"Every time he came close to us, he irradiated energy and strength, " she said.
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He came close to a hole-in-one on the 13th hole, and went bunker-to-bunker for bogey on the 14th hole.
Boyd was back in the Rangers starting line-up and he came close to opening the scoring on 18 minutes.
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US-based Londoner Davis maintained his spell of good form after he came close to a maiden PGA Tour title last month.
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In fact, he never had a losing year - although in 1999 he came close, with the share price gaining just half a percent.
He came close to death several times but still somehow survived.
He came close to losing Mr Davis's successor, Theresa May, while the party treasurer, Sir Stanley Kalms, an electrical retailing tycoon, quit a few months later.
It is a remarkable comeback for Dublin who has admitted he came close to ending up in a wheelchair after suffering the injury against Sheffield Wednesday.
He came close to doubling the lead on 20 minutes, but Eritrean keeper Abdu Saleh Suleman dived low to his left to tip the ball on to his post.
Stuart Broad bowled the best line of the pace quartet, but it was in the field that he came close to claiming the next wicket when he almost ran out Powell.
There he was, my handsome brother, walking toward us, seemingly unchanged, until he came close enough for my mother to hug him, and I saw him wince and back away his arm was covered in soft-looking welts.
He also came close to being broken in the eighth, but an ace secured the game before the Scot made a mockery of Chela's serve in the next to tie up the match.
If Ford had won the election in 1976 (the fact that he came so close to winning, under the circumstances, was a political miracle), the subsequent debacles in Iran and Central America would likely not have taken place.
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He also came as close as anybody to predicting America's agonies in Iraq by pointing out that democracy is the product of very specific cultural processes.
And the only near-contemporary who stood within or near this pantheon was Napoleon Bonaparte, who loomed so large for Nietzsche because he alone came anywhere close to unifying Europe politically.
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Eastwood admits that he, alongside a bevy of experts, ran a series of tests between scenes shot in HD versus film, and while he couldn't quite "reach the black levels" nor "control the atmosphere" as well as he wanted with HD cams, even he admits they came awfully close.
Birdwatcher Andy Cotton said he was amazed at how close the bird came to inquisitive birdwatchers when he viewed it on Monday.
So I think that was really, you know, a turning point because it was an accusation initially, and then when his two co-defendants came forward, guys who's he has been close to his whole life, came forward and said, yes, Michael Vick participated.
Uthappa showed signs of frustration when he charged down the pitch to skew one off a thick edge, and came close to being run out when he took a second run and Smith took a fraction too long to take the bails off, following a fine throw from the boundary by Watts.
In his sentencing memo Goel stated that he considered Rajaratnam one of his few close friends and came to trust him implicitly in ways that he normally reserved for members of his own family.
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Yet he is as close as Kurosawa came to putting saintliness on screen.
Reading a recent decision I got the sense that William Dodds, a tax accountant, came so close that he could almost taste it.
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In 34 fights, no-one came close, until he was hustled and bustled by Montell Griffin before being disqualified for hitting Griffin twice while he was down.
The second half was barely five minutes old when Olic came close again as he headed over Rustu and after sloppy defending had a second chance which was hacked off the line.
Ivan Campo, who missed Thursday's draw in Germany, also came close near the hour mark, when he failed to turn the ball goalward from close range.
He was eight months old when he came to us, so we've had him for close to three -- he'll be three in October.
He expressed regret over previous mistakes and came close to contrition over disasters such as the millennium dome.
For starters, Elop until he came to Nokia was president of the Microsoft Business Division, so he has close to Redmond.
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