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 the same moment Wheeler Fiske fired the rifle Mike had given him and another guerrilla was hit.

At last, when I put it to him directly, the clerk was forced to admit that the delay in my case was unusual.

At one and the same time, she was within it but still searching for the drawbridge that would give her entry.

At once my ears were drowned by a flow of what I took to be Spanish, but -- the driver's white teeth flashing at me, the road wildly veering beyond his glistening hair, beyond his gesticulating bottle -- it could have been the purest Oxford English I was half hearing ; ;

At the pool's far end was the little cabana Joyce had mentioned, and on the water's surface floated scattered lavender patches of limp-looking lather.

At first, I thought he was out of his head, talking wildly like this.

At the same time, all suggestions that some sort of societal responsibility existed for the welfare of the people within the territorial state was strongly resisted.

At the heart of all of this was the square, which one such traveler declared to be `` as spacious, as pleasant and aromatick a Market as any in the Universe ''.

At the moment he was excited about his son's having received the Prix De Rome in archaeology and was looking forward to being present this summer at the excavation of an Etruscan tomb.

At first glance this appears strange: of all people, was not America founded by rugged individualists who established a new way of life still inspiring `` undeveloped '' societies abroad??

At this period the thirty-year old Helion was ranked `` as one of the mature leaders of the modern movement '', according to Herbert Read, `` and in the direct line of descent from Cezanne, Seurat, Gris and Leger ''.

At Stettin the university-educated artist, who had studied German, was chosen to serve as interpreter and clerk in the office of the Stalag commander.

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

At this time Harriet wrote in a letter which after their finally landing in India was sent to her mother:

At this, the students let out a yell, knowing full well the actual frontier was beyond the town of Kehl.

At no time does he seem to have proposed marriage, and Mrs. King was evidently torn between a concern for her daughter's emotions and the desire to believe that the friendship might be continued without harm to her reputation.

At headquarters -- sufficiently far from the firing line to make you forget occasionally that you were in a war -- Lewis found that the Commander in Chief's only desk was his knees ( and his only comb, his fingers ).

At this moment Mando came hurrying up to announce that the problem was solved and all Norton had to do was to sign a sheaf of papers.

At Sounion there is a group of beautiful columns, the ruins of a temple to Poseidon, of particular interest at that time, as active reconstruction was in progress.

At the trial which took place later, the Pomham matter was completely omitted.

At Camp Taylor in Kentucky a barracks was built in an hour and a half from timber that had been standing in Mississippi forests one week before.

At the end of World War 2,, free Europe was ready for a new beginning.