Not Copacabana bikini skimpy, but far too slight for such a big place: hence the queue of ships idling off Rio's beaches, waiting for a slot at its overburdened port.
It was difficult for them to believe that they had just entrusted their futures to such a slight man, barely taller than a bat boy.
They were neither trained nor equipped for such a task, and at the slightest provocation they used excessive force against Iraqi civilians.
No working stiff would sniff at such a slight raise.
In earlier eras, such a slight would have stung.
With such a slight turnout, that did not happen.
Let, for example, anger be defined as "desire, accompanied with pain, for conspicuous revenge for a conspicuous slight that was directed against oneself or those near to one, when such a slight is undeserved".
A plausible mechanistic model for such an activation process would be a slight conformational change induced in the hexameric complex by a torsion from a number of effector molecules passing through the cavity-opening.
Evidently, the reduction in DNA synthesis is either offset by the small, nonsignificant improvement in cell viability (reduced trypan blue staining), or alternatively, other phases of the cell cycle are rate limiting for replication, such that a slight slowing of DNA synthesis has no impact on the number of cells.
But Dr. Sarah J. Kilpatrick of the University of Illinois at Chicago, chairwoman of ACOG's committee on obstetric practice, noted that some physicians will deliver a baby early for relatively minor reasons, such as a slight increase in the mother's blood pressure.
