Sentences with phrase «few glimmers»

The phrase "few glimmers" means there are only a small number of slight or faint signs or indications of something. Full definition
Luther is read as saying something radically incompatible with anything said in the Church since the death of Paul (except perhaps for a few glimmers in Augustine).
This was one of the few glimmers of hope held up by many of the Palestinians I met with at the turn of the year in the West Bank: «Who would have thought in Martin Luther King's day that you would now have a black president?
Myles Garrett is one of the few glimmers of hope for the otherwise depressing Browns franchise.
But pundits claimed Mr Khan's triumph was likely to be one of the few glimmers of light for Labour's leadership.
The latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report, on mitigating emissions, finds a few glimmers of hope amid gloomy projections.
There are a few glimmers of talent amongst the trash (Parts 5 and 6 are pretty defensible), but the rest are a mess.
It is however, poorly fleshed out and feels very uninspired, there are a few glimmers of hope such as a competitive mode but these just don't do enough to make the game feel interesting.
Still, a few glimmers of the old Coens mojo shine through — most noticeably in the film's dark - comic highpoint, featuring Llewyn Davis himself, Oscar Isaac, as a suspicious fraud investigator.
But for as many problems as it had, there were a few glimmers of good gameplay that the folks at Ubisoft Quebec have polished up and are re-implementing in their freshman effort, Assassin's Creed Syndicate.
Ms Soapbox was trolling through Hansard searching for signs of intelligent life under the Dome when she discovered (sandwiched between the Wildrose Opposition's accusation that the Premier appointed a Soviet - era communist to serve as her deputy chief of staff and the NDP MLA for Edmonton - Ellerslie admires «the worst leftist dictators») a few glimmers of wit....
Fortunately, there were a few glimmers of hope as well.
Although there have been a few glimmers of hope in recent economic news, including an increase in mortgage applications, an increase in retail sales, some positive cash flows and even profits by some of the larger banks, more clarity from the President about his stimulus package, and a rise in the stock market over the past week, so far nothing has turned positive for the trucking industry, and other than seasonal increases coming into the spring, likely won't for some time.
Just in time for the Halloween season, that's the takeaway from the latest Fannie Mae National Housing Survey, which offered a few glimmers of hope for the housing industry.
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