Sentence examples for slim support from inspiring English sources

After meeting "financial companies, the pension funds, the municipalities and members of the labor and employers' unions, the Prime Minister noted there was slim support" for blanket debt relief, the Finance Minister Steingrimur J. Sigfusson said in an interview Tuesday.

Warren Hoge (NYT) BRITAIN: PORTILLO PROMOTED William Hague, the beleaguered Conservative head, shuffled his opposition shadow cabinet, dropping John Redwood, a onetime challenger for party leadership, and promoting Michael Portillo, who is expected to become leader if Mr. Hague's slim support continues to slide.

The fountain's rim, a ring of black granite, formerly acted as a container for a raised pool of water, but now the water has been lowered to the level of the plaza, and the rim, still at seat height so as to serve as a bench, is just a thin granite band resting on slim supports.

A poll in September found a slim 51% support the tax.

Judge Bruguera dismissed all these claims on Thursday, saying that the evidence was too slim to support them.

The majority of Americans are against sending troops back to Iraq, but a slim majority support drone strikes against Isis insurgents, according to a poll by CBS.

Grocery margins are too slim to support huge discounts, but most of Chaldal's prices are about 1 to 2 percent lower than other stores and it plans to increase that to 5percentt as it scales up to woo customers.

President Kennedy endorsed Kennan privately but remained noncommittal publicly, as he did not want to jeopardize his slim majority support in Congress on a potentially contentious issue.

Proposition 30, which would raise the sales tax for four years and hike income taxes on the wealthy for seven years, lost the slim majority support it had last month, according to the survey by the nonpartisan Public Policy Institute of California, which was released late on Wednesday.

You must find the evidence, however slim, that supports this, then act as if the assumption of reasonableness were proven.

They invested a large sum on embanking the site and building several terraces of houses (1768 72) in which the Adam interior style of slim pilasters supporting a shallow frieze and cornice the middle and uppermost sections of an entablature was brought outdoors.