Sentence examples for small vestige from inspiring English sources

The only check on the mayor's power over the school system was intended to be the Panel on Education Policy, but the events of this week emasculated even this small vestige of democratic governance.

Leland's beautiful note was just a small vestige of her son's loving nature.

The Greek sculptor Praxiteles represented a new artistic type in which the Satyr was young and handsome, with only the smallest vestiges of animal parts.

It sat on a low-slung cabinet that rested against a living-room wall in a small, cramped apartment, as a symbol of modernity fronting a diminished vestige of the past, a screen of high definition framed by what had been a window of elaborate carpentry detail.

The sudden demand quickly sucked dry China's small vineyards, mostly vestiges of Western wineries from pre-Communist days.

In Erbil, largely due to a presence of Assyrian Christians, liberal alcohol laws allow liquor to be sold in shops and even for a small bar scene the last vestige of indulgence in a Middle East falling back in love with fundamentalism.

And her song to Jerry about the corn she cooks on a hot plate becomes a strangely affecting ode to small pleasures and the vestiges of one woman's misplaced maternal instincts.

The narrow streets hold small older homes and stores, vestiges of industrial activity, and a cluster of newer stores selling antiques, home furnishings and decorative arts.

Thanks in no small part to Darwin's efforts, vestiges of the human body are now familiar to a wide audience.

The final vestiges of the company, a small storage center, closed down during Mr. Borer's first term in office in the early 1990's.

While the importers appeal against the decision they have stopped bringing new Hollywood blockbusters into the country.The dispute has brought into the limelight a small but rapidly growing industry that is a vestige of what was once a web of monopolies and cartels that enriched relatives and cronies of the Suharto regime at Indonesians' expense.