Our first flight of the day was basically a near-total success.    From Wordnik.com.  [grouse Diary Entry] Reference

Pearl Harbor and the near-total destruction of our Pacific Fleet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Address to the Veterans of Foreign Wars 103rd National Convention] Reference

Flinx, in spite of his near-total exhaustion, found time to be curious.    From Wordnik.com.  [The End of the Matter]

Curiously, though, Romney's quote has been met with near-total silence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Media, Right Wing Silent On Romney's Osama Gaffe] Reference

The ear buds are comfortable, with a tight seal for near-total sound isolation.    From Wordnik.com.  [QUIET, PLEASE] Reference

My efforts to project an image of near-total insignificance pay regular dividends.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jeffrey Shaffer: No Limelight For Me, Thank You] Reference

That may explain why the event is being met with near-total silence by Republicans.    From Wordnik.com.  [Glenn Beck rally will be a measure of the tea party's strength] Reference

I am the first to profess my near-total ignorance concerning all things Middle Eastern.    From Wordnik.com.  [Paige Donner: In Honor of The Annapolis, Md. Middle East Peace Talks: A Short Viewing/Reading List] Reference

  I think that what my father hated most was Bill's ability to live in near-total chaos.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Boundary Line] Reference

I cannot believe these guys can play that in near-total darkness and not kill each other.    From Wordnik.com.  [grouse Diary Entry] Reference

Over 99.8 percent, a near-total, of America's teachers are not part of Teach For America.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dan Brown: Overhyping Teach For America, Undercutting Millions of Students] Reference

The recent financial bailouts have helped prevent a near-total freeze in private lending.    From Wordnik.com.  [Economic Policy Will Have to Be Very Agile] Reference

"Just a few years ago, Fujimori had near-total control of Peru's judiciary," said McFarland.    From Wordnik.com.  [Human Rights Watch: Peru: Fujimori Verdict A Rights Victory] Reference

The checkpoint attacks are increasing demands for a near-total withdrawal from the territories.    From Wordnik.com.  [A RISING TIDE OF BLOOD] Reference

He had spent many of those years in near-total isolation and without reason to expect ever to be free.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Lesson In Dignity] Reference

China, which became a WTO member in 2001, has maintained near-total silence in these and other negotiations.    From Wordnik.com.  [China Objection Threatens Trade Deal] Reference

Berlin transport workers also began a 10-day, near-total shutdown of the capital city's bus and subway services.    From Wordnik.com.  [Unions Wage New Strikes in Germany] Reference

The president got near-total support from Democratic women in Congress and all 38 Democrats in the Black Caucus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Whew!] Reference

Several states have near-total abortion bans already on the books that will become enforceable if Roe is overturned.    From Wordnik.com.  [Donna Crane: What Would Really Happen If Abortion Was Left to the States] Reference

That gives us two additional states not amongst those 15 states (from above) with near-total bans already on the books.    From Wordnik.com.  [Donna Crane: What Would Really Happen If Abortion Was Left to the States] Reference

And it is well-documented that the threat was all but ignored by the White House during a month of near-total vacation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rachel Sklar: "Path To 9/11" Tough On Bush Administration? Not By A Long Shot.] Reference

Israel intentionally sought and acheived near-total power in the occupied terrorities with the goal of its own security.    From Wordnik.com.  [Max Blumenthal: My Interview With Pastor Hagee On His Anti-Semitic Statements (and What Will Lieberman Say Now?)] Reference

The Waxman-Markey plan intends to give the federal government near-total control of America's energy supplies and usage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sapping America's Energy] Reference

But his regime's near-total reliance on African Union troops for survival has only underscored his government's weakness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Militants Kill at Least 31 in Somalia] Reference

Here in Pittsburgh, the foreign menace has been greatly amplified by the near-total absence of actual illegal immigrants.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Night At The Congressional Races] Reference

She took a job in the state welfare agency, and for the next 20 years and more, lived in near-total anonymity and despair.    From Wordnik.com.  [Through a Lens, Darkly] Reference

We spoke with the mayor of Leogane, Alexis Santos, who seemed almost helpless before the near-total destruction around him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Amy Goodman: Te Tremble - The Haitian Earth Trembled] Reference

Critics have dubbed this a redux of 1936, when the Nazis used the Games to emphasize their near-total control over society.    From Wordnik.com.  [World Seeks a Label to Define the Beijing Games] Reference

A nonstop, revolving door results from bad parole policies and a near-total lack of rehabilitation for inmates and parolees.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jeanne Woodford: Former San Quentin Warden Supports Prop. 5: Responsible Plan to Reduce Prison Overcrowding] Reference

Judging only by its electoral performance, the Communist Party of Great Britain was a near-total failure in the 20th century.    From Wordnik.com.  [A poisoned legacy from which Labour has never quite recovered] Reference

So which is worse: Goldhagen's theory of near-total anti-Semitism, or Browning and Johnson's theory of near-total indifference?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Germany And The Jews] Reference

Planned Parenthood leads a successful ballot campaign to overturn a near-total ban on abortion passed by the South Dakota legislature.    From Wordnik.com.  [Planned Parenthood Hits Suburbia] Reference

An industry with a near-total monopoly experiences a minor disruption (in music's case, with the invention of cassette tape recording).    From Wordnik.com.  [Richard (RJ) Eskow: Could Doctors Go the Way of Record Companies?] Reference

Abroad, he's robbed Germany of nearly all clout with his count-me-out stance on Iraq and his near-total absorption with domestic crises.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rot At Europe's Core] Reference

Both brothers lived in near-total seclusion and remained secretive about even basic biographical information, such as their birth dates.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reclusive Salesman Built Aldi Discount Empire] Reference

One has to wonder why after eight years of near-total silence, the media has suddenly, gushingly fallen in love with covering the war in Afghanistan.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ashley Rindsberg: Spinning the War in Afghanistan] Reference