Sentences with phrase «at least a glimmer of»

I remember that while the fans were certainly upset over the Stallings hire, there was some intrigue with his recruiting because he had been handcuffed quite a bit by the academic standards at Vanderbilt, so there was at least a glimmer of hope that coming to an ACC school with lowered standards would help open doors to recruits he didn't have a shot at when he was at Vanderbilt.

Several lawmakers said there was at least a glimmer of hope that they could win the commissioner's support for some police reform bills they have pushed, but which he and the mayor have, thus far, resisted.

While not exactly encouraging, this approach offers at least a glimmer of hope to local officials, who need Cuomo to lead the charge on statutory changes that would make it easier to restructure costly labor union contracts.

But for New Jersey's substantial scientific labor force, which has been devastated by large pharma industry layoffs, this is at least a glimmer of light.

«One hopes,» Repcheck writes, «that he had at least a glimmer of the ultimate impact of his achievement as he lay on his bed after his stroke in the winter of 1543, waiting to meet his God, whose beautiful creation he had seen more clearly than any human before him.»

There is at least a glimmer of hope in the new data, Donnelly says.

Just waiting on the sun here in London or at least a glimmer of hope!

There is tremendous strength in shared experience, and I hope that readers find at least a glimmer of that in my pages.

Katherine from BookPromotion.com posted a piece called, «Hate As A Marketing Tool,» which doesn't actually tout the benefits of venomous reviews, but does offer authors who've received negative critiques at least a glimmer of hope as to why negative reviews actually benefit an author.

The other, whose clinical depression is brilliantly signaled by an all - lowercase narrative and so intensely conveyed that his early entries are hard to read, sees at least a glimmer of light fall on his self - image after a chance meeting with Tiny sparks a wild mutual infatuation.

There's not much that needs to be said about Call of Duty games at this point; the series is so enormous and far - reaching that there's a good chance you have at least a glimmer of an idea of what to expect, even if you've never played one of them.

Adler's piece is a good starting point for such a discussion — and offers at least a glimmer of hope for dialogue instead of a shouting match.

I was struggling with the «topic at hand» from which I wanted to gain at least a glimmer of understanding — meh threw me a bone with «International Rivers» which I snatched (if only as a diversion) because it interested me, and therefore added one more tiny scatter to my brain, but perhaps, more importantly, an addition to my puzzle: What Makes AGM Run?

I read Luiz's post certain there would be at least some glimmer of light at the end, but I was wrong.

Not exact matches

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To be alive is to have, at least, a glimmering of optimism.

While it is easiest to grasp the prius of creativity - esse in the human case, a process metaphysics sees at least a faint glimmer of subjectivity (which for process thinkers does not imply consciousness!)

I'm sure nobody on the Panthers envisioned themselves being 2 - 5 to start the season, but at least they have a glimmer of hope to turn things around now.

Win, and Wenger's definitely staying, lose, and yes he'll probably have the arrogance to stay on, but at least there is a glimmer of hope he'll leave in defeat.

Atletico Madrid 1 Leicester City 0 For Leicester City, it was a long, gruelling night but they did at least emerge with a glimmer of hope and maybe e -LRB-...)

However, those eager to see some glimmer of hope at the end of the tunnel can at least take solace from Wolves» half - decent record at home this season, where Molineux has been treated to all three of the team's league victories this season, as well as having endured just three of the ten defeats inflicted upon them by their merciless opponent's.

But with Obama in office, there's at least the faint glimmer of possibility for an international treaty.

Romantic comedies are seldom pulled off without at least a faint glimmer of cheesiness.

His inability to walk anymore physically led to his inability to run for office, at least mentally, but there was a glimmer of hope for him — the warm mineral - rich springs of a spa and resort that some believe could rehabilitate polio victims.

Ape Sodom is at least anchored by the glimmer of an ideology around the dehumanizing impact of capitalism, as our hero (director McCabe - Lokos) accepts a large sum of money to do disgusting, horrific things for disgusting, horrific people before being run over and left for dead.

On a night that will be remembered mostly for its somber attire, sober attitude and that rousing speech from Oprah Winfrey, there was at least one glimmer of the classic, madcap unpredictability of the Golden Globes.

I suppose that's really the point - this isn't a book to read for the plot so much as for the thoughts that it generates; as John Leonard writing in the New York Times so eloquently puts it, «Cynthia Ozick braids at least three and probably four ghostly glimmers and «phantom eels» of thought into a single luminous lariat — or maybe a hangman's noose.»

It's that time of the year — at least in the UK — when the spring flowers are out, the birds are singing, there's a fleeting glimmer of sunshine... and it's the end of a tax year (or the start of a new one, depending on how you choose to look at it).

Only if Nintendo's Switch is a runaway success will there be a glimmer of hope of Sony one day returning to portable gaming, but for now at least, continue to cherish the Vita, because if you do own one, then you know how special it truly is.

For now, however, there is a least a glimmer of hope that employees being harassed in the workplace can at least make complaints pursuant to their workplace policies without the fear of an act of reprisal.

The conference runs through April 4, so we'll keep an eye out for any glimmers of hope the NALPers can offer, at least when they're not raising pinkies like it's 2007.

A glimmer of it, at the very least.