Others say: 'Perhaps the German Government has its hands tied by certain agreements defining its powers, or perhaps it is not an opportune moment for intervention.' "Our presence had no ameliorating effect, and what we could do ourselves was negligible....

If the brain has been damaged in any way during development or birth, if it has been smashed up in any way, or if it has failed to evolve the minimum number of healthy nerve cells, the endocrine influence becomes negligible.

To that end, I suppose, there has been a vast amount of mental activity among us political "negligibles."

And, curiously, since Miss Lansdale did not appear formidable to masculine Little Arcadywith one negligible exceptionshe seemed to try perversely not to be so.

But Jupiter has been so far surpassed in breadth and reality by Joel Chandler Harris, Thomas Nelson Page, and a score of others as to be almost negligible in the count.

Those were chances which had to be taken continually; but as a rule the rapidity of flight rendered them almost negligible.

And so we can pass to poorer and poorer qualities of land, with an ever diminishing rent, until at the margin of cultivation the derived utility of the land is negligible and the rent vanishes.

Now will any reader make so bold as to say that there is no land under cultivation, in respect of which this net rent is either nil or negligible?

In the same way it might seem that every enlargement of the scale of business would make for an automatic insurance and a consequent economy of risk; and thus that if all businesses were comprised in a single financial unit, gains and losses would cancel out over so wide a range that the degree of risk remaining would be almost negligible.

The Western world has alternated between the conception of him as a devil, almost Antichrist himself, and a negligible impostor whose power is transient.

The lesser, but not negligible, reason is that we possess no convenient English word for the unknotting or disentangling of a complication.

They made his protagonist appear a negligible quantity.

She was vexed, in looking back, to think how little notice she had taken of young Marvell, who turned out to be so much less negligible than his brilliant friend.

The country consists almost entirely of working people, the other classes being a nearly negligible fraction in point of numbers.

To torpedo a merchantman simply means the cold-blooded murder of the crew, for their chances of escape would be almost negligible, whilst it is impossible to find words to describe the attempts which have been made to sink hospital ships.

She was for Judith as negligible as all other grown-ups, save the few who had good sense enough to play games and go in swimming.

It had never occurred to her that Aunt Victoria might have been affected by that event in her father's life, with which she was quite familiar through his careless references to what he seemed to regard as an interesting but negligible incident.

The submarine blockade of Britain is now a negligible factor in this question.

These British shipowners are a pampered class with great political and social influence, and no doubt as soon as the accumulating strain of the struggle tells to the extent of any serious restriction of their advantage and prospects, we shall see them shifting to the side of the at present negligible group of British pacifists.

The petty States, on the contrary, form no independent centres of gravity, but may, in event of war, prove to possess a by no means negligible importance: the small Balkan States for Austria and Turkey; Denmark, Holland, Belgium, and Switzerland, and eventually Sweden, for Germany.

Evidently the other factors in species- survival are of such overwhelming importance that the coloration becomes negligible from this standpoint, whether it be concealing or revealing.

His barons snatched their cue and esteemed Dame Anne to be negligible; whereas the clergy, finding that she obstinately read the Scriptures in the vulgar tongue, under the irrelevant plea of not comprehending Latin, began to denounce her from their pulpits as a heretic and as the evil woman prophesied by Ezekiel.

"I think you have always thought me immature, young in experience, negligible as to wisdom, of an intellectual capacity inconsequential.

He never expresses the least opposition to them, but merely treats them as purely negligible things.

The art of the biographer is to select what is salient and typical, not what is abnormal and negligible; what he should aim at is to suggest, by skilful touches, a living portrait.