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How to use the word nearing in a Sentence?

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In this new and unforeseen reality, where we expect thousands more to arrive every week going forward, the city’s system is nearing its breaking point, as a result, the city’s prior practices, which never contemplated the bussing of thousands of people into New York City, must be reassessed.

Mayor Adams '

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Importantly, ‘milder’ does not mean ‘mild.’ And, we cannot look past the strain on our health systems and substantial number of deaths – nearing 2,200 a day as a result of the extremely transmissible omicron variant.

Shawn Thew/EPA/Bloomberg

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

He is nearing the end of his life and as a society, we've recognized the sentence imposed on him no longer fits.

Mary Price

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Risky assets loved the (Fed’s) statement and updated projections as the Fed has well telegraphed that they were nearing a taper announcement and continue to show they are in no rush to deliver interest rate hikes.

Edward Moya

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

I think most areas, we are nearing or exceeding pediatric intensive care capacity.

Mark Wietecha

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We've identified a large number of positive cases before people were allowed to leave for Australia. That's precisely what we should be doing, some of those will be at the other end of their journey, nearing the completion of their cases. And we're always reviewing the process.

Greg Hunt

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Maybe, just maybe we are finally nearing a long-awaited indication from President Trump that the protracted period of market adversity is mercilessly nearing its end.

Stephen Innes

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

I am pleased to see that Poland is nearing eligibility for the visa waiver program.

Michael Pence

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

I think age is a very legitimate issue, this is the hardest job on the planet. And( it is) sensible to ask the question whether people who are nearing 80 years old when they enter office are prepared for it.

David Axelrod

Found on CNN
4 years ago

As the country is nearing to achieve saturation point... without an export take off manufacturing growth cannot be sustained and accelerated.

The ICEA

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

( I) feel partly relieved to be on a new plane, but the crew is still loading bags and preparing the aircraft, so not certain when we'll actually take off, it's nearing 24 hours since we originally took off from Newark, so we're all feeling restless and frustrated. I'm just ready to be off the plane and finished with this experience.

Passenger Steven Lau

Found on CNN
5 years ago

I think we are nearing the 90 % likelihood of Planet X being real with this discovery.

Scott Sheppard

Found on CNN
5 years ago

To get a project like this done in a month’s time was absolutely amazing, no one's going to change what we do at that high school, and that's to make sure learning takes place. Book admits demolishing Building 12, erecting a new building and implementing a memorial park on campus is a daunting task, especially with Florida’s legislative session nearing its end. Estimates for the proposal come in around $ 25 to 30 million, which would come from state appropriations. Not to mention the freshman building on Marjory Stoneman Douglas ’ campus holds about 900 students, a quarter of the school’s population. Lawmakers are pushing to demolish Building 12 and implement a memorial park in its place. ( Fox News) The school, named after a women’s suffrage advocate, opened in 1990. It’s about two hours north of Miami. Charo acknowledges it will be hard for the school to adjust without the building, saying it.

Superintendent Kirk Carpenter

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Currently there are 21 million under a flood watch or warning from eastern Oklahoma up into Indiana. many of the rivers in these states have crested or (are) nearing crest and remain in moderate or major flood category. Many roads across this region are closed because of the flooding.

The National Weather Service

Found on CNN
6 years ago

Many areas from Louisiana up toward Missouri and into Illinois saw rainfall totals over 7 inches( with some localized amounts up to a foot) fall within 48 hours. Currently there are 21 million under a flood watch or warning from eastern Oklahoma up into Indiana, many of the rivers in these states have crested or( are) nearing crest and remain in moderate or major flood category. Many roads across this region are closed because of the flooding.

National Weather Service

Found on CNN
6 years ago

We’re nearing record demand for European travel, all the conditions are so good right now. Thankfully, it looks like it would be a stretch for this to actually pass.

Steve Born

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

Any relief that pricing may be nearing the bottom of the cycle is counterbalanced by concern over how and when rates might start to increase, even modestly, on a wider basis, the alternative is a market that faces a number of years bumping along at current levels earning very modest returns.

John Cavanagh

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

Angel investing is something that I believe you can completely get rid of with crowdfunding, angels come at the seed stage and crowdfunding literally has the ability to kill it. Related : How This Couple Created the All-In-One Travel Jacket That Is Nearing $ 2 Million on Kickstarter While Hiral Sanghavi is a fan of the benefits of crowdfunding, This Couple’s also learned firsthand that This Travel Jacket’s by no means easy. This Travel Jacket requires some serious hustle. This Couple first campaign, a blockbuster success, was stressful. Hiral Sanghavi learned a few things. Here are This Couple top three tips for crowdfunding success : The first BauBax travel jackets shipped four months late. Part of the reason for the delay was because the BauBax team expected to raise only $ 20,000. They raised $ 9.2 million on Kickstarter and another $ 2.3 million on Indiegogo. That meant that BauBax had to manufacture a whole lot more jackets than it had been expecting to sell.

Hiral Sanghavi

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

A potential investor evaluating these assets has no way to know if the probes are nearing an end, the question is 'have we found rock bottom?'.

Pedro Seraphim

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

For those who are seriously ill, advance directives are not enough, patients nearing the end of their lives who wish to set limits on treatments need to turn preferences into action with orders on a POLST.

Susan Tolle

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

The northeast is going to have a huge problem, because there's not the job creation, there's not the new enterprises coming up that can absorb these laid-off workers, a lot of those being laid off are 40-50 years old, and nearing retirement age. It's going to be very difficult for them to find another job.

Geoffrey Crothall

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We had a nice rebound in stocks last week after a terrible January, and we're nearing the end of that bounce, the general trend is down.

Mohannad Aama

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Although we’ve being seeing good job numbers, the general feeling is that the U.S. economy is nearing a peak and there is not much left as far as trends to be talked about.

Mohannad Aama

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We expect miners to continue to cut capex, which raises concerns over their longer term profitability, that's why we think we're nearing the floor in copper... as the cuts in capex will lead to a constriction on supply. Markets have also priced in a big contraction in Chinese consumption, which the data is not supporting.

James Butterfill

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

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