At least then he could have tried to dissuade her or, at the very least, adjusted his strategy accordingly. |
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I thought at the very least I must have broken my back, the pain was that bad. |
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So I have, at the very least, one example of the President telling a bald-faced, absurd lie. |
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The Pottages opened the boot of their car, at the very least appearing to ignore the claimant who continued to address them. |
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While I was at university, my bitterest regret was not having been born the son of a duke, or at the very least a baronet. |
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He has two years left on his deal, and intends to see them out at the very least. |
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That's why I say it's an absurd question, because it betrays, at the very least, a serious oversimplification of evolutionary genetics. |
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There is an endless market for this kind of junk, a sucker born every minute at the very least. |
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The noise of a smoke detector would have alerted her, before the property became smoke-logged, or at the very least alerted neighbours. |
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Somewhere down-slope there is sure to be an unwary toddler, a brittle pensioner, or at the very least an expensive automobile. |
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Most prime ministers verge on the psychopathic in their desire to stay in power or at the very least destroy the chances of the next in line. |
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From the way you're talking about it, sounds like you're a nihilist, or at the very least suffering from clinical depression. |
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We can therefore say at the very least that there is no objective proof of the existence of a suicide tidal wave. |
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We need to establish at the very least whether it is feasible to at least odorise the raw gas by adding Mercaptan for safety. |
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With fifteen volumes to its name, it hinted that, at the very least, it wasn't the small offshoot of Disco that many have believed before. |
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Adrian had a sudden fear that the man might borrow his accomplice's knife and castrate him, or at the very least stab him. |
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If this isn't deliberate casuistry, it is at the very least severely myopic. |
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These measures, at the very least, would not strip intellectual property owners of their right. |
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Your average Lakeland visitor will at the very least manage a quick hike around Windermere or perhaps a ramble around Grasmere. |
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Any commentator owes it to themselves to at the very least to read this book. |
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If he had not been such a chunky lad he would have lost his kidney, or ruptured it at the very least. |
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But there are lessons from history here that, at the very least, should give us pause for thought. |
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For a proposition to be justified it must, at the very least, cohere with other propositions that one has adopted. |
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I think that at the very least fair-minded observers should see that the problem is complex. |
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Yet even with its flaws, the movie is fast-moving entertainment that is worth a rental at the very least. |
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While I can't fault her for professionalism, at the very least I would have expected a smile, or, really, any show of emotion at all. |
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Our ongoing cultural encounter with the gray is, at the very least, emblematic of fault lines in the contemporary culture. |
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Such matters are embedded in a gray sector of controversy and indefiniteness and are likely to remain so for the next decade, at the very least. |
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And, at the very least, anyone who must give up a companion animal should be responsible about finding a good home for the pet. |
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We highly recommend a professional copywriter to write the verbiage for your home page at the very least. |
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He will, at the very least, see the addition of Your and Legend as giving him some greater clout and positioning the company for another assault. |
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To state baldly that it's purely between the woman and her doctor is crass and simplistic at the very least. |
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However, at the very least, one can garner background information of what might have influenced the empiricists through the doctrine of skepsis. |
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Why are cameras not placed at frequent intervals on this road or, at the very least prior to a sharp bend? |
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This assertion is certainly legally disputable at the very least, and Burnside should know it. |
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It knew of plans to carry out killings of exiled political dissidents and, at the very least, did nothing to stop them. |
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Okay, so maybe it doesn't beg per se, but at the very least it gets up and mooches over to the cupboard where the dog biscuits are kept. |
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Such arguments blur, at the very least, the essential nature of democratic societies. |
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Begin in the middle of something, where there's smoke, or, at the very least, a crackle of flame. |
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Even if you have a problem with all of the arty pretension, there's some great drums at the very least. |
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Fingers crossed he can jack up a video projector, or at the very least a big-screen tv for it. |
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Give that girl a bath, or at the very least a hair wash, some elocution lessons and the imagination to ask questions beyond the banal. |
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That's odd, because there's compelling evidence that, at the very least, he fabricated quotes in the speech. |
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I walk towards him, wracking my brains to remember how I know him, or at the very least, a name. |
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Once upon a time, Labor leaders drove trains or sheared sheep or, at the very least, did a few years' yakka on the factory floor. |
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We know at the very least that he was one of the last people to speak to her. |
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It is not awful, but its steady flow of roots rock near-misses is, at the very least, disheartening. |
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But in the subjective world, I can use this magical view, and, at the very least, believe my eyes. |
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The Secretary of State himself considered that the views of the Chief Medical Officer were at the very least relevant. |
