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Slight in sentence

698 examples of Slight in a sentence

In order not to slight the Chinese, a week after his meetings with Hashimoto, Yeltsin flew to Beijing to stage, however awkwardly, an embrace with President Jiang Zemin, who had also just come back from his trip to the United States.
Even the International Monetary Fund believes that the slight eurozone contraction in 2012 will turn into a limited expansion in 2013.
In my view, these rough proportions have been stable throughout ten centuries of Islamic history, with slight differences.
Nonetheless, the Republicans hold a slight majority in the Senate, where each state is represented by two senators, regardless of the size of its population, because they tend to win their seats in less populous states, whereas Democrats prevail in the major coastal and Midwestern states.
Piketty’s pessimistic prognosis rests on a slight extension of this accounting framework.
But they remain committed to pursuing their inflation targets, convinced that even a slight bout of deflation could initiate a downward spiral, with falling demand causing prices to decline further.
Small wonder that a huge majority of the population – and even a slight majority of CDU voters – prefer a strengthening of the welfare state to a more market-oriented system.
The view from London contains the same element of “distance” – if not slight apprehension – found in the view from Washington.
The fact is that a weaker dollar resulting from lower interest rates gives the US a slight competitive advantage in trade.
The second way that QE might have a slight effect is by lowering mortgage rates, which would help to sustain real-estate prices.
And yet, there they are, denouncing as “socialism” Obama’s health-care legislation, or a slight tax increase for the richest 1% of the population.
If that is the extent of Trump’s protectionism, any resulting harm to the global economy will be slight.
In today’s globalized world, a slight reduction in interest rates by an individual central bank can bring some benefits, beginning with weakening the currency and thus boosting exports.
The US-China trade war may lead to a slight opening up of China’s services markets, implying new opportunities for service exporters.
The bonds, with a maturity of 25 years, pay out an annual sum of £50 million multiplied by the percentage of the English and Welsh male population aged 65 in 2003 that is still alive in a given year (subject to a slight data lag).
If too many resources and too much brainpower are now devoted to finding slight underpricing or overpricing of stock, Clinton’s program might be a good thing, as it would help to reallocate those resources.
Freedom House, a non-governmental organization, listed 86 free countries at the beginning of the Bush years, and a slight increase to 89 by the end of his term.
Both may be necessary, because, while average fuel economy has made slight gains in recent years, the longer distances that people are traveling have offset any improvement.
Recent data indicate that after a slight acceleration in 2012, the growth of real health-care spending in 2013 has fallen back to its 2009-2011 average.
Unchallenged in his second and last term, will he retain even that slight democratic instinct?
Over NMD, Europe's vital interests are engaged to such a slight degree that it will never quarrel seriously with the US on this count, even though most European leaders do not like America's policy.
Indeed, to see high school students expressing their hostility to Sarkozy’s planned slight increase in the retirement age is particularly revealing.
In the US, despite a slight improvement, uncertainty lingers.
Whereas Chile, for example, recorded a slight fiscal deficit in 2003, by 2006 it boasted an almost 8%-of-GDP surplus.
The story of the collapse of Lehman Brothers a decade ago is a case in point – but with a slight twist.
An alternative minimum tax was established, along with a slight increase in gasoline taxes, but both were so watered down that they barely add up to anything.
For desperate Palestinians, however, Trump’s impending presidency seems to offer a slight reason for hope.
It is only a slight exaggeration to say that in America people have to prove themselves continually, whereas in traditional Korean society people have only to prove themselves once, then they can be set for life due in large measure to the network of crony contacts that initial success will have provided.
Even a slight improvement in Ukraine’s energy efficiency would contribute more to reducing greenhouse-gas emissions than the vast sums currently being spent to develop renewable energy sources.
Even if there is a problem, it can easily be fixed; spending a fraction of the money that went into Bush’s two tax cuts would have fixed Social Security for 75 years; slight benefit cuts, adjusting the age of retirement, or minor adjustments in the level of contributions could fix the system permanently.
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