Despite this limited franchise, Athenian democracy was certainly the first — and perhaps the best — example of a working direct democracy.

Authority may ( and may not ) make all men equally rich in purse ; it certainly will make them equally poor in all that makes life best worth living.

" Cleese remarks that it's not much of a cheese shop, but Palin insists it is the best in the district due to its cleanliness, to which Cleese replies " Well, it's certainly uncontaminated by cheese.

Department spokesman Guillermo Cole stated that " It's the best it's been in the lifetime for virtually every resident in this county … We've seen a steady decrease in pollution levels over the past decade and certainly over the past 20, 30, 40, 50 years or more.

It was already accepted that it is necessary to use rules to help you choose the right action because the problems of calculating the consequences on each and every occasion would almost certainly result in you frequently choosing something less than the best course of action.

This was certainly a monumental task at best in those times.

Part II of Dante's Divine Comedy, Purgatorio, has almost certainly been the best known source since the Renaissance.

Ward Morehouse of The New York Sun deemed it " A stunning show ", saying, " It has whimsy, beguiling music, exciting dancing -- and it has a book .... Brigadoon is by far the best musical play the season has produced, and it is certainly one of the best within my entire play-going experience ".

Unitarian theologian Charles Francis Potter stated about the NWT: " Apart from a few semantic peculiarities like translating the Greek word stauros, as " stake " instead of " cross ", and the often startling use of the colloquial and the vernacular, the anonymous translators have certainly rendered the best manuscript texts, both Greek and Hebrew, with scholarly ability and acumen.

Author and journalist Nick Clooney praised Lehman's original story and sophisticated dialogue, calling the film " certainly Alfred Hitchcock's most stylish thriller, if not his best ".

The racial idea has been grossly betrayed in this war in that the best German blood is being irrevocably sacrificed, while simultaneously Germany is populated by millions of foreign workers, who certainly cannot be described as of high racial quality

As British novelist William Sutcliffe put it, " Of all the lots-of-people-screwing-lots-of-other-people novels this is probably the best, and certainly the weirdest.

Thus, Chamberlain had to make the best of a hopeless situation, writing fatalistically that ' I consider the Unionist cause is hopeless at the next election, and we shall certainly lose the majority of the Liberal Unionists once and for all.

Film critic and historian Leonard Maltin in his book The Disney Films, states, " Darby O ' Gill and the Little People is not only one of Disney's best films, but is certainly one of the best fantasies ever put on film.

In a poll conducted by IGN, it was voted as the 3rd best Pokémon, where the staff remembered being torn between Blastoise and Charizard, but stated " a blue turtle with giant cannons sticking out of its back was certainly amazing ".

It may well be the best Blues festival in Europe and it is certainly one of the best in the world.

In an interview, Koppel commented, " Henry Kissinger is, plain and simply, the best secretary of state we have had in 20, maybe 30 years – certainly one of the two or three great secretaries of state of our century ," and added, " I ’ m proud to be a friend of Henry Kissinger.

The heavily footnoted report concluded that peace was not in the interest of a stable society, that even if lasting peace " could be achieved, it would almost certainly not be in the best interests of society to achieve it.

Hydatius or Idacius ( c. 400 – c. 469 ), bishop of Aquae Flaviae in the Roman province of Gallaecia ( almost certainly the modern Chaves, Portugal, in the modern district of Vila Real ) was the author of a chronicle of his own times that provides us with our best evidence for the history of the Iberian Peninsula in the 5th century.

The author has certainly won her bet, and in addition to a most ingenious plot of the best detective type she has introduced a new type of detective in the shape of a Belgian.

This certainly is not the best time to make any hasty judgment on this contention, but considering the very nature of ' knowledge ' itself, added to the fact that it is the thrust of this new form of economy, there certainly is a clear way forward for this notion, though the particulars ( i. e. the quantum of the revolutionary approach and its applicability and commercial value ), remain in the speculative realm, as of now.

