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Another consideration: The Lakers have perhaps the best second unit in the league. The Cavaliers, to put it mildly , do not.

Still, while such a transformation is, to put it mildly, undesirable, the policies are necessary.

To put it mildly, she's just a bit inquisitive.

To put it mildly, like the other two conflicts, getting in may be a lot easier than getting out, despite all rhetoric to the contrary.

For large and slow-to-reproduce mammals like humans, such a growth curve is, to put it mildly, unusual.

That increase was associated with mass extinctions, which, to put it mildly, probably would not be good for living standards.

But it is harsh, to put it mildly, for Prof Easterly to condemn the report when he offers what appears to be even emptier advice.

The truth about a Versailles shepherdess was, to put it mildly, more labile .

The measures used to value China Life suggest, to put it mildly, that something unusual is going on.

Azerbaijan is not one of the world's most transparent countries when it comes to politics and business, to put it mildly.

Mr Blatter says that he will reform the organisation. That seems, to put it mildly, improbable.

Mr Joyce's drastic move got, to put it mildly, mixed reviews.

To put it mildly, Mammaw's whipping her was an unusual reaction for a poor southern white woman in the 1920s.

"He didn't always agree with me on politics, to put it mildly, " says Lord Patten, who was ostracised by the business community.

The prospect of an open-ended military commitment without UN sanction is, to put it mildly, concentrating minds.

"It was a tough market, to put it mildly, " says a spokesman for the state's treasurer.

Vandeweghe, to put it mildly, let the third-year forward play through his mistakes in the last few minutes of that crushing 98-93 defeat.

The American presidential election of 2000 was, to put it mildly, controversial.

But even the notion that al-Qaeda will be our sole security risk in maintaining bases in Iraq is, to put it mildly, wishful thinking.

This is not, to put it mildly, how it has looked to the rest of humanity.

He has a reputation for telling the truth; she, to put it mildly, does not.

Murdoch, to put it mildly, is not used to being beaten.

Once the hoax was discovered, the medical community suffered great embarrassment. . . to put it mildly.

"To put it mildly, [converting food crops to biofuels] is foolish, to put it strongly it is a crime against humanity, " Mr Chidambaram said.

The official coalition losses are, to put it mildly, "falling behind" the actual figures.

Even then, we were in 1997-98 shocked by the potency of international capital, to put it mildly.

A fire drill is, to put it mildly, an inconvenient exercise at the . . .

China's recent record of historical preservation is, to put it mildly, poor.

Catherine Ashton, the EU's nominal foreign-policy chief, seems distracted, to put it mildly.

This is not, to put it mildly, an advertisement either for the US or for American politicians.

It means that our initial estimates of numbers were off and we know that the community is going to react negatively (to put it mildly).

For most people, the belief that free money doesn't exist is acquired through unpleasant circumstances, to put it mildly.

America has had an inauspicious start to the 21st century, to put it mildly.

The shipboard display of triumphalism under the "Mission Accomplished" banner was "a big mistake, " to put it mildly.

To put it mildly, I did not fall in love.

In the wake of the 2008 financial flameout, most business people are, to put it mildly, downbeat.

The benefits are, to put it mildly, uncertain; the costs all too clear.

At this week's gathering, expectations were cautious, to put it mildly.

I was, to put it mildly, disappointed.

To put it mildly, Salinger is a biographer's nightmare.

To put it mildly, his latest book isn't very interesting.

"Using their phones is very unpleasant, to put it mildly, so they need to find someone to shake up their management culture. "

That is, to put it mildly, a rosy way of looking at things.

Rapid growth in a country of 1. 2 billion people is exciting, to put it mildly.

What he did takes place, to put it mildly, every day in colleges across the country: Davies had sex with his girlfriend.

He was annoyed, to put it mildly.

The events of the last year have exposed excesses and flaws that are, to put it mildly , humbling.

Cheese is not a favourite food in China, to put it mildly.

This is a non-zero probability event, to put it mildly.

That seems a tall order, to put it mildly.

I am, to put it mildly, in the minority.

'Unfortunately, the investment climate in our country, to put it mildly, leaves something to be desired, ' he said. 'It's bad. '

THAILAND'S recent political history has been, to put it mildly, volatile.

To put it mildly, it was love at first sight,

This is controversial, to put it mildly,