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  • An unprecedented liberal, His Holiness had secured the papacy through one of the most controversial and unusual conclaves in Vatican history.†   (source)
  • An apparent robbery-murder in a popular downtown business was unprecedented.†   (source)
  • Hermione read aloud: 'In a surprise move last night the Ministry of Magic passed new legislation giving itself an unprecedented level of control at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.†   (source)
  • Nehemiah Trot, the poet, from the tumbled northwestern side of the graveyard, had begun to declaim his thoughts on the matter, although what they were no person listening could have said, when something happened; something to silence each opinionated mouth, something unprecedented in the history of that graveyard.†   (source)
  • And, finally, we have the unprecedented problems of caring for a population of animals that no one has ever tried to maintain before.†   (source)
  • During the years of unprecedented inhumanity, Schindler saw value in the very people the Nazis labeled as less than human and sought to eradicate.†   (source)
  • Then we went on an enormous shopping spree, unprecedented in my lifetime.†   (source)
  • It promises to be a work unprecedented in the history of academic scholarship.†   (source)
  • Trevino kicked the door shut and then, in an unprecedented display of violence, he killed the traitor, by beating him to death.†   (source)
  • Based on what I'd seen back in Carolina and had experienced at the palace, this was unprecedented.†   (source)
  • Yesterday a truck full of cattle intended for the slaughterhouse was mixed up with a shipment of pharmaceuticals, resulting in the hilarious and unprecedented chaos you see on your screen.†   (source)
  • If the king were to raise up new Riders under his command, it would allow him to expand the Empire to an unprecedented size.†   (source)
  • Those billions who had been appalled by the unprecedented savagery of the South Bressia campaign would have been pleased to see Kassad court-martialed or tried for war crimes.†   (source)
  • He sensed in the spreading unrest something unprecedented, "more threatening and far-reaching than anything that had occurred before."†   (source)
  • The IPO raised $3 billion, unprecedented but not unexpected, and with all monetary concerns behind him, and with Stenton and Bailey aboard, Ty was free to float, to hide, to disappear.†   (source)
  • Truly, it was an event so unprecedented, it should have ripped apart the cosmos.†   (source)
  • The centralized purchasing decisions of the large restaurant chains and their demand for standardized products have given a handful of corporations an unprecedented degree of power over the nation's food supply.†   (source)
  • Hastings House had ordered an unprecedented first printing of a million copies.†   (source)
  • The world wastes too much, and she has been called upon to one day operate a recycling operation of unprecedented size.†   (source)
  • They also brought back three indelible memories: the unprecedented opening of The Tales ofHoffmann in Paris, the terrifying blaze that destroyed almost all the gondolas off St. Mark's Square in Venice, which they witnessed with grieving hearts from the window of their hotel, and their fleeting glimpse of Oscar Wilde during the first snowfall in January.†   (source)
  • "You have been given an unprecedented opportunity to put the past behind you," the Chancellor was saying.†   (source)
  • After all, I had made this unprecedented showing in ROTC, and I stood at the top of my school academically.†   (source)
  • As Edward drove me toward La Push a little while later, I realized that this unprecedented situation felt oddly familiar.†   (source)
  • It was at this same time, as we debated slicing away Marley's manhood, that Jenny was placing unprecedented demands on mine.†   (source)
  • The elder pair's was a love marriage, a marriage between strangers not arranged by their families, which, in their circles, while not unprecedented, was still less than common.†   (source)
  • But while this kind of commuting by a student was almost certainly unprecedented, it would have been hard for any professor to disapprove.†   (source)
  • That is a special thing, unprecedented in all of evolutionary history.†   (source)
  • Entirely alone, and dying of it, he was part of an unprecedented multitude.†   (source)
  • I praised the response as "magnificent" to the press, lauding our people for "defying unprecedented intimidation by the state."†   (source)
