At the close of the fourth paragraph of the Third Meditation, Descartes lays out an ambitious plan: "in order to remove even this slight reason for doubt, as soon as the opportunity arises I must examine whether there is a God, and, if there is, whether he can be a deceiver" (Med. 3, AT 7 36).
— Jeff Gordinier Chicago Tribune: Has the Food and Drug Administration given the fatty nation some slight reason to hope?
C1 Positive Report From Intel Intel, the computer chip maker, reported better-than-expected fourth quarter sales and profits and gave investors at least slight reason to hope that the worst of the downturn in the technology industry is over.
"If it remains solely my decision, there is not the slightest reason for a change".
There is not the slightest reason to interdict an adverb from the position before the main verb, and great writers in English have placed it there for centuries.
"There is not the slightest reason now to build parts for a new Danish border control system, which raises considerable doubt with the Schengen treaty, as well as with the European Commission and the German government," Mr. Hoyer said.
Whatever his private religious beliefs – and Smith was deeply circumspect on such matters – Smith shared his friend David Hume's view that neither philosophy nor science had provided the slightest reason for believing in the existence of a benevolent deity.
"There is not the slightest reason why trial and error procedure, similar to that in a competitive market, could not work in a socialist economy to determine the accounting prices of capital goods and of the productive resources in public ownership," he wrote.
Mangini said the plan had been to sit Coles and Eric Smith, who also sustained a concussion against the Raiders and who also played Sunday, if they showed the slightest reason for concern.
At that time there was not the slightest reason for doubt.
