Sentence examples for were slight that from inspiring English sources

Iginla said his white friends and teammates would tell him in a matter-of-fact way that chances were slight that he would play in the N.H.L. because so few nonwhite players made it.

Mr. Reischauer, who served during the Clinton administration on an advisory commission that tried to devise a pilot competition program, said the chances were slight that the experiments in the current legislation would begin in 2010, as required.

Thanks to the United States Supreme Court's recent First Amendment jurisprudence, chances are slight that American smokers will ever be bothered – or deterred – by comparable graphic reminders.

Tonight at 7 30, the Stalkers will play at the Ragin' Cajun restaurant in Belmar, as they do every Sunday (and the chances are slight that the bandleader will be called away to pilot a ship).

Boris Vujcic, deputy governor of Croatia's central bank, says that, despite discouraging talks with Brussels, "the issue is not dead".The chances are slight that the commission will give ground.

Real or imagined, it was slight that eventually led to Allen signing a free-agent deal last summer with the Miami Heat, where, ironically, his role from the get-go was to be off the bench.

There may, of course, have been slights that I did not notice, or avoided being aware of – I have never been asked to play Cassius in a production of Julius Caesar, for example – but I have not felt the loss keenly.

"There seems to be slight disappointment that [rates] are not cheaper but I wonder if that is a realistic disappointment.

If the Giants are slight underdogs, that is certainly nothing new.

The walls along the northeastern side of the castle were slighted so that it would be useless to the king.

That progress was slight, considering that the wheels were commanded to turn enough times that on a good surface it would have traveled almost 100 feet.