After several years of intense negotiation, agreement seemed to be closer than ever.

These infrastructure investments clearly hold the potential to bind Asia closer together than ever before.

Given recent technological developments, the possibility that space weapons could be deployed looms ever closer.

Internal stability and economic recovery continue to be elusive, with the specter of civil war hovering ever closer.

But, save for a few whalers and explorers, not many people ever went to have a closer look.

Gauck may not have gone far enough At this point, an ever closer union may be a political mirage.

But with China s rapid ascent and ever closer integration with the outside world, this doctrine has become increasingly anachronistic.

It could also help lessen the tendency of some governments to gravitate ever closer towards the booming Chinese economy.

Israel, deaf to Obama s urging, is further from reconciliation with Palestine, and closer to war with Iran, than it has ever been.

On a recent visit to Africa, a senior agricultural scientist said that in today s world, the scientist is closer than ever before to the farmer, but farther away than ever from the policymakers.

When European unification was launched, it was thought that ever closer union would establish a community that would protect Europeans from political blackmail.

By cooperating with the rest of the United Kingdom, rather than clashing, Scotland is giving new meaning to the phrase ever closer union.

What has changed is the pressure of globalization, which is pushing the world s peoples ever closer together as technology advances and shrinks the world.

Growing interconnectedness and interdependence, which is the hallmark of the new millennium, has been a major unifying force, bringing nations and civilizations ever closer.

I am concerned, therefore, by the most recent reported statement by the Polisario leadership that a return to arms may be closer than ever .

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Ever closer union means an EU that moves ineluctably from economic and monetary union to banking union, then to fiscal union, and finally to political union.

As a result, Germany bound itself to the idea of ever closer union even more definitively by pledging to join the common European currency, the euro.

For decades, reconciliation and its most remarkable achievement the Franco German rapprochement was the trademark of the project to create an ever closer union in Europe.

A final way of thinking about the EU is as the ever closer union referred to in the Treaty of Rome and echoed in the Maastricht Treaty.

Unfortunately, the compact is likely to be another example of Europe s subordination of economic reality to politicians desire for bragging rights about progress toward ever closer union.

But the EU s enlargement in 2004 failed to stop the momentum toward ever closer union. Of the ten countries that joined then, seven are now in the eurozone.

Taking their cue from the sacred Rome Treaty s reference to ever closer union, the European Commission s theologians view every crisis as an opportunity to advance their federalist agenda.

Come closer.

He's closer.

It needs not just closer economic ties, but also closer political ties.

Sami got closer.

Closer to Leukemia.

But recent events do spell the end of one version of European integration the vision of an ever closer union producing a federal country that would become a new superpower.

President Bush now argues that all along it has been the above board enrichment of uranium, not some other, secret program, that carries Iran ever closer to having nuclear weapons.

Estranged during the Cold War by American support for Pakistan and India s leadership of the non aligned movement, the two countries have been drawing ever closer during the last decade.

On the contrary, the sustainable prosperity that would result from that adjustment would create a much healthier long term foundation for continuing the quest for an ever closer union in Europe.

Ever since its founding, the People s Republic of China has adhered to a foreign policy of non interference in other country s internal affairs or so it claims. But with China s rapid ascent and ever closer integration with the outside world, this doctrine has become increasingly anachronistic.

A little bit closer.

Seth Berkley explains how smart advances in vaccine design, production and distribution are bringing us closer than ever to eliminating a host of global threats from AIDS to malaria to flu pandemics.

It is those institutions that enable citizens of conviction to lead us ever closer to the ideals of justice that stir every soul the universal desire for security, prosperity, liberty and dignity.

Closer and closer to mankind comes their Reckoning yet they heed not and they turn away .

Closer and closer to mankind comes their Reckoning yet they heed not and they turn away .

The consequences of Germany s renunciation of that role are predictable the EU will regress from a union of states moving towards ever closer integration to a weak confederation dominated by conflicting national interests.

When nations embark on a program of ever closer integration, the end result is always likely to look unfinished if they put aside on an ongoing basis any resolution of the ultimate destination.

Without adding , So please Allah ! and call thy Lord to mind when thou forgettest , and say , I hope that my Lord will guide me ever closer ( even ) than this to the right road .

A Step Closer to Brexit?

OK, a little bit closer.

Nein merely brings calamity closer.

It's closer than you think.