  • In 1978, with Gold Box television support, every magazine on the schedule made a profit, an unprecedented turnaround.†   (source)
  • When the BOP showed Walking Tall, the turnout for every screening all weekend long was unprecedented.†   (source)
  • It was not often that a Soviet sailor was allowed to visit another country, and a visit by a nuclear submarine to a foreign country, even an ally, was nearly unprecedented.†   (source)
  • And he'd ordered his lab people to build a clean room at the Bureau with unprecedented standards of hygiene.†   (source)
  • These factories produced the shoes, toys, and shirts that filled America's shopping malls, generating economic growth rates almost unprecedented in the history of the world--and creating the most effective antipoverty program ever recorded.†   (source)
  • In a place where schools often took years to complete, this pace was unprecedented.†   (source)
  • To most people, it might not seem like a lot, but to Lorenzo it was unprecedented.†   (source)
  • Some optimistically hoped the unprecedented bombing of the tiny island would make the conquest of Iwo Jima a two— to three-day job.†   (source)
  • I'm not sure what I'm supposed to say to her, so in a bold and unprecedented move, I do nothing.†   (source)
  • The trajectory of her scholastic progress to that point was spectacular and unprecedented, a model for all youth; it was also an invitation to fate to stick a foot out and trip her.†   (source)
  • Svensson and his group would offer a base of operations in the Alps, an unprecedented level of intelligence, and the means to conduct a biological attack.†   (source)
  • "As you can see," the reporter said, "sentiment in support of Shay Bourne and his unprecedented case to donate his heart is waning in the wake of his hospitalization.†   (source)
  • The loss of either the palace or the gates—or both—will cause disruption on an unprecedented scale, all through Radch space.†   (source)
  • Lisbeth Salander is in fact innocent and the police have destroyed her reputation in unprecedented ways.†   (source)
  • Adams himself, exhilarated by such unprecedented popularity, appeared to be as caught up in the spirit of the moment as anyone.†   (source)
  • It wasn't standard protocol, but this was a strange and unprecedented situation.†   (source)
  • The breeze off the ocean was crisp, and Max rejoiced in the unprecedented sum of money in his pocket—his hoarded allowances for the past two months.†   (source)
  • A pike of unprecedented size had been caught in the Skahazadhan, and the fisherman wished to give it to the queen.†   (source)
  • It occurs to me that I might be in the unprecedented position of being able to glean some intelligence on them.†   (source)
  • Taggart turned, startled by the unprecedented phenomenon of an implacable anger in Eddie's voice.†   (source)
  • It was unprecedented, Lee admitted as she absently pushed bottles and jars around on her dresser.†   (source)
  • Something that would be unprecedented.†   (source)
  • And so I am going to do something totally unprecedented (at least in my life).†   (source)
  • Each time he put a banknote into someone's hand he thought of it not as the pair of shoes, fountain pen, or two years' subscription he would have to do without, but as an inconsequential sum that he was placing on a wager of unprecedented returns, even if he doubted it would go his way.†   (source)
  • It was an evening of unprecedented events.†   (source)
  • The Revolutionary leaders took unprecedented steps.†   (source)
  • The standard bearer unexpectedly turned away and smiled in amusement but, in an unprecedented merciful act for his rough people, he said nothing.†   (source)
  • He pushed ahead with an unprecedented building program designed not only to demonstrate the glory that was Greece, but also to ensure full employment and provide opportunities for wealth creation among the unpropertied class.†   (source)
  • This is unprecedented, Your Honor.†   (source)
  • "It's unprecedented."†   (source)
  • But it could scarcely have been an unprecedented thing in Poland to have an anti-Semitic parent.†   (source)
  • But in the West today, we see a free world that has achieved a level of prosperity and well-being unprecedented in all human history.†   (source)
  • America's opportunities are unprecedented.†   (source)
  • And I found myself in possession of a highly irregular and totally unprecedented three-hour pass.†   (source)
  • Unprecedented, extraordinary1 A student taking the Bestuzhev university courses for women.†   (source)
  • Congressman John Lewis received an unprecedented Profile in Courage Award for Lifetime Achievement in recognition of his career of moral courage.†   (source)
