Sentence examples for Under the slight from inspiring English sources

Betty leaves the meeting early with impressive grace but, on the subway back to the office, sags under the slight.

This is because fault symptoms are very weak under the slight pitting health condition (see Figure 6).

The obtained fragilities indicate that the fragility curves for the unrepaired scenario almost overlaps the repaired cases under the slight damage state, where the extent of damage is somewhat negligible (i.e., the damage state is cosmetic and repairable, and the onset of bar buckling did not occur).

BV and trichomoniasis are characterized, with vulvovaginal candidiasis under the slight misnomer of vaginitis.

Yet this rationale crumbles to dust under the slightest scrutiny.

It tends to crumble under the slightest pressure.

If it wasn't dogged by scandal, like a slush-fund episode this year, the Council was being criticized for buckling under the slightest pressure from the mayor.

Postmodernism is almost impossible to pin down; like a blob of mercury, it slips away under the slightest pressure, only to pop up again in original form.

The claims that all low-paid workers will be protected and that the average workers will get better pensions collapse under the slightest scrutiny.

They said they felt that "if ever taken into custody by the Soviets he would also tell them the truth as he knew it under the slightest duress" and should not be trusted with important assignments.

As the French philosopher Jean-François Revel has remarked: "Utopia is not under the slightest obligation to produce results: its sole function is to allow its devotees to condemn what exists in the name of what does not".