Sentence examples for slight given the from inspiring English sources
In forcing Catholic adoption agencies in Britain to put gay couples on their books the potential gain to equality seems rather slight given the actual assault on religious freedom.
He therefore assesses the threat of a bioterrorist attack using smallpox as slight: "Given the significant technical challenges involved in acquiring and delivering variola virus, the risk of a deliberate reintroduction of smallpox remains quite low, but it is not zero -- particularly if terrorists received assistance from a former Soviet scientist who had done military work on the virus".
Using these data may lead to slight (given the size of the ORG samples) extra measurement error compared to using the entire CPS.
I recall being made uncomfortable by the production, in part because the play felt slight, given its titanic subject matter: the complex relationship between the critic Kenneth Tynan and that unequivocal theatre animal Orson Welles.
Porter describes "a typical couple where the male will be a fan and the female not" – a slight surprise, given the forceful women who give GoT a generally well-gender-balanced tribe of adherents.
Even with the deal, Greece's debt would be no less than 120 percent of G.D.P. in 2020 — which seems to be slight progress given the austerity and pain its citizens must endure during this period.
I ask Shafi if she ever gets annoyed with clients who bemoan their split ends, overgrown cuticles, or smattering of slight blemishes given the damage wrought on her own appearance.
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The high-throughput spoligotyping method has the advantage of being more sensitive to detect these slight variations, given the 3D nature of the immobilized probes, which provides more surface to attach more PCR products.
The test of ripening for most pears, a slight give at the stem, does not work for Bartletts.
If you do this right, you will feel a slight give as the staple ends begin to straighten out.
