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Such, at any rate, was the answer that rang back at my moment of frustration and paralysis and panic.
Now he has to ask himself that question, either in advance or at any rate retrospectively when it comes to self-assessment for tax purposes.
One of the best parts of the movie, for me at any rate, was when Eliza Doolittle gets all toffed up for the races.
People over 60 are expected to be sexless creatures or, at any rate, celibates.
It is basically because the unmindful energy out in the world is very insidious, as is, quite often at any rate, our own personal unmindfulness.
When a singing contest is described as a reality show it is because its progression is unscripted or at any rate, not entirely scripted.
Watching people sniff suspiciously at our currency has become, in this household at any rate, a family sport.
But the real problem for broking houses is that they tend to recommend the stocks they bring to market, in published analysis at any rate.
If they are killed, they are at any rate killed in virtue of what they are doing.
The indications as stated are that this is not being achieved nor indeed will it be in the medium term at any rate.
It is not going beyond the limits of prudent statement to say that at any rate it will take a long time to starve us out.
Well perhaps it was not that dramatic, but at any rate, he had woken up to a pounding headache and a splitting hangover.
And yet to me to love in a carnal sense was at any rate to enjoy a triumph over countless rivals.
It was in 1960, or possibly 1961, at any rate before the first Beatles LP, that I went shopping for cheroots with my grandfather.
People are homeless for many reasons, more reasons than I can discuss here at any rate.
But political passion overwhelmed aesthetic concentration, and so, outside Italy at any rate, he has forfeited literary immortality.
For it has long been apparent that central bankers everywhere must like inflating the currency, during working hours at any rate.
What prompts doubts, or at any rate questions, is the generality of his protasis.
The reference to detention appear to show that the Customs had a right to detain goods at any rate if their true value had not been declared.
And, at any rate, the SDF did not approve of industrial struggle, holding that such activity was a diversion from the inevitable.
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It is at any rate more candid than the notoriously slimy postwar equivocations of Albert Speer.
But at any rate they are dealing with two different domains, two different areas, the epistemologic and the metaphysical.
Here, in the words of the Scripture, is desolation of abomination, or at any rate its beginnings.
We know only that the transfer was made, at any rate, according to a public statement by Earl Huntley.
But at any rate, what taboos will cinema breach after the next twenty-five years, the next fifty?
I am, at any rate, tempted to apply it to creatures like Professors Thornton and Campbell.
The cure is simplicity itself, and in the neighbourhood of London, at any rate, could be carried out without any expense whatever.
I don't have any evidence of that, but at any rate his movement to do away with whatever he imported was started much earlier.
But the hardships are in practice not so serious as might appear, at any rate in the case of statements which are ex facie defamatory.
Inevitably, some of the experts would be regarded, at any rate by some people, as even more distinguished than others.
If they are thus verified, such states may be taken to be universal, at any rate for human beings.
Fortunately in England at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever.
Real foxes do, indeed, sometimes make their homes under human houses and, increasingly in this country at any rate, under city homes.
Its market value is at any rate likely to hold up since the bank is still seen as an attractive takeover target.
This, assuming he is honest and vigilant, he should be able to do, at any rate when the matter comes before the court.
But for rugby at any rate, it looks as though there is a chance that Scotland may soon exit from the slough of despondency in which we have recently wallowed.
It was all very sobering, and those attending courses came away, if not nuclear disarmers, at any rate determined to do whatever lay in their power to prevent such horrors.
The ones who turned up on the first day, which was I think most of the team, or most of the ones who turned up at any rate, haven't been punished?
The signature, at any rate to my non-expert eye, does not look at all like Mr Duthie's signature, which appears on many of the documents in this case.
And it is certainly true that he often exaggerates, or at any rate misdescribes, some of the contrasts he discerns between medieval and Lutheran religious sensibility.
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Its great occasions are, for me at any rate, unequalled in the world of sport.
But at any rate, we have to change course because our country is headed for National Socialism.
Great story for a kid at any rate, because kids love horrific things.
Investors, at any rate, still seem to view Asia as ripe with opportunity, and are taking the long-term view in regards to engagement with the region.
You may even find, as I have, that one of these five is a stubby little bit of lippy that dates back to the thirteenth-century, or at any rate, back to your mid-twenties.
As a result, I have tended to steer clear of the play, thinking that, if Homer sometimes nods, then here at any rate, Shakespeare was deeply asleep!
Whitman might have added that nothing so intangible and difficult may be adequately taught at any rate, and that poetry is therefore in no danger of being taught to death.
The workforce has, at any rate, been trimmed down over the years.
I am looking for someone who might possibly have been, or worked for a furrier in the past, at any rate someone who knows what's what in fur terms.
