This matter is of great importance, and the outcome may mean the difference between life or death, or at least serious injuries, for many veterans.

Actually, the program they sang was at least two-thirds serious and high-minded, and they sang it beautifully.

While anagramming is certainly a recreation first, there are ways in which anagrams are put to use, and these can be more serious, or at least not quite frivolous and formless.

Thus fines and noncustodial sentences may address the crimes seen as least serious, with lengthy imprisonment or ( in some jurisdictions ) capital punishment reserved for the most serious.

Around 105, however, there appears to have been a serious setback at the hands of the tribes of the Picts of Alba: several Roman forts were destroyed by fire, with human remains and damaged armour at Trimontium ( at modern Newstead, in SE Scotland ) indicating hostilities at least at that site.

The guard shot Kirkwood in the stomach at least twice during the melee, causing serious gunshot injuries requiring major surgery.

A very serious narcotic habit can develop in a matter of weeks, whereas iatrogenic morphine addiction rates have, according to a number of studies, remained nearly constant at one case in 150 to 200 for at least two centuries.

At the very least, Milken's actions were a serious breach of Drexel's internal regulations, and the money managers had breached their fiduciary duty to their clients.

An interdisciplinary team from MIT have estimated that given the expected growth of nuclear power from 2005 – 2055, at least four serious nuclear accidents would be expected in that period.

Carl Sagan suggested that there are three claims in the field of parapsychology which have at least some experimental support and " deserve serious study ", as they " might be true ":

The durability of a roof is a matter of concern because the roof is often the least accessible part of a building for purposes of repair and renewal, while its damage or destruction can have serious effects.

In his essay, Dijkstra noted that the newer computers in his day " embodied such serious flaws that felt that with a single stroke the progress of computing science had been retarded by at least ten years ".

Pound had travelled to London at least partly to meet the older man, whom he considered " the only poet worthy of serious study.

At least 25 major outbreaks followed in the Americas throughout the 18th and 19th centuries including particularly serious ones in Cartagena, Colombia in 1741, in Cuba in 1762, and in Santo Domingo in 1803.

It is estimated that in later Classical Sparta, when the male population was in serious decline, women were the sole owners of at least 35 % of all land and property in Sparta.

Columnar transposition continued to be used for serious purposes as a component of more complex ciphers at least into the 1950s.

Between 1603 and 1868 there were, according to one authority, at least 130 famines, of which 21 were widespread and serious.

The most famous of these was a studio in 1968 in which Venturi and Scott Brown, together with Steven Izenour, led a team of students to document and analyze the Las Vegas Strip, perhaps the least likely subject for a serious research project imaginable.

The U. S. has claimed that the Predator strikes killed at least nine senior al-Qaeda leaders, and dozens of lower-ranking operatives, depleting its operational tier in what U. S. officials described as the most serious disruption of al-Qaeda since 2001.

Inner-city or urban schools were much more likely than other schools to report serious violent crimes, with 17 percent of city principals reporting at least one serious crime compared to 11 percent of urban schools, 10 percent of rural schools, and five percent of suburban schools in the 1997 school year.

Although the band described it as a serious take on the original, one they'd been playing live for years, original performer Gloria Gaynor considers it her least favorite version of the song due to its use of profanity.

Slapped with fresh embargoes and a joint blockade, Argentina by 1851 found itself bankrupt and with " rogue nation " standing ; on 3 February 1852, a surprise military campaign led by the Governor of Entre Ríos Province, Justo José de Urquiza, put an end to the Rosas regime and, until 1878, at least, serious Argentine foreign policy misadventures.

In what historian Patrick Jung calls a " serious lapse in judgment ", Atkinson directed the militia — his least trained and disciplined men — to " move upon the Indians should they be within striking distance without waiting for my arrival ".

since Bourbon whiskey, though of Kentucky origin, is at least as much favored by liberals in the North as by conservatives in the South.

This is puzzling to an outsider conscious of the classic tradition of liberalism, because it is clear that these Democrats who are left-of-center are at opposite poles from the liberal Jefferson, who held that the best government was the least government.

A third, one of at least equal and perhaps even greater importance, is now being traversed: American immersion and involvement in world affairs.

And it is expressed, at least to their taste, in a perfect form.

That, I thought, is at least one thing I can find out when we meet.

All such imitations of negative quality have given rise to a compensatory response in the form of a heroic and highly individualistic humanism: if man can neither know nor love reality as it is, he can at least invent an artistic `` reality '' which is its own world and which can speak to man of purely personal and subjective qualities capable of being known and worthy of being loved.

That is questionable, to say the least.

Actually, you could wish for some passion, now and then, but when you look around the world and see the little volcanos of current history which partisan social passions have wrought, you are glad that in these pamphlets there is at least some civilized calm.

The men who speculate on these institutions have, for the most part, come to at least one common conclusion: that many of the great enterprises and associations around which our democracy is formed are in themselves autocratic in nature, and possessed of power which can be used to frustrate the citizen who is trying to assert his individuality in the modern world ''.

It must be granted that the flouting of convention, no matter how well intentioned one may be, is sure to lead to trouble, or at least to the discomfort that goes with social disapproval.

However, it was not of innocence in general that I was speaking, but of perhaps the frailest and surely the least important side of it which is innocence in romantic love.

The discussion is therefore limited to a suggested procedure for realizing at least some of the potential importance of this volume for future policy.

It is at least possible that the capacity to postpone gratification is developed as well as expressed in a continuous and guided exposure to great literature.

Here we may observe that at least one modern philosophy of history is built on the assumption that ideas are the primary objectives of the historian's research.

but this -- yes, terrible step I am about to take is lightened with an inundating joy by the new-found hope that here, in these poems, is treasure -- or at least some measure of beauty, which I did not know of ''.

It is puzzling to the occidental mind ( to mine at least ) to assign `` sacredness '' to animal, insect, and plant life.

Again omitting recent developments, E.T. Leeds' dictum of 1913 has stood unchallenged: `` So far as archaeology is concerned, there is not the least warrant for the second ( shore occupied by ) of these theories ''.

Milton himself, uncommunicative as he is about his lesser and nonliterary activities, at least gives us some evidence that he was a great walker, under any and all conditions.

There is, of course, nothing new about dystopias, for they belong to a literary tradition which, including also the closely related satiric utopias, stretches from at least as far back as the eighteenth century and Swift's Gulliver's Travels to the twentieth century and Zamiatin's We, Capek's War With The Newts, Huxley's Brave New World, E. M. Forster's `` The Machine Stops '', C. S. Lewis's That Hideous Strength, and Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, and which in science fiction is represented before the present deluge as early as Wells's trilogy, The Time Machine, `` A Story Of The Days To Come '', and When The Sleeper Wakes, and as recently as Jack Williamson's `` With Folded Hands '' ( 1947 ), the classic story of men replaced by their own robots.