(1) The script was workmanlike at best.

(2) We can't arrive before Friday at best.

(3) Their response to the proposal was, at best, cool.

(4) The accommodation for the press was makeshift at best.

(5) The campaign was at best only partially successful.

(6) At best a few hundred people attended the meeting.

(7) He is old and unpopular. Furthermore, he has at best only two years of political life ahead of him.

(8) The historical records of the period are, at best fragmentary.

(9) At best Nella would be an invalid; at worst she would die.

(10) Choosing the right software can be time-consuming at best and confusing or frustrating at worst .

(11) Many critics regard this argument as dubious or, at best, misleading.

(12) The food was bland at best, and at worst completely inedible.

(13) Most drugs offer either no real improvement or, at best, only moderate improvements.

(14) A garden is, at best, a holding operation against nature.

(15) This policy, they say, is at best confused and at worst non-existent.

(16) The technique is at best ineffective and at worst dangerous.

(17) She is at worst corrupt[/at best.html], and at best has been knowingly breaking the rules.

(18) The service at the restaurant was indifferent at best.

(19) At best, sales have been good but not great.

(20) Public transportation is at best limited.

(21) The information highway is a rough road at best.

(22) Well, it had been a forlorn hope at best.

(23) If so, it seems ill mannered at best.

(24) At best, management fashions can facilitate effective profit management.

(25) Even at best this is a rather crude approximation.

(26) The story, hardly positive, is at best equivocal.

(27) I am sure your readers would have seen the article as at best untimely.

(28) His links with the organization turned out to be, at best, tenuous.

(29) In consequence we have developed restrictive practices and engineering, at best, are only partially aware of the business objectives.

(30) The first assumption of the Census Bureau, therefore, must be viewed as fatuous at worst, naive at best.

(1) The accommodation for the press was makeshift at best.

(31) At best the amphibious raiders might have panoramic shots from aerial reconnaissance, or be given a flight over the target beach.

(32) From their perspective, the discretion used by federal officials produced reluctant justice at best.

(33) At best in a major conflict it would give allies time to reach agreement on how to use nuclear weapons.

(34) At best, they can entangle the nets of a fishing boat and kill the crew.

(35) At best it might produce recommendations for new and hopeful initiatives.

(36) Moreover(), surveys reveal that the process committee overlay to the traditionally managed organization is winning limited employee acceptance at best.

(37) We have brokers here who will sell them at best.

(38) At best, this organization achieves a grudging, superficial conformity to officially sanctioned patterns of thought and action.

(39) Cost effectiveness estimates should not be used in a mechanistic fashion; at best they provide a useful aid for decision making.

(40) At best, the comet will be visible to us naked-eye types for only a few more weeks.

(41) In rested subjects alpha rhythm is indicative of low arousal, but sleep-deprived subjects commonly only achieve this level of arousal at best.

(42) Those who invoke it are signalling an equivocal stance on slavery, at best, and thus are insulting all black people.

(43) The prominence of the Nevilles ended in disaster and the influence of the Percies was at best intermittent.

(44) Invention furnishes Art with all her materials, and without it, Judgement itself can at best but steal wisely. Alexander Pope 

(45) At best this will always be a compromise-which explains why this is one of the most difficult aspects of learning to fly.

(46) The song has to be considered at best lame by any music fan exercising normal powers of discretion.

(46) try its best to gather and make good sentences.

(47) The cure for the shaking floor is to rebuild the floor, an intimidating task at best.

(48) It is a personal activity at best, an aid to the individual teacher, the individual child and the parents.

(49) The Chicago School work, Castells argued, at best offered good empirical studies of a very specific set of historical circumstances.

(50) Heavy losses or, at best, inadequate returns on capital invested have resulted in ignominious withdrawals from the market.

(51) For Coulthard, the prospect of posting a third successive Silverstone win looks a forlorn hope at best after another disappointing race.

(52) Failure of a biomaterial can at best cause discomfort to the patient and at worst can be fatal.

(53) The compatibility between poetry and writing from the heart is not automatic but at best conventional.

(54) This mistake has led them at best into errors of judgment and distortion of fact and at worst into academic hucksterism.

(55) These efforts are mixed successes at best, but the experience is not disappointment for the reader.

(56) At best it was pointless; at worst it could be really awkward.

(57) Where and what kinds they will be is an open question that is, at best, an educated guess.

(58) Our efforts in agricultural science are thus, at best, temporary expedients.

(59) At best it shows only that something similar is happening without showing why, or identifying key causal processes.

(60) But such a strategy, chancy at best, certainly can not succeed without a credible threat of a resolution.

(61) Oil prices in nominal dollar terms are expected to stay flat, at best, between now and the year 2000.

(62) The distinction between the Romantic Historical and the straight historical novel is a fuzzy one at best.

(63) Intelligence, even codebreaking, is at best only a fragmented adjunct to strategic planning.

(64) His confidants are throwbacks to the past, lukewarm at best to economic and political pluralism.

(65) Schooling was seen by many parents as an irrelevance at best; at worst as a downright intrusion.

(66) Televised instruction is, at best, a useful adjunct to the real thing.

(67) But the analogies which are used to justify the transition are dubious at best.

(68) At best a needlessly expensive chemical is used where a cheaper, equally effective detergent, would suffice.

(69) At best she had expected bland sympathy from him, but the sparks shooting in his eyes were genuine.

(70) At best, training may open new avenues or provide contacts which may lead to employment interviews.

(71) At best, we can discern a pattern in the cases and views expressed about them.

(72) Economic gurus tend to think of themselves as hard scientists, while caricaturing educators as limp, at best.

(73) Yet the Basle requirements were at best a crude measure of credit exposure-albeit one that is easy to apply.

(74) Correct the problem Correcting your writing problems might sound daunting at worst, annoying at best.

(75) Current teacher training programmes will at best fill vacancies and make good existing shortcomings.

(76) It is therefore going to be, at best, a bumpy ride.

(76) is a sentence dictionary, on which you can find nice sentences for a large number of words.

(77) Hers was the record of, at best, a foot soldier in the feminist and abolitionist struggles of her day.

(78) At best, therefore, Freud's views must be regarded as suggestions that need to be followed up by systematic research.

(79) Entry is gained from an alley on the side, so narrow that it can at best take a single car.

(80) At best it was a snobbery which wholly overlooked his timing, eye and exactitude of judgment and imagery.

(81) The result would, at best, have been clerical absolutism, at worst, Communist takeover or civil war.

(82) Although it is possible to achieve some degree of change without top-level commitment, that change is likely to be ephemeral at best.

(83) Why did socialist feminists accuse us, at best, of being hedonistic female chauvinists, and at worst, Fascists?

(84) At best, he is summarising our human tendency to dualism.

(85) For most people breakfast is a time to renew contact with the world, often through bleary eyes at best.

(86) Mostly they turned out to be thinly disguised candidate ads, a violation of the spirit of the law at best.

(87) As more than half the population do not pay income tax this is at best only a half-truth.

(88) The market in 1994 was at best indifferent, rewarding only the most astute stock pickers.

(89) I could never get a decent swing with my left hand, but at best I would use it only to repel boarders.

(90) At best, they put in a decent effort in executing the entrepreneurial hero's grand design.

(91) It is a murky field at best, and the practical difficulties in the Viet-namese environment were daunting.

(92) She attracted real affection, while the Shah himself aroused fear or, at best, respect.

(93) Atmospheric explosions will at best generate rather feeble tidal waves.

(94) At best, they have an instinctive feeling for what will please people and make them like the product.

(95) The decision is mischievous at best and will surely confuse the lower courts.

(96) Social and political conflict at best is erroneous, and at worst contrived.

(97) It's unlikely she'd be suitable as a donor, she could probably be only a half-match at best.

(98) At best the ads would attract a very small incremental audience to the network.

(99) But to remove this element results in, at best, a decaffeinated criticism.

(100) But this is a crude indicator, at best, for how business behaves.

(101) Like other Thatcherite creations, the Enterprise Allowance Scheme is chock-a-block with buzzwords whose connection with reality is, at best, half-baked.

