The first slight disequilibrium from bending around a corner.
In these Hollywood versions of feminism, women do not fight back at the first slight from a man, the first slight from a boss or the first dawning of understanding that life is not fair.
"Be it the beginning of bony spurs, bog spavins or windgall, Noah would see the first slight knobble or puff".
Potassium chromate reacts with the first slight excess silver ion to form a red precipitate of silver chromate.
The presence of the first slight excess of silver ion (i.e., the end point) can be marked by the appearance of a coloured precipitate.
"My husband said, 'Put out a press release to spike the story, and let the cards fall as they may.' And as soon as he said it, that was my first slight glimmer of hope.
The Washington case is a major factor in the expected legislative approval this month of the first, slight easing of the state's 21-day window on new evidence.
Their numbers had grown quarter after quarter and year after year since the second quarter of 1958, and then in the second quarter of this year, there was the first slight drop -- 21,000 jobs, including 6,000 in June -- after so many years of growth.
Mr. Horn's friends say a first slight from Time Warner came in 2009, when the company allowed news to circulate in the Hollywood trade press that it planned to renew the contracts of Mr. Horn and Barry M. Meyer, Warner's chairman, for only two years instead of the typical three to five.
James Mill's income was at first slight, as he struggled to make his living as a reviewer.
