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I didn't feel that I cared in the
slightest
about what happened to anybody.
When it was all over, I didn't find it overly existential or pretentious or confusing or boring in the
slightest.
Viewpoints that deviate in the
slightest
from Party doctrine are still absent from Chinese TV.
Anyone with the
slightest
knowledge of Chinese history knows that this view was patently false.
After marrying Chang Song-taek, she began living something of a hedonistic life herself, but she scrutinized her husband’s conduct minutely, flying into a jealous rage over the
slightest
signs of infidelity.
Education is the most important investment we can make in our most precious assets – our children – and we will not tolerate even the
slightest
threat to it.
Indeed, he has never made the
slightest
allusion to the idea of including the West Bank and Jerusalem in such negotiations.
The Kenyan authorities, eager to please the US, were tempted to hand over Kenyan citizens on the
slightest
encouragement.
While financial and political scandals -- the notorious French "affaires" -- are multiplying, none of the new government members appears to be under the
slightest
suspicion of involvement; something that could not have been said about the previous ministerial team, or about the entourage that surrounded President Mitterrand.
Opposition candidates and parties were denied registration for the
slightest
formal complaint.
Indeed, at the
slightest
provocation, Putin will be able to point to America’s hypocrisy for spying on, say, European Union facilities as part of expanded surveillance programs supposedly within the scope of the war on terror, and for hunting Snowden after accusing Russia of unfairly prosecuting the whistleblower Sergei Magnitsky.
"When inequality is the common law, the strongest inequalities are not conspicuous," Alexis de Tocqueville wrote in his classic Democracy in America , but "when everything is more or less leveled, the
slightest
inequality hurts."
Moreover, “behind this mask of extreme confidence lies a fragile self-esteem that’s vulnerable to the
slightest
criticism.”
People continue to think in ways typical to authoritarian/totalitarian regimes, where blaming others is the standard escape for your own inadequacies, and where anyone who is even the
slightest
bit different may be an enemy.
Not the smallest shadow of the
slightest
suspicion of corruption ever disturbed his peace.
If, however, the
slightest
doubt about the OMT’s effectiveness arises, the expectation game will shift into reverse, and both countries’ bonds will quickly come under attack.
The rule of law must apply to all, and very few believe that any of the charges against Tymoshenko would stand the
slightest
chance of being upheld in a Western court.
Hundreds of thousand of people who would doubtless obtain employment in new private firms also do not have the
slightest
idea in advance that the would do so.
At the elite level, the difference between being a champion and an also-ran is so miniscule, and yet matters so much, that athletes are pressured to do whatever they can to gain the
slightest
edge over their competitors.
But at the very moment when even
slightest
glance at the crisis-ridden region on Europe’s eastern flank – Iran, Iraq, Syria, the Middle East conflict, Central Asia and the Southern Caucasus, Islamic terrorism, emigration, and threats to Europe’s energy supplies – should make clear Turkey’s paramount importance to European security, Europe is reveling in its disinterest in the state of European-Turkish relations.
As early as 1997, I warned about a repeat of the collapsed economic order of 1929-1933 in my book A Global Ethic for Global Politics and Global Economics : “The
slightest
remark, for example by the President of the American Federal Bank, Alan Greenspan, at the beginning of December 1996, that an “irrational exuberance” had led to an overvaluation of the financial markets was enough to drive the nervous investors on the high-flying stock markets of Asia, Europe and America into a spin, and panic selling.
But there is no reason for stocks to rise forever: at the
slightest
sign of inflation trouble stock prices will implode fast.
The final issue that the doormat incident brought to the fore is Indians’ tendency to take offense at the
slightest
affront – a tendency that is now being elevated, by the thumbs of a top minister, to the level of official policy.
The basic problem for Anglosphere advocates is that none of the candidates for membership of this new club are likely to have the
slightest
interest – geostrategic, economic or political – in joining it.
A few newspaper editors, indeed, have been known to lose their jobs for publishing even the
slightest
hints about Putin’s family life.
There are only the
slightest
of indications that Senators Obama and Clinton or even Senator McCain have any different intentions.
Meanwhile, no other nuclear-armed state has expressed the
slightest
interest in bilateral or multilateral reduction negotiations until the two major powers, which currently hold 95% of the world’s stockpile, make further major cuts.
There is little evidence that the Sunni IS has the
slightest
interest in outreach by any Shia leader.
“Red lines” in Israel have a way of mutating into lines drawn in the sand, which are then rendered invisible at the
slightest
wind.
The
slightest
negative shock could have bankrupted the new federal government.
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