Sentence examples for slight at the from inspiring English sources

Such changes, though slight at the time, are progressively cumulative.

Only when he concluded with a slight at the well-to-do upbringing of Shumenov, a lawyer and businessman who speaks five languages, did the Kazakh appear to react.

Having mustered the largest antigovernment demonstrations since the 1979 revolution, and defying an official ban, protesters began to sense the prospect — however slight at the moment — that the leadership's firm backing of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had wavered.

"One slight at the beginning of the negotiation may drastically influence the outcome". .

Its sports chairman Dick Ebersol Dick Ebersol said the network was deemphasizing feature coverage, a veiled slight at the way ABC used to cover the Olympics, back when the Cold War provided some of the story line.

It was a clear slight at the public plan.

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).

His subsequent recollections of Yale sometimes focused on perceived slights at the hands of liberal intellectuals.

And he's not the sort to record slights at the beginning of his tenure there.

The letter gives a chronology of Mr. Flores's troubled life: his failed marriage, financial difficulties, health problems that he said included chronic back pain and a prostate ailment, and slights at the nursing school.

In New York, ever sensitive to special interests and bursting with groups ready to perceive slights at the drop of a you know what, hat-ism is one of the few remaining forms of socially accepted discrimination.