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But most seem to think the senator is inept at best and a liar at worst.

At worst, some of the boys who acted for him thought he might be a spy for the occupation.

In today's English, the word "Oriental" , when used to refer to a person, sounds old-fashioned at best and derogatory at worst.

Stark arrived and made a mess of things by booking Pepe with a red card when it should have been yellow at worst.

at worst, they are a sign that employees have spent too much time trying to eke out improvements in the wrong areas.

Today's consensus, insofar as there is one, seems to be that raising minimum wages has minor negative effects at worst.

Gaming tends to be regarded as a harmless diversion at best, a vile corruptor of youth at worst.

At worst, Rickenbacher said rushing to respond with a gift could end up looking like an afterthought.

Yet, at worst, a lengthy slump might be needed to grind out a reduction in nominal prices and wages.

Jawa leadership is usually conferred upon males -- females are viewed upon as second-class citizens at best, property at worst.

'So far we are seeing, at worst, an orderly decline in the housing market, ' he said.

They might suffer a slap on the wrist at a civil misconduct tribunal; at worst , a fine or a professional disqualification .

Modernisation is at best a cover-up for preserving the status quo, and at worst a way of siphoning off more public money.

At best, this might indicate that you are reconnecting with your partner and at worst, that someone takes advantage of you.

Even if there aren't future drivers with you, paying attention to what's going on around you can save lives at best, headaches at worst.

Most women in offices find the doggy infatuation of male colleagues whom they do not desire irritating at best, and repulsive at worst.

Real defender Pepe went on 62 minutes for a studs-up challenge on Dani Alves. It was a yellow card at worst.

Until we move more decisively in this direction, other efforts are likely to be frustrating at best and counterproductive at worst.

Paul Krugman famously said that much of recent macroeconomics had been "spectacularly useless at best, and positively harmful at worst" .

At worst, some members argued, such a move risked whipping inflation to dangerous levels.

At worst, 54% say they do not want him to run in the Socialist primary.

And in terms of overall economic growth, China is looking at a softish landing at worst.

At worst, you'll get a good laugh out of it.

Most leading stock markets suffered only modest falls at worst and there was limited evidence of rising risk aversion in currency markets.

At worst, it will undermine the capitalist enterprises on which its prosperity and social model depend.

Corruption is so rampant that, at best, the funds get siphoned off; at worst, they are used for terrorism.

It is an important step towards laying to rest the disastrous experiment of collectivisation which, at worst, led to mass starvation.

At worst some people are left with a permanent sense of failure.

If you're like most of the rest of the Web development world, validation is at best a nuisance, and at worst, a full-blown nightmare.

At worst, it can ruin ideas and tarnish reputations, like the physicists who claimed to have made room-temperature cold fusion in the 1990s.

Over the past two years, many of Wall Street's big ideas have been exposed as woefully ill-conceived at best, utterly fallacious at worst.

Before having heard from Mao, I had considered myself at worst lightly singed by the last embers of Asian alienation.

There is something shocking about what is about to happen and coming so close to the holidays, it seems wrong at best, or cruel at worst.

For a long time, people just looked at computer and videogames as frivolous at best, and at worst, things that have been really bad for you.

If we believe in God and he does not exist then at worst all we have forgone is a few sinful pleasures.

at worst, the truly useful, interesting, and important ideas of calculus can disappear in a welter of half-understood formal symbols.

'At worst, stocks are the best house in a bad neighborhood, ' Mr. Cooperman said.

At worst it could cause growth to lurch upwards before tumbling again, with all the attendant uncertainty that entails.

This is a recipe for a lack of objectivity at best, and a conflict of interest at worst.

Throughout the Golden Age, therefore, incomes grew but income inequality declined or, at worst, stayed unchanged.

Bad response: "Your claims are at best pure fabrications and at worst a deliberate attempt to slander our good reputation. "

At worst, verify that the application does not check for too many licenses when licensing is per user.

At worst it leads to a massive falling-out that severs the relationship and leaves the soul mates bitter enemies.

At best, the gesture distracts from the problems Japan needs to solve; at worst, it could lead to a stand-off and an escalation.

I tried to be open-minded about the rock concert, but the music was at best loud and at worst tuneless .

At worst, the global economy will be plunged back into recession next year as the US goes backwards and the euro comes apart at the seams.

At worst, forecasts from some economists suggest the world's third largest economy is in danger of slipping back into recession.

at worst, the issuer could default and you could conceivably be left with nothing.

