The merest hint of infidelity would send currency users fleeing to an alternative issuer.
These useful activities could operate at the merest fraction of the current World Bank and IMF budgets.
But the merest echo of the shameful Western past is enough to chill support for Israel in the West.
During her stay, she keeps slipping back, at the merest prompting, into recollections of her time at the farm.
Ahron Leichtman founded Citizens for a Tobacco-free Society because the merest whiff of tobacco smoke gave him a headache.
Mr Tytell spent two years on the job, replicating, down to the merest spot and flaw, the Hiss Woodstock N230099.
Since China has the merest glimmerings of a social-welfare system, workers are unwilling to spend now what they might need tomorrow.
It was the merest shadow of what Patton called his "eloquent profanity, " but it was more than the mass-movie audience was used to.
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.
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.
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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.
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.
This juxtaposition that would have been incomprehensible a mere two or three decades ago, does not draw the merest bleat of protest from the crowds who are preoccupied with their profane attack on America.
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.
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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.
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.
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Yet it is clear that Russia under Mr Putin has moved sharply away from the chaotic but recognisable democracy that he inherited, and towards a centralised and intolerant autocracy that stamps on the merest hints of independent opposition.
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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.
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.
And if, as is most likely, President Obama presides over the emergence of a nuclear Iran, he had best prepare for storms that will make the squawks of protest against his health-care plans look like the merest showers on a sunny day.
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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.
Although members of the Federal Open Market Committee profess to be unconcerned about a stockmarket fall the last few have left not the merest dent in economic growth they are now trying to talk down a (they claim non-existent) stockmarket bubble without ruining the underlying economy in America or elsewhere.
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.
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