Thanks to Simon Sebag Montefiore, there is no longer the slightest justification for thinking of Joseph Stalin as anything other than a monster.
And then the incendiary moment: "There is not the slightest justification for the currently fashionable notion that 'fresh' pasta is preferable to factory-made dry pasta.
But, in establishing such a regulation, there does not appear to be the slightest justification for making a distinction between those who carry for hire farm products, or milk or butter, or fish or oysters, and those who carry for hire bread or suar, or tea or coffee, or groceries in general, or other useful commodities.
His tax plan, or what he likes to call (without the slightest justification) the "next American revolution," promises to "reignite growth in our economy".
I was waiting for the slightest, flimsiest justification or provocation to buy that bottle of brandy, which was strange, because until recently I'd never tasted much Armagnac.
For about a decade, he's been stalked by a system that considers the slightest infraction a justification for locking him back inside.
If it were now to come to light that there was after all some justification, however slight, for torpedoing, HMG's relations with America could well suffer.
The new and possibly improved Borussia Dortmund, meanwhile, showed that the pre-season hype has some justification, a slight wobble against Mainz 05 notwithstanding.
"If it were now to come to light that there was after all some justification, however slight, for the torpedoing, HMG's relations with America could well suffer".
"India is increasingly becoming a country where any group's claim that it was slighted, however baseless, is a justification for censorship," he writes.
India is increasingly becoming a country where any group's claim that it was slighted, however baseless, is a justification for censorship.
