But Greek voters are equally certain that it's unfair for them to suffer years of slim government budgets and high unemployment in order to repay foreign banks and richer northern neighbors, which have reaped outsized benefits from closer European integration.
Kennedyesque is still the style, the demeanour, candidates for high office aspire to: slim, energetic, accompanied by a supremely elegant spouse.
It may be a slim volume, but it contains worlds.
So much so that there is now a slim chance that Hillary Clinton's presidential aspirations have been undone by something she could have feasibly been taught on a WebWise internet safety course.
Erect in his seat in a north London pub, his slim 6ft 5in wrapped in layers of fitted menswear, Blake drinks a coffee and indulges in that great British pleasure: the meandering, recreational moan.
He is a slim man with a charcoal shirt, orange tie and neatly squared goatee.
The stranger offering scholarships was a woman named Godiya, a slim, quietly-spoken 27-year-old whose sister had been among the kidnapped schoolgirls.
But if you remain open to the possibility of change, even if it's a slim possibility, even if we recognise that it's a small probability, if you remain open to that probability and fight for it then you become part of the shift towards that.
Each household inside the favela makes its own connection to the community's single, slim water pipe, drilling a hole, attaching an elbow joint and running another pipe or hose into their homes.
My report, which includes a field study carried out on a Peabody Trust housing estate in central London, hopes to add to this slim body of research.
If you send in your lead attorney or PR firm, odds are slim that trust will be built.