(102) Any manager who fails to devise adequate systems for job control is at best not in control and at worst out of control.

(103) I had expected Gillis to be long since dead or at best a doddering ninety-year-old.

(104) At best, only about three-quarters of trains are expected to run over the Christmas period.

(105) The historical record is checkered at best.

(106) The rest of the acting is patchy at best.

(106) try its best to collect and create good sentences.

(107) At best, a very small open-faced sandwich.

(108) At best, I step off my life.

(109) Such generalizing statements are tentative at best.

(110) At best, an everyday tale of cock-up over conspiracy.

(111) The origins of structural theories are eclectic at best.

(112) "The cartoon in today's New York Post is troubling at best given the historic racist attacks of African Americans as being synonymous with monkeys," civil rights activist Al Sharpton said.

(113) With slowing global demand of capital goods , the outlook for Japan seems gloomy at best.

(114) For the rest students, college is at best a social center or aging vat.

(115) Researchers point out that at best praise is a weak reinforcer .

(116) At best he'd smile politely, and then roll around in his fresh pile of Federal Reserve Notes.

(117) At best, jury-rigged silencers are nearly worthless. At worst, they can particially block the gun barrel causing it to overpressure and explode.

(118) Karl's relationships with Anthony, Smith and Martin are tenuous at best.

(119) Meat is, at best, a secondary source of essential elements.

(120) At best , they are likely to flatten off over the coming years.

(121) Accused of being a revolutionary, or at best a naif , Bernstein never recovered from the damage this did to his reputation.

(122) This at best is an imperfect proxy for how much N-nitroso is truly formed in the body after eating kimchi 9.

(123) At best you're able to adopt the mindset of solipsism within the larger context of OR, but you cannot fit the perspective of SR within an OR framework.

(124) Nobody knew that, occasionally comes out "someone" princess, also is only a set-off at best.

(125) There's nothing more frustrating than to hear lies, or at best mis-informed people, speaking about Infinity, and how it's been in development "forever", and how it is vaporware .

(126) I thought I was being generous. Turns out that makes me, at best, an average tipper.

(127) At best, the client might do something like write a new time stamp that indicates the last time the identified customer visited.

(128) But the attitudes toward weight will continue to be ambivalent at best — ranging from Bourdain's acerbic take to Appleman's almost Calvinistic sternness about his own body.

(129) Darwinian man, though well-behaved, at best is only a monkey shaved.

(130) I can never get off this ship. At best , I didn't step off my life.

(131) There is the Oedipus Complex, at best, so easy to marry a wife more than Sister.

(132) Beyond the prelature's adherence to the arcane ritual of corporal mortification, their views on women were medieval at best.

(133) Songwriter William Gilbert, in the musical "Princess Ida", wrote: " Darwinian man, though well-behaved, at best is only a monkey shaved. "

(134) Atlantic City, at best, been the playground of America, but never really the entretainment capital.

(135) Inevitably, high prices threaten unrest at best and mass starvation at worst.

(136) There is only, at best ,[http:///at best.html] random monitoring of wastewater effluent by the pollution control agency.

(137) Vocabulary learning is at best boring and at worst painful.

(138) Instead, we're spending ridiculous sums on no-hoper, marginal stuff like fusion energy and a massive smart meter rollout, that at best will only shave a fraction off peak demand.

(139) Because clusters have a tendency to grow over time, I view this not only as a compromise but also as temporary solution at best.

(140) Slumdog, then , is at best an attempt to cook a saccharine dish in a bitter sauce.

(141) The other years, when I set my sights on training for a marathon or even making the bed every day, my resolve crumbled by mid-January, at best.

(142) I tried to be open-minded about the rock concert, but the music was at best loud and at worst tuneless .

(143) Yet India's response to this doomful scenario has been, at best, haphazard.

(144) TIME: Let's start with the genesis of ROWE. When you were tasked with finding new workplace solutions at Best Buy, the company was already an industry leader and a sought-after employer.

(145) Even if the rest of the world were willing to run the large trade deficits needed to support China's low relative consumption for so long, the math that gets us there is tricky at best.

