What appears here is shorter than what he actually said but very close to his own words.

he is very close to being a mental case.

Woodruff wanted this political windfall very badly, and everyone assumed that he would get it because he was a close friend of the governor and his stanchest supporter.

Fulton was a very close friend of Jackson, and had been his private secretary for a number of years in the old days.

Gen. Maxwell Taylor's statement in Saigon that he is `` very much encouraged '' about the chances of the pro-Western government of Viet Nam turning back Communist guerrilla attacks comes close to an announcement that he will not recommend dispatching United States troops to bolster the Vietnamese Army.

However, whether you arrange to have a European or American model, if you rent a car with the proper seating capacity in relation to the number of people in your party, your transportation expense will average very close to $10.00 per day per passenger.

This behavior on her part subsided only after I had come to see the uncomfortably close similarity between, on the one hand, her arranging the ventilation of the common living room to her own liking, or turning the television off or on without regard to the wishes of the others, and on the other hand, my own coming stolidly into her room despite her persistent and vociferous objections, bringing my big easy chair with me, usually shutting the windows of her room which she preferred to keep in a very cold state, and plunking myself down in my chair -- in short, behaving as if I owned her room.

their principles of composition stand very close to those which appear in the Homeric epics and the hexameter line.

Many of the toll-road bonds still are selling at prices that offer the prospect of an annual yield of 4 per cent, or very close to that.

`` Behind that Charlie Chaplin moustache and that truant lock of hair that always covered his forehead, behind the tirades and the sulky silences, the passionate orations and the occasional dull evasive stare, behind the prejudices, the cynicism, the total amorality of behavior, behind even the tendency to great strategic mistakes, there lay a statesman of no mean qualities: Shrewd, calculating, in many ways realistic, endowed -- like Stalin -- with considerable powers of dissimulation, capable of playing his cards very close to his chest when he so desired, yet bold and resolute in his decisions, and possessing one gift Stalin did not possess: The ability to rouse men to fever pitch of personal devotion and enthusiasm by the power of the spoken word ''.

It is absurd of course to say that that one exclamation estranged me from the family I considered my very own, but there it hangs, a cooling void that broke our close connection with each other.

He stood flat-footed in the box, but not very close to the plate now.

Lincoln became very close to his stepmother, and referred to her as " Mother ".

Because of its simplicity, star hopping is a very common method for finding objects that are close to naked-eye stars.

This algorithm is often more numerically reliable than the naïve algorithm for large sets of data, although it can be worse if much of the data is very close to but not precisely equal to the mean and some are quite far away from it.

He was born at Ox Head, a small property on the Palatine Hill, very close to the Roman Forum.

Scientists have achieved temperatures very close to absolute zero, where matter exhibits quantum effects such as superconductivity and superfluidity.

Although he described his method as translating " sometimes word for word, sometimes sense for sense ," Alfred's translation actually keeps very close to his original, although through his choice of language he blurred throughout the distinction between spiritual and secular authority.

In an attempt to exact revenge for his forced exile, the physician would grow very close with Cambyses and would suggest that Cambyses should ask Amasis for a daughter in marriage in order to solidify his bonds with the Egyptians.

Amathus was a rich and densely populated kingdom with a flourishing agriculture and mines situated very close to the northeast Kalavasos.

The skills and practices of bow hunting therefore emphasize very close approach to the prey, whether by still hunting, stalking, or waiting in a blind or tree stand.

there is very close commerce with Egypt, and Aegean things find their way to all coasts of the Mediterranean.

Their cross-sections are sometimes very close to that of modern low-drag airfoils.

Henry Moseley's work showed experimentally in 1913 ( see Moseley's law ) that the effective nuclear charge was very close to the atomic number ( Moseley found only one unit difference ), and Moseley referenced only the papers of Van den Broek and Rutherford.

" Nixon was worried about the allegations, fearing that Capp's very close links to the White House would become embarrassingly public ," Hersh wrote.

In practice, a bidirectional reflectance distribution function ( BRDF ) may be required to characterize the scattering properties of a surface accurately, although the albedo is a very useful first approximation.

No explanation is offered as to how this could be accomplished with a square sail as the lower reefed portion of the sail would be very bulky and would prevent even an approximation of the laminar flow necessary for windward sailing.

In the figure I < sub > 1 </ sub > has been set to unity, a very rough approximation.

Perfect reconstruction is mathematically possible for the idealized model but only an approximation for real-world signals and sampling techniques, albeit in practice often a very good one.

This can be used as a very rough first-order approximation for SHF ( microwave ) communication links ;

This function is a very good approximation to the number of prime numbers less than x.

This fundamental result enables the inverse square law of gravitation to be applied to the real solar system to a very close degree of approximation.

The derivative gives the best possible linear approximation, but this can be very different from the original function.

The Taylor series is frequently a very good approximation to the original function.

The specific nonrelativistic version is a simplified approximation to reality, which is quite accurate in many situations, but very inaccurate in others ( see relativistic quantum mechanics ).

While this reasoning error often can produce a relatively good approximation of the correct hypothesis probability value, it can lead to a completely wrong result and wrong conclusion in case the base rate is very low and the reliability of the test is not perfect.

However, it is true to a very good approximation for wires and resistors ( assuming that other conditions, including temperature, are held fixed ).

:* 4-body problem: spaceflight to Mars ( for parts of the flight the influence of one or two bodies is very small, so that there we have a 2-or 3-body problem ; see also the patched conic approximation )

Livermore is a long, relatively narrow township, forming a very rough approximation of a crescent with its endpoints at the north and west.

This is a very good approximation for smaller bodies near the surface of Earth, so there is no practical need to distinguish " center of gravity " from " center of mass " in most applications, such as engineering and medicine.

The value of 331. 3 m / s, which represents the 0 ° C speed, is based on theoretical ( and some measured ) values of the heat capacity ratio,, as well as on the fact that at 1 atm real air is very well described by the ideal gas approximation.

This turns out to be a very good approximation for describing electrons in a metal.

A very different proof, based on diophantine approximation, was found by Paul Vojta.

The classical infinite information density is actually quite a good approximation to the finite but large black hole entropy, the black hole temperature is very nearly zero, and there are very few Hawking particles to disrupt the classical trajectories.

Very little changes for a test particle as the event horizon is crossed ; classical general relativity is still a very good approximation to the quantum gravity outcome.

The theory of relativity also explains why classical ( Newtonian ) mechanics makes accurate predictions: Newton's laws are a very good approximation in almost all circumstances.

It takes only minimal knowledge of elementary geometry to convert any given rational approximation of pi into a corresponding compass-and-straightedge construction, but constructions made in this way tend to be very long-winded in comparison to the accuracy they achieve.

This results in a very good approximation, even for low numbers, so that only liquid metals with much less than 1 cannot be treated this way.

However, on our two-digit computer, once the 1. 0 was added into the sum variable, adding in 0. 01 would have no effect on the sum, and so the final answer would be 1. 0 – not a very good approximation of the real answer.