  • Worse, between her own confusion and the unprecedented volume of cars, she had gone the wrong way.†   (source)
  • Men of science and religion are not unprecedented in history.†   (source)
  • The circumstance of Ron having read a book that Hermione had not was unprecedented.†   (source)
  • She was absolutely unprecedented in every way, and 3.†   (source)
  • "It'll also be unprecedented in the history of dull things.†   (source)
  • Not precisely… ah… this case is quite unprecedented.†   (source)
  • I also knew that the entire human race would pay an unprecedented price for this goal.†   (source)
  • Though far from unprecedented, the family history lent John's case a special urgency.†   (source)
  • The Vatican faces a crisis of faith unprecedented in its two-millennia history.†   (source)
  • But then again, he noted, it was not unprecedented.†   (source)
  • But it wasn't just fortune that had brought him to this place of such unprecedented opportunity.†   (source)
  • Renesmee grows at an unprecedented rate.†   (source)
  • The Raison Strain is an airborne virus that spreads at an unprecedented rate.†   (source)
  • Today's events are an unprecedented tragedy.†   (source)
  • But he found himself with an unprecedented problem.†   (source)
  • He knew it would be some unprecedented combination of peoples.†   (source)
  • The convention's ability to reach agreements was unprecedented.†   (source)
  • The use of a warhammer in such a challenge was unprecedented, but none complained or cited rules.†   (source)
  • This was not unprecedented, he'd done it before, but he'd be happy when the labor ended.†   (source)
  • She seemed to be laboring, within herself, up some steep, unprecedented slope.†   (source)
  • It's a disaster, an unprecedented disaster-and nobody can make any sense out of it.†   (source)
  • When something was unprecedented you had to make up your own guidelines.†   (source)
  • Please believe me that this is unprecedented.†   (source)
  • He shook his head violently, as if his own words were some unprecedented form of danger.†   (source)
  • They had bred in unprecedented quantities.†   (source)
  • Paradice had already developed a UV-resistant skin, a built in insect repellant, an unprecedented ability to digest unrefined plant material.†   (source)
  • The whole situation is unprecedented.†   (source)
  • But in return for this unprecedented request, Soldier Everdeen has promised to devote herself to our cause.†   (source)
  • Today's unprecedented degree of meatpacking concentration has helped depress the prices that independent ranchers get for their cattle.†   (source)
  • I'm ashamed that in a region of unprecedented wealth, the destitute and the sick have been shoved into this human corral.†   (source)
  • The few remaining local channels still on the air were saying that the war was going well but the international ones were saying that it was going badly indeed, adding to an unprecedented flow of migrants that was hitting the rich countries, who were building walls and fences and strengthening their borders, but seemingly to unsatisfactory effect.†   (source)
  • But here is what I think happened, and it is unprecedented, and no wandmaker could, I think, ever have predicted or explained it to Voldemort.†   (source)
  • But American movies still deserved their careful consideration, he argued, not simply as windows into Western culture, but as unprecedented mechanisms of class repression.†   (source)
  • Although an unlikely candidate, Mortati was chosen by an unprecedented unanimous vote by the College of Cardinals.†   (source)
  • A new form of the common house mouse addicted to the insulation on electric wiring had overrun Cleveland, causing an unprecedented number of house fires.†   (source)
  • The Circle had taken over fifty buildings in the vicinity, transforming blighted warehouses into climbing gyms, schools, server farms, each structure bold, unprecedented, well beyond LEED.†   (source)
  • It's created unprecedented problems.†   (source)
  • Excessive abdominal noise is an uncommon, but not unprecedented, presenting symptom of infection with the bacteria Clostridium difficile, which can be fatal.†   (source)
  • The plantation manager had tried to mount several rescue operations onto the Plateau, but an unprecedented series of active seasons in the flame forests had made them abandon their attempts.†   (source)
  • The State decided to invoke an unprecedented theory of "transferred intent" to make the crime eligible for the death penalty.†   (source)
  • It's an unprecedented challenge to our theories about the world, and she's not the only scientist to have stumbled down that path."†   (source)
  • Nobody was certain whether the Knights had blackmailed the Vatican or whether the Church simply tried to buy the Knights' silence, but Pope Innocent II immediately issued an unprecedented papal bull that afforded the Knights Templar limitless power and declared them "a law unto themselves"—an autonomous army independent of all interference from kings and prelates, both religious and political.†   (source)
  • Kathy's mind spun as she read about the unprecedented concentration of armed men and women in the city.†   (source)
  • Thus far I have allowed you an unprecedented measure of autonomy to come and go as you please, out of respect for your unique position.†   (source)
  • The collapse of Soviet Communism has led to an unprecedented "Americanization" of the world, expressed in the growing popularity of movies, CDs, music videos, television shows, and clothing from the United States.†   (source)
  • "For example, there's been an unprecedented wave of crimes against academia and science research institutions.†   (source)
  • It's not clear who decided to put both Myers and McMillian on death row before trial to create additional pressure, but it was a nearly unprecedented maneuver that proved very effective.†   (source)
  • State governments have been forced to shift funds from public services, education, health, and welfare to pay for incarceration, and they now face unprecedented economic crises as a result.†   (source)
  • I shall be furious after we are done speaking…… As for your request, such a thing is unprecedented in our history.†   (source)
  • They were given an unprecedented amount of information and intelligence from every corner of the U.S. government and a methodology that was logical and systematic and rational and rigorous.†   (source)
  • He did recover, indeed, in less than a week, and two weeks later he was celebrating the fact of his survival with unprecedented festivities.†   (source)
  • The ensuing shriek—both its pitch and volume—were unprecedented, as was Max's Amplified leap to the upper level.†   (source)
  • Necessity spurred technological innovations that offered the public unprecedented access to its heroes.†   (source)
  • To add further fuel to the fire, Thomas Paine, in a fury over the Jay Treaty, unleashed an unprecedented attack on George Washington in the pages of the Aurora.†   (source)
  • It was unusual but not unprecedented for a sitting governor to be involved in active litigation during his term.†   (source)
  • The action was unprecedented; no one had ever seen stewards treat a trainer with such blatant distrust.†   (source)
  • What's more, Saladin's predicament provided her with an unprecedented opportunity—the opportunity to nurse him back to health, to befriend him, to earn his trust, and to steal the deadly secrets that resided in his head.†   (source)
  • To prove that I was as good as they thought I was, good enough to take on this unprecedented challenge.†   (source)
  • In the early hours of the morning of May 12, 1969, the security police awakened Winnie at our home in Orlando and detained her without charge under the 1967 Terrorism Act, which gave the government unprecedented powers of arrest and detention without trial.†   (source)
  • The prestige of his outlandish voracity, of his immense capacity as a spendthrift, of his unprecedented hospitality went beyond the borders of the swamp and attracted the best-qualified gluttons from all along the coast.†   (source)
  • They bought up advance seats at an unprecedented pace, packed into special trains, and crammed into the track in record numbers to see the horse they called "the Great Traveler."†   (source)
  • Even with only a year's experience, he was quick to understand the meaning of the hooting alarms and unprecedented actions of his boat.†   (source)
  • But it was yet more strange and made for an unprecedented steadiness and freedom, that Eric loved him.†   (source)
  • Your(Honor, this is unprecedented.†   (source)
  • An army of fully 12,000 volunteers marched over the Alleghenies in an unprecedented show of force, Washington himself riding at the head part of the way, with Hamilton second in command.†   (source)
  • Their mouths already agape at the unprecedented feat, some fell to their knees when Aegis-fang suddenly reappeared in the young king's hands.†   (source)
  • This is unprecedented and dangerous.†   (source)
