Sentence examples for supposed slightly from inspiring English sources

The original idea of natural selection and random mutation, implicit in Fisher's work [ 21], was to minimize the amount of "work" done by chance in the evolution of adaptation and let natural selection do the job of evolving an adaptation by pulling out from the noise the supposed slightly beneficial mutations and causing them to accumulate inexorably toward the evolution of adaptation.

The Roos did that pleasing but also infuriating thing where their subtler virtues come to the fore; Robbie Nahas raining in late goals as though he wasn't someone that a club as middling as Richmond had told to push on; the defensive rebound of Sam Wright and Ben Jacobs and I suppose slightly less subtly, reborn Jarrad Waite's belligerent efforts up forward.

He doesn't demur: "I've made a joke that is both glib and I suppose slightly tasteless about her being an illustration of the old anecdote that it isn't remarkable that the dog lost playing chess -- it's the fact that the dog plays chess.

"I wanted to be extreme and, I suppose, ironic, slightly scary, the way Donatella Versace looks slightly scary.

("Lili von Shtupp," I suppose, is slightly better).

It mentioned a friend of the author who had formerly worn his hair dyed platinum to appear "extreme and, I suppose, ironic, slightly scary".

"When he first arrived at Radley he got on people's nerves because he was ridiculously good at everything – people called it nervy, which I suppose meant slightly cocky, or cocksure".

Suppose this slightly worse legal career and the musical career are judged roughly equal or on a par.

Life in captivity is supposed to be slightly longer.

One brace in each X is supposed to be slightly higher than the other, leaving a small amount of space between the two braces.

Many of the worst-performing mortgages were so-called subprime loans, but MortgageIT was a specialist in Alt-A mortgages, which were supposed to be slightly safer and thus less likely to default.