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Qc1, and then the white king is brought nearer to win the pawn.

Did they realise what they were asking to be brought nearer to?

The boat at this moment turned around, and the dying man was by that turn brought nearer Athos.

The settlements bring nearer to an end one of the most amazing stock market stories of 1996.

He was brought nearer acquainted the next morning, when he walked up to breakfast at the cottage.

The little plane was brought nearer, till Warren and Putney looked into its cabin.

"All this brings nearer the sort of future we desire for the country, which has waited for it in sorrow long enough, God knows.

"Hercules is here, Mr. Jack," replied the giant, bringing nearer his good face.

The approval, which brings nearer the construction of the first monument to a black person on the Mall, came in a 10-to-0 vote by the planning commission.

Caligula had the fellow arrested and brought nearer the platform, then bending down he asked frowning: "Who do I seem to you to be?"

The events of the last week could well bring nearer the return of a right-wing Israeli Government led by the Likud.

But, womanlike, she thought only of him, of the terrible danger which every minute as it sped by brought nearer and nearer to their door.

If an object is brought nearer, the muscles squeeze the lens, making it more rounded, so that it can bring the nearby object into focus.

He had misadventures at first, hopelessly burning one pair and buying another, which expenditure again brought nearer the day on which he must put to sea.

Too quickly the days fled for the little family at the farm, for they knew that each brought nearer the parting of which they could not bear to think.

Porter was able to create for Orbison his trademark sound, with background vocals brought nearer the foreground, beginning with "Only the Lonely".

Mile after mile fell away, and every mile brought nearer the gray hills of Salesh-by-the-Sea, the only interruption of the expanding steel horizon.

He had bought a dictionary, which deed had decreased his supply of money and brought nearer the day on which he must sail in search of more.

Mr President, I celebrate the fact that this report brings nearer the prospect of safer car fronts and therefore fewer pedestrian, cyclist and motorcyclist deaths.

Over and over it turned him and upward and downward it carried him, but after each new sally of the element he was brought nearer to the ground.

Economic development, housing, health, social services, roads and public transport, education and planning are functions which should be devolved from Whitehall and brought nearer the people they most affect.

That day will be brought nearer by racing there, and F1 will be reinstated as the arena in which your next car is developed - as it should be.

A positive opinion of the European Parliament marks an important step forward in the conclusion of a long ratification process and brings nearer the actual implementation of the agreement.

By this method its color is further improved and brought nearer to that of gold, probably by removing any particles of copper that may have been on the gilt surface.

For an object to be imaged on the retina of an unaccommodated myopic eye it must be brought nearer until it occupies a position conjugate to the retina.