Sentence examples for slender hope from inspiring English sources

Rodgers has been sacked 27 times, offering the Giants slender hope that he can be stopped.

Like the Obama Administration, the Jordanian leadership clings to the slender hope of a diplomatic resolution.

Some of the cases, usually representing a convict's last slender hope, were years old.

Now they just pay bribes," he says.That slender hope rests principally on reform of the judiciary and court system.

Also — and crucially — it wants to leave the petitioners some slender hope, a fantasy that one day injustice will find redress.

State repression may do that sometimes but it is a sad and slender hope for those who yearn for intra-Muslim accord.

Roberto Mancini insisted afterwards that he had not given up hope of third place, and a Napoli win on Monday would keep his team's slender hopes alive.

Norwich's even more slender hopes rest on winning their final two games of the campaign and their two rivals stalling.

After a win at Sale that keeps alive Harlequins' slender hopes of making Europe next season, Conor O'Shea, their director of rugby, announced that Marler's season is over with a shoulder injury.

A child was killed on the Lebanese side, possibly the result of one of the missiles going astray.At best, the attack on Syria would seem to reduce further the slender hopes for even a fragile and partial ceasefire, like the brief truce that collapsed in August.

The result keeps alive his slender hopes of ending the year as world number one.