This was the worst thing I could have said.

Although New Orleans was not to learn of it for a spell, she also was a sadist, a nymphomaniac and unobtrusively mad -- the perpetrator of some of the worst crimes against humanity ever committed on American soil.

One is tempted to say that, on the difference between the concepts of sovereignty in these two preambles, the worst war of the Nineteenth century was fought.

Like Napoleon, he was the worst of losers.

He gave us a simile to explain his admission that even at the worst period of his second illness it never occurred to him there was any renewed question about his running: as in the Battle of the Bulge, he had no fears about the outcome until he read the American newspapers.

That goddamn redheader was the worst.

And in the dark days after the Great Flood of 1927 -- the worst natural disaster in the state's history -- the little plane was its sole replacement in carrying the United States mails.

In the second place, though, even if Birmingham is worse, no doubt Johannesburg, South Africa, beats it by several miles, and Buchenwald was one of the worst things that ever happened in the entire history of the world.

The worst was yet to come.

The club that overcame the worst start in a comparable period to win the pennant was New York's '51 Giants, who dropped 11 of their first 13.

Board Chairman Howard Simpson of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Co., testified the B & O was in its worst financial condition since the depression years and badly needed the economic lift it would get from consolidation with the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad.

She might peel him, once the worst of the agony was over.

Even rock-steady Anne -- Hell, Anne was the worst!!

There have been cases of humans being contaminated with americium, the worst case being that of Harold McCluskey, who at the age of 64 was exposed to 500 times the occupational standard for americium-241 as a result of an explosion in his lab.

Looking back on this period ( in 1926 ) Milne observed that when he told his agent that he was going to write a detective story, he was told that what the country wanted from a " Punch humorist " was a humorous story ; when two years later he said he was writing nursery rhymes, his agent and publisher were convinced he should write another detective story ; and after another two years he was being told that writing a detective story would be in the worst of taste given the demand for children's books.

Alexei's relations with his father suffered from the hatred between his father and his mother, as it was very difficult for him to feel affection for his mother's worst persecutor.

The worst that could be brought against him was that he had wished his father's death.

Peter was openly in love with Inês, recognized all the children she bore, and, worst of all, favoured the Castilians that surrounded her.

The early years of the colony had been years of struggle and hardship, but the worst was over, and there were no further famines in New South Wales.

The primary controller was ranked the 10th worst video game controller by IGN editor Craig Harris.

Mark Antony, having vaguely learned of the plot the night before from a terrified Liberator named Servilius Casca, and fearing the worst, went to head Caesar off.

* 1967 – Vietnam War: off the coast of North Vietnam the catches on fire in the worst U. S. naval disaster since World War II, killing 134.

Rawls's theory distinguishes two kinds of goods – ( 1 ) liberties and ( 2 ) social and economic goods, i. e. wealth, income and power – and applies different distributions to them – equality between citizens for ( 1 ), equality unless inequality improves the position of the worst off for ( 2 ).

During the 1960s, Clemente batted over. 300 in every year except 1968, when, thanks to yet another freak off-season injury ( à la 1965 ), he got off to the worst start of his major league career, hitting just. 245 by the All-Star break, and doing well just to reach. 291 by season's end.

The 2010 campaign started off slowly again, this time 2 – 5 ( including losses to some of the worst teams in football at the time – KC, OAK, SEA & STL ).

** The Greek ferry Express Samina sinks off the coast of the island of Paros ; 80 out of a total of over 500 passengers perish in one of Greece's worst sea disasters.

Daley was named one of Illinois ' ten worst state legislators by Chicago Magazine " for arrogance, for sharklike qualities, for living off his father's name, and for pulling puppet strings attached to some of the worst members of the Senate.

at best an evil inherited by the proletariat after its victorious struggle for class supremacy, whose worst sides the proletariat, just like the Commune, cannot avoid having to lop off at the earliest possible moment, until such time as a new generation, reared in new and free social conditions, will be able to throw the entire lumber of the state on the scrap-heap.

It ranked 19th in Rotten Tomatoes's 100 worst films of the 2000s and had a 2 % fresh rating, with critic Roger Ebert stating: " Half Past Dead is like an alarm that goes off with nobody in the room.

Even during the Second World War, Doetinchem came off fairly lightly at first ; there was only a small German occupying force and the city even escaped the worst effects of the Hunger Winter.

As the French took the offensive, several actions ensued-Landshut, Abensberg, Eckmühl and Ratisbon, with the Austrians coming off worst each time and having their left wing cut off from the bulk of the army.

After several months injury lay off, Graf returned to play in the German Open in Berlin in front of a home crowd and had the worst defeat of her career in the quarter final, when Amanda Coetzer beat her in just 56 minutes 6 – 0, 6 – 1.

Tiny Suzuki was worst off, with their entire production consisting of two-stroke engined kei cars.

It's astonishing to see a film begin this brilliantly only to torpedo itself in its final hour ," but went on to say that the film " was saved from its worst, most reductive ideas by the intimacy of the performances and the deeply felt distress signals given off by the cast ".

They were one of the worst teams in NFL history, both on and off the field.

" Having come off the worst statistical season of his career in 2003 – 04, Kariya was admittedly looking to have a bounce-back season.

Despite Kariya's success with Canada at the 2002 Olympics, he had come off the worst statistical season of his career prior to the national team's summer development camp in preparation for the 2006 Winter Olympics.

The nobles of this layer once dwelled in copper fortresses, whose metal plating helps ward off the worst of the falling stones.

The bloodshed sparked off the worst unrest in Kosovo seen since the end of the 1999 war ( in which 11 Serbs were killed ).

In the film, toons are merely unkillable-except by " dip "-and shrug off even the worst injuries.

The worst disasters were the loss of the Cunarder Lancastria in 1940 off Saint-Nazaire to German bombing while attempting to evacuate troops of the British Expeditionary Force from France, with the loss of more than 3, 000 lives ; the sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff with more than 9, 000 lives lost, and the sinking of the Cap Arcona with more than 7, 000 lives lost in the Baltic Sea in 1945.

In one of the worst atrocities of the rebellion, in November 1641, Irish rebels forced between 100 – 300 captured English and Scottish settlers or planters, including women and children, off the Bann bridge and they either drowned or were shot.

Rawls postulated the difference principle which argued that " inequalities are justified only if needed to improve the lot of the worst off, for example by giving the talented an incentive to create wealth.