Ironically no president we have had would have regretted more than President Eisenhower the possibility to which his own words, in the press conference held at the beginning of August, testified: that unable as he was himself to say his running was best for the country, unconsciously he had placed his party before his nation.

Here Wright gave a slight sigh of weariness, and continued, `` It means more long years lived across the social grain of the life of our people, making shift to live in the face of popular disrespect and misunderstanding as I best can for myself and those dependent upon me ''.

Easily the best known of these three novels is The Space Merchants, a good example of a science-fiction dystopia which extrapolates much more than the impact of science on human life, though its most important warning is in this area, namely as to the use to which discoveries in the behavioral sciences may be put.

Investors breathed more freely when it was learned that this acrobatic dancer had turned magician and was only doing a best seller book to make some dough.

( Music often sounds best to me when I can dress informally and sit in something more comfortable than a theatre seat.

And it helps the builder because it can handle a more efficiently packaged load, can deliver it to the best spot ( in some cases, right on the roof or inside the house ), and never takes any of the builder's high-priced labor to help unload it.

It is probably more effective than the expanded scholarship programs of the past decade, because the scholarship programs mainly aided the students with the best academic records ( who were usually middle-class ), and these students tended to use the scholarship funds to go to more expensive colleges.

What that spirit and attitude were we can best understand if we see more precisely how it contrasts with the communist tradition with the longest continuous history, the one which reached Christianity by the way of Stoicism through the Church Fathers of Late Antiquity.

This carried over into the more urbanized late 19th and early 20th centuries, when the man ruled the roost in the best bull-roaring Life With Father manner.

`` I considered that your views would be best carried out '', he explained, `` by taking women whose progeny will of course be free & more fully extend the philantrophy of Emancipation.

It is the art of relating the finite to the infinite, of doing our best to insure that the particularistic requirements of religious institutions will not thwart God's intent of unity among men more than is minimally necessary.

She found herself wishing an old wish, that she had told Doaty she was running away, that she had left something more behind her than the loving, sorry note and her best garnet pin.

Robbie and Beryl tried their best to persuade her to come and stay with them, and Anne and I have told her she's more than welcome here, but I think she feels that she might be an imposition, especially as long as our Rosie is still in high school.

Although there are seven other types of annual awards presented by the Academy ( the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award, the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, the Gordon E. Sawyer Award, the Scientific and Engineering Award, the Technical Achievement Award, the John A. Bonner Medal of Commendation, and the Student Academy Award ) plus two awards that are not presented annually ( the Special Achievement Award in the form of an Oscar statuette and the Honorary Award that may or may not be in the form of an Oscar statuette ), the best known one is the Academy Award of Merit more popularly known as the Oscar statuette.

In Norse mythology, the dragon Fafnir ( best known in the form of a dragon slain by Sigurðr ) bears on his forehead the Ægis-helm ( ON ægishjálmr ), or Ægir's helmet, or more specifically the " Helm of Terror ".

Being some of the best cores " off the line ," these CPUs typically overclocked more reliably than their desktop-headed counterparts.

This makes finding the best move more difficult, but also requires the players to estimate probabilities by the players.

Drop handlebars " drop " as they curve forward and down, offering the cyclist best braking power from a more aerodynamic " crouched " position, as well as more upright positions in which the hands grip the brake lever mounts, the forward curves, or the upper flat sections for increasingly upright postures.

After initially building his career on " tough guy " roles Lancaster abandoned his " all-American " image in the late 1950s in favor of more complex and challenging roles, and came to be regarded as one of the best actors of his generation as a result.

The recursive equation is best introduced in a slightly more general form

He is best known for composing more than five hundred one-movement keyboard sonatas.

The ordinary ones are signed John Sargent, the best are signed Cecilia Beaux, which is, of course, nonsense in more ways than one, but it is part of the generous chorus of praise.

The show deliberately tapes more callers than they have time to air each week in order to be able to choose the best ones for broadcast.