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

Zhang Xiao said today, the Chinese nation is closer to the great goal of bringing about a great rejuvenation than ever before, and is closer to the center of the world stage than ever before.

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

If Europeans merely invoke the lofty mantra of an ever closer union, their institutions will atrophy.

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 .

Moreover, labor mobility is severely constrained by linguistic and cultural barriers, as well as administrative bottlenecks. And ever closer political union has ceased to attract public support if it ever did and is thus not feasible today.

It's getting closer and closer, and in 20 ...

PARIS Ever since mankind began to map the world, the north and south poles have fascinated us, both poetically and scientifically. But, save for a few whalers and explorers, not many people ever went to have a closer look.

You get them closer and closer and closer and then at some point the strong force grips them together.

And gradually, we hopefully move closer and closer to understanding the world.

It gets closer and closer 40,000 years ago, we're still doing cave paintings.

Although it's closer, I heard this morning, it's closer than I thought it was.

That's getting closer.

He's coming closer.

So the first week was pretty much spent just getting as close as we could, every day a little closer, a little closer, a little closer.

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.

You know, our ability to capture the tools of creation is getting closer and 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.

Iran is moving ever closer to developing nuclear weapons if it does, others may well follow suit. And it is a region now experiencing what could prove to be historic domestic political upheavals.

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.

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 little bit closer.

OK, a little bit closer.

A Step Closer to Brexit?

The new year drew closer.

But this perspective, while entirely correct, is also incomplete. There are as many reasons to strive towards ever closer union in Europe today as there were back in 1945, and they are entirely forward looking.

The problem with this Germanophobia is not simply that it is stupid, or that it is yet another symptom of the decomposition, before our eyes, of the noble European project of integration and ever closer union.

Europe is neither dead nor dying. 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.

It welcomes the ever closer partnership between the African Union, the African subregional organizations and the United Nations in the area of peacemaking and peacekeeping and stresses the importance of extending this partnership to peacebuilding efforts.

They're far closer together than that.

Come in a little bit closer.

Then he approached and came closer,

Then he approached and came closer,

And we will begin to actually deeply influence our health and our intelligence, as we get closer and closer to this technology.

The moon was closer things were different.

Both black holes are getting closer together.

I think it's closer to a billion.

But the information was closer to me.

Then he drew near and drew closer

Then he drew near and drew closer