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Closeness in sentence

59 examples of Closeness in a sentence

If that closeness – those appeals to Trump’s vanity – were producing positive outcomes for along the way, Macron’s efforts might be worthwhile.
But that historical pattern, in my view, depended crucially on the small size of the immigrant population and its cultural closeness to the home population.
It reminds us of the closeness, in spirit, between extreme neo-cons and communist idealogues.
Funding from the EU and from member states has helped to alleviate suffering, while compassionate community-building efforts by European individuals and organizations have highlighted the true closeness of all who share a common Mediterranean history.
For much of its early history – to say nothing of the era of the Civil War and Reconstruction – the country was as closely divided as it is today, and bitter campaign rhetoric reflected the closeness of the competition.
The closeness of the result suggests Bush won less of a mandate for change than he seems to believe.
Europe's national political leaders, who so often proclaim their joy at growing closeness to Russia, must halt the efforts of those in the EU Commission who seek to sabotage EU/Russia trade relations.
Such a mindset naturally puts a huge premium on close and harmonious transatlantic relations, to the point that, for Europeans, closeness and harmony become the objective itself, without reference to what ends they might serve.
France does not share Germany’s natural closeness to Russia – a relationship based on both geography and history.
But economic closeness is merely the tip of the Iraqi-Jordanian relationship.
The decision to associate the UK with the United States was a defensible strategic choice for a smaller country that derived much of its influence from the closeness of the bilateral relationship.
Murdoch’s empire depended on its closeness to politicians.
He urges women to try side-by-side activities, not only face-to-face verbalization, to experience closeness with their mates.
Though they are not half-brothers, this frequent, if mistaken reference, indicates their closeness.
If there is room for optimism about the German election result, it lies in the outcome’s closeness to the European norm.
But more and more Australians are beginning to question the closeness and wisdom of our strategic ties to the US.
They regard Iran – and thus Maliki’s closeness to it – as an existential threat.
Still, the closeness of the race (at least until very recently) has been a mystery: Clinton is one of the most qualified and well prepared presidential candidates that the United States has had, while Trump is one of the least qualified and worst prepared.
But several underlying factors also appear to have contributed to the closeness of the race.
This is not to say that they do not feel a similar closeness; but they presume that a good relationship with US President Barack Obama would help Bergoglio to wield even greater influence in Argentina and the wider region.
But the rhetoric of modern democracy claims otherwise: it emphasizes closeness to voters and their concerns.
More recently, there have been questions about the closeness of German supervisors to the country’s finance ministry.
Depending on the closeness of the contact, some are moved to a secure quarantine facility, whereas others may be permitted to remain in their homes.
Though this may have been due largely to his greater name recognition and his evident closeness with Obama (who is remaining studiously neutral), he has come across as dwelling in nostalgia.
Levin kissed her carefully on her smiling lips, offered his arm, and with a feeling of strange closeness led her out of the church.
But at every mouthful he would turn an unquiet eye on Harper, who studied his appearance with a closeness of investigation that was very embarrassing to its subject.
I was astonished at this unusual turn, which I never before observed in her. for we always conversed, whenever good fortune and my ingenuity gave us the chance, with the greatest gaiety and cheerfulness, mingling tears, sighs, jealousies, doubts, or fears with our words; it was all on my part a eulogy of my good fortune that Heaven should have given her to me for my mistress; I glorified her beauty, I extolled her worth and her understanding; and she paid me back by praising in me what in her love for me she thought worthy of praise; and besides we had a hundred thousand trifles and doings of our neighbours and acquaintances to talk about, and the utmost extent of my boldness was to take, almost by force, one of her fair white hands and carry it to my lips, as well as the closeness of the low grating that separated us allowed me.
His health was beginning to suffer from the closeness of the confinement, but neither the often-repeated entreaties of Perker and his friends, nor the still more frequently-repeated warnings and admonitions of Mr. Samuel Weller, could induce him to alter one jot of his inflexible resolution.
This he buttoned tightly up, in spite of the extreme closeness of the night, and finished his attire by putting on a rabbit-skin cap with hanging lappets which covered the ears, so that no part of him was visible save his mobile and peaky face.
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