Translation of "Ein funken wahrheit" in English

Well, Thomas, there is some truth to that.

I suppose there's some small truth to that.

Couldn't it be true?

Well, truth has got to start somewhere.

I mean, is that also a grain of truth?

Clearly, this caricature is based on some truth.

For sure, there is a spark of truth also in these generalizations.

For there is a grain of truth in those words.

If that's even half true, I wonder what kind of money that really adds up to.

Encryption will keep your network safe Unlike the other myths, this one has an element of truth to it.

I think he is right up to a point, which makes the rapporteur' s work all the more remarkable and meritorious and I thank him.

And I don't think you could've written what you did if there wasn't some small part of you that thought that way about us.

Well, of course, there is some truth in that, but it does all depend on the passenger loads in public transport.

Now, I have to say that my memory is notoriously porous, and I've often wondered whether there was any truth in this story, or I was just, you know, misremembering something, but I recently just blew up this old negative of mine, and sure enough, there you can see the Shklovsky and Sagan book underneath that analog calculating device.

Some of them are exaggerated and embroidered, but every story begins with a spark of truth!!

While there is some truth in both of these versions, truth, real truth, the whole unbiased truth is scarce.

Nevertheless, there is a grain of truth in this popular theory, namely the suspicion that the contrast between planned state capitalism (a.k.a. "real socialism") and liberal market capitalism may not be as great as was solemnly proclaimed in 1989.

The events from the latest war have shown that this is true, but there is another thing - a pride in their city.

But even if there is a grain of truth in those old tales, those times are long gone.

Nevertheless, there is a grain of truth in this popular theory, namely the suspicion that the contrast between planned state capitalism (a.k.a. “real socialism”) and liberal market capitalism may not be as great as was solemnly proclaimed in 1989.

If there were an atom of truth to this claim, why does the U.S. Government want to expel an official who has offered of his own free will to contribute to clearing up the facts while courageously assuming the risks involved in giving his valuable testimony at the trial of a man who could have his life ruined and be sentenced to many years in jail, after 34 years of service to the United States?

Against the background that almost seamless the Financial Crisis had been followed by the next global economic shock titled Debts Crisis there might be more than a little truth in the cynical statement: “There was no money lost – that is simply owned by others now.” Rolls-Royce announced some 1,600 cars sold in the first six months of 2011 and stated the best year since BMW had taken the reins in 2003. The increase in sales was 64% when compared to the same period of the previous year.

There was a degree of truth to Greenberg's observations, as certainly in the 50s and 60s literature was reducing itself to its "literariness" (as evidenced by such movements as the nouveau roman and the Oulipo group in France, and in the United States by the self-reflexive literary experimentation of writers such as John Barth, Donald Barthelme, and Vladimir Nabokov), cinema was reflecting on its own "cinematicness" (especially the Nouvelle Vague), music was reflecting on the relation between order and chance, rhythm and repetition, sound and silence, and harmony, noise, and timbre (as evidenced in the works of Pierre Boulez, John Cage, and Karlheinz Stockhausen), and in the realm of painting various painters were exploring the relation between form and formlessness, the framed and unframed, representation and abstraction, easel painting and action painting, and a variety of other issues.