Sentence examples for a small bit of good from inspiring English sources

Offensive tackle Jumbo Elliott, newly out of retirement, got a small bit of good news yesterday: his two-game suspension by the National Football League for his role in a bar fight last summer was reduced to one game.

1 30 p.m. | Updated A small bit of good news about food prices from the Food and Agriculture Organization, a United Nations agency in Rome: The price spiral seen earlier this summer as markets reacted to droughts and other bad news has leveled off, with the agency's closely watched index of global food prices essentially unchanged in August compared with July.

The Knicks received a small bit of good news concerning the position yesterday when a magnetic resonance imaging test performed on Luc Longley revealed that he will most likely return in three to six weeks, rather than the previously estimated 8 to 10 weeks.

While Mac users grow impatient for Google's Chrome browser to come to the platform, there's a small bit of good news today: A new beta version of the excellent Camino browser.

It's like volunteering in a soup kitchen you're doing a small bit of good.

Instead, the Obama administration needs to mount an all-out diplomatic offensive to see if this small bit of good news can lead to something even better.

One small bit of good news: Given the economic situation, the Obama administration is not going to raise taxes on owners of small and medium businesses in 2009.

This small bit of good news is easily lost in the avalanche of reports of an economy falling into recession, unemployment climbing, the bursting of the housing bubble, record levels of housing foreclosures, rising oil prices, and inequality at levels not seen since the robber barons.

The small bit of good news is that the international silence on Ethiopia was broken on August 10 when the UN's top human rights official, Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein, told Reuters that an international investigation and accountability are needed for the killings of protesters.

Amazon.com, the leading online retailer, had a lot of good news in its financial report Wednesday, but it was overshadowed by just a small bit of bad news.

I thought I could handle a small bit of intrusion.