He came dangerously close to looking too European.

Noticing me standing close by, the policeman turned to me. What are you doing here? he asked.

Perhaps a recount would show that the election was too close to call.

He said, Don't come close. Take your sandals off of your feet, for the place you are standing on is holy ground.

Populism can be a necessary corrective when political parties grow sclerotic, mass media become too complacent (or too close to power), and bureaucracies are unresponsive to popular needs.

However, it is still too close to comfort for the Georgians, who are wary of an August 2008 scenario.

DPKO, too, has supported the Office's views that close cooperation between UNMOs and any peacekeeping force should be emphasized.

Pursuing him out of the warehouse, the officers saw the other two men, one sitting behind the wheel of a pickup and another standing close by.

I hope that they will take them to heart and address once and for all the long standing injustices that for too long have pushed too many people with leprosy to the margins of society.

The work of the First Committee has a close and long standing connection to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) and the Chemical Weapons Convention.

By your Lord , We shall most surely gather them and the devils too and bring them close to hell on their knees .

By your Lord , We shall most surely gather them and the devils too and bring them close to hell on their knees .

In the view of the soldier, the shooting was no accident, because the range was too close and the visibility too good, but the fire did not come from the Israeli position, he said.

It also brought to a sorry close the UK s six month presidency of the European Council, confirming Britain s long standing reputation as the odd man out in the European Union.

First, it is too dangerous for any country to come even remotely close to the point where insolvency can be triggered by a sunspot.

Standing

Natural selection also explains many basic revulsions, such as the horrid smell of rotting meat, or fears, such as the fear of snakes or standing close to the edge of a cliff.

If you deviate too much in the parameters that are close to the midline of that life permitting survival range, you go into disease or death.

Standing Man

Standing woman

And so, you might start to lose weight and start to attract people towards you, but when they get too close it s going to be a problem.

Children often play around the fire unattended. A gust of wind or a child too close to the fire and his or her clothes can catch fire.

For their part, Manbijis are keen on keeping the group at arms length they appreciate some aspects of IS governance, but do not want to get too close.

Standing Up to Illiberalism

Who is standing there?

Why are you standing?

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I know they were close, but not that close.

When the French planes attacked, they were flying very close to the ground, preventing Libyan radar and surface to air missiles from detecting the planes until it was too late.

Close

And that distance and knowing that amount of light is important because it's a little like you or I sitting around a campfire You want to be close enough to the campfire so that you're warm, but not so close that you're too toasty and you get burned.

And in the audio world that's when the microphone gets too close to its sound source, and then it gets in this self destructive loop that creates a very unpleasant sound.

Are we in fact putting ourselves in a situation where we're coming too close to thresholds that could lead to deleterious and very undesired, if now catastrophic, change for human development?

Seth Godin on standing out

Would you mind standing aside?

The teachers are standing there.

This gives us considerable standing.

and sons standing before him ,

Inter Agency Standing Committee (IASC)

Discussions of the Standing Committee

I am convinced that finding answers to the too big to fail problem is necessary indeed, it is the central issue being considered by the Standing Committee of the Financial Stability Board, which I chair.

So, let me close Let me close with my two aphorisms.

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Too much plot, too many issues, too many characters.