  • That he had embarked on such an unprecedented mission on his own initiative, that he had undertaken his own one-man diplomatic campaign knowing nothing initially of the country, its language, and with no prior contacts or friendships to call upon, and yet carried through to his goal, were simply extraordinary and a measure of his almost superhuman devotion to the American cause.†   (source)
  • She bent her head over her cocktail glass, disappearing for a moment, like some unprecedented turtle, behind the citadel of her hair.†   (source)
  • When jockey Kurtsinger launched War Admiral in his finaldrive for the wire, Pollard said, do something completely unexpected and probably unprecedented: Let him catch up.†   (source)
  • On the one hand, they can choose to believe that one of their most trusted professional officers has committed high treason on an unprecedented scale.†   (source)
  • They became an odd and unprecedented beauty and the beast up there; and, for the first time consciously, Cass wondered about their real relationship to one another.†   (source)
  • They said it might be a natural phenomenon, some sort of cosmic disturbance of an unprecedented kind, only-†   (source)
  • It would not be unprecedented for the Soviets not to let their field commanders know what's going on in Moscow, of course, but on the whole I do not see a clear picture," Ryan concluded.†   (source)
  • His first effort was to maximize his horse's exposure, plotting an exhaustive cross-country racing campaign that was probably unprecedented in scope, adopting a take-all-comers attitude in choosing Seabiscuit's races and opponents, and even running full-page ads celebrating Seabiscuit's wins.†   (source)
  • They strike one, above all, as giving no account of themselves in any terms already consecrated by human use; to this inarticulate state they probably form, collectively, the most unprecedented of monuments; abysmal the mystery of what they think, what they feel, what they want, what they suppose themselves to be saying.†   (source)
  • But this is totally unprecedented.†   (source)
  • "This is unprecedented," he said.†   (source)
  • Dr. Stadler glanced at him with astonishment-the lack of apology was unprecedented-and said dryly, "It seems to me that you are spending a great deal of your time in Washington."†   (source)
  • The New York executives did not care, thought Mitchum; they did not care whether Mr. Chalmers reached his meeting on time, or whether an unprecedented catastrophe struck their rails; they cared only about making sure that they would not be blamed for either.†   (source)
  • Eddie Willers rose slowly to his feet and stood looking at Taggart with an odd kind of dutiful curiosity, as if this were one more phenomenon to observe among all the unprecedented things he had observed.†   (source)
  • Suddenly, sitting at the window, and with a violence unprecedented, there arose in John a flood of fury and tears, and he bowed his head, fists clenched against the windowpane, crying, with teeth on edge: "What shall I do?†   (source)
  • The fact that he did not dare caused me to despise him: I had no way of knowing that he was facing in that living room a wholly unprecedented and frightening situation.†   (source)
  • From "Merck" I can assume I am suffering from a case of "severe acute glossitis," an inflamed condition of the tongue's surface which is of traumatic origin but doubtless aggravated by bacteria, viruses and all sorts of toxicity resulting from five or six hours of salivary exchange unprecedented in the history of my mouth and I daresay anyone's.†   (source)
  • It was destined, however, to receive an unprecedented publicity, for the fight between the policeman and the soldier ended with the shooting of the soldier.†   (source)
  • For dinner, Lara, who had started on the provisions they had brought and had cooked enough for three days, served an unprecedented feast of potato soup and roast mutton and potatoes.†   (source)
  • When I first went to death row in December 1983, America was in the early stages of a radical transformation that would turn us into an unprecedentedly harsh and punitive nation and result in mass imprisonment that has no historical parallel.†   (source)
  • For Agravaine had done something unprecedented in the family troubles.†   (source)
  • Because it is extraordinary and unprecedented--even I who urged it did not expect it to happen yet.†   (source)
  • Francon took him out to lunch—an unprecedented honor for an employee.†   (source)
  • Scarlett stared at her, alarmed by so unprecedented an outburst.†   (source)
  • You will wish to know how he spent his time during these unprecedented years.†   (source)
