Sentence examples for Little standing from inspiring English sources

But Mr. Sperling, the Treasury official who was one of the architects of the proposal, said the industry's claims had little standing.

As a fugitive, Mr. Polanski has little standing to appeal his conviction, but if he can persuade a prosecutor or judge in Los Angeles to take up the matter, a court could overturn the 30-year-old conviction.

At a news conference in the offices of the ruling National Democratic Party on Thursday, the secretary general and a longtime ally of Mr. Mubarak, Safwat el-Sherif, struck a confident tone, saying that the party wanted to have a dialogue with the nation's young people, but that in his view the critics had little standing.

As a candidate he has been all over the map on the issue of public financing during the primaries giving him little standing to question the judgments of other candidates on this same issue.

Both populations have little standing genetic variation, as indicated by the limited number of polymorphic sites, suggesting small effective population sizes and similar life-history strategies.

Because our library was constructed from a long-standing laboratory colony expected to harbor little standing variation compared to field populations, we did not screen any of these loci for allelic variability.

Little fish, standing up on skewers, begging for the grill.

"A little kid standing, facing the tank in Palestine.

Obama must not do the same thing today, by saying too little or standing too aloof.

The boys looked at her, a little shy, standing in the middle of the room.

He asks a little boy, standing in a doorway, how he is sleeping.