moving closer

The woman by the railroad track had agreed to go into one of the city’s tiny homes, but then she disappeared, probably moving closer to her roots in Hawthorne, Omura thought.

“We just wish that they would make it easier for us to be there — that they would consider us. ... The union is moving closer to striking because this is all we got. We gotta come together and let them know.”

Unwittingly, he was moving closer to the blast that would kill him.

Yet after eight months of a grinding war, there are signs that the sides could be moving closer to the first proposed phase: a six-week conditional cease-fire.

They found that ongoing high emissions of warming gases mean the world is moving closer to breaching the symbolic 1.5C warming mark on a longer-term basis.