| There is hardly room, on the evidence, for a finding that there is, in the claims of the patent, a scintilla of invention. |
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| Out go the twitching nostrils, flailing arms and sniffy declamations about a cheeky scintilla of vanilla and oodles of gunsmoke. |
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| They contain no vestige of self-doubt, no scintilla of scientific uncertainty and more than a hint of patronage. |
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| But generally I prefer policies that demonstrate a scintilla of common sense and financial acumen. |
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| There can be surely not a scintilla of doubt that the whole grisly situation is the very quintessence of irresponsibility. |
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| A scintilla of reasonable doubt might be expected about the efficacy and justice of a punishment now rejected by 71 countries. |
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| Without a scintilla of regret or moral thought, your party has embraced corporate crooks, polluters and other moral rot. |
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| He put dissidents, or those suspected of a scintilla of disloyalty, into stinking jails which were often death centres. |
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| Had there been even the slightest scintilla of evidence then she would have been charged. |
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| While it was perfectly legitimate for the society to criticise the treatment choice there was not a scintilla of evidence to support their claim. |
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| He never caused a scintilla of trouble at any of the dog-friendly hotels and motels we visited. |
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| I understand partisanship, but surely there has to be an element, a scintilla of responsibility in the way these arguments are put forward. |
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| They don't extirpate every scintilla of self-doubt you've ever had. |
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| A few weeks ago, it was a hanging offence inside New Labour to show a scintilla of complacency. |
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| The real problem is there is no scintilla of credibility in the government's position. |
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| In years past Mother never exhibited a scintilla of tolerance for insects, going to extreme and toxic measures to keep them from gaining entrance to her domicile. |
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| For an action to survive, one just has to show there is a scintilla of a cause of action, which will or will not be proven subsequently. |
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| There is not one bit of evidence, not a scintilla, that points to mistreatment of Taliban prisoners by the Canadian Forces. |
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| It has exhibited no marketing strategy, business plan or scintilla of vision in its current operations. |
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| Substantial evidence is more than a mere scintilla, and must do more than create a suspicion of the existence of the fact to be established. |
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| In response to his question, if he has a scintilla of evidence to put on the table to support his claim, then he should do it. |
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| There is absolutely not one scintilla of evidence or justification to support that personal abusive attack upon the Prime Minister of Canada. |
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| Why do we buy into such hype, when everyone with a scintilla of intelligence understand there's no relationship between box office gross and motion picture quality? |
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| There was not a scintilla of substance in the reports as far as she knew. |
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| How could anyone do all this without leaving behind a scintilla of microscopic evidence? |
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| Forde is among those who note that every scintilla of blame cannot be put on FitzPatrick and Drumm. |
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| It does take a certain talent to take Paul Newman and present the actor without a scintilla of excitement. |
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| I have not a scintilla of interest in being at court when the judge sentences him. |
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| When Banyan characterised him as lacking even a scintilla of charisma, with a legislative record that left scarcely a mark, one of his own close advisers thought that rather charitable. |
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| We are burning and dumping real assets which, applying a scintilla of environmental awareness and action, could be making a valuable contribution to our economic prosperity. |
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| But the summary...if one ever had one scintilla of doubt about the importance of this measure, a dip into that evidence base should dispel any doubt at all. |
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| We have heard time and time again from the government that there is not one scintilla of evidence that a detainee who was passed on from Canadian Forces to Afghan officials was tortured. |
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| As usual in this back-street howf, any scintilla of knowledge outside horse-racing is greeted with derision. |
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| Now they ask how he might affect India's general election, which will probably take place in April. Without a scintilla of governing experience, so far the AAP has exceeded expectations. |
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| Substantial evidence is more than a mere scintilla. |
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| A bit of information, a 1 or a 0, can be indicated by a pencil mark in a checkbox, by a microscopic spot on a magnetic disk or by the briefest pulse of electricity or scintilla of light. |
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| The problem with all this activity is that the government has failed to produce even a scintilla of evidence that any of these prosecutions have resulted in a diminution of organized crime's illicit ventures. |
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| It is obvious to everyone in this place and to the millions of Canadians who are watching that this has to take place if there is to be any shred, any scintilla of credibility left in the government. |
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| With a general election due in the next few months, this timid government looks unlikely to defang a venomous law, even as a scintilla of hope shows for poor Rimsha. |
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| That is why the DBES scheme specifically excluded anything about which there is still, or has been, a scintilla of doubt, including meat which is not deboned. |
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| The minister on nine separate occasions has told the House that there is not a scintilla of evidence of mistreatment, even as the entire country was shown evidence that torture did take place. |
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