Sentence examples for small vestige of 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.

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.

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

Small as New Jersey is, it has 566 municipalities, a vestige of the state's independent character.

Small Internet service providers like aNet represent the last vestige of the Internet's original homespun character.

As if prom wasn't gay enough already, this year one high school in a small, undisclosed town is taking measures turn the last vestige of teenage wastedness into a snoozefest nonpareil.

They managed, for instance, to turn Afghanistan into the globe's foremost narco-state, even as they gave new life to the Taliban -- no small miracle for a movement that, in 2001, had lost any vestige of popularity.

Occasionally, a vestige of the old circuit can be seen: a faded sponsor's sign, graffiti left by fans or a small roadside shrine to one of the many competitors who died here.

It preserved a vestige of independence.