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The common description of bureaucrats as "little Hitlers" (does anyone know who first used this phrase?) fails, or wilfully refuses, to recognise that we all have a little Hitler in us, or more to the point, that Hitler had a little human in him too, and that a human given power will exercise it, no matter how measly it may be.Especially, in fact, if it is measly.

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Most don't realize how our measly individual tax dollar/year contributions have led to thousands of paybacks, borne of the brilliance contained within her ranks.

You're frail, and at age 65 you wonder how far your measly Social Security check will go.

So you know, how much can one measly thunderstorm really hurt?

He's over there studying how to farm crops with the measly runoff from desert rainstorms.

With a drop of a measly $1.20, we wonder how much more affordable that will actually be, especially when you consider that the Medicare Part D deductible will be $405 in 2018, up from $400 in 2017.

As the Iowa pollster Ann Selzer observed, "If you just look at how the campaigns are treating Iowa, our measly little seven electoral votes will matter and everything will be under scrutiny".

She contacted her local paper, Bedfordshire on Sunday, to let them know how disappointed she was with Sainsbury's measly contribution. .

If little ole Romney could stash his measly $250 million in tax havens, how could self-proclaimed billionaire Donald not be part of that crowd?

In his new book, Bryson writes of how he witnessed a well-heeled pensioner leave a measly 10p in the tip jar of a café in the Lake District when she assumed she would not be spotted.

Plus, the Xbox's standard hard drive space for the majority of the past three years was a measly 20GB so you really should know how much space these games are going to take up.

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