Sentence examples for miniscule fraction of from inspiring English sources

The defendants made up, however, a miniscule fraction of those who had perpetrated the crimes.

However, critics said that the wording of the judgment – which refers to the "so-called rights of LGBT persons", describes same-sex relations as "against the order of nature" and says that "lesbians, gays, bisexuals or transgenders constitute only a miniscule fraction of the country's population" – reveals deep prejudice.

For all the charity's resources and connections, for all the attendant risks of over-confidence and over-mightiness, on the ground in Africa or Asia the foundation's immense-sounding grants are a miniscule fraction of what is required to create a fairer world.

Mustering a budget that is presumably a miniscule fraction of what any full-time company commands, Mr. La Selva and his colleagues — here including Roberto Stivanello, the stage director and lighting designer — put on performances that have a compelling seriousness and dignity despite scrappy means.

The fact that only a miniscule fraction of individual organisms is preserved as fossils makes this an unreasonable expectation, especially in cases where evolutionary changes are relatively rapid.

The first project is aimed to demonstrate, with true digital testing, the performance of RSFQ circuits of significant size and importance at a frequency that challenges the best semiconductor circuits, with only a miniscule fraction of their power dissipation.

In such cases, speeds were reduced to miniscule fractions of a km h-1, i.e. traffic had come to a virtual standstill.

"We live in a world of trillion dollar economies where transfer to the poor of even miniscule fractions of this amount would work wonders," Ms. Bellamy said.

Another important advantage relative to current MS-based methods is that this approach uses miniscule fractions of a sample and therefore could be compatible with lower volume, higher density well plates for reduction of reagent consumption.

Transcripts unique to diapause in Kmar proved to constitute only a miniscule fraction (0.1 %) of the total pool of transcribed products.

Russia has paid off more than $100 billion in Soviet-era debt and only a miniscule fraction remains on the books.