But at worst the text might get cut off at the bottom and not scroll because it thinks it has more space.

e. g. At best, it takes tolls in individual community; at worst, it may give rise to higher unemployment rate in the whole region.

At best, this suggests Greece is heading for a crunch; at worst, the eurozone is threatened.

At best, you're stuck writing a speech for a wedding; at worst, you find out your friends cry during sex.

At worst, such practices undermine relationships by reinforcing a restrictive and fearful atmosphere.

At worst, we would lift our spirits for a time.

at worst they will have killed off the recovery and inflicted lasting harm on the world's most impressive prosperity machine.

At worst, constraint specifications can be inadvertently inconsistent because of contradictory constraints.

He looked irrelevant at best; at worst, an obstacle to progress, seeking only to score political points.

These studies show that the claimed benefits of no-till for climate change are overstated at best and misleading at worst.

At worst, it might be the source of annoying nuisance suits.

But for some tea party fans, she was guilty at worst of slight exaggeration.

For many post-war families retrospection meant, at best, raw feeling and rancorous dispute, at worst, intolerable exposure to guilt.

You probably won't even risk injury or go hungry. At worst you might get a slightly critical review.

The to-ing and fro-ing of the past year and a half has been unedifying at best, and destructive at worst.

Thus Mexican workers gain dramatically by moving north, whereas low-skilled Americans lose out slightly at worst.

Let X be a minimal 3-fold of general type and has at worst Q-factorial terminal singularities. Let KX be the canonical divisor on X.

At worst, the result could be increasing protectionism as countries accuse each other of "artificially" gaining market share.

At worst, Moody's says, the vast majority of tranches insuch CDOs would be downgraded to junk-bond status.

Not a smart decision at best the politburo is unpatriotic, at worst is controlled by communist china.

At worst, the required restructuring is manageable, and quickly and easily implemented.

So many believe the investigations into the accusations will end with Samsung receiving a slap on the wrist, at worst.

At best, it takes tolls in family income; at worst, it may give rise to social instability and even economic depression.

What results instead of order is, at worst, chaos and, at best, large blocks of boilerplate synchronization code prone to bugs.

at worst, he will assume the program has crashed and that drastic action must be taken.

Sport does not build character. At best, it betrays it. At worst, it corrupts it.

because a comet will be coming in from deep space, we'll have a few years at best, a few months at worst, knowledge before impact. . .

Until recently, many developers had all but written off JavaScript as a necessary evil at best or a toy at worst.

At worst, they actually derail leaders, and destroy the loyalty and commitment of colleagues.

For social dates, it is a sign of slovenliness at best, rejection of those waiting at worst.

Brussels is indifferent at best, and divided at worst, when it comes to pressing issues in the Balkans.

(at best, at worst) At best he's ambitious, at worst a power-seeker without conscience or qualifications .

It also suggests that all the happy talk about democratization and more open markets is premature at best, and deeply naive at worst.

At worst, rape is a tool of ethnic cleansing and genocide, as in Bosnia, Darfur and Rwanda.

The Department's justification for its continued delay is lame at best and irresponsible at worst.

At bestthe company will lose money this year, at worst it may have to close down.

Spring is a dangerous time for the family of Scorpios, very fraught with break ups, or at worst - temporary cooling.

Many people worry about terrorists, and so do I but then I reflect that terrorists could at worst kill "only" a few tens of millions of us.

There will be at worst a few casualties in the terrible accident.

"At best, these gaps create uncertainties--and at worst dangers--for workers, companies, consumers, investors, and insurers, " he adds.

The bill is at best pointless posturing and at worst dangerous demagoguery.

At best there will be a wrenching slowdown; at worst, a relapse into recession.

Rivers is confident that donors will maintain their support or at worst "flatline" .

"I've always found them to be at best unproductive and boring, and at worst toxic and destructive, " he says.

Most CND veterans see their peacenik days, at worst, as romantic youthful idealism.

And at worst, you'll at least have given it your best shot!

There are no risks like chlorination which, when used incorrectly, is at best ineffective, and at worst poisonous.

Labels can be misleading at best, deceptive at worst.

At worst, conditions could occur that cause a deadlock in your application, freezing execution.

At worst you lose the money you've invested.

At worst, he will have earned himself some respect and a better job after Mr Putin retakes the Kremlin.

At worst, they behave unethically to polish performance and hit targets.

At worst, it will generate serial depression and default among member countries.

Voice your thoughts and see what happens. At worst, you'll weaken a bond that wasn't authentic.

At best you're a guest. At worst you're a beggar, couchsurfing the web and scavenging for crumbs.

At worst (at best), I don't see more than 2% of all users donating on a regular basis considering our track record.

At best this caused hard to maintain code and at worst brittle code that fails when new types in the enterprise extend existing types.

The country's financial regulators were incompetent at best, cronies at worst.

Carbon storage will be expensive at best. At worst, it may not work.

'At best it's incompetence, ' the official said. 'At worst it's complicity. '

Gardeners should wear gloves when working with it. At worst, it can cause cardiac arrest.

Probe a Gemini about more complex feelings, and you'll get silence at best and untruths at worst.

Next year to marry you, not many think of, at worst a divorce 3 years later . . . Anyway, I also look pretty open.

These are sweeping statements that, at worst, sound like a Singaporean advertisement for Asian values.

At worst, you can say it's a highly repentant, largely accidental monopolist.

At best, we'll suffer an economic slowdown; at worst we'll plunge back into the depths of the 2008-9 financial crisis.

At best they are estimates, and at worst they may not be valid for your particular DB2 environment.

At worst, results are manufactured to suit the Communist party.

Don't worry about your driving test. At worst you'll fail, and then you can always take it again.

Failure in bureaucracy means not bankruptcy but writing self-justifying memos, and at worst a transfer elsewhere.

At worst, it will mean more bloody confrontation, in Bangkok or in the countryside.

At worst it may represent an unsubstantiated claim about the interpretation and use of test scores.

At worst, this has lead to people not thinking for themselves, and simply following public opinion.

At worst, GDP will shrink modestly over several quarters.

Instead, at best, they reflect compromise, and at worst are conditioned and tailored to limit competition.

Some in South Korea view the "sunshine policy" as naive at best and at worst aiding and abetting the North's nuclear programme.

Italy's public debt needs to be reduced now to, at worst, 90 per cent of GDP from 120 per cent.

Newspapers are at best shrinking, at worst folding.

India and Japan, China's other big regional counterparts, both view it with suspicion at best and, at worst, paranoia.

At worst, locusts use their wealth and knowledge to rig the game to their advantage.

at worst, a single person get a marriage office.

At worst, the economy might succumb to debt-deflation.

But if you can't handle me at worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at best.

at worst , require nodelocked licenses or dongles on every machine.

We shall lose at worst only fifty pounds.

At best she would become disabled; at worst she would die.

At worst, they're throwaways, they're for amusement.

Instead it has led firms to cut things that were at best peripheral to their business interests and, at worst, a waste of time and money.

At worst, the shadows could darken further.

At worst, we have three days to complete the proposal.

At best these declarations are vague generalizations; and at worst they are misleading stereotypes.

At worst, they sound hostile to democracy.

At worst, they are perceived as insincere or dishonest.

At best, that suggests a big pile of cash tucked away somewhere; at worst, surplus income has been frittered away.

At worst, there may even be bank runs and failures.

At worst we'll have to sell the house so as to pay off our debts.

At best they're indifferent and at worst they're disappointed by the ebook selections available to them.

A fiasco in the Diet, or parliament, on June 2nd showed politics at worst.

This relies on an operator to input the value, which at best will be one batch behind and at worst will never be done.

At worst, you'd find out why those 4% brush their teeth in the shower.

At worst, it could lead to policies based on the false idea that what's good for corporations is good for America.

At worst, the world stands on the brink of a big crisis.

At worst we'll have to sell the house so as to settle our debts.

At best a wistful memory, at worst a dangerous enemy who is in possession of many of your deepest secrets.

It may be quite useful to know that although a new algorithm is not optimal, it is within 12. 3% of optimal at worst and 4. 7% on average.

His analysis concludes that CDS-related losses could range from $32 billion at best to $158 billion at worst.

At worst, the storm will make us postpone the trip.

Hesitated - and at best you have planted on the sharp horns, and at worst - trampled to death!

And at worst, I didn't even want to think about it.

Most work in macroeconomics in the past 30 years has been useless at best and harmful at worst, said Mr Krugman.

Poor policy choices, on the other hand, will at best delay recovery and at worst do permanent damage. Here is a list of things to watch for.

At worst I feel bad for a while,

at worst , the programmer must be aware of

l think at worst it ' s a hostile political act ,

I'm a heartless man at worst, babe

it ' s not a big deal . at worst , you ' d lose a toe