Sentence examples for little buffer from inspiring English sources

Instead, Chávez sextupled Venezuela's foreign debt, leaving little buffer for economic shocks.

Many of the interviewees were caught in cycles of low pay and no pay that provided little buffer against shocks.

The layout included a "little buffer zone before you went into the bathroom," he said, and a nice separate kitchen.

"But with a dismal 0.7 percent margin, there is little buffer left against further shocks," he said.

But as I grew older and my grandfather died and my mother lost what little buffer had once stood between her and her adversary, the more I came to see the pathology that swarmed around my grandmother like bees.

Wheat and soybean stockpiles have fallen in the last year, the government said in a separate report, meaning there is little buffer if the weather is not favorable this year and harvests are disappointing.

And the investments, said to offer diversification, did little to buffer the market losses of 2008.

"It was like a garden," said Gregory Majcher, 32, who spent yesterday afternoon at a playground with his children, Gabriela, 3, and Christopher, 8. Now, Lorimer Street, which borders the playground, is lined with young, tender trees that do little to buffer the noise from passing cars.

Leaving a little time buffer does two very important things: allow for a little bit of delay and reduce your blood pressure when the car in front of you starts to slow.

You have to walk through the vast lobby to get to L'Atelier, and then you have to tune out the crowd in an unrelated bar area outside the restaurant's entrance, which provides too little of a buffer.

Both apps will autoplay videos, but Instagram seems to offer a little two-second buffer waiting for you to pause there in your stream before it plays.