The European summit in late June offered a flicker of hope but it is guttering.
But some, he felt, still had a flicker of viability in them, and each time the team failed to sustain it.
American success at club level may raise a flicker of interest in the USA but Sampson believes soccer will now be taken seriously.
At the very least, it seems that news of irregularities created a flicker of doubt about Enron's survival among many of those with whom it did business.
If it's the sonic equivalent of darkness and what may be lurking there, then Gibson's fragile voice and plaintively strummed guitar soon emerge as a flicker of light.
All the same, if the Greek-Cypriots manage to elect the least bad candidate on offer, there is still a flicker of hope that compromise may eventually be reached.
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"Contacts made by the special envoy Lakhdar Brahimi have so far not yielded a flicker of hope to put this crisis on the exit track, " Mr al-Arabi said on Monday at an economic summit in Saudi Arabia.
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When I turn on my lights I get a yellow glow for a bit then a bit of flicker followed by a proper, though slightly unsatisfying, light.
In another instance, a man compelled to commit murder signals regret with a redemptive flicker of his eyes.
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Using a DSLR also gives you the option of fitting the lens most suitable to the shot, adjusting the shutter speed for a cinematic flicker and adding an external mike for better dialogue recording.
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And, as the technology progresses, we may even see multiple frame rates used within the same movie to replicate a specific creative intent maybe a high-speed chase in HFR to reduce motion blur and flicker, and a dialogue scene in 24fps.
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There's hype, there's bluster, there's exaggeration and the unmistakable flicker of a new urban legend.
As for output devices, even analog tube-based televisions can display convincing 3D content from 2D films, although the system generates a fair amount of flicker as it struggles to overcome the low refresh rate and interlacing of the once-ubiquitous technology.
More than a century later, the same flicker of freewill sparked the War for Independence and fired up a new nation.
The cinema systems also don't flicker -- a big complaint about the active lenses, which shutter open and closed very rapidly to try to send a different image to each eye.
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Even when Armstrong acknowledged having been a bully, there was no flicker of soul-searching.
This technology uses lightweight glasses tocreate a comfortable 3D viewing experience without the distracting flicker or crosstalk of active shutter-style glasses.
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These have a few problems: They're fragile, flicker dimly in cooler temperatures and contain 5mg to 20mg of mercury per bulb.
Shakhtar were allowed one flicker of hope when Iniesta picked up a booking for encroachment that rules him out of the second leg and, when the free-kick was eventually taken, Rakitskiy beat a batch of Barca players to the ball and sent it past Valdes.
With her curling blond hair and her slender limbs and her beautiful clothes, Inez was alluring in an obvious way, and yet it was easy enough to see that her slightly protruding blue eyes were blank screens of self-love on which a small selection of fake emotions was allowed to flicker.
As the sun set, a summer storm was gathering, and Henry watched lightning flicker across the clouds.
And Kevin Spacey, as their steely office manager, Williamson, plants a daringly long fuse and ignites it with the smallest flicker.
However, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs denies they are a risk, saying the new bulbs are now "flicker free".
Another flicker of hope is the bicommunal campaign on Facebook, a social-networking website, to protect the island's wild donkeys, ten of which were mysteriously shot dead recently.
For a few precious frost-nipped weeks, these museum-piece cities of Olde World Europe flicker back to the Middle Ages -- not the ossified medieval throwbacks of soot-blackened cathedrals and tourist-bedeviled museums, but the living, breathing yesteryear of a bustling outdoor marketplace.
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