not for a moment

1. Never, not in the least, as in Not for a moment did I believe he was telling the truth. This expression employs moment in the sense of “the tiniest length of time,” a usage dating from the mid-1300s.

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Not for a moment did I suspect that the financial 1980s would last for two full decades longer, or that the difference in degree between Wall Street and ordinary economic life would swell to a difference in kind.

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But the fact that they saw Assad as part of their strategy to contain and damage Iran until days before his fall indicates clearly that they did not for a moment believe him to be days away from a midnight flit to Russia.

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"We can ensure that we will not for a moment forget about the most important ones in this whole situation - the girls who should have been safe in their school, and that is why we are going through these processes and arrangements," it said.

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But Osaka, one of sport's most powerful voices on social issues, is also anxious to point out that new mothers should not for a moment compare themselves to her, only six months after childbirth.

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Lincoln warned lawyers that they should not "for a moment yield to the popular belief" and urged them "to be honest at all events."

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