The mayor-elect is a man of slight bearing and height, with a slim reed of a voice that barely projects even with amplification.

She said: "Sir, Mr. Seabrooke believes it may have some slight bearing on the future survey, and we should be familiar with it.

"My feelings toward Dr. Doray haven't the slightest bearing on the case whatever," Bradbury remarked in a tone of voice which was doubtless intended as a rebuke.

"That hasn't the slightest bearing on this case," Napier said crossly.

The fact that Jeff was bootlegging gasoline that came into the junkyard might have some slight bearing on larger matters.

This was good for both Staudt and Chevy, because within months people from all parts of the business were coming to him with problems that had the slightest bearing on marketing.

Nothing more he did from that moment on until, many busy years later, he entered the blue tunnel into the Afterlife, would have the slightest bearing on the future of the human race.

Each one of you is welcome to contribute ideas and questions and we'll follow up as many of them as seem to have the slightest bearing on the case.

Nothing else about her - her hair, her hemline or her past indiscretions (if any) - has the slightest bearing on this case.

It was perfectly understood that no outer differences between us, however great, had the slightest bearing on this shared moment of enchantment together, at play in the sunlit waters.