Sentence examples for slight reason from inspiring English sources

— Jeff Gordinier Chicago Tribune: Has the Food and Drug Administration given the fatty nation some slight reason to hope?

C1 Positive Report From Intel Intel, the computer chip maker, reported better-than-expected fourth quarter sales and profits and gave investors at least slight reason to hope that the worst of the downturn in the technology industry is over.

At the close of the fourth paragraph of the Third Meditation, Descartes lays out an ambitious plan: "in order to remove even this slight reason for doubt, as soon as the opportunity arises I must examine whether there is a God, and, if there is, whether he can be a deceiver" (Med. 3, AT 7 36).

"If it remains solely my decision, there is not the slightest reason for a change".

Her father said that anyone who had the slightest reason to leave should go now.

There isn't the slightest reason to think that's true.

"We must not give those who think that we're all madmen at Marseille the slightest reason to continue their campaign," he said.

There is not the slightest reason to interdict an adverb from the position before the main verb, and great writers in English have placed it there for centuries.

But by 1884, he had become depressed,and wrote: "There is not the slightest reason for this island to be inhabited at all".

Iran may encourage fanatic chumps to carry out suicide missions, but there is not the slightest reason to believe the mullahs themselves are suicidal.

But in English, infinitives like "to go" and future-tense forms like "will go" are two words, not one, and there is not the slightest reason to interdict adverbs from the position between them.