But these combined operