at its worst

To this distressful emblem of a great distress that had long been growing worse, and was not at its worst, a woman was kneeling.

At its worst, this might be the start of a process by which Britain falls out of the EU (see Bagehot).

We cherished his noble qualities, especially when the famine was at its worst, for he never demanded food!

They found that hailstorms over the eastern United States peak in the middle of the week, when summertime air pollution is at its worst.

The enemy soldier is darting from building to building, from one alley to the next -- urban warfare at its worst.

he said, adding business was at its worst since the shop opened 20 years ago.

It adds up to a savage, bittersweet portrait of artistic temperament at its worst.

PMS is usually at its worst during the 7 days before a girl's period starts and disappears once it begins.

At its worst it seeks movies from across the globe, some of which, to be blunt, are not ready for prime time.

Violence is at its worst level in Afghanistan since the fall of the Taliban in 2001.

At its worst, this may be for fear of creating rivals, or making fragile senior people look less than perfect.

Forecasters who work atop New Hampshire's Mount Washington Observatory are in their element when the weather is at its worst.

But much of the euro zone remained weak. France reported its worst monthly figure since early 2009, when the credit crisis was at its worst.

At its worst, the smog is reducing visibility to less than 200 meters and disrupting traffic, both on the ground and in the air.

The British press at its worst is intrusive, sanctimonious and spiteful.

At its worst, the band can be hectoring, like a student who couldn't leave his lessons in the classroom.

The universities moved to the north in the early 1990s, when civil war was at its worst in the south.

Air pollution is at its worst over big cities where millions of people live, work, and travel about in cars, buses, and trucks.

Noise pollution is at its worst in densely populated areas.

At its worst, it lets civil servants enrich themselves, pay back vested interests and resist economic reform.

At its worst, information overload can be paralyzing.

Yet, grim as it is, the violence in Afghanistan even now pales beside Iraq at its worst.

Capitalism at its worst until these resources have been drained.

At its worst, the acrid smoke caused carbon monoxide to soar to nearly seven times the acceptable level.

At its worst extreme, a culture of misinformation can produce something like Iran, which is run by a Holocaust denier.

Each collapse lasts between 30 seconds to five minutes and at its worst Claire can endure up to 100 attacks each day.

With limited resources and standing mostly alone to face this predicament the nation is failing to resist nature at its worst.

Slang, at its worst, it is stupidly coarse and provocative. At its best, it makes standard English seem pallid.

"The unemployment rate could, could, at its worst be over 10 percent before it starts to get better, " said Sperling.

To do this with the nation's health is the politics of fear at its worst.

At its worst, the danger is circular, with dearer oil and political uncertainty feeding each other.

At its worst and least effective, slacktivism isn't much different from a poetry reading or a bra burning.

This is lazy journalism at its worst: no one has asked me about my source, nor, I suspect, have they asked Harman.

At its worst, the crisis affected nearly a third of world air travel.

And it's really difficult to recall, in a normal frame of mind, just how good life can be at its best. Or how bad it can be at its worst.

The storm is at its worst.

At its worst, such bias can mean lack of scrutiny of, for example, western governments in the justification for the war in Iraq.

It "would reflect public health at its best and at its worst" , they say.

It was Microsoft at its worst.

That is capitalism at its worst: it means shareholders and executives reap the profits, but the taxpayer bears the losses.

And, at its worst, it can be mistaken, even by ourselves, for our true nature: Sometimes we believe we really are what we pretend to be!

Capitalism at its worst? Yes.

It's politics at its worst.

Under what circumstances is your illness at its worst?

The distinction is similar to the rule that one should judge talent at its best and character at its worst.

This is WUSS behavior at its worst.

For too long, our primary response has been to send emergency aid when the crisis is at its worst.

even when the storm is raging and is at its worst,

At its worst, he says: "the user interface can end up resembling a patchwork. " . Nielsen's solution

It is at its worst after retirement