There were some glimmers of hope for the BOJ and Mr. Abe in the data.
Sure, there have been glimmers of a comedic recovery over the last few years.
But in the midst of so much tragedy, there are also glimmers of hope.
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At Huawei they never give interviews, and release only the barest glimmers of background.
Our ranking of the World's Most Powerful Women, though, shows glimmers of hope.
Industry is retrenching, after over-investing during the mid-1990s, though there are now glimmers of a recovery.
There are glimmers of hope in East Asia, where interest rates have fallen sharply.
While the Las Vegas economy isn't as diverse as better-performing cities, there are some glimmers of improvement.
Elsewhere in the euro zone there are glimmers of hope, especially in the ambition for structural reforms.
Just then, the sun glimmers over the horizon, and the ruined city is flooded with warm rose gold.
Seeing glimmers of gold out west, several private equity firms began to take interest in the struggling banks.
Every star in the Milky Way glimmers with perfect clarity in the cloudless sky: diamonds flung across black velvet.
For those champing at the bit to make a sale and move on with their lives, 2012 may offer glimmers of hope.
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Glimmers of improvement in the consumer sector, which accounts for three-quarters of the U.S. economic output, are yet appearing in data elsewhere.
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Even at a distance, the brilliant blue of packed ice glimmers.
Even in this highly polarized environment, as the Republican House prepares to take on a Democratic President, there are some glimmers of detente.
There were glimmers of greatness from them, with wins over the world champions and now Olympic bronze medallists, China, and the European champions, Germany.
Glimmers of good news for the government include a stable unemployment rate 7.8 percent in the last quarter and low interest rates.
Admittedly, the first glimmers showed up a couple of years ago in Spain, which suffered the malady of economic miasma brought on by environmental populism.
Yet amid the gloom, there are some first glimmers of optimism.
There are occasionally glimmers of hope on the horizon with regards to recognition of the need to take a balanced approach to our deficit and debt challenges.
Carrie is not out to save the world, but there were a few little glimmers of hope in the pilot, as far as the character is concerned.
Mr. Sorsby figures the Fed's withdrawal will prompt at least a one-percentage-point rise in mortgage rates, which he fears could squash recent glimmers of more demand for homes.
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Justice Kennedy's response contained glimmers of hope for both sides.
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Yet California has done precious little to stay in shape and there are just the first glimmers of competition from places that were born less beautiful, but try harder.
There are the glimmers of a plan: strengthen the banks to withstand the shock of default and then build a massive firewall around Greece to avoid a domino effect.
The Abraham Path may have been conceived as a modern re-creation of one prophet's journey, but it can also be seen as a pilgrimage into the earliest glimmers of civilisation.
There are now some glimmers of optimism in the investment-banking world, where trading books have already been marked down ferociously and credit exposures to the real economy are more limited.
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