This part, at any rate, of Robert Owen's social philosophy has commended itself to the practical judgment of the civilised world.
Mumming, at any rate in the South of England, had its heyday at the end of the 19th century and the earliest years of the 20th century.
It is beyond dispute, however, that the game, at any rate in a rudimentary form, was played in the 13th century.
Her mother kept well away from us, which was a turn up for the book, and for the time being at any rate, I was a model husband.
If our people of ton are selfish, at any rate they show they are selfish.
Such dissemblance, at any rate, is not a temptation at this exhibition.
Furniture is comical. It responds to humans. For some it looks its drabbest, for others it sparkles and looks, if not handsome, at any rate comfortable.
Examples from Classical Literature
But at any rate the union with Eastern Rumelia was accomplished and remained a fact.
To his suggestion that they should, at any rate, halve the load, Lindela laughed in scorn.
Mr. Clawbonny, it is a desert, but we shant die of thirst in it at any rate.
But at any rate, this arrangement had all the logic of going to sea in a bathing-machine.
Not even at this moment was any one apprised of the fact, at any rate in any open and public manner.
Provisionally this genus has been grouped with the Ratitae, which at any rate are a heterogenous assembly.
You at any rate are not a simpleton to be taken in by any sort of hocus-pocus.
But a man alone, or at any rate a member of the human race alone, could compass an effect so horrendous.
God had, at any rate, decreed that this man should not cumber it as a drone.
According to this view hyoscyamine ought to be the hyoscinate of hyoscine, or at any rate an isomer of this body.
He got his way at any rate about the war memorial though, and insisted on a Celtic cross.
A bolt-hole should be of a size to enable the bolt to be pushed in, or, at any rate, not more than gently tapped in.
She resolved that, at any rate, to him nothing more should be said about the quintain that day.
If Jehoshaphat had thought of him, Ahab at any rate did not care to mention him.
Alexandrina feared that she would not be allowed to rule, but she could at any rate try.
It is, at any rate, noticeable with reference to the Russian plans in Khiva.
It had at any rate the effect of bridging, for poor Chivers, some of his gaps.
Then there will be a demonstration, at any rate, and then the thing will be superannuated.
They say the Savoyard is not a bad comrade, and at any rate he can charge like a soldier.
And he can ride a horse and hold a lance, can he not, at any rate in your quarrel?
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And at any rate the nose-ring and small earrings in the upper ear should be of gold if worn at all.
For there is that one comfort about this discomfortable and discredited art of ours, that age at any rate does not impair it.
His poetry is religious without the weakness, or at any rate the limitedness, which mars so much religious verse.
To dissimulate my own share in it, at any rate, I asked him how his mother might be.
There at any rate he was confined when the messenger of death sent by Theodoric found him.
The oldest novel in the world at any rate, White reflected, was a story with a hero and no love interest worth talking about.
For men of the type in question can be great, at any rate in low-level society.
I shall send the despatch to Ticknor, at any rate, for publication if necessary.
So thinks, at any rate, a horseman, toilsomely making his way over its inhospitable expanse.
As loyal, at any rate, as men who would sell their souls for an aureus, answered the Spaniard.
As a last resort this seaweed is edible, at any rate certain species of it.
There is reason to think that, in some cases at any rate, the mycelium is that of the truffle.
I think also you have seen Naxos, or at any rate Hyria, which is close here.
If he has not ceased to be an idol, he has at any rate ceased to be a bugbear.
On either side enough may be said by any arguer to convince at any rate himself.
A philosopher, at any rate, should be able to endure the charge of being 'unmodern' with fortitude.
Most of these haciendas, at any rate those deep in the country, have a very shabby and down-at-heel appearance.
We have plenty of room here, and you will have one comfortable night on the ridge, at any rate.
His own father was an unscrupulous, unserious man, that was true, but at any rate he had given his son a human chance.
The province of Upper Silesia was asked for on grounds which the Poles, at any rate, thought convincing.
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The Edentates, at any rate the American forms, have a double vena cava posterior and no azygos vein.
There are eighty-nine days before I can go back, and this is one off, at any rate.
I suppose the boy was a picker just like the rest but at any rate he had some idea of fairness.
It must run on at any rate for some years longer before it shall have accreted a convincing weight.
Perhaps there is, at any rate in the earlier letters, something of this unkemptness in Keats as an epistoler.
The Florentines at any rate spend no more money nor faith on the carnivalesque.
The castrato whom they did engage was Carestini, who, though less celebrated, was at any rate a singularly artistic singer.
It soon fuses with the zona radiata, or at any rate the zona ceases to be distinguishable.
The god, at any rate, has foreknowledge, and premonishes those whom he will of what is about to be.
Like that, like that, at any rate, she no longer looked like the picture on a chocolate-box.
