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This would be by far the better choice, when `` it is a question of allowing the human race to survive, possibly under the domination of a regime which most of us detest, or of allowing it to destroy itself in appalling and prolonged anguish ''.
What most troubles me now is the instability of the balance, the extreme peril of the current situation, the appalling waste of the arms race ... Each of us has a responsibility to think about this in global terms, with tolerance, trust, and candor, free from ideological dogmatism, parochial interests, or national egotism.
" Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times praised Tate as " a wonder to behold ", but after describing the dialogue in one scene as " the most offensive and appalling vulgarity ever thrown up by any civilization ", concluded that, " I will be unable to take her any more seriously as a sex symbol than Raquel Welch.
His La Petite Danseuse de Quatorze Ans, or Little Dancer of Fourteen Years, which he displayed at the sixth Impressionist exhibition in 1881, was probably his most controversial piece ; some critics decried what they thought its " appalling ugliness " while others saw in it a " blossoming ".
According to one literary critic, the book " remains one of the most compelling and appalling autobiographies written by a Hollywood star, or anyone else for that matter ".
This is the most derelict line in Catalonia — the stretch from Lleida to Balaguer was upgraded ( using second-hand rails ) in the recent past, but from Balaguer northwards the track is in an appalling state.
Historian Diarmaid Ferriter described Cowen's " appalling communication skills and self-destructive stubbornness " as inflicting most damage to Fianna Fáil.
" He was called into the Ministry of Information, which he called " a most appalling set-up ", and then joined the army as a private.
By 1978, Love Canal had become a national media event with articles referring to the neighborhood as " a public health time bomb ," and " one of the most appalling environmental tragedies in American history.
This assistance culminates in their protection of Centauri supply lines during an assault by the Narn, enabling the Centauri to directly attack the Narn homeworld in a devastating assault using mass drivers ( a method deemed appalling by most other races due to its use causing indiscriminate civilian casualties and severe damage to a planet's biosphere ), leading to the surrender of the Narn soon thereafter.
During this time countless non-juring priests were interned in chains on prison ships in French harbors where most died within a few months from the appalling conditions.
Garnett became one of the most memorable characters in British TV history, despite being such an appalling figure.
Living conditions for most were appalling, tuberculosis was rife.
It has been described as " one of the genre's most beloved pieces of appalling prose " and " the apotheosis of bad writing ", and has subsequently been used as part of a common science fiction convention party game.
He described it as " one of the most appalling sights that I have ever seen.
Brazil is infamous for perhaps the world's most appalling disparity in social class correlated in terms of both race and region.
He showed that the greater toll attributed to the lions resulted from a pamphlet written by Col. Patterson in 1925, stating " these two ferocious brutes killed and devoured, under the most appalling circumstances, 135 Indian and African artisans and laborers employed in the construction of the Uganda Railway.
At the plenum, party Vice Chairman Ye Jianying declared the Cultural Revolution " an appalling catastrophe " and " the most severe setback to socialist cause since.
Samuel Harrison wrote: “ The populous village of Malin Bridge experienced the full fury of the flood, and suffered to an extent which is truly appalling … A bombardment with the newest and most powerful artillery could hardly have proved so destructive, and could not possibly have been nearly so fatal to human life .”
Although the conditions at Topzawa were appalling for everyone, the most grossly overcrowded quarter seem to have been those where the male detainees were held.
When highlights from the match were shown on British television a couple of days later ( not the same night, because film of matches still had to be flown back ), the match was famously introduced by David Coleman as " the most stupid, appalling, disgusting and disgraceful exhibition of football, possibly in the history of the game.
Her presence will not be welcomed ", and Gérald Larose, president of the Quebec Sovereignty Council, stated that the monarchy was " the most despicable, appalling, anti-democratic, imperial, colonial symbol against which all social and individuals rights were obtained through the course of history.
British journalist David Aaronovitch, in November 2004, condemned Laughland and others, asserting they were " apologists for the worst regimes and most appalling dictators on the planet.
However, the working conditions are so appalling that most of the workers suffer from advanced tuberculosis with no hope of survival.

most and aspect
The most intriguing aspect of the S & W Magnum chambered for the new Jet is that it can also fire standard
The most striking aspect of the interaction demonstrated is the marked decrement in performance suffered by the highly anxious children in unstructured schools.
A third aspect, and probably the one open to most controversy, is the results of the election.
This latter assumption will permit us to center attention on the most controversial aspect of modern public utility cost analysis -- the distinction among costs that are functions of outputs of the same service measured along different dimensions.
I am prepared to demonstrate at anytime that it represents the spirit of Imperial Russia in its most vulgar, infantile, and reactionary aspect ; ;
What in some ways was the most important aspect was the impact individually on the millions who constituted the nation.
Even as his works dropped from performance, and he wrote no new operas after 1804, he still remained one of the most important and sought after teachers of his generation and his influence was felt in every aspect of Vienna's musical life.
The most controversial aspect of BCG is the variable efficacy found in different clinical trials that appears to depend on geography.
" Theorist Basil Liddell Hart considered that the most important aspect of the operation was the degree to which the Ottoman commanders were first denied intelligence on the British preparations for the attack through British air superiority, and then crippled by air attacks on their headquarters and telephone exchanges, paralysing their attempts to react to the rapidly deteriorating situation.
Perhaps the most important aspect of Army 2020 is that the Territorial Army will become " fully integrated " with the Regular Army and " better prepared " for overseas deployments and operations.
As Max Velmans and Susan Schneider wrote in The Blackwell Companion to Consciousness: " Anything that we are aware of at a given moment forms part of our consciousness, making conscious experience at once the most familiar and most mysterious aspect of our lives.
The most discomforting aspect of this paradox is that the effect is instantaneous so that something that happens in one galaxy could cause an instantaneous change in another galaxy.
It serves as the most abstract formal expression of the non-perceptual aspect of rendering.
However, as the matching process is the most difficult aspect of census estimation this has never been implemented for a national enumeration.
Until about 2003, most computer monitors had a 4: 3 aspect ratio and some had 5: 4.
In 2008 16: 10 became the most common sold aspect ratio for LCD monitors and the same year 16: 10 was the mainstream standard for laptops and notebooks.
Like most other types of subpixel rendering, ClearType actually involves a compromise, sacrificing one aspect of image quality ( color or chrominance detail ) for another ( light and dark or luminance detail ).
Although the wind up sets the tone for the entire throw, the rhythm of the throw is the most important aspect.
The most important aspect of the Treaty relating to the Dolchstoßlegende was the War Guilt Clause ( Kriegsschuldklausel ), which forced Germany to accept complete responsibility for the hostilities.
In practice, the collection of true and timely actual cost data can be the most difficult aspect of EVM.
Raw casting is perhaps the most dangerous aspect of the Earthdawn magic system.
The most important aspect of this was that such shots involved having the sun light the scene from behind, and this approach was extended by using the reflected sunlight from a white surface below the camera to light up the shadow on the actors faces from the front.
The most fundamental aspectual distinction, represented in many languages, is between perfective aspect and imperfective aspect.

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