But to hear many people tell it, the proposal has virtually no chance of receiving the slightest formal consideration, let alone being adopted.

"You decided, all on your own, what was best for our futures without giving us the slightest consideration."

Just the slightest consideration from this unworthy man she thought she loved and she became luminous.

He was a trading justice, to be sure, and would sell a verdict for even a slight consideration rather than pass an opportunity to augment his income.

So far the trial had been a complete failure and now without the slightest consideration for his feelings the prisoner was pleading guilty.

"The brown crud is spread into the sea by man without the slightest consideration for the terrible consequences."

Fleet Street hacks appear to have plucked random figures from the air - without the slightest consideration for accuracy or appropriate research.

Never mind the money; that was the slightest consideration.

You do not, for example, propose even the slightest social consideration in the Commission' s approval of merger plans between major groups.

The tone he used made it seem as if the matter deserved only slight consideration.