Their first collaboration came close.

One night, at the close of the evening service, he came forward, left his resentment at the altar and gave his heart to God.

Rachel came close to the bed, bent as if she would kiss him, then moved away.

as halfbacks, both came close to playing football at the University of Oklahoma ( `` Sometimes in the minors '', Maris recalls, `` I wished I had gone to Oklahoma '' ).

Happily for posterity, then, the Boston Association did not actually command Parker to leave the room, though it came too close for comfort to what would have been an unforgivable brutality.

Only recently the ends of some highways that came rather close to one another from the east and the west have been connected.

Kennedy even came close to agreeing to a joint US-USSR Moon mission, to eliminate duplication of effort.

However, although Apollonius came close to developing analytic geometry, he did not manage to do so since he did not take into account negative magnitudes and in every case the coordinate system was superimposed upon a given curve a posteriori instead of a priori.

The eleventh century Persian mathematician Omar Khayyám saw a strong relationship between geometry and algebra, and was moving in the right direction when he helped to close the gap between numerical and geometric algebra with his geometric solution of the general cubic equations, but the decisive step came later with Descartes.

Under the management of Luigi Barbesino, the Roman club came close to their first title in 1935 – 36 ; finishing just one point behind champions Bologna.

The company was badly hit by the economic contraction of the early 1980s as worldwide sales of Aston Martin shrank to three per week and chairman Alan Curtis together with fellow shareholders American Peter Sprague and Canadian George Minden came close to shutting down the production side of the business, to concentrate on service and restoration.

The two towns over time formed close economic and social ties and eventually merged in 1307 and came to be known as Berlin.

Noticing that the intentional ball came in too close to the plate, Cabrera swung at the ball, resulting in a base hit, and a run scored for Florida.

However, some researchers have disputed the major league status of the Union Association, pointing out that franchises came and went and contending that the St. Louis club, which was deliberately " stacked " by the league's president ( who owned that club ), was the only club that was anywhere close to major league caliber.

Pompey ordered his men not to charge, but to wait until Caesar's legions came into close quarters.

This disaster was the start of the Third Century Crisis, a period of military and economic collapse which came close to destroying the empire.

However, they were later overtaken in the polls by the Conservatives and at the 1983 general election the Conservatives triumphed by a landslide, with Labour once again forming the opposition, while the SDP-Liberal Alliance came close to Labour in terms of votes ( a share of more than 25 %) although it only had 23 MPs compared to Labour's 209.

Rather, he said that it came directly from playing and living close to Negroes, and that he never did it necessarily as show, but more as a way to express his feelings.

Walker came very close to winning the Triple Crown that year, leading the league in home runs but finishing second to Tony Gwynn in batting average and third in RBI ( teammate Galarraga led the league.

Whichever figure is right, the fact remains that the human race seemingly came close to extinction about 75, 000 years ago.

Earnhardt once again came close to a win at the Daytona 500, and dominated Speedweeks before finishing second to Dale Jarrett on a last-lap pass.

As the Cold War came to a close, internal and external pressures on Mobutu increased.

Al-Ghazi's forces and their Ottoman allies came close to extinguishing the ancient Ethiopian kingdom, but the Abyssinians managed to secure the assistance of Cristóvão da Gama's Portuguese troops and maintain their domain's autonomy.

Romansh came to be a written language, and therefore it is recognized as a language, even though it is very close to the Lombardic alpine dialects.

His battlecruisers achieved few hits on the enemy, with most of the damage being inflicted by the battleships when they eventually came close enough to take part.

In 1961 the first important legislative victory of the Kennedy Administration came when the principle of national responsibility for local economic distress won out over a `` state's-responsibility '' proposal -- provision was made for payment for unemployment relief by nation-wide taxation rather than by a levy only on those states afflicted with manpower surplus.

Rabb, the former Louisiana State field general, came off the bench for his debut with the Bills Sunday and directed his new team to a 22-12 upset victory over the Houston Oilers, defending league champions.

Australia came back with a victory at Perth in the Third Test.

Bavaria was knocked out of the war, and Louis's hopes for a quick victory came to an end.

The largest home victory for the Bears came in a 61 – 7 result against the Green Bay Packers in 1980.

However, Zoff's greatest feat came in the 1982 FIFA World Cup, where he captained Italy to victory in the tournament at the age of 40, making him the oldest ever winner of the World Cup.

The Red Wings dedicated the 1997 – 98 season, which also ended in a Stanley Cup victory, to Konstantinov, who came out onto the ice in his wheelchair on victory night to touch the Cup.

The final victory came on June 4, 2008, against the Pittsburgh Penguins, by a score of 3-2.

His victory at Zenta had turned him into a European hero, and with victory came reward.

The first victory for the Eindecker came on 1 July 1915, when Leutnant Kurt Wintgens, flying with the Feldflieger Abteilung 6 unit on the Western Front, forced down a Morane-Saulnier Type L two-seat " parasol " monoplane just east of Luneville.

Shelby's first victory came on their maiden race with the Ford program, with Ken Miles and Lloyd Ruby taking a Shelby American-entered GT40 to victory in the Daytona 2000 in February 1965.

Although Albinus came close to victory, Severus ' reinforcements won the day, and the British governor committed suicide.

In December 1969, the ALP under Gough Whitlam came within four seats of ending the Coalition's hold on power before winning a convincing victory in 1972.

His debut for the full senior side came on 2 October 1954, scoring a goal in a 2-0 England victory over Northern Ireland at Windsor Park, Belfast.

The team's other two wins came in a season sweep of the Cleveland Browns including a Week 17 24 – 21 victory sealed by a Mike Hollis 34-yard field goal in the Browns ' final game before the team relocated to Baltimore and was renamed the Ravens.

The first major victory came on October 31, 1622 against the Syrian army of the Pasha of Damascus in the Battle of Majdel Anjar.

In 1982, the coalition of Mouvement Militant Mauricien / Parti Socialiste Mauricien came to power in a landslide electoral victory, with Sir Anerood Jugnauth as Prime Minister and Harish Boodhoo as the deputy Prime Minister.

They came within one strike of losing the World Series against the Boston Red Sox before a series of hits and defensive miscues ultimately led to an error by Boston's Bill Buckner which gave the Mets a Game 6 victory.

The First Test in Brisbane ended in the first tie in Test history, which came about after Benaud and Alan Davidson, rather than settle for a draw, decided to risk defeat and play an attacking partnership, which took Australia to the brink of victory.

His victory came with much support from the younger generation and civic groups who had hopes of a participatory democracy, and Roh's administration consequently launched with the motto of " participation government ".

Stephen's victory came about primarily thanks to his German retinue led by the brothers Pázmány and Hont.

The Whigs came only a few thousand votes short of victory in Pennsylvania, vindicating their strategy but failed nonetheless.