This was the worst thing I could have said.

The best could not escape from the worst and the worst nestled cosily beside the better.

Since there is no evidence that late Maastrichtian nonavian dinosaurs could burrow, swim or dive, they were unable to shelter themselves from the worst parts of any environmental stress that occurred at the K – T boundary.

" or " What's the worst thing that could happen in this situation?

Hawks was a close friend of Hemingway and made a bet with the author that he could make a good film out of Hemingway's " worst book ".

For some reason he could never comprehend, people were inclined to believe the very worst about anything and everything ; they were immune to contrary evidence just as if they'd been medically vaccinated against the force of fact.

At worst, the warrants could have been construed as bribes to the money managers to influence decisions they made for their funds ( and indeed, several money managers were eventually convicted on bribery charges ).

Therefore, a much more limited war could have a much larger effect, because you are putting the smoke in the worst possible place.

Although Dallas had the league's worst record, they traded away the first pick in the 1990 draft so they could get backup quarterback Steve Walsh in the supplemental draft.

Discussing the hypothetical dangers posed to the US in the wake of the 11 September 2001 attacks, Franks said that “ the worst thing that could happen ” is if terrorists acquire and then use a biological, chemical or nuclear weapon that inflicts heavy casualties.

Besides being eaten by Ammit, the worst fate a ka could suffer after physical death was to be forgotten.

Injury problems, particularly a bad knee, took their toll in the early 1890s and Grace had his worst season in 1891 when he scored no centuries and could only average 19. 76.

In 2005, parts of the Amazon basin experienced the worst drought in one hundred years, and there were indications that 2006 could have been a second successive year of drought.

After Cornelius ’ s appointment to the papacy, Novatian became more rigorous in his philosophy, convinced that bishops could not pardon the worst of sins, and that such sins could only be reconciled at the Last Judgment.

It is possible that you could be getting " the best of it " or " the worst of it " when you lay a bet ; the fact that you are laying a bet does not necessarily mean you are getting " the worst of it ".

Okhotsk's inhabitants described the winter as the worst they could recall ; Bering seized flour from the local villagers to ensure that his party too could take advantage of their stocks and consequently the whole village soon faced the threat of starvation.

They destroy nests and eggs but their worst effect is as competitors for food, which could be catastrophic for the cassowaries during lean times.

On April 14, 1935, known as " Black Sunday ", 20 of the worst " black blizzards " occurred throughout the Dust Bowl, causing extensive damage and turning the day to night ; witnesses reported they could not see five feet in front of them at certain points.

Zugsmith offered him a pile of scripts, of which Welles asked for the worst to prove he could make a great film out of a bad script.

In the worst case, a chosen-plaintext attack could reveal the scheme's secret key.

It is proposed that in 10 years all commercial timberlands, all critical watersheds, and other lands in the National Forest System developed or proposed for intensive use will be given protection from fire adequate to meet the fire situation in the worst years and under serious peak loads.

Otherwise it will be headed for bankruptcy, at worst, and at best towards starvation of other less dramatic but socially and culturally indispensable branches of learning.

Certainly there would be less anxiety, fewer accidents ( it is the clumsy child who sustains the worst injuries ), and higher scholastic averages, since alert children work better.

Once he had abandoned himself to the very worst, once he had quieted all the dragons of worry and suspense, there wouldn't be very much for Mae to do.

In many areas drivers have established alternate tracks to avoid the worst parts of the surface, although careful attention must be paid to the presence or absence of landmine warning markers by the side of the road.

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.

David Suchet highlights his performance as Japp to be " possibly the worst performance of career.

Another famous character was Joe Btfsplk, who wants to be a loving friend but is " the world's worst jinx ," bringing bad luck to all those nearby.

May be described as the worst headache of the patient's life.

As for insomnia, they may also be used on an irregular /" as-needed " basis, such as in cases where said anxiety is at its worst.

At the air base near Tapa, site of the worst damage, officials estimated that six square kilometers of land were covered by a layer of fuel ; 11 square kilometers of underground water were said to be contaminated.

Most of these arguments have been shown to be over-generalizations at best and flatly incorrect at worst in modern biology and social studies.

As it turned out, 2006 would prove to be the worst season for Essendon under Sheedy, and its worst in over 70 years, with a multitude of injuries and poor form affecting the team, none more so than the serious hamstring injury suffered by newly appointed captain Lloyd.

Both Heaven and Hell have different levels ; the worst of people will be in the lowest depths of Hell, while the best of them will be in the highest parts of Heaven.

Then Fabius quickly sought to calm the Roman people by asserting himself as a strong Dictator at the moment of what was perceived to be the worst crisis in Roman history.

* 2010 may be the worst year ever for coral death in the Caribbean, Science 22 October 2010: Vol.

* 1863 – New York City draft riots: in New York, New York, opponents of conscription begin three days of rioting which will be later regarded as the worst in United States history.

:" No ," said his military friend, " my colonel does not live here — but my comrade does, and he's worth two of the colonel, so by God, doctor, if you don't do your best for him, it will be the worst for you!

Its worst case cost is proportional to the number of elements in the list ; and so is its expected cost, if all list elements are equally likely to be searched for.

The code ends by telling the Israelites they must choose between the law and prosperity on the one hand, or, on the other, horrible punishments, the worst of which will be expulsion from the land.

Pennwalt Chemical Corporation was found to be the worst polluter.

Such steam explosions would be typical of the very diffuse assembly of materials in a nuclear reactor, even under the worst conditions.