Sentence examples for opens a chink from inspiring English sources

But then Axe goes and snaps up a heritage beachfront mansion for $83m (as he says, "What's the point of having fuck-you money if you never say fuck you?") and that opens a chink in his armour.

The December 17th agreement opened a chink in the trade blockade: it allowed more Americans to visit Cuba without special permits, enabled them to spend more money there and to send more remittances.

The comments open a chink in the party's defences against Tory claims a future Labour government would by forced to give concessions to the SNP in exchange for support in the Commons.

Literature's gatekeepers have opened a chink, as HarperCollins' major science fiction and fantasy imprint, Voyager, flings wide its doors to submissions from writers without an agent for the first time in more than a decade.

Havana has an opportunity to open a chink in the sanctions, stoke the internal American anti-embargo lobby and perhaps move up Cuba on President Bush's increasingly crowded foreign policy agenda.

There is no reason to suppose that Daniel Herbert and Nathan Grey will open up a chink of charity for them now.

"We had always assumed that it was impossible, but we've started to discover things we didn't know before and it's opening up a chink in the armour," Dr John Frater, from the University of Oxford, told the BBC.

She needs to open the curtains a chink.

For countries and individuals it is the unruliness of history, politics and personality that opens the chink between what they say about themselves and what they are.

Apart from the occasional moment when a chink opened in the carapace, Armstrong was in control and, by and large, the opposition – Oprah playing the role of Jan Ullrich back then – was pretty much where he wanted, doing what he would have expected.

Do you damage someone more, or give them a chink of possibility?