Sentence examples for slight credit from inspiring English sources

To its very slight credit, Barclays has not blamed this on rogue traders: its boss, Bob Diamond, and other senior executives have positioned this as a failing of the bank as a whole.

Give him slight credit, too, for exhibiting nerve in picking enemies, notably Michael Madigan, the Democratic House speaker and the power behind the creaky Illinois throne and a symbol of much of what's wrong in politics.

Some prospective borrowers who just a few months ago were considered easy bets for mortgages are being turned away with the slightest credit blemishes — or even with stellar credit scores.

There had been a slight rise in credit card debt outstanding in December, the first in more than two years, but that gain was offset.

Tuesday's announcement of the Treasury Department's plan to invest $250.0 billion into U.S. banks may have contributed to a slight thaw in credit markets, but the impact appeared minimal Wednesday.

But such investments can unwind violently with even the slightest tightening of credit.

To avoid giving President Obama the slightest bit of credit for the improvement, however, they have come up with increasingly convoluted explanations that have little relationship to reality.

If you have one slight blip on your credit report you may get declined.

He took credit for a slight softening of American public opinion toward the Russians, but his accommodationist writings and activities got him picketed in anti-Castro Miami and attacked by Senator Strom Thurmond.

For years, corporations, eager to limit their tax exposure and thus keep their revenues high and shareholders happy, have bought the tax credits at a slight discount, and thus, as a kind of enforced side effect, helped to finance the construction of the kind of unglamorous housing that otherwise might not be built.

One study did credit floss with a slight reduction in gum inflammation.