Sentence examples for direct slight from inspiring English sources

FCC commissioner Ajit Pai held a press conference, during which he called Chairman Wheeler's plan the President's plan, a direct slight, implicating the Chairman as little more than Obama's poodle.

(a) hypercontractile left ventricle with slight mosaic flow signals in the left ventricular outflow tract and posteriorly directed slight jet of mitral regurgitation (MR) were noted on color-flow Doppler mapping.

Bedside transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) revealed a hypercontractile left ventricle, no right ventricular dilatation, and no segmental wall motion abnormalities; however, slight mosaic flow signals in the left ventricular outflow tract (LVOT) and a posteriorly directed slight jet of mitral regurgitation (MR) were noted on color-flow Doppler mapping (CFD).

She co-directed the slight, mumblecore movie Nights and Weekends back in 2008 with Joe Swanberg, but Lady Bird looks like a much deeper, more complex film, and it's the first time Gerwig's been in the director's seat alone.

Livestock was an important part of the economy of Roman Africa, though direct evidence is slight.

The direct evidence is slight, but the circumstantial evidence is overwhelming, and is set out in detail in Inglorious: for example, there is suitable habitat in England alone for 330 pairs of hen harriers, but only four pairs nested successfully in 2014, and only two pairs the year before; this year, three nesting males have mysteriously disappeared.

Serotonin was shown to exhibit a slight direct antimicrobial effect against Fg.

In spite of such deviations in style, the artists banded together for a group show in 1908 at the Macbeth Gallery, organizing it as a direct reaction against slights by the National Academy of Design.

Although an impressive number of actors and filmmakers of color are nominated for Oscars this year, a cursory glance at "below the line" jobs — crafts such as cinematography, editing, production, and costume design and sound — reveals that, if such visible fields as acting and directing are making slight progress in inclusion, cinema's working class is even more overwhelmingly white and male.

His confrontations with entrenched, extortive, and state-protected industries, like the taxis and the notaries, quickly made him popular, as did the occasional slight directed at his boss, President François Hollande — such as when he said that Hollande's tax plan would turn France into "Cuba without the sun".

Joy Behar, one of the hosts, criticized him for a pair of recent advertisements — one that accuses Mr. Obama of favoring "comprehensive sex education" for kindergarten pupils and one that suggests his "lipstick on a pig" comment was a sexist slight directed at Ms. Palin.