Sentence examples for a slight possibility that from inspiring English sources

There is a slight possibility that without this settlement, ratepayers could have had to shoulder some of the costs".

In his majority opinion today, Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist said there was at worst a "slight possibility" that the jury mistakenly believed a death sentence to be mandatory once the state proved the existence of an aggravating factor.

There's also a slight possibility that repeatedly cutting the power to one of your devices might damage it.

Miksic notes that most conclusions regarding the slab have been on the basis of rubbings or photographs, and thus there is a "slight possibility" that detailed analysis of fragments of the sandstone slab may provide more information about the age of the inscription or the nature of its contents.

Even though the Mets emphasized that they would not retaliate, they left open a slight possibility that something could happen.

There remains a slight possibility that the Legislature could be called back in December and enact a rescue plan for the authority that included new sources of revenue.

If the burning-hair smell continues for more than a day, and your hair is not actually burning (which happens in only a small number of cases), there is a very slight possibility that you are having a stroke.

In a blog post on The New York Times Web site this year, Jun Morikawa, a professor of international relations at Rakuno Gakuen University in Sapporo, Japan, cited a "slight — very slight — possibility" that the Japanese government could move to end research whaling to strengthen relations with anti-whaling powers like the United States and the European Union, as well as Australia.

By doubling the advantage it eradicated the slight possibility that, with 15 minutes left, a Swiss team reduced to 10 men by a red card for Bernt Haas might stumble on an equaliser.

But the questions raised the slight possibility that the appeals judges might arrive at a payment formula that doesn't give the holdouts all they are owed under the bonds' original contracts.

If one day you find yourself flying through space in a disc-shaped world that's supported by four enormous elephants atop a 10,000 mile-long piloting turtle, then you might consider the slight possibility that you are in the parodist Terry Pratchett's Discworld.