And there is a faint possibility that it will lead to much more than that.
This time the results were inconclusive but there's now a faint glimmer of hope.
Many miles later, the road is but a faint single track in a thick bamboo forest.
Sometimes a faint voice based on instinct resonates far more strongly than overpowering logic.
In a faint echo of the 1970s Congress introduced a wage-subsidy scheme last year.
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"Don't try to be like them, " said the 26-year-old with a round face and a faint mustache.
Pure white stretching so far into the distance that its horizon revealed a faint curve of the Earth.
Through the vertical glass panels shone a faint crescent moon, entangled in the tops of the tall pines.
Ravens strut and croak on the medieval ramparts, and a faint peal of bells echoes from the church.
Sussex's run chase began poorly with Chris Nash caught at mid-on and Yardy getting a faint edge pushing forward.
Given the factional nature of Korean politics, however, it is a faint hope.
"I take some satisfaction in being right, " he says, with a faint chuckle.
Spread over all these smells was a faint netting of pungent aftershave lotion.
Screeches, squeaks, and a faint muttering filled the forest, perhaps indicating bliss and satisfaction, perhaps indicating that someone had perished.
Tyres hang on the wall, rusty chains coil around the place and a faint smell of oil permeates the air.
Jack was discovered Thursday, after four days of grueling searching, when rescuers suddenly heard a faint female voice calling for help.
Hugo allowed himself a faint smile when he told me this story.
To anyone who tracks America's budget debates, that is a faint hope.
Nothing is ironed, and there is a faint stain on the skirt that is yesterday's lunchtime soup ineffectually rubbed off with a Kleenex.
It made a faint whine as it pulled away, delivering power so smoothly that it might as well have been gliding through interstellar space.
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The sky beyond is washed with strokes of cobalt and cerulean blue, and a faint but perceptible smell of aniseed and wild garlic hangs in the air.
But coming off the bottom of the table now looks a faint hope with the Dons seven points adrift of Killie with three games remaining.
Night was falling, and when we switched off our torches to wait for the rest of the group, a faint green glow emanated from the ground around us.
At Elias, a completed Chevron operation, the only sound to disturb the replanted clover meadow is a faint whooshing as gas passes to an underground pipe network.
In gold-rimmed spectacles, he appeared the archetypal bootmaker. (He had lost a more fashionable plastic pair in Brazil.) His head, bald and browned, bore a faint pink welt.
It takes a few minutes for the song to register as more than a faint stirring of strings, but as it progresses, it gathers portentous energy almost subconsciously.
The 36-year-old reached 46 before he got a faint edge to a lifting ball from Broad, leaving him with only one half century in his last 10 ODI matches.
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And Hughes, 20, had a nightmare start, slashing at a short Steyn delivery off the fourth ball of the first over and only succeeding in getting a faint under-edge through to Mark Boucher.
There is even a feeling, a faint sense sometimes that we have been relegated to the role of walk-on in someone else's drama, that as citizens we are crucial and yet somehow ... extraneous.
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