"The slightest breach in their hull would have done them in."

These uncertainties may result in slight, unintended breaches of the 150 kiloton threshold.

It was a slight breach of protocol, an inferior officer addressing another ship's captain without so much as a by-your-leave from his own commanding officer.

Shandess looked at her disarmingly, despite the slight breach in courtesy.

Most lynchings followed disputes over wages, slight breaches of racial etiquette, accusations of petty theft and attempts by white people to divert attention from their own transgressions.

Even the slightest breach of it during a full-scale nuclear attack would bring an unprecedented rain of destruction and death.

We could not approve the slightest breach.

The treaty provides that one or two slight unintended breaches per year would not be a violation.

We will then determine the penalty, whether it is a simple reprimand, and only a slight breach, or whether it is a more serious matter.

A silent "tee" is made when the tongue strikes the reed or roof of the mouth causing a slight breach in the air flow through the instrument.