Sentence examples for at least a kernel from inspiring English sources

While this understates the level of threat that AQAP does pose, the scepticism is based on at least a kernel of truth.

Donald Rumsfeld's crack about "Old Europe" contained at least a kernel of truth, but, like lumping Germany with Libya and Cuba, it pandered to a stereotype.

The truth was that the self-imposed pressure to post constantly — and for the post to contain at least a kernel of wit or real feeling — had sapped me.

The attack ads devised by the strategist Lee Atwater for Vice President George Bush in the 1988 campaign, one of the dirtiest ever, were grounded in at least a kernel of truth.

But the web of interconnections linking Washington and Wall Street over the last decade or so — involving campaign contributions, revolving doors, and secret deals — has been so tight as to suggest that this newer anti-establishment activism is based on at least a kernel of truth.

"The main thing that Françoise stressed throughout the process was that the image should contain at least a kernel of a story — not necessarily a 'gag,' but something beyond just a pretty picture — and I think it's that quality that made this drawing resonate with people".

This tragic statistic, at least, contains a kernel of hope: If we can change our criminal justice system to take choking seriously, we may be able to head off fatal attacks.

As such, intelligent kernel selection requires at least a basic understanding of the source data and the ways different kernels will interpret that data.

For example, the errorless-compliance training kernel has at least a 6-month maintenance of effects for parent child pairs coming from violent homes (Ducharme et al. 2000) and for children diagnosed with autism (Ducharme and Drain 2004).

With a brief tutorial or online resources (http://mutants.maizegdb.org/doku.php), new users can discern at least a dozen common phenotypes involving pigmentation and kernel shape.

The resulting time evolution of the perturbed flame kernel shows that laminar vortices of various sizes and vortex strengths can increase the kernel growth rate by at least a factor of 3 and significantly increase combustion reaction rates by involving additional highly curved and stretched flame fronts.