The cultural battle over Halappanavar s death is far from settled.

When the Cold War was drawing to a close, anti Communism no longer guaranteed US protection.

Today, with both Kirchner and Chávez out of the picture, that period of leftist populism is drawing to a close. Chávez s successor, Nicolás Maduro, lacks experience and influence in foreign affairs.

Russian President Dmitri Medvedev has called the 2008 financial crisis a sign that America s global leadership is coming to an end.

Kabila seeks to indirectly extend his term, which is coming to an end next year, by organizing a census that would take 3 years to complete.

It's getting pretty close to finished now.

As the current process outlined in resolution 1546 (2004) is nearing its scheduled completion, consideration will need to be given to how best the international community, including the United Nations, can continue to support the Government and people of Iraq.

As the Bonn process comes to an end with the holding of parliamentary elections, the common peacebuilding endeavour between the international community and the Government of Afghanistan should strive to nurture the element of popular support and engagement and avoid the danger of retreating into a technocratic elitist approach.

But are the good times coming to an end?

Mr. Abelardo Moreno (Cuba) (spoke in Spanish) My delegation has been obliged to take the floor at this point in our debate in order to present our views on the exercise now coming to an end and on the omissions and distortions that we feel are contained in the text agreed upon this afternoon.

But the good times may be ending.

The on going trials are at different stages of completion.

The track will be padded at its end.

Thus do accounting rules approach perfection.

The whole sorry Wolfowitz affair looks like it is finally drawing to a close.

Every downturn comes to an end.

This period came to an end for several reasons.

Think of the soon to retire office worker.

The chances of success are near zero.

The cumulative length of her detention now approaches ten years.

The debate continued at this level of intensity and frankness until the end.

An old man cried like a street vendor soliciting customers, not forewarning of death It is coming closer. . . .

By doing so, they will push prices close to fundamentals today.

Palestinian politics is approaching the point of no return.

Costs were approximately 48 million U.S. dollars.

But Europe remains closer to the beginning of that process of renewal than to the end.

but if it bears thorns and thistles, it is rejected and near being cursed, whose end is to be burned.

But that which beareth thorns and briers is rejected, and is nigh unto cursing whose end is to be burned.

Europe is dangerously close to its financial Sarajevo.

Sometimes this is presented as another milestone demonstrating that the crisis is near its end.

In addition, China may be approaching an economic transition.

But the political relevance of these changing economic realities is close to nil.

Such uncertainty can lead to a frozen state of near entropy.

Snakes are likely to approach residential areas when attracted by prey, such as rodents.

It was the end of the Bush administration. The presidential election was two months away.

Pakistan regards the outcome document as the beginning, not the end, of the United Nations reform process.

During the cold war and since its end, the Conference has been a forum of dialogue and confidence building.

At that time the war with Germans was approaching.

Monetary policy is constrained by the proximity to zero interest rates and repeated rounds of quantitative easing.

I see production 10 below capacity, and I see unemployment rates approaching 10 .

Third, benchmark interest rates are already near zero, and have been for a while.

Today it appears that, for its part, the Disarmament Commission may be approaching a dead end.

I believe it was one great philosopher said no, no, Cervantes. Cervantes said, The journey is better than the end.

The surrender of the Empire of Japan was announced by Japan on August 15 and formally signed on September 2, 1945, bringing the hostilities of World War II to a close.

What happens when you have a star that's right on the edge of that mass?