Despite worldwide protests and appeals from a cross-spectrum of governments, world leaders and celebrities, the military junta has repeatedly extended her house arrest for a variety of thinly contrived reasons.
In South Africa, a soccer game is a thinly disguised reason to sing, dance, scream and blow on a vuvuzela for hours.
In an apparent attempt to deflect criticism of these thinly-reasoned enforcement actions, Chinese antitrust regulators have proposed giving themselves more tools to regulate the patent licensing practices of foreign companies.
In each case, the Chinese regulators issued thinly-reasoned decisions finding violations of China's Anti-Monopoly Law, slapping the patent holder with extraordinarily high fines ($975 million in the case of Qualcomm) or procuring commitments to license patents on terms favorable to Chinese manufacturers.
It harms tightly focused vested interests, while spreading its benefits widely and, for that reason, thinly.
We had jumped too fast, spread out too far and too thinly over too vast a terrain, and then went to war on a distant front -- against an enemy that would not bargain, compromise or reason together.
Thankfully author Nathaniel Hawthorne had been a founding member and recorded these characters in what was a memoir thinly veiled, for legal reasons, as a novel.
Westwood smiles thinly when asked about Faldo's reasons for excluding him on the second morning.
That's why Robert Harris added a murder mystery to "The Ghost," his thinly disguised novel about the real reason Prime Minister Tony Blair of Britain supported the overthrow of Saddam Hussein.
Rather than spreading your efforts too thinly and reeling off every possible reason you can think of for wanting to work there, focus on two or three of these topics and go into more detail.
