Tom is very slim.

The chances of this are slim.

Its chances of succeeding are slim.

But here, too, the potential benefits are slim.

William Slim, Defeat Into Victory , London Cassell, 1956.

But, with today s dormant markets, the pickings are slim.

In sub Saharan Africa, chances of meeting the goals are, at best, slim.

State monopolies are sold to friends who then become multibillionaires, like Mexico s Carlos Slim.

To all those scared women she says that Slim, Jennifer Lopez in the movie

ISBN 978 0 7195 6576 2 William Slim, Defeat Into Victory , London Cassell, 1956.

Prominent blogger Azyz Amami, imprisoned during the Tunisian Revolution, also responded to Slim Amamou's tweet

The Morsi government seemed incapable of understanding that a slim electoral majority is not enough, especially nowadays.

Demographers portray a country in 2050 in which non Hispanic whites will be only a slim majority.

I enter the interrogation room to find Abu Imad with his slim short body, at least to me.

This Broadband Commission met under the Chairmanship of Rwanda s President Paul Kagame and the Mexican communications mogul Carlos Slim.

They are less likely to get cancer or to die of heart attacks they will probably stay slim and live longer.

(Mexican telephone magnate Carlos Slim, for example, is a close competitor to Gates for the title of the world s richest man.)

The slim majority, and the clear differences between the two political camps, will assure a robust two party system in the future.

With the deadline to pay for the damages of his son s accident fast approaching, hopes of getting the money needed were slim.

Perhaps Cortés, blinded by his dreams of glory, was ready to sacrifice his troops even when the odds of victory were too slim.

But the chances are slim that sanctions, whether targeted or otherwise, can undermine the consensus within Iran in favor of the nuclear program.

The second piece of bad news will be delivered to you by neuroscientists, who will tell you that if you are older than four or five years of age, that even if you have your eye corrected, the chances of your brain learning how to see are very, very slim again, slim or none.

But the prospects of that happening are slim, because such an appeal would lack the emotional pull of the desire to help immediate victims.

Donsky Tabak, one of Russia s main tobacco producers, has redesigned the cartons of its two female slim cigarettes and engineered a sleeker, younger ad campaign

We all went looting the local shops I still have the slim volumes of romantic poetry which my 16 year old self took from a bookshop.

Sadly, the chances that the LDP will reform, or that the DPJ will evolve into a responsible party of government in the foreseeable future, are slim.

It should be noted that neither the supporters of President Vieira nor his opponents can possibly muster more than a slim majority in the National Assembly.

Indeed, demographers predict that in 2050 non Hispanic whites will be only a slim majority of US residents. Hispanics will be 25 , African Americans 14 , and Asians 8 .

Chances that it gets the budget approved this year are slim, and, unless the dispute is resolved soon, the Union will not have an operational budget by 2007.

Slim Amamou, Tunisian blogger and former Secretary of State for Youth, tweeted slim404 Has the Interior become a legislator to ban and legislate the constitutional right of protest?

Unless Obama reaches an uneasy understanding with Russia which would require revising post Cold War strategic agreements the chances of imposing a tight sanctions regime on Iran are slim.

Where these conditions exist, a transition to democracy can succeed where they are missing, the chances as in Russia for a successful transition to a consolidated democracy are slim.

People who do these things are healthier on average. They are less likely to get cancer or to die of heart attacks they will probably stay slim and live longer.

It was hosted by the Carlos Slim Foundation, which works in support of implementing the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in such areas as health, deforestation, and closing the digital divide.

The chance that Mr. Du, and those like him, will find help in China is slim at present, most clinics and hospitals are not adequately prepared to treat HIV infected patients.

Alas, at this time of economic crisis, growing nationalism, and inward looking populism, the chances of a Muslim country becoming a member of the EU are slim, to say the least.

The problem is that, unlike the rail thin catwalk model who starves herself half to death to stay slim, the image of Russia that Putin seeks to project is completely imaginary.

In protest over this, blogger Slim Amamou, who had been jailed under Ben Ali and then became part of the transitional government after the revolution, he resigned in protest from the cabinet.

So a country that has managed to produce Carlos Slim, reckoned to be the second wealthiest man in the world, produces millions of others who scrape by on two dollars a day.

Countering narco gang violence includes working with Mexican telecommunications mogul Carlos Slim to develop tools that allow ordinary citizens to report violence anonymously by text message and enable police to map the results.

Bhagwati argued that this fusion played a role in turning liberalization of short term capital flows into an article of faith, despite sound theoretical reasons for caution and slim empirical evidence of benefits.

Earlier this morning, Tunisian blogger Slim Amamou, announced on Twitter the launch of the Yamli bookmarklet that he, along with other Arab Techies, have developed in their Arab Techies Code Sprint 2009 in Cairo.

One of his sons, Carlos Slim Helú, born on 28 January 1940 in Mexico City, inherited his fathers business talent and ultimately became the richest man in the world in 2007, according to Forbes magazine.

After the battle of the Marne (September 1914) and the failure of the Schlieffen Plan, some of Wilhelm s advisers realized that the chances for a military victory were slim, hence the need for a negotiated peace.

This means that whatever solution ultimately prevails will be measured according to whether it can solve the economic crisis (particularly the lack of job opportunities for the young) and deepening mass poverty. The chances of this are slim.