• The merest hint of infidelity would send currency users fleeing to an alternative issuer.

    FORBES: May the Best Currency Win

  • These useful activities could operate at the merest fraction of the current World Bank and IMF budgets.

    FORBES: Housing

  • During her stay, she keeps slipping back, at the merest prompting, into recollections of her time at the farm.

    NEWYORKER: Family Farm

  • Ahron Leichtman founded Citizens for a Tobacco-free Society because the merest whiff of tobacco smoke gave him a headache.

    ECONOMIST: Rout of the new evil empire

  • Mr Tytell spent two years on the job, replicating, down to the merest spot and flaw, the Hiss Woodstock N230099.

    ECONOMIST: Martin Tytell

  • It was the merest shadow of what Patton called his "eloquent profanity, " but it was more than the mass-movie audience was used to.

    WSJ: Book Review: Making 'Patton'

  • The merest suspicion that they are going soft on the war, or are trying to use it for partisan advantage, would be grist for Mr DeLay's mill.

    ECONOMIST: The Democrats

  • With this, the merest of training, since that time I have had steady work with total unemployment of less than one month, not too bad a record in Michigan.

    FORBES: The One Skill That Will Land You A Job In Any Factory, Anywhere

  • With that precedent set, shareholders knew that at the merest whiff of a bad rumor they'd better bail out of a bank or insurance company, or their money could be obliterated.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Mr O'Brien can also be somewhat humourless, offering copious quotations from the chairman of Nevada's Gaming Commission without mustering the merest smile at the fact that his name happens to be Bill Bible.

    ECONOMIST: Gambling

  • It lasted the merest instant, but it helped.

    NEWYORKER: Rat Beach

  • For three decades leading up to 1958, the president of the UC was Robert Gordon Sproul, a politically connected Republican with a legendary ability to marshal alumni support at the merest hint of funding cuts.

    FORBES: Does Higher Education Need To Go Back To The Fifties?

  • Michael Arrington over at Techcrunch has rather taken to his soapbox to demand that journalists should walk out of their jobs at even the merest hint of their bosses telling them what not to write.

    FORBES: Michael Arrington Takes To His Soapbox

  • In the other corner (office) you have the unrepentant heads of Wall Street firms, who have suffered no penalties at all, and howl in protest at the merest suggestion they have been overcompensated, given their proven incompetence.

    FORBES: Wall Street Has Been Entitled, NOT Occupy Wall Street

  • But the spat also underlined that, despite receiving pots of federal money, it is much easier for Quebec's artists to come out as gay (as both playwrights did years ago) than to reveal the merest suspicion of closet federalism.

    ECONOMIST: A heresy that dare not speak its name

  • Murray gave the merest hint of the jitters as he fell 0-30 behind when trying to close out the match but extinguished the danger with some heavy serving and converted his second match point to win in just 54 minutes.

    BBC: Andy Murray beats Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in Shanghai

  • It was the one fixed point on a vacillating compass of relative morality until, one day, a tiny bird, the merest wisp of red plumage, tore away my comforting absolute and aligned me squarely with the NRA supporters, Second Amendment defenders and pro-gun crusaders I had reviled.

    NEWSWEEK: Culture

  • Criminals involved with the Mafia, or with money-laundering or other corrupt activities, would have a better chance of slipping through the net of justice if defence lawyers find the merest technical defect in the way evidence has been got from, or transmitted by, any country that has signed the convention of 1959.

    ECONOMIST: Italy and the law

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