Sentence examples for slight or a from inspiring English sources

An Afghan provincial official described the money as "assistance," as differentiated from a payment that might be used in Pashtun society to make amends for a slight or a crime.

When compressive follower forces are considered, flutter can occur either as a supercritical bifurcation into a stable limit cycle if the internal damping is slight, or a subcritical bifurcation into an orbitally unstable limit cycle existing in the stable region of equilibrium when the internal damping is sufficiently high.

While some studies found that higher knowledge of formulaic sequences leads to higher level of language proficiency (e.g., Bardovi-Harlig et al., 2008; Qi & Ding, 2011; Rafieyan, 2018), some other studies found a slight or a lack of correlation between knowledge of formulaic sequences and language proficiency (e.g., Staples et al., 2013; Serrano et al., 2015).

Although there is either a slight or a strong positive correlation, the variation of nucleosome density is much smaller than that of yeast.

In all cell lines, either a slight or a strong inhibitory effect of mifepristone on cell adhesion was observed along the three independent experiments (Additional file 6: Table S1).

Bolt's unnoticed arrival was in fact not a slight or an oversight, but a carefully planned national security necessity: in 2008, the official reception for his return from Beijing was mobbed by crowds of thousands and descended into something more like a riot.

To call a person "thoughtless" is usually considered a slight, or an outright insult; and yet, we unleash so many literally thoughtless processes on our users, on our lives, on ourselves.

We tend to take our kids' rejection as a personal slight or an attack on our ability to parent.

It is one thing to forgive a rude remark, a slight or even a series of uncomfortable encounters.

A complex character, Barnes, "... rarely forgave a slight or forgot a good turn.

Right now, the instructions are binary – there's no way to make a slight left, or a slight right.