In the Nasrid Palaces, a palace complex within the palace complex, the combination of building materials (wood, stone, ceramics and plaster) with traditional Islamic forms (intricate calligraphy, stuccoed ceilings and interwoven geometric patterns) reaches a point close to perfection.
The yield on a closely watched index of 30-year triple-A rated, tax-exempt municipal securities climbed 0.12 percentage point higher to close at 4.48% Tuesday, according to Municipal Market Data.
"He is carrying out, let's say, assimilating as he would say, in the spirit of battle, but they're complex treatments... that should at some point begin to close the cycle of treatment of his illness, " Maduro said.
At one point the team came close to aborting, with turbulence starting to aggravate the already precarious situation.
"Not all the campaigns are happy" with the proposal at this point, the source close to the negotiations said.
Stocks have surged this year, pushing the Dow to within less than a percentage point of its record close of 14, 164.53 set in October 2007.
That has not occurred, but that window of opportunity will close at some point.
The jobs report clearly shows that we are not close to that point.
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They're getting close to the point where they might be losing their home.
Prof Finn said the UK was "getting close to the point where we have the best vaccination programme in the world".
The Americans will be judging whether Mr Roh is close to breaking point, or simply a crafty politician trying to outwit his enemies.
The traditional dollar-based world currency system is now close to breaking point and the chances that it will come crashing down by 2016 are probably higher than fifty-fifty.
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Critics point to Mitchell's close ties to the Red Sox and concern that he might not be willing to expose baseball management's responsibility in allowing the drug problem to spread.
First, distributed energy generation is enabling efficient, decentralized energy production close to the point of use by consumers, integrating energy generation more fully into our homes, offices, and factories.
Communities, churches and voluntary groups seek to fill the gap, but it is clear to all who have had personal experience of the system that social services is close to breaking point.
But the pendulum swung back to Australia when Mills was yorked by Tait, Taylor sliced Bracken to backward point and Vettori survived a close run-out decision when he was given the benefit of the doubt by the third umpire.
There was too much unknown about Irene, and looking at how many states were going to be impacted, we knew and we had actually -- knew that going into our end of the fiscal year, we were going to get close to the point where we would have to look at immediate needs funding at some point.
"I think we're close to the point where, instead of a dietitian saying, 'Eat less fat, eat more fruits and vegetables, ' they could figure out what foods you do or don't like with a survey or genetic test, " says John Hayes, a professor of food science at Penn State and lead author of a 2010 study showing supertasters' preference for salt.
They're led by a point guard named Trey Burke, who froze the Jayhawks in the close of regulation with a three-point shot he launched from somewhere in the Upper Peninsula.
Greece is close to that tipping point where almost whatever new austerity measure is implemented will fail.
All this good news might prompt investors to believe debt markets are close to a turning point.
Warwickshire are trying to close a 29-point gap with table-toppers Worcestershire before their head-to-head at New Road next week.
Instead Gingrich stunned the pundits by a double-digit spread victory, close to a 30 point swing from January 9.
St Pat's extended their lead to six but four Kevin Cassidy points helped Derrygonnelly close to within a point.
We're getting very close to a tipping point, where we're going to have climate changes that are out of our control.
At that point, according to a source close to the company, AIG started collecting documents, presumably to turn them over to the government.
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