There was serious doubt that all of them were guilty, but even if they were, they'd been convicted on slim evidence.
In reality, the slim evidence is that late units were often severely under-strength, perhaps only about two-thirds of official.
On picking the right crabs on such slim evidence rests his livelihood.
"Well, maybe you're right," said Marvel; "but that's sort of slim evidence to hang a man on."
We can't risk the lives of several hundred colonists on such slim evidence.
Well, we now have evidence - slim but accurate - that he has begun the same process here.
No assessment of his work could fairly be made from such slim evidence.
On this slim evidence he then accuses Joyce of deception and injustice.
There have been saints before, and will be again, whose sanctity rests on far slimmer evidence.
She had an air of independent thought-or so he believed on the slim evidence of their two brief meetings.