Sentences with word «chink»

This peer - to - peer review network surrounds and attacks the study, in search of chinks in its armor.

That signing was the signal for the black clouds that have sat permanently over Elland Road for the last two years to begin to lift, revealing a little chink of light that signalled the good times may be returning.

Wenger has beside him the opinion of someone who played these tactics brilliantly and am sure he has a few ideas of what he and his teammates felt was best at finding chinks in the armor.

This is really the only chink in Apple's photography armor when it comes to the iPhone SE.

Our dating experts can find very few chinks in this platform's time - tested armor, so we've given it a 4.9 / 5.0 in our reviews.

The interviewer or interview panel is looking for chinks in your proverbial armor.

Cuomo arguably put the first chink in Spitzer's gubernatorial armor with his investigation of the Troopergate scandal, in which Spitzer misused the State Police in a botched attempt to smear his political nemesis, then Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno.

As it's grip on the industry gets tighter day by day, we see chinks in the armour of what now appears to an emperor concerned with the preservation of self above all else.

Barcelona looked unbeatable after despatching AC Milan but are now showing chinks in their armour.

But these are just small chinks in its otherwise strong armour.

She talked to my husband in a soothing and warm hearted voice giving him new strength and taking off a big chink of the pressure he was feeling.

In watching a film, for example, the audience often does so deconstructively, searching for indications of its making — the use of a camera technique, the consistency of a set's design, the style of a performance — which might also be regarded as chinks in the mimetic armor; however, this knowledge does not attenuate the work's capacity to effect emotion — the tear - jerking power of romantic storytelling may remain intact, unscathed by the audience's expertise.

Found a tiny chink of goodness that makes one want to take another look and keep reading to find out where he is going next.

Trying to deal the minimal three hits to a zombie's head when others are closing in or clawing at your back leads to another major chink in Zombi's armor.

Our nickel oxide anode only transforms into metallic nickel through nanoscale inhomogeneities or defects in the surface structure, a bit like chinks in the anode's armor.»

The only real chink in its armour right now is the lack of an automatic transmission, but that will soon be addressed with the introduction of CVT equipped petrol variant.

However, with Barcelona soon set to resume their Champions League campaign, the Valencianistes are eyeing a chance to take the crown away from the three - time defending champions with chinks in the seemingly unbreakable Barcelona armour starting to appear.

«That result, and the way the Scottish side exposed chinks in City's defensive armour, will have given a fillip to Tottenham, fresh from a crucial Champions League win in Moscow, before England's top two clash at White Hart Lane.»

With Xabi Alonso and club icon Phillip Lahm hanging their boots at the end of the just completed season, bundesliga giants Bayern Munich can be said to have had two large chinks appear in their armour.

Being caught out by sharp ridges and crests, and crashing slightly over larger potholes thanks to those 20 - inch wheels, seem to be the only minor chinks in its armour.

But to be frank, there are other, more - significant chinks in Rondo's armor.

While this triptych portrait of three modern Indian women who have decided, for various reasons, to wed in this way provides some insights, it feels like a tiny chink into a vast and complex subject

Windows, far and away the most common operating system in the corporate world, is such a complicated and ornery thing — «a giant minefield of conflicts and problems,» says Cormier — that hackers are always finding new chinks in its armor to exploit.

But then the market started spotting chinks in the consumer tech giant's armor as analysts lamented Apple's weaker - than - expected iPhone X sales.

Although Hargreaves still maintains an «outperform» rating on the stock, calling it «pretty darn cheap» at its current levels, he identified several chinks in Apple's previously impervious armor.

Already struggling with postpartum depression, this little chink in the foundation of my parenting led to me believing that I was not fit to be a mother.

Recipes that rely on chemicals to peel wafer - thin layers off graphite run the risk of creating chinks in graphene's chicken wire arrangement of atoms.

The Ghibli features paddle shifters mounted to the steering column like a Ferrari's — not on the wheel, like many sport sedans — and which engage with a satisfying ka - chink at every flick of a gear change.

As you create your map, you'll be identifying important chinks in your competitors» messaging that you can leverage to your advantage.

And yet these sporadic chinks of light are couched in the context of heavy and unhelpful language in which abortion is variously referred to as an «abomination» (p87), «this moral leprosy», «this savage beast» (p175) or «a violent and soul - destroying act» (p218), to name but a few.

He saw slips of the tongue, stumbles of the foot, harsh words blurted out in rage as no mere chinks in social armor but as enactments of the real self.

But when Bitcoin alone is said to use more energy than Ireland annually, is there a fundamental chink in its armour?

As these galleries moved up and down the fairways the noise of chinking coins was a steady murmur — like chains being shaken out on a cement floor.

If Eriksen isn't in their side, there is a clear chink in the supply chain to their potent forward line.

There doesn't seem to be a single chink in their armor.

So there are definitely chinks in the United armour.

Talks of a crisis may yet be premature, but there are certainly chinks in the armour that Jurgen Klopp needs to rectify as soon as he possibly can.

The angst in the South West is as much shock at the Dasukigate chink in Falae's hitherto formidable integrity armour, as it is linking Afenifere (Afenifere of Awo, the immaculate avatar), to free - wheeling sleaze in contemporary Nigeria.

Ed Miliband has hit upon an improbable chink in David Cameron's political armour: the chocolate orange.

A man in his 20s walks past, his hood up and the gold chains around his neck chinking with his excess swagger.

Despite the banality, the drudgery, the parsing, the positioning; somewhere through the gloom, the odd chinks of light are starting to seep through.

► «There is a serious chink in the armor» of the peer - review process at elite medical journals, David Shultz wrote on 22 December.

Early data from twin experiments at the Tevatron, the world's reigning particle accelerator at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) in Batavia, Ill., suggest an unexpected chink in the hugely successful standard model of particle physics.

Invisible cracks and chinks cover every material's surface but their size and location can vary wildly, according to Kysar.

One of the world's deadliest microbes, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacterium that causes tuberculosis (TB), has tipped off researchers to a potential chink in its armor.

Both of these perspectives have validity, but are not without significant scientific chinks in their armor.

We could rattle off a load more statistics but the general picture of Greeks and Italians sitting back, chinking red wine glasses together and laughing about how much thinner they are than the rest of the world is a myth.

But my best moment, each year, is when, if only for a few moments, you can grab a glass of fizz with Team ELLE, chink glasses and say cheers to another year of hard work (and fun) in the ELLE office.