Sentence examples for a slight from from inspiring English sources

What appeared to be a slight from the lieutenant governor could be a boon instead.

Demeter, expecting a slight from her teen-age daughter, takes it as one: she must be the cold and frozen one.

A constantly replenished well of grievance nourishes militants, keeping them fresh and ready to over-react to an offence or even a slight from the other side.

He even had to put up with a slight from his father, who suggested Bibi might not have been up to the job.

The company also offered a software patch to fix the problem for Toshiba laptop owners worldwide, but that has not satisfied Chinese consumers, who are ever ready to discern a slight from their wartime aggressors.

My father had intended me to follow him to Marlborough, but his application on my behalf was too late and I was rejected – a slight from which he never fully recovered, as I explained so movingly in my speech at his funeral.

Sunday circulation was 1,395,000, a slight increase from the period a year earlier.

However, analyses of mean fatigue data indicated a slight decrease from pre to posttest for experimental participants and a slight increase from pre to posttest for control participants.

That is a slight increase from this year's capital spending.

That was also a slight downgrade from its last assessment.

(I actually bought my bottle at a slight discount from a grocery store in town).