I was nearly run over by a truck.

She was on the verge of crying.

She was nearly hit by a bicycle.

She almost fainted.

Layla nearly died.

I was nearly hit by a car.

She was almost late for school.

Layla was scared to death.

Mary almost beat Tom to death.

Sami's loose lips almost sank the investigation.

Even the Reagan administration came close to balking at supporting Britain s military campaign.

Sami spent the next years rebuilding a life nearly destroyed by the accident.

In 1529, a war between the two sides was averted at the last moment.

But Yahweh sent out a great wind on the sea, and there was a mighty storm on the sea, so that the ship was likely to break up.

But the LORD sent out a great wind into the sea, and there was a mighty tempest in the sea, so that the ship was like to be broken.

Nevertheless, electricity usage has reached near record levels.

His delegation was also concerned at the upward trend in the Mission's budget, which had reached almost one billion dollars.

The dry storage casks for spent fuel outside Ignalina NPP were commissioned in 1999, but have been almost filled in.

From 2004 to 2011 (excluding the crisis year of 2009), the region almost doubled its long run average growth rate.

Eventually, however, the uncertainty created by these CDOs nearly brought down the entire US banking system.

At the age of 15 Ronaldo was diagnosed with a racing heart, a condition that might have forced him to give up playing football.

My father defied his own grandfather, almost to the point of disinheritance, because he decided to educate all four of us.

The effect has been staggering aerospace manufacturing has almost disappeared from California, but is booming in Texas.

In 2004, the Government of Guam narrowly avoided a Government shutdown when the Legislature and the Governor experienced a serious impasse on the budget for the fiscal year 2005.

It has long since been time to move on, making a sustained drive for the sort of settlement that was almost achieved in the Clinton years.

Japan Air Lines, which was almost bankrupt, was rescued by a government bailout, a device that seems to be increasingly common.

We will gladly share with such a Commission our own experience of reconstructing our country following the civil unrest which almost tore the country apart in 2000.

Mortgage traders in London not many of whom were Swiss took on enormous risks that almost brought down UBS.

It would lead us to kill to destroy children at the formative stages of life in order to serve others, in most cases parents and elderly people whose life spans are almost over.

Indeed, under Chen s policy, Taiwan nearly became a rigidly divided society, where local and not native Chinese lived as potential enemies.

And now the crisis has reached the southern shore of the Mediterranean, in the form of a revolution in Tunisia and a political showdown in Lebanon that has once again brought the country to the verge of war and disaster.

In the Italian case, following the corruption scandals that have nearly sunk Il Calcio, Italy s premier football league, the national team had to rehabilitate the game in the eyes of their fellow citizens.

Following Ireland, Greece is now the second euro zone member to have gotten into massive payment difficulties due to the crisis, almost to the point of national bankruptcy.

As a result, the plant s three active reactors suffered near meltdowns, leading to a buildup of hydrogen gas, a series of explosions and fires, and leakage of radioactive material into the atmosphere.

The Georgia war demonstrated how quickly relations with the US could deteriorate, almost to the point of reviving the Cold War, leaving Russia isolated and in a generally weak position.

To accomplish that, the political class must avoid the bickering that almost sent America back into recession in 2011, and that raised major questions about the quality of the country s economic governance.

One of those lesser known 'what ifs' is the Madagascar Plan, which nearly came to fruition during World War II. The Madagascar Plan was a suggested policy by the Nazi government of Germany to relocate the Jewish population of Europe to the island of Madagascar at the height of the war.

On the business side, he built a unique company, despite his own period in exile from Apple while a series of missteps almost destroyed the organization that he had built.

Industrial market economies have been suffering from periodic financial crises, followed by high unemployment, at least since the Panic of 1825 nearly caused the Bank of England to collapse.

Preparations are almost complete for the creation of an ethics office, which will be responsible for administering the financial disclosure and whistleblower protection policies and for providing advisory and standard setting capacity within the United Nations (ibid.).

In 1907, in the wake of an epochal financial crisis that almost brought a complete global collapse, several countries started to think of finance primarily as an instrument of raw power that could and should be turned to national advantage.

Indeed, the war in Georgia already has thrown Russia into the most severe financial crisis since its virtual bankruptcy in 1998 17 billion were lost in capital flight in just one week.

The Japanese precedent matters all the more, given that, 16 years after the Asian financial crisis nearly wiped out decades of hard earned growth, Asia s banks and capital markets remain inefficient.

Such was the case on one island where consultation took place for the writing of the Report where a mother expecting her 14th child had been ill but was not brought to the clinic until she nearly went into a coma.

In fact, the draft offers improvements to all regions, including the regional group comprising the nations of Central and Eastern Europe, which has seen its membership almost double over the past decade or so and which has witnessed some of the most dramatic and impressive political and economic transformations in recent years.