Sentence examples for slight at a from inspiring English sources

The announcement was greeted on Thursday with a standing ovation at the European parliament in Strasbourg, France, but will be seen by Saudi Arabia as another diplomatic slight at a time when its domestic and international policies are coming under growing criticism.

First, surface movements and deformations are slight at a narrow panel width (i.e., a subcritical condition), and the other is that with the existence of stable coal pillars, full subsidence can be avoided following extraction of adjacent panels.

One is that surface movement and deformation are slight at a narrow panel width (subcritical condition), and the other is that with the existence of stable coal pillars, full subsidence can be avoided following extraction of adjacent panels.

Codon usage is nearly equivalent in both genome regions with a slight AT-bias at the third codon position in the spheroid body genes (see Table 1).

It is slight at first, a blown sign here, a damaged roof there, laid out as if to prepare the visitor, however gently, for what is ahead.

Woman who felt slighted at a party orchestrated fatal shooting, police say. 4 a.m.

That might have been a slight at New Jersey, or a coy way of heading off speculation about another Nets run at the Heat's stars.

This effect was slight at 4.2 µM cyclosporin-A and severe at 42 µM, but the latter concentration was also toxic.

"You're about to tell me," he said at one point with a slight sneer at a prosecutor who asked what Robert felt was a rhetorical question.

7 After going up a slight incline, at a red post turn left and follow the path to a T-junction.

"It was not a slight at Y&R at all," he said.