it worked effectively in that role.
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The truth of what happened in that prison yard 45 years ago has been suppressed by flagrant lies (including Rockefeller's claim that the prisoners, not his own troopers, had killed the hostages), unwarranted secrecy (the state still refuses to release thousands of boxes of crucial records), and cover-ups (when a prosecutor got close to indicting some of the state troopers for their role in the killings, his superiors stopped him from going forward).
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" On his plane-ride home after being fired from the FBI: "I took a bottle of red wine out of my suitcase that I was bringing back from California, a California pinot noir, and I drank red wine from a paper coffee cup...And then I-- as-- we got close to the airport in Washington, I asked the pilots could I sit up with them, 'cause I'd never done it...And-- and then we shook hands with tears in our eyes and then I left and get driven home.
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That last part is important because the dirty secret of RGGI is that, so far, the carbon cap on the electricity sector (the dotted line) has been far above the sector's actual emissions (the solid line): The way-too-high cap was the result of two things: one, the overweening caution of policymakers pioneering one of the first carbon-trading systems, and two, the fact that electricity-sector emissions have fallen much faster than expected, all over the US. It is only with the 2014 revisions to RGGI that the cap even got close to actual emissions, and only with the 2017 revisions that the cap threatens to actually start pushing them down faster than their "natural" rate in the long term.
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