Sentence examples for shot in part from inspiring English sources

A nomination is a long shot, in part because supporting actor is an especially crowded field this year.

Many on Wall Street have called the deal a long shot, in part because of the difficulty of financing it.

Such a move is considered a long shot, in part because it would create fresh tensions at a time when Europe and the United States are trying to maintain a common front on the Russian-Ukraine crisis.

Then, on the white wall of a neighborhood playground, he showed the movie he had just borrowed from the New York Public Library -- a 1962 crime drama called "Il Mafioso," shot in part on Cleveland Place, a block away.

Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani went beyond the usual recommendations of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention yesterday by urging all New Yorkers to get a flu shot, in part so that they do not confuse flu symptoms with those of inhalation anthrax.

Patrick Goldstein, one of our paper's sworn enemies in the egg-head death match that is cinema and Oscar writing esteemed and learned colleagues, still favors "Brokeback," but says that "Munich" has a shot, in part because people are starting to see the movie instead of just the controversy.

Dowd, who wrote the screenplay for "Slap Shot" based in part on the experiences of her brother, Ned, who played minor league hockey, said she believed Hanson and the Carlsons were performing as the Hanson brothers illegally.

Olsson's warning shot was in part the catalyst for a review of European football governance sponsored by the sports minister Richard Caborn and carried out by a Portugese politician, Jose Luis Arnaud.

Part of the impetus for this conversion involved a suit brought about by the National Wildlife Federation to ban the use of lead shot based in part on the increasing number of secondary lead poisoning cases in bald eagles from consuming crippled and lead poisoned waterfowl.

Mr. Huang's "Disorder," to be shown on Friday, is a piece of bricolage drawn from more than 1,000 hours of video, shot in large part by nonprofessionals working in Guangzhou and other cities in the Pearl River delta of southern China.

D'Antoni took exception to a report that said that he took a shot at Lee, in part, by saying that last season's players "weren't athletic enough"."I'll sit here like a mummy," D'Antoni said when asked about Lee.