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We couldn't help reflecting that, in Stirling's time, such a shunt would have meant broken limbs at the very least. |
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A good deck transports you to another world, or at the very least extends your living space outdoors. |
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I felt that I'd ruffled his feathers up enough for the day, or at the very least a few hours. |
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In looking for ways to get rid of the salt hay, or at the very least control its further spread, the CHRA discovered a potential market for it. |
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Even the most autocratic regime must, at the very least, concern itself with popular disorder. |
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To optimists among them, at the very least the war seems to offer an opportunity for enhanced autonomy within a federal state. |
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Police have urged parents not to buy the guns for their children, or at the very least to keep them locked away. |
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If Australia goes ahead and outlaws spam then, at the very least, we ought to organise a treaty that would see the same laws enforceable on both sides of the Tasman. |
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If you're a nightly news devotee, then the 30-second hokum that often passes for nutrition science may confuse you at the very least or derail your long-term health at worst. |
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Making a life insurance narrative scintillating as well as informative is, at the very least, a challenge, yet this author succeeds extraordinarily well on both scores. |
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I hope the doctor is struck off the medical register at the very least. |
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His face was dirty and sweaty and grimacing with pain, his flak jacket hung open where it had taken a bullet, at the very least breaking his ribs or damaging his lungs. |
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Back in the day, at the very least the netroots could arrange for boatloads of cash for favored candidates. |
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In that case, vacation is all about the first-class seats and the best hotels or, at the very least, ordering room service without looking at the prices. |
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The final, and perhaps the most important reason to make, at the very least, an attempt at a language, is to entertain bored guides, muleteers and border police. |
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Such products are not suited for the rigours of public life, and need to be adapted, at the very least by sewing in hem weights. |
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This is to say that handler is, at the very least, a polarizing personality. |
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By the way, it's outside of all the regions discussed above, but Northern Australia offers unequalled opportunities for, at the very least, storage installations. |
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As it is being increasingly abused by the Great Powers for their own geostrategic interests, it should be discarded, or at the very least, reconsidered by socialists. |
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And later, we want to see people in various stages of working it off, or at the very least, grappling with heaviness. |
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But at the very least we must do our own house cleaning, change our downright nasty habits of further polluting an already over-polluted environment. |
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I would go into the relationship with my eyes open at the very least. |
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But there should be sufficient common ground to enable at the very least a businesslike approach. |
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When a company lives by the icon, it can, at the very least, impale itself on the icon. |
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In one case, at the very least, it is clear that Lapham was providing an educated guess based upon the size of the trees and his knowledge of tree growth patterns. |
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Or at the very least, he needs to find other performers like her who emphasize his obvious strengths in character creation and flexible but serious thematics. |
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Slipping on a straitjacket of simplistic logic, we come to believe that the disorder must, or at the very least should, be overcome by an application of willpower. |
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In the US the realisation seems to be dawning that this episode represents, at the very least, a case of maladministration, of desperately poor governance. |
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However, it was, at the very least, a small step for womankind because, unlike the ancient Roman, the husband now had a legal obligation to protect his wife. |
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She added that at the very least we should get rid of not only automatic but semiautomatic weapons. |
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Such side-stepping will frustrate newcomers in search of elucidation, or at the very least a fuller picture. |
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But with no sign of an epidemic in the U.S. it seems, at the very least, irrational. |
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Sure, two of them found, at the very least, moderate success. |
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Beards were so widespread on the red carpet, I half expected Dame Helen Mirren to appear with one, or at the very least a five o'clock shadow. |
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Finally, archaeological evidence cannot be ignored as a source for information, at the very least, on the Frankish mode of life. |
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It would involve unpicking complex legislation and treaty changes requiring unanimous, or at the very least majority consensus. |
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The cumulating side effects themselves pose a danger that, at the very least, implies exiting sooner than may be comfortable for many. |
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Cheeses include, at the very least, cottage cheese, quark or fromage blanc, and a local variety of gouda, and often Tzfatit and labneh too. |
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Geographically, it covers at the very least the countries of Western Europe, North America, Australia, and New Zealand. |
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If a hockey player blindsides a goalie, the guilty party had better be ready for a hip check into the boards or at the very least a firm facewash in the crease. |
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Nicholas felt that, because of Russian assistance in suppressing the Hungarian revolution of 1848, Austria would side with him, or at the very least remain neutral. |
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This limits cholera's ability to cause death, or at the very least a decline in education, as children are kept out of school to minimize the risk of infection. |
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Demisexuality further complicates my orientation. Or, at the very least, demisexuality imposes more difficulty in describing my particular brand of queerness. |
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Yet more fuel has been added to the argument that deregulation of electricity markets is, at the very least, not working the way we were promised. |
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