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Slight in sentence

698 examples of Slight in a sentence

First, software with a slight edge tends to get a significantly greater share of the available market; and, second, the available market is global, because it costs so little to make an extra copy and send it anywhere in the world.
At the height of Yeltsin’s career, many Russians identified with his bluntness, impulsiveness, sensitivity to personal slight, even with his weakness for alcohol.
Perhaps it is easier for a loud-mouthed ignoramus to convince large numbers of people whose knowledge of the world is as slight as his own.
These slight variations are part of what makes each of us different from other members of our species.
With his traditional sense of humor, Lula dismissed the slight.
However, this decrease owes more to a rise in the world’s population than it does to the slight reduction in the actual number of hungry people (from about 980 million to 852 million today).
A “halving” goal has only slight political appeal, as it implicitly condemns the excluded half to a life on the fringes of society, exposed to illness and premature death.
If the Trump administration maintains it, the prospects are slight that China can drive the US from the Western Pacific, much less dominate the world.
Yet when it came to US action, the most that the US could offer financially was slight debt relief for Egypt ($1 billion), scant loan guarantees ($1 billion), and some insurance coverage for private investments.
Their differences are slight.
At the minimum, delaying the elections for one reason or another, such as through a possible union with Belarus and thus the creation of a "new" country, is only a slight possibility, but it should not be ignored.
The tribal feelings of Germans were considered, for obvious reasons, to be particularly toxic after Hitler’s Reich, which is why German flag-waving, until recently, was exercised with a slight air of shame-faced restraint that was entirely absent in surrounding countries.
It is only a slight exaggeration to say there are more possible moves in a chess game than atoms in a universe.
Another reason why we do not give to prevent disasters should be familiar to anyone who has ever delayed going to the dentist because the prospect of serious pain in the coming weeks or months just wasn’t as motivating as the reluctance to face some more immediate slight discomfort.
This is a slight misnomer: the most credible bipartisan proposal on the table takes a much-modernized approach to distinguishing and making more transparent different kinds of finance activities.
At the slight risk of overgeneralization, one can say that the first camp was made up mainly of northern Europeans, while the second was dominated by the south.
There is probably some slight truth – and also a certain degree of irony – to this argument.
Unlike slight deviations from inflation targets, or even slight deflation, the latter actually are costly.
The slight increase witnessed in subsequent years still keeps the fertility rate a long way from generational replacement.
Nicaragua’s President Daniel Ortega has returned to power through democratic elections with a slight majority in Parliament.
Previously, even slight skepticism toward migration was perceived to be anti-immigrant.
It is shocking, and worrisome, that public financing remains slight, because these technologies’ success could translate into literally trillions of dollars of economic output.
Moreover, over the last two years, sea levels have not increased at all – actually, they show a slight drop .
After years of falling global growth forecasts, 2017 has witnessed a significant uptick, and there is a good case for slight interest-rate increases.
With a slight mental stretch, one can imagine that what a country produces and trades may affect its savings and investment decisions.
Almost every learned pundit, expert, or politician in the Middle East and around the world knows pretty much what a solution to the conflict would look like – a Palestinian state on the 1967 borders with slight land swaps and an equitable negotiated solution of the Palestinian refugee issue.
They may also suggest a slight tendency, on the part of those uttering them, to believe in some kind of supernatural endorsement.
Fortunately, South Korean President Moon Jae-in’s thoughtful, conciliatory attitude, which Kim seemed to reciprocate in his New Year’s address, has created a slight thaw.
Privatization, under a government supposedly committed to it, proceeds haphazardly; prospects for improved living standards appear slight.
The outcome may reflect the economy’s slight improvement at election time (as happened when Franklin Roosevelt defeated the Republican Alf Landon in 1936, despite the continuing Great Depression).
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