Sentence examples for slight rather than from inspiring English sources

"For his part, Confucius preferred to have a reason to leave, no matter how slight, rather than to leave for no reason at all.

And they are always mad at you for some perceived slight, rather than a real reason.

The result suggests that loss of HLH-17 compromises the ability of mutant animals to clear dopamine from the synaptic cleft and could be interpreted as representing a slight, rather than complete, loss of dat-1 activity.

When we selected the lower respiratory tract infection subgroup, the estimate of benefit was a reduction of 0.40 (95% confidence interval −0.78 to −0.01) in symptom severity for the ibuprofen group and 0.47 (−0.84 to −0.10) for the combined group (table 2), roughly equivalent to one person in two rating their symptoms a slight rather than a moderately bad problem.

Compared with the control group, there were greater improvements in symptom severity for both the clinical score group (−0.33, 95% confidence interval −0.64 to −0.02) and the rapid antigen test group (−0.30, −0.61 to 0.004)—that is, about one third of a point, equivalent to one person in three rating sore throat and difficulty swallowing a slight rather than a moderately bad problem (table 2).

He is a man who can take an anecdote about how he made his team-mates' "eyes glaze over" with a story about hanging out with Virat Kohli at the IPL and use it as proof that he is being slighted rather than a sign that maybe, just maybe, he was pissing everybody off.

In any case, these proposals should be evaluated on their (often slight) merits, rather than seen as a quid pro quo for another bailout already made.

It's a museum piece that deserves to be viewed with tender suspicion, from a slight distance, rather than a living thing that rewards intimate engagement.

The opposition wants an investigation controlled by Parliament, where it has a slight majority, rather than allowing the government-controlled police to handle the inquiry.

Polls in Iowa are very close to the national average, showing a tight race, with more showing Mr. Obama holding a slight lead rather than Mr. Romney.

MARKET OVERVIEW "We've noticed a dip in the demand for downtown condos," said Andrew Carros, a real estate agent with Sotheby's International Realty Canada's Vancouver office, "but it's a slight correction rather than a downturn".