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Begin in the middle of something, where there’s smoke, or, at the very least, a crackle of flame.

I thought at the very least I must have broken my back, the pain was that bad.

So I have, at the very least, one example of the President telling a bald-faced, absurd lie.

The Pottages opened the boot of their car, at the very least appearing to ignore the claimant who continued to address them.

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.

He has two years left on his deal, and intends to see them out at the very least.

That’s why I say it’s an absurd question, because it betrays, at the very least, a serious oversimplification of evolutionary genetics.

There is an endless market for this kind of junk, a sucker born every minute at the very least.

The noise of a smoke detector would have alerted her, before the property became smoke-logged, or at the very least alerted neighbours.

Somewhere down-slope there is sure to be an unwary toddler, a brittle pensioner, or at the very least an expensive automobile.

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.

From the way you’re talking about it, sounds like you’re a nihilist, or at the very least suffering from clinical depression.

We can therefore say at the very least that there is no objective proof of the existence of a suicide tidal wave.

We need to establish at the very least whether it is feasible to at least odorise the raw gas by adding Mercaptan for safety.

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.

Adrian had a sudden fear that the man might borrow his accomplice’s knife and castrate him, or at the very least stab him.

If this isn’t deliberate casuistry, it is at the very least severely myopic.

These measures, at the very least, would not strip intellectual property owners of their right.

Your average Lakeland visitor will at the very least manage a quick hike around Windermere or perhaps a ramble around Grasmere.

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.

But there are lessons from history here that, at the very least, should give us pause for thought.

For a proposition to be justified it must, at the very least, cohere with other propositions that one has adopted.

I think that at the very least fair-minded observers should see that the problem is complex.

Yet even with its flaws, the movie is fast-moving entertainment that is worth a rental at the very least.

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.

Our ongoing cultural encounter with the gray is, at the very least, emblematic of fault lines in the contemporary culture.

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.

And, at the very least, anyone who must give up a companion animal should be responsible about finding a good home for the pet.

We highly recommend a professional copywriter to write the verbiage for your home page at the very least.

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.

To state baldly that it’s purely between the woman and her doctor is crass and simplistic at the very least.

However, at the very least, one can garner background information of what might have influenced the empiricists through the doctrine of skepsis.

Why are cameras not placed at frequent intervals on this road or, at the very least prior to a sharp bend?

This assertion is certainly legally disputable at the very least, and Burnside should know it.

It knew of plans to carry out killings of exiled political dissidents and, at the very least, did nothing to stop them.

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.

Such arguments blur, at the very least, the essential nature of democratic societies.

Even if you have a problem with all of the arty pretension, there’s some great drums at the very least.

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.

That’s odd, because there’s compelling evidence that, at the very least, he fabricated quotes in the speech.

I walk towards him, wracking my brains to remember how I know him, or at the very least, a name.

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.

We know at the very least that he was one of the last people to speak to her.

At least then he could have tried to dissuade her or, at the very least, adjusted his strategy accordingly.

It is not awful, but its steady flow of roots rock near-misses is, at the very least, disheartening.

But in the subjective world, I can use this magical view, and, at the very least, believe my eyes.

The Secretary of State himself considered that the views of the Chief Medical Officer were at the very least relevant.

We couldn’t help reflecting that, in Stirling’s time, such a shunt would have meant broken limbs at the very least.

A good deck transports you to another world, or at the very least extends your living space outdoors.

I felt that I’d ruffled his feathers up enough for the day, or at the very least a few hours.

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.

Even the most autocratic regime must, at the very least, concern itself with popular disorder.

To optimists among them, at the very least the war seems to offer an opportunity for enhanced autonomy within a federal state.

Police have urged parents not to buy the guns for their children, or at the very least to keep them locked away.

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.

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.

I hope the doctor is struck off the medical register at the very least.

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.

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.

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.

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.

This is to say that handler is, at the very least, a polarizing personality.

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.

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.

And later, we want to see people in various stages of working it off, or at the very least, grappling with heaviness.

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.

I would go into the relationship with my eyes open at the very least.

But there should be sufficient common ground to enable at the very least a businesslike approach.

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.

When a company lives by the icon, it can, at the very least, impale itself on the icon.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

She added that at the very least we should get rid of not only automatic but semiautomatic weapons.

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.

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.

Geographically, it covers at the very least the countries of Western Europe, North America, Australia, and New Zealand.

Finally, archaeological evidence cannot be ignored as a source for information, at the very least, on the Frankish mode of life.

The cumulating side effects themselves pose a danger that, at the very least, implies exiting sooner than may be comfortable for many.

Sure, two of them found, at the very least, moderate success.

It would involve unpicking complex legislation and treaty changes requiring unanimous, or at the very least majority consensus.

Cheeses include, at the very least, cottage cheese, quark or fromage blanc, and a local variety of gouda, and often Tzfatit and labneh too.

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.

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.

Demisexuality further complicates my orientation. Or, at the very least, demisexuality imposes more difficulty in describing my particular brand of queerness.

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.

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.

Examples from Classical Literature

Piecemeal operations within each lesser drainage area can be self-defeating or, at the very least, needlessly expensive.

It is, at the very least, as difficult to become a member of myopia as of the Royal and Ancient.

It’s going to be a warm evening after all, and you know you’ll get a souse started at the very least.

And in Carthage two dollars is two dollars, at the very least.

Surely any alphabet ordered on a rational basis would, at the very least, segregate vowels from consonants.

Waal, I swan I made sure she was going ten at the very least.

So it would need to be detached or, at the very least, built with two-foot thick party walls.

It all seems fine and dandy in principal, but how many start-ups are able to conjure up shares to the tune of several thousand pounds at the very least?

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