Word: highest
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Turnout in yesterday’s primary was the highest it had been in Connecticut since 1970. Tuesday’s election turnout was about 43 percent, compared to the typical 25 percent for primaries...
...return from afar with their dazzling jumble of words and pictures. But it is Turcs?nyi's flair and expertise that marry them in coherent, eye-pleasing fashion, while the unflappable Maloney, besieged by creative chaos, ensures that this and every other issue of Time meet not just the highest standards of magazine quality but their many tight deadlines. Michelle and Gemma both perform their roles with great good humor, and I am a grateful and admiring beneficiary of their professionalism. Depending on whom you talk to, Australia's Highway 1 is the world's longest road, its longest continuous highway...
...return from afar with their dazzling jumble of words and pictures. But it is Turcs?nyi's flair and expertise that marry them in coherent, eye-pleasing fashion, while the unflappable Maloney, besieged by creative chaos, ensures that this and every other issue of Time meet not just the highest standards of magazine quality but their many tight deadlines. Michelle and Gemma both perform their roles with great good humor, and I am a grateful and admiring beneficiary of their professionalism...
Such bizarre logic quickly becomes received wisdom in a society in which even the highest officials in the land propagate outlandish conspiracy theories. The speaker of Iraq's parliament, Mahmud al-Mashhadani, a Sunni, announced at a press conference in Bahrain that "an entire Israeli brigade has entered Iraq ... trying to infiltrate various parties." That phantom force, he continued, is "camped at Babylon, whose destruction signifies the survival of the state of Israel in their holy books...
...Syria - already edgy after Israeli jets buzzed Damascus early in the conflict - reacted by calling up several reserve units, sending special forces and anti-aircraft batteries towards the border, and putting the country's military on its highest state of alert since the war of 1973. Participants at a government-approved conference in Damascus called for the return of the Golan Heights by any means necessary, and openly criticized the regime for its failure to recover the area...