  • Dr Sasaki and his colleagues at the Red Cross Hospital watched the unprecedented disease unfold and at last evolved a theory about its nature.†   (source)
  • She felt in her pocket for her soma–only to discover that, by some unprecedented oversight, she had left the bottle down at the rest-house.†   (source)
  • "In view of the unprecedented disturbance of the public mind, the duty of this Court is clear," the judge said and paused.†   (source)
  • I use the word "unprecedented" because at no previous time has American security been as seriously threatened from without as it is today.†   (source)
  • Mr. President, Mr. Speaker, members of the 77th Congress: I address you, the members of this new Congress, at a moment unprecedented in the history of the union.†   (source)
  • I did ignore Mr. Wynand's orders in a matter of policy, perhaps an unprecedented action for a managing editor to take.†   (source)
  • At "sole Arabian tree" he started; at "thou shrieking harbinger" he smiled with sudden pleasure; at "every fowl of tyrant wing" the blood rushed up into his cheeks; but at "defunctive music" he turned pale and trembled with an unprecedented emotion.†   (source)
  • He wished it were possible for the youth to return by consent, and this would not be unprecedented, for there was the recent case of Talu, the airman.†   (source)
  • As she pointed out frequently, she was a lady and had graduated from high school; yet she had worked hard, had taken boarders into their home, a concession unprecedented in her family.†   (source)
  • He felt kinship with the mind beyond them, and though he knew that this second interview following so soon upon the first was an unprecedented honor, he was not in the least nervous or weighed down with solemnity.†   (source)
  • Francon's sullen mood led him to the unprecedented breach of snapping over nothing in particular at the one person who had always been immune from it—Peter Keating.†   (source)
  • You must make allowance for this poor girl, placed in so unprecedented a position.†   (source)
  • He did not know what to do, it was all so unprecedented.†   (source)
  • And again the unprecedented was established.†   (source)
  • All here is so unprecedented, so changed, so sudden and unfair, that I am absolutely lost.†   (source)
  • This light throbbed with unprecedented vigor and activity!†   (source)
  • There had been a scandalous, an unprecedented scene.†   (source)
  • Henrietta enquired with unprecedented distinctness.†   (source)
  • The unprecedented and heart-rending thing about it was that he had fallen without perceiving it.†   (source)
  • For to Rosamond this visit was a source of unprecedented but gracefully concealed exultation.†   (source)
  • What seemed unprecedented to Fauchelevent was, we repeat, a simple matter to Jean Valjean.†   (source)
  • What was quite unprecedented, she neither struck her nor said an insulting word to her.†   (source)
  • And he himself, unprecedented circumstance, had just been good also.†   (source)
  • "Greenhorn!" replied the lad, as though the question appeared a most unprecedented one to him.†   (source)
  • — And an unprecedented controversy broke forth.†   (source)
  • The two elder sisters had agreed that all was to be sacrificed by them, if need be, for Aglaya's sake; her dowry was to be colossal and unprecedented.†   (source)
  • She was appalled by West Egg, this unprecedented "place" that Broadway had begotten upon a Long Island fishing village — appalled by its raw vigor that chafed under the old euphemisms and by the too obtrusive fate that herded its inhabitants along a short-cut from nothing to nothing.†   (source)
  • He told himself that, despite his unprecedented suffering, he had never lost his greed for a victory, yet, he said, in a half-apologetic manner to his conscience, he could not but know that a defeat for the army this time might mean many favorable things for him.†   (source)
  • There were telegrams to the national office from enthusiastic individuals in little towns which had made amazing and unprecedented increases in a single year: Benedict, Kansas, from 26 to 260; Henderson, Kentucky, from 19 to 111; Holland, Michigan, from 14 to 208; Cleo, Oklahoma, from 0 to 104; Martin's Ferry, Ohio, from 0 to 296—and many more of the same kind.†   (source)
  • The whole city is thrilling to-night with a realization of the extraordinary significance of these two unprecedented events.†   (source)
  • It is unprecedented.†   (source)
  • Here stood the old Hudson's Bay Company fort; and here were many Indians, much food, and unprecedented excitement.†   (source)
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