Sentence examples for slight of the from inspiring English sources

And several YouTube recutters made hay of the president's seeming slight of the Special Olympics during his appearance on "The Tonight Show".

Rape is now defined federally as: "The penetration, no matter how slight, of the vagina or anus with any body part or object, or oral penetration by a sex organ of another person, without the consent of the victim".

Those athletes, like Kaepernick, were explicitly making political statements, forcing the public to reconcile an apparent slight of the national anthem versus the rights bestowed on all citizens that the song symbolizes for some.

The jury was not able to reach a verdict on one of the accusations of predatory sexual assault: rape, which New York law defines as any forcible "penetration, however slight" of the vagina by a penis.

The effect of the crash on the local economy was slight: of the 1,300 employees Northern Rock lost, 500 took voluntary redundancy and the other 800 found other work.

Specifically, it covers the "penetration, no matter how slight, of the vagina or anus with any body part or object, or oral penetration by a sex organ of another person, without the consent of the victim".

The first, and slighter, of the two plays deals with a disastrous date.

So the slights of the past 12 months don't hurt him anymore.

"Where We Stand: 30 Reasons for Loving Our Country" is the slightest of the three.

To the Kings' die-hard followers, the slights of the past don't matter right now.

The question is whether we have created the machinery for resolving even the slightest of the world's innumerable difficulties.