'slender evidence' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is often used to describe evidence that is weak or not very convincing. Example: The police have been searching for the culprit but all they have is slender evidence to go on.
Even in Basra, alcohol and music shops have been closed and women arrested for prostitution, often on slender evidence.
The question of union democracy does not engage Russell, who writes, on slender evidence, that Teamsters members "happily declined to share in the management of the union".
On slender evidence, Hailsham claimed a 50-year policy pedigree for his objections, giving them the aura of a fundamental ethical axiom.
The Sappho Companion ed Margaret Reynolds (Vintage, £9.99) Everyone who has an idea about Sappho only does so on slender evidence.
Girling was examined and declared insane (a judgment fairly quickly overturned, though not many years later Woods was certified on even more slender evidence, and incarcerated for 24 years).
From this slender evidence, along with liberal and dubious readings of the plays and sonnets, scholars have created a robust portrait of the Shakespeares' unhappy domestic life — a "marriage of evil auspices," as one scholar put it.
As Wallace's own biographer Peter Raby concludes: 'Never has an intriguing theory been built on slenderer evidence.
In his autobiography, Fugitive Offender (1965), he claimed that the trial was based on slender and doubtful evidence, and in the long run added to his political reputation.
The best archaeological theorizing uses amazing powers of deduction to weave slender threads of evidence into convincing reconstructions of past lives.
Because such utilitarianism is the only aspect of torture that they are willing to consider, the discussion — such as it is — has turned on what slender strands of evidence about Osama bin Laden's courier were produced by "enhanced interrogation".
In general, as Ms. Cullen and Ms. Ramirez argue in the show's slender catalog, there is evidence that the hard ideological lines of the 1990's are growing more supple and elastic and weaving together in new ways to refresh abiding concerns.
