How To Use At the least In A Sentence
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They may at the least call for a right to prenotification before publication.
Times, Sunday Times
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At the least, that first conclusion seems to me unproven by his own arguments in favor of mortality.
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And further, it seemeth very likely that the inhabitants of the most part of those countries, by which they must have come any other way besides by the north-west, being for the most part anthropophagi, or men-eaters, would have devoured them, slain them, or, at the leastwise, kept them as wonders for the gaze.
The North-West Passage
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I know that not every operation has the resources to hire a master mixologist but they should, at the least, hire a head barman to develop beverage programs.
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Ms. Seidman said that the least satisfied career changers she works with tend to be those who fell into general majors, such as philosophy or African-American studies, and ended up in unrelated fields.
Psych Majors Aren't Happy With Options
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Seating is known to ‘belong’ to particular families, with, at the least, sharp looks and some words to anyone else who deigns to sit in one of the ‘best seats.’
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Not being able to vanquish what he called my obstinacy, Maisons begged me at the least to go and fix myself upon the Quai de la Megisserie, where so much old iron is sold, and examine from that spot the tower where the will was; he pointed it out to me; it looked out upon the Quai des Morforidus, but was behind the buildings on the quai.
Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete
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What better way to control and lead the sheeple of this world to slaughter, or at the least, under total control.
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Lesser butlers will abandon their professional being for the private one at the least provocation.
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She seldom smiles and takes offense at the least excuse, crying rivers of tears and wailing.
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Objective testing, using either a pass-fail or percentage grading system, can at the least establish whether the student can or cannot accomplish the task.
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A sign of the broad success of her discursive style is that the least effective essay is the shortest.
The Times Literary Supplement
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At the least, he grippit the spokes an 'twiddled 'em an' looked wise, but I doubt if the Hoor ever felt it.
The Day's Work - Volume 1
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Obviously, organic does signify better, or at the least an improvement, but the buyer must beware.
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Cowper-Temple clause, at the least: and so far as he is a convinced conformer, he is often compelled to strain, far beyond the meaning of the parable, the principle of letting the wheat and the tares grow together.
Recent Developments in European Thought
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The Russian threat is, at the least, in abeyance.
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Henry the fourth of France had but one coach between himself and his queen; whereas no respectable person can now dispense at the least with a travelling chariot, a barouche, a cab, and a dennet.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 381, July 18, 1829
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As the dwarven party passed by, the pair went tense, ready to sound an alarum, no doubt, at the least sign of trouble.
A TIME OF WAR
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I said to myself at once that the block of stone disturbed by the pickaxe had been placed there with a very curious exactness, that the least knock was bound to make it fall and that, in falling, it must inevitably reduce the head of the false Arsene Lupin to pulp, in such a way as to make it utterly irrecognizable.
The Hollow Needle; Further adventures of Arsene Lupin
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Each and every short story contained in Gratia Placenti is, at the least, quite good, with many being truly memorable.
For the Sake of Pleasing a reviewer...
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I imagine that in the famous ‘blue states’ they find the idea of having a holiday for confederate heroes at the least quaint and at the most somewhat distasteful.
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Remorseful, Mona figures that the least she can do is find her boyfriend's mortal remains, so that his soul can be put to rest.
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Repetitive exercises to introduce the concept of evidence without consultation with primary colleagues is at the least unimaginative.
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He could just see a black shape flapping off, a bird as a large as a wolfhound at the least, thwacking the air with huge wings.
A TIME OF WAR
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To be sure, by the 1940s, numerous young women were hospitalized for breakdown, winning at the least some rest amid the otherwise unredeemed burdens of the baby boom.
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This done, she letteth her mash run till the malt be left without liquor, or at the leastwise the greatest part of the moisture, which she perceiveth by the stay and soft issue thereof; and by this time her second liquor in the furnace is ready to seethe, which is put also to the malt, as the first woort also again into the furnace, whereunto she addeth two pounds of the best English hops, and so letteth them seethe together by the space of two hours in summer or an hour and a half in winter, whereby it getteth an excellent colour, and continuance without impeachment or any superfluous tartness.
Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series)
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At the least, get some forewarning before crossing the street at the wrong time and getting hit by a bus, and that sort of thing.
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They neglect their duty at the least hint of fun elsewhere.
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She is the most high-maintenance person who ever lived, throwing tantrums at the least provocation: ‘I haven't had a bath for seven hours!
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Presumably, then, Penelope would need to "derepress" her rape memory, or at the least to accept its buried existence, before overcoming her symptom.
'Victims of Memory': An Exchange
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A chain can only be as strong as its weakest link, so we must look at the least committed country to see if the alliance will hold.
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A survey of the religious beliefs and practices of American physicians has found that the least religious of all medical specialties is psychiatry.
September 5th, 2007
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I would say that the least promising source of the differential is valued added from college education.
Tyler Cowen on Income Inequality, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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At the least, officials said, the move will postpone implementation of the program for as long as six months.
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Gentleman, shalbe captaine thereof: and that all the other 3. ships shall ensue and folow her in all courses, and that no course or waying (in harborough especially) shall be made without aduice, consent and agreement of the sayd Captaine, the Master, his mate, and two other officers of the said ship, or of three of them at the least.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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Remorseful, Mona figures that the least she can do is find her boyfriend's mortal remains, so that his soul can be put to rest.
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This valley conteineth in length seuen or eight miles at the least; into the which whosoeuer entreth, dieth presently, and can by no meanes passe aliue thorow the middest thereof: for which cause all the inhabitants thereabout decline vnto the one side.
The Journal of Friar Odoric
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Regardless of their luck or ability, taking a voyage without accurate charts is, at the least, inadvisable, if not foolhardy.
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You shall haue some that carie corne to the Mosco, and some that fetch corne from thence, that at the least dwell a thousand miles off; and all their cariage is on sleds.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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A campaign run by the always-chingón Applied Research Center publishers of the even-more-chingón magazine, Colorlines is seeking that everyone stop using the term "illegal" outright, or at the least resort to using the awkward I-word stand-in.
Gustavo Arellano: ¡ASK A MEXICAN!: "Illegals" and The "N-Word"
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Na, I canna tell what has happened, but at the least Lauchlan maun hae dirked the earl.
The Little Minister
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Eyes which at the least opposition would glow like coals of fire; and above them a permanent contraction of the superciliary muscle, an invariable sign of extreme energy.
Robur the Conqueror
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As for the authorities, surely there's a level of hypocrisy or humbug at the least.
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At the least he ought to have known or is malfeasant for not making it his business to know.
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At the least, it might behoove us to accept and make the best of it, rather than whine about our "druthers" and cast about for someone, or something, to blame.
Adirondack Daily Enterprise
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A sign of the broad success of her discursive style is that the least effective essay is the shortest.
The Times Literary Supplement
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The Mafia bully-boss who trembles at the least breath of scandal.
MURKY SHALLOWS
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It also means that if all the ‘experts’ rave on about a particular album, I'm on pretty shaky ground if I go overboard criticising it, or at the least, am less than exultant about it.
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They neglect their duty at the least hint of fun elsewhere.
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At the least, we can ask that American citizens not pay extortion money to enemy governments in a time of war.
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Their "right" to smoke is, at the least, the height of discourteousness.
Letters: Sharply Divided Views On Afghan War Crim
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They neglect their duty at the least hint of fun elsewhere.
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Society as a whole has an interest in seeing that the least fortunate of its citizens who are accused of crimes are treated humanely and fairly.
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Sommer progresses, and yerely chiefe pastimes were, the sailing round about this whole Isle of Albion, garded with his grand name of 4000. saile at the least, parted into 4. equall parts of petie
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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At the least, I shall go sledding even if it means I have to mar the beautiful snow on our drumlin.
