We regard the public dividend capital as the merest window dressing.
It seems to be the merest opportunism in a man to say one thing when in office and another when he is out of it.
There is a feeling of resentment against any such interference in a struggle for the merest measure of comfort in life.
There is only the merest mention of fish marketing.
That, of course, is the merest common sense.
It is like a fine machine which cannot work if the merest speck of dust gets into it.
It involves the merest pinprick at the top of the thumb.
This means the merest handful of sites which may survive while the vast majority, as has been said, is downgraded.
