In extremis, a political leader may even pronounce that "we are all in this together".

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Keynes argued that governments, in extremis, could boost demand by digging holes.

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Like George Bush, Mr Putin is merely proposing to act pre-emptively, in extremis, against a state that poses a deadly and increasing danger.

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For him, a good poem is the distillation of experience, and poetry comes into its own when life is being lived in extremis.

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But beneath or beside his madness, there's something about Breivik which captures, in extremis, the increasingly delusional, violent and narcissistic nature of our digital culture.

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Gore was able to do in extremis what he could not do during his campaign: rally his party, enlist all the ghosts of campaigns past and get them to play together.

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Instead of finding the irresponsible spendthrifts she expected, the Harvard Law School professor discovered the majority of those filing for protection from their creditors in the courts were in extremis thanks to health care, employment or marital crises.

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He and the Carnegie Endowment have long promoted the idea that arms control, international treaties and regimes, supranational government bodies, multilateral inspections and, in extremis, UN-approved sanctions can be safely relied upon to resolve basically all threats to our security.

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Despite the sharpness of his criticism of U.S. policy in Iraq, Cardinal Martino acknowledged in early 2003 that their could be a just reason, in extremis, for invading Iraq and that new realities are forcing a re-thinking of the just-war theory.

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