Montalvo at any rate gave the appearance of striving to suppress it.
With anaesthetics this state of things at any rate was changed.
No matter, the old Atalanta story was paid off, at any rate.
We're evidently in the bad books of the Gray Man, at any rate, Carrick.
But, at any rate, she was his wife, and the bairn would be his bairn.
Looks as if Nora had not walked in her sleep, at any rate, put in betta.
Still, not to mention Shelley's wife, there was Bracknell, at any rate.
Well, I think we won't talk about Bridges here, at any rate.
Mr. Quorrall at any rate seemed tacitly to agree with brindley.
This, at any rate, was the allegation of the more outspoken American press.
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It is the harvest, if not of the busy bee, at any rate of the busybody.
They were all listening now, and of course there was somebody to be arch, or at any rate to draw the inference.
But at any rate, no one will deny that interest is the crucial matter.
God had at any rate decreed that this man should not cumber it as a drone.
It, at any rate, is a chance, but the other was a dead cert.
He gave, at any rate, like a convalescent slightly fatigued, a languid shake of his head.
The skin is in most forms at any rate unprovided with dermal scutes.
This, at any rate, was the project on which Mr. savin set his heart.
What I have to do is to see, at any rate, that I do not lend myself to the wrong which I condemn.
From the latter, at any rate, the douanier needed no freeing.
I could ruin the Stock Exchange to-morrow, bring London's credit, for a time, at any rate, below the credit of Belgrade.
These may at any rate be held to enrich themselves in depriving others.
Van Weyden, for the present at any rate, earns his salty grub by assisting me.
You have been all your days a bold and unscrupulous schemer, but ends have at any rate been worthy ones.
The genus galago comprises at any rate six distinct species.
That's a settler for our military friend, at any rate,' said my aunt, on the way home.
Nevertheless Shinto is, ostensibly at any rate, still the State religion.
It is skimpy in the extreme, but at any rate it is something.
I never met a person who did not like snapdragons, or the flowers of snapdragons at any rate.
Well, this is the straight goods at any rate, said Cimarron.
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I got out with Villaret, intending at any rate to stretch my limbs.
To this, at any rate, the Gtar were more exposed than the jutes.
If perhaps it was not so strange and magnificent as the sunlit cloudland of the previous day, it was at any rate infinitely more interesting.
Beer does not refine, perhaps,97 but at any rate it mellows.
Now of this Le Sage was aware, or at any rate more than suspicious.
It will be cold to unbutton, but if I only know that it's getting near morning I shall at any rate feel more cheerful.
But at any rate it went off under the house, which lifted up cornerwise and settled back on its foundations.
It was at any rate a comfort that the Falls and the wild swirl of waters below them were behind him.
Whereby he expected at any rate to minimise the transgression of orders.
The men, at any rate, had then the most unrestricted freedom.
I have not, at any rate, wittingly passed by any real difficulties.
Of overweening egotism Pattison himself at any rate had none.
The next stage at any rate represents the commencement of the zoa series.
It was agreed that for the present, at any rate, picotee should remain.
Butterflies, in the poona district at any rate, are disappointing.
They had been hogging the sea, and they knew Wolf Larsen, by reputation at any rate.
Whatever discomfort she may have suffered from his spirited imitations of Othello, at any rate they had proved that he loved her.
Your way at any rate is not my way, and it is unwise that we should attempt any longer to pull together.
But at any rate I have shown, have I not, that there is a certain element of improbability about the lady's story.
Thanks to them his footsteps had been noiseless, at any rate.
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The primitive taste of West Sussex, at any rate, cannot require them.
They have a wife, children perhaps, some affection at any rate, or perhaps only some pet vice, that must be left behind for a year or more.
The above sequence of thoughts was entirely unsympathetic and it was followed by a feeling of satisfaction that I, at any rate, was not suffering from insomnia.
My elder companion, the next moment, at any rate, blotted out everything but her own flushed face and her loud, shocked protest, a burst of high disapproval.
My other pupil, at any rate, as I understand, comes back tomorrow?
Perhaps this was my own imagination, but at any rate I was now persuaded that my friend was afflicted with a most singular and interesting monomania.
It was a dreadfully austere inquiry, but levity was not our note, and, at any rate, before the gray dawn admonished us to separate I had got my answer.
While if you stick to consciousness, even though the same result is attained, you can at least flog yourself at times, and that will, at any rate, liven you up.
The housekeeper said the same, so eager were they both for the slaughter of those innocents, but the curate would not agree to it without first reading at any rate the titles.
Miss Hepzibah, at any rate, will lose what little flexibility she has.
China's population must be seven hundred millions, eight hundred millions, nobody knew how many millions, but at any rate it would soon be a billion.