Lazarus Diary Entry
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But, as I wuz a-sayin ', though I couldn't deny some of his words, for truly its legs did seem to be at the least calculation a yard and a half long, specilly in the night, why they'd look fairly pokerish.
Samantha Among the Brethren, Complete
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A chain can only be as strong as its weakest link, so we must look at the least committed country to see if the alliance will hold.
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I really do think that the least our government can do for us is to have good cultural programming on local radio and television, and not political blabbing.
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They neglect their duty at the least hint of fun elsewhere.
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A chain can only be as strong as its weakest link, so we must look at the least committed country to see if the alliance will hold.
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Although there is some controversy over just how many such principles he advances, at the least he defends a universalizability principle
Henry Sidgwick
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Once, at a sharp turn where a man's shoulder would unavoidably brush against a screen of leaves, the bushman displayed great caution as he spread the leaves aside and exposed the head of a sharp-pointed spear, so set that the casual passer-by would receive at the least a nasty scratch.
Chapter 24
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But at the least, he'd stay on the sidelines, unwilling to dignify this dishonorable slime.
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A language that runs to synthesis of this loose-jointed sort may be looked upon as an example of the ideal agglutinative type, particularly if the concepts expressed by the agglutinated elements are relational or, at the least, belong to the abstracter class of derivational ideas.
Chapter 6. Types of Linguistic Structure
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They neglect their duty at the least hint of fun elsewhere.
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Still … Peter Watts is now a felon for what amounts to stupidity, or at the least, lack of common sense, although he never threatened anyone or lifted a hand against either guard. —
May « 2010 « L.E. Modesitt, Jr. – The Official Website
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You might get some insights into what you are missing and you would to get to know how aggressive the competitor is at the least.
Should Google Abandon “Do No Evil”?
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While not necessarily an Achilles' heel for the Android ecosystem itself - its momentum is too far along for that now - at the least, it's a cause for concern.
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Obviously, organic does signify better, or at the least an improvement, but the buyer must beware.
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It seems that sheeple have a suicidal tendency to roll over at the least sign of danger and surrender their liberties willingly.
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Or, at the least, blue-collar workers who liked their jobs were beneath him.
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At the least, it will be provisional, open-ended, and organized around process rather than closure.
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That is why The Economist continues to believe that the least bad policy is legalise drugs.
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Obviously, organic does signify better, or at the least an improvement, but the buyer must beware.
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Did Hulse really think he was serving his readers by failing to, at the least, suggest the possibility?
Jonathan Weiler: New York Times Acts as Press Secretary for House GOP Freshmen in Deficit Fight
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Minorite, namely Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini, sent with certaine associates vnto the Tartars, who likewise (as himselfe witnesseth) abode and conuersed with them a yeere and three moneths at the least.
The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini
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It's kind of sad that people are so skeptical and cynical of human decency and if they aren't, that they, at the least, don't believe in the ideal of it.
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Indian ships, and a carauel with the king of Spaines letters of aduise for the ships comming out of the Portugal Indies, and that with those which they had taken, they were at the least 40 English ships together, so that not one bark escaped them, but fel into their hands, and that therefore the Portugall ships comming out of
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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At the least, it suggests how a building passes through stages of public recognition and can be changed quickly by events affecting it.
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Beginning at the close of the agricultural year, when the crops are reaped and housed, and the long winter invites to new and peculiar, and, as they may be called, preparatory labours, the reader is taught what work in each succeeding month and season should be undertaken -- why at that season for what purpose it is to be done-in what way it can best be performed -- how at the least cost of money and the smallest waste of time -- and _how the master may at all times ascertain if his work has been efficiently performed_.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 330, April 1843
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So hoping of thy favourable censure, knowing that the least judicious are most ready to judge, I expose them to thy view, with Apelles motto, _Ne sutor, ultra crepidam_.
Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters
