аппроксимироваться, стремиться
to approach, to near, to draw near, to approximate;
криза наближається — the crisis is imminent;ми наближалися до берега — we were nearing land;час наближався до весни — the time was drawing near to spring.
"Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party." Herbert Hoover
"Hitch your wagon to a star." Ralph Waldo Emerson
"If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery." John Paul Jones
"Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked." Walter Savage Landor