At its best the abstract expressionists achieve a simple rococo decorative surface.

At best only an approximation could be arrived at.

At its peak, the Electron was the third best selling micro in the United Kingdom, and total lifetime game sales for the Electron exceeded those of the BBC Micro.

At best, the technique is only effective at extremely close ranges of five to ten feet, since the recoil would make it hard to keep both weapons straight, and using the sights on the guns is next to impossible.

At best, the BCG vaccine is 80 % effective in preventing tuberculosis for a duration of 15 years ; however, its protective effect appears to vary according to geography.

At the same time, the city was ranked Europe's fourth best city for business and fastest improving European city, with growth improved by 17 % per year.

At a cost of almost $ 1, 000, 000, Chaplin felt it was the best film he had made to that point.

At best, this last example is less than appropriate, and really an incongruent one.

At best, creeds have a penultimacy about them and, of themselves, could never be the basis of Christian fellowship ".

* Teams and networks: At its very best, DARPA creates and sustains great teams of researchers from different disciplines that collaborate and share in the teams ’ advances.

At Euro 96, held in England, Terry Venables led England to their best performance at a European Championship, reaching the semifinals.

At the age of nine, he and his older brother Peter were sent to a large and one of the best Latin schools in the Netherlands, located at Deventer and owned by the chapter clergy of the Lebuïnuskerk ( St. Lebuin's Church ), though some earlier biographies assert it was a school run by the Brethren of the Common Life.

At the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, she won the Olympic title in the 800 m in a time of 1: 55. 54, a time which remained her personal best.

At best this kind of transition had previously been dealt with by having the directions of travel of the actor in the two shots correspond on the screen, but in a film such as The Bank Burglar's Fate ( Jack Adolfi, 1914 ), one can see shot transitions in which a cut is made from an actor just leaving the frame, to a shot of him well inside the frame in an adjoining location, which have the positions and directions so well chosen that to the casual eye his movement appears quite continuous, and the real space and time ellipsis between the shots is concealed.

At one point, Kemp told James Baker, White House Chief of Staff, that Bush's best chance to win reelection was to dump his economic advisors in dramatic fashion.

At the end of each season, members of the Professional Hockey Writers ' Association vote to determine the player who was the best defenseman during the regular season.

At their best, they are smooth and supple and sometimes have a subtle herbaceous note in the aftertaste.

At best, it included only a few other significant cities, such as Ascalon and some interior fortresses, as well as suzerainty over Tripoli and Antioch.

At RFK Stadium in Washington, D. C., the Wizards, with the league's best defense, tried to prove that defense wins championships by beating the team with the league's best offense, the Chicago Fire.

At the trial, Trotsky delivered some of the best speeches of his life and solidified his reputation as an effective public speaker, which he confirmed in 1917 – 1920.

At least two people ( including his wife and one of his best friends ) died of overdoses at his house in Tempe, AZ during this time.

At their best, free-form stations have never been equaled for their degree of social activism, programmatic freedom, and listener involvement.

Nash was best known for surprising, pun-like rhymes, sometimes with words deliberately misspelled for comic effect, as in his retort to Dorothy Parker's humorous dictum, Men seldom make passes / At girls who wear glasses:

At showdown, each player's hand is the best five-card hand made from exactly three of the five cards on the board, plus exactly two of the player's own cards.

At first they were only feathers and dark indistinguishable faces and bodies, hunched over their horses' heads.

At the corroborees, when they get to dancing and sweating, you'll see them rubbing up against a man who's supposed to have a specially good smell.

At the same time, I am aware that my recoil could be interpreted by readers of the tea leaves at the bottom of my psyche as an incestuous sign, since theirs is a science of paradox: if one hates, they say it is because one loves ; ;

At last they concluded that the heavy, full feeling in their stomachs was due to lack of exercise.

At last they saw Calcutta, largest city of Bengal and the Caravan's destination.

At least they hadn't stepped up and asked to see papers in the hated, flat, dialect mispronunciation of Mussolini's home district -- Dogumenti, per favore.

At 2130 hours they had passed through the barbed wire at the point of departure.

`` At home, yes '', they argued.

At the same time he started walking the streets, peering at the people passing or shopping at the stalls, storing up fresh impressions of what they looked like, how they moved.

At one time, to most Americans, unless they were fortunate enough to live near a body of navigable water, boats were considered the sole concern of fishermen, rich people, and the United States Navy.

At the moment, Barco's back was to the road so he didn't see the detectives close in on his convertible which, in their quest for the stolen lap rug, they proceeded to search.

At the beginning of the school year, the new students don't eat the cereal right away, but within a short time they are eating it voraciously.

At a nod of his head they let go, turning to cup their ears against the icy slipstream.

At the point where they ended, another settlement grew up around a chapel built at the boat landing by Father Lucian Galtier in 1840.

At 6 o'clock on the morning of August 12, they were in doubt no longer.

At the same time, there is a good deal of self-congratulation at attending a good college -- they are even inclined to exaggerate its not inconsiderable virtues -- and they express pleasure at the cozy in-group feeling that the college generates.

At the base of the rocky hillside, they left their horses and climbed on foot.

At that time, the people at the bank said they felt that they had the situation in hand.

At first I thought they were relatives of your mother, but it was not so.

At times they would ride frenziedly through the camp, letting the women see their courage, how handsome they were in their regalia.

At first they feed on the yolks of the eggs but as this source of nourishment declines they begin to rasp at the ciliated epithelial cells that line the oviduct.