Sentence examples for a slight at from inspiring English sources

"It was not a slight at Y&R at all," he said.

That might have been a slight at New Jersey, or a coy way of heading off speculation about another Nets run at the Heat's stars.

Only when he concluded with a slight at the well-to-do upbringing of Shumenov, a lawyer and businessman who speaks five languages, did the Kazakh appear to react.

Cuban was making a practical assessment — that the Mavericks acquired a broader array of talent for the money — but his remark was widely interpreted as a slight at Williams.

But Lee says such unwanted flatware advances can create problems with less-forgiving diners, who are quick to perceive a slight at the mere suggestion they need a fork in a chopstick house, as if the server has spotted a rube underneath all the finery.

"I don't think that's a slight at any point in terms of the A.C.C.," Maryland Coach Brenda Frese said Saturday as the Terrapins prepared to play Texas A&M 24-100), the defending national champion and No. 3 seed, in the Raleigh Regional semifinals at PNC Arena.

Codon usage is nearly equivalent in both genome regions with a slight AT-bias at the third codon position in the spheroid body genes (see Table 1).

The average AT-skew of Acari mitochondrial genome is 0.000 ± 0.101, ranging from -0.253 in Dermatophagoides farinae to 0.264 in Walchia hayashii, whereas the P. citri mitochondrial genome exhibits a slight AT-skew (0.071).

The two rRNA genes showed a marked difference from protein-encoding genes, with a slight positive AT-skew, on average.

At times, a slight aimed at a correction officer set off a chain of events that ended savagely.

Most Ub-proteasome genes were up-regulated 2-3-fold at 5-8d, followed by a slight decrease at 9-14d.