(146) A computer, in contrast, "could at best be programmed to try out a series of hypotheses to see which best fit the fixed data.

(147) Entrepreneurs who utter this lie look naive at best, stupid at worst.

(148) "Intelligence" at best is an assumptive construct — the meaning of the word has never been clear.

(149) This is at best disingenuous and does not justify a failure to inform and consult people.

(150) The resulting tree structure is at best an approximation of what the original page author intended and at worst something completely different.

(151) So - called truth is a nebulous thing at best.

(152) "The dissemination effort is scattershot at best," said Revanche Jefrizal Kabuik, head of the Tsunami Alert Community, also known as KOGAMI, a non-governmental organisation in western Sumatra.

(153) At best, children get involved in sports, but many merely go through the motions of a physical education class and barely learn how to do push ups and sit ups.

(154) Variety shop:In this variety shop, you can find various and cheap goods which satisfy the local people's basic need at best.

(155) After selecting Alesidu, we may customize a detailed skin care plan for your skin with professional beauty consultant, construct your skin file, and make your skin keep at best state at any time.

(156) In the end, many organizations find the limitations of most off-the-shelf build management tools put them, at best, on a par with do-it-yourself systems.

(157) The bill is at best pointless posturing and at worst dangerous demagoguery.

(158) At best and in the Tao's examination, the false gods are less than 1/180th of the original consciousness that ascended.

(159) The temperature of the three reactors with damaged central cores still fluctuates and water systems for the spent-fuel pools are jury-rigged at best.

(160) The idea that rigorous analysis of the right policies happened to echo the target date seems, at best, trivially condescending.

(161) Call no man happy till he dies , he is at best but fortunate. -- Solon.

(162) A coal miner's job is dirty and dangerous at best.

(163) At best, you're material witness to a homicide; at worst, you could be a suspect.

(164) When she wanted to talk about her work, he would change the subject, or at best listen condescendingly, as if she were a child telling of school excitements .

(165) They may have given up hope for the base, but they are clearly not interested in getting involved with Kyrgyzstan's police and military, whom they seem to regard as feckless at best.

(166) I figure by next year your neighbor, the one who always buys what the sales staff at Best Buy talks him into purchasing, will be bragging to you about his new super-duper desktop running Linux.

(166) try its best to gather and build good sentences.

(167) More often the activities that go under the sustainability banner are a hotch-potch of pet projects at best tenuously related to the core business.

(168) Many mayfly species are clumsy swimmers at best, and combine that with shucking their outer nymph skin, they become a flailing treat for the waiting trout.

(169) In such conditions, any family attachments that developed were at best inconvenient.

(170) Recovery will be slow at best, particularly if an inflation-wary ECB starts to jack up interest rates.

(171) They describe the IPCC's assumption that the majority of future emission reductions will occur spontaneously, in the absence of climate policies, as "optimistic at best and unachievable at worst".

(172) Don't scold him too much; he is at best a child.

(173) No amount of flannel could disguise that this was, at best, a minimalist solution.

(174) You are an interloper in my world, grudgingly tolerated at best. Beware my wrath. I can kill you on a whim.

(175) At best it can only sequester 90 percent of the carbon emitted.

(176) Here again the argument baseless or very weak at best.

(177) And with the consumer still focused on paying down debt, economic growth will be slow at best.

(178) At best on the eggplant, hanging above pulp , oil pan so at the same time, heating.

(179) The recovery remains patchy at best, but the determination of both New Long Marchers is undimmed for now.

(180) At best, it is self - explanatory and saves you the long , tedious perusal of the operating manual.

(181) This investiture of the grotesqueimpossible with reality, he looked upon as a trick - a trick at best.

(182) So put in these other terms negative 3 states that there is no fundamental real distinction only at best a conceptual distinction between X's categorical properties and X's dispositional properties.

(183) Americans need to prepare for a recession or, at best, a prolonged period of below - trend growth.

(184) A man who hogs the wheel -- even in your car -- 33 is sweetly old-fashioned at best and, at worst, could be a control freak.

(185) Worst of all, he was hungry and weary, and at best a whole day must intervene, for he had not heart to try again to-night.