After each competitor has delivered all of their bowls ( four each in singles and pairs, three each in triples, and two bowls each in fours ), the distance of the closest bowls to the jack is determined ( the jack may have been displaced ) and points, called " shots ", are awarded for each bowl which a competitor has closer than the opponent's nearest to the jack.

From then on, the side which does not have the ball closest to the jack has a chance to bowl, up until one side or the other has used their four balls.

Braille comes closest, as it has been extended to eight bits.

Alpha Centauri, one of the closest stars to the Sun, has a high proper motion ; it will be a mere half-degree from Beta Centauri in approximately 4000 years.

Because no species other than Homo sapiens has survived from the human line of that branching, both chimpanzee species are the closest living relatives of humans.

The double bass is closest in construction to violins, but has some notable similarities to the violone ( literally " large viol "), the largest and lowest member of the viola da gamba family.

Casale said that this song was chosen from a batch of songs that the band was working on, and that also this is the closest the band has been to a new album.

For example, the research suggests Markuelia has closest affinity to priapulid worms, and is adjacent to the evolutionary branching of Priapulida, Nematoda and Arthropoda.

The closest such organism is the Islamic Fiqh Academy, ( a member of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation ( OIC )), which has 57 member states.

Since independence, Gabon has been " one of France's closest allies in Africa ".

Analysis of mtDNA sequences has confirmed morphological and biogeographical studies suggesting that the Razorbill is the Great Auk's closest living relative.

The points on the two branches that are closest to each other are called the vertices ; they are the points where the curve has its smallest radius of curvature.

The Atlantic has described the process as " arguably the closest thing that modern finance has to a victimless crime ".

Since 1995, Jan Mayen has been administered by the County Governor ( fylkesmann ) of the northern Norwegian county of Nordland to which it is closest.

Although it has morphological similarities with the pygmy killer whale, the false killer whale and the pilot whales, a study of cytochrome b gene sequences by Richard LeDuc indicated that its closest extant relatives are the snubfin dolphins of the genus Orcaella.

The koala is broadly similar in appearance to the wombat ( its closest living relative ), but has a thicker coat, much larger ears, and longer limbs.

The bulker Ever Leader is considered to be the cargo ship that to date has come closest to the overall limits.

Macedonian's closest relative is Bulgarian, with which it has a high degree of mutual intelligibility.

Stanley Wolpert has argued, The " plan to carve up British India was never approved of or accepted by Gandhi ... who realised too late that his closest comrades and disciples were more interested in power than principle, and that his own vision had long been clouded by the illusion that the struggle he led for India's freedom was a nonviolent one.

* 1997 – The Comet Hale-Bopp has its closest approach to Earth.

The teams start with the rope's centre line directly above a line marked on the ground, and once the contest ( the " pull ") has commenced, attempt to pull the other team such that the marking on the rope closest to their opponent crosses the centre line, or the opponents commit a foul ( such as a team member sitting or falling down ).

The preface explains that the original concept of a general system theory was " Allgemeine Systemtheorie ( or Lehre )", pointing out the fact that " Theorie " ( or " Lehre ") just as " Wissenschaft " ( translated Scholarship ), " has a much broader meaning in German than the closest English words ‘ theory ’ and ‘ science '".

Ptolemy, who must come the closest to representing indigenous names, lists the Lochra River just south of a feature he calls the " sandy shore " on the southwest coast.

A paper published in the Journal of Democracy states this was the closest that the Cuban opposition could come to asserting itself decisively.

Of all of Gauss's children, Wilhelmina was said to have come closest to his talent, but she died young.

About the closest that a bass player can come to this is in the case of classical bass players who win an audition at a professional orchestra or the tiny number of top session pros that are hired by recording studios.

" He concludes, " I think the closest you can come to a homosexual metaphor in his films is to identify that certain sort of camp humor.

Also the Eastern European countries that have recently entered into the EU come closest to the Anglo-Saxon model.

If the initial firing is above the surface of the Earth as shown, there will also be elliptical orbits at slower velocities ; these will come closest to the Earth at the point half an orbit beyond, and directly opposite, the firing point.

Not only do they provide some of the earliest evidence for Christianity in Britain, they are almost unique – the closest parallels come from a house-church in Dura Europus, Syria.

The Oriental Orthodox Churches fully adopt this position ; among Radical Reformation groups, the early Anabaptists came close, and modern Anabaptist groups such as the Mennonites and Hutterites come closest.

The short period that followed was the closest England was to come to complete abolition of the monarchy until the Commonwealth period of 1649 – 60 and many of the barons who had initially supported de Montfort began to suspect that he had gone too far with his reforming zeal.

Cat breeders are continually competing to find the ' ideal ' of the breed-the cats that come closest to fitting the breed standard.

To date dahlias have only developed five, so the closest that breeders have come to achieving a " blue " specimin are variations of mauve, purples and lilac hues.

The closest the Barrier has come to closing was on 27 November 2011, then the Closure Team was called out and started to close the gates, but was not fully closed since the surge subsided at the very last moment.

The band's American tour, when they supported Depeche Mode, was, in the words of manager Alex Nightingale, " the closest we've come to the band splitting up.

He joined the Parian colony on Thasos and battled the indigenous Thracians, expressing himself in his poems as a cynical, hard-bitten soldier fighting for a country he doesn't love (" Thasos, thrice miserable city ") on behalf of a people he scorns (" The woes of all the Greeks have come together in Thasos "), yet he values his closest comrades and their stalwart, unglamorous commander.

As Fraggles go, he's probably the closest they come to evil as he one time tried to trap the Last of the Lily Creatures ( as seen in " Red's Sea Monster ").

The closest one might come to CS in an interview is when the subject is interrupted by a close friend or family member, or perhaps must answer the phone.

The closest the Conservatives have ever come to losing this seat was at a by-election in November 1997, at the height of Tony Blair's ' honeymoon period ' as Prime Minister, following the resignation of the previous MP Piers Merchant in a sex scandal.

The closest the voting for the Hart Trophy has ever come was in the 2001 – 02 season, when Jose Theodore and Jarome Iginla tied in the total voting.

He also privately gives warning of the impending war to those people of Fort Repose whom he believes to be his friends, including Dr. Daniel Gunn ( perhaps Randy's closest friend in Fort Repose ) as well as Elizabeth " Lib " McGovern, a young woman for whom Randy has come to care deeply.

The creation of the county caused an influx of people to come to Lancaster City, and Lancaster Township, its closest suburb, received many people too, with many people living here and working in the city.

Of all of Gauss ' children, Wilhelmina was said to have come closest to her father's talent, but regrettably, she died young.

This was the closest the club has come to winning the league title and the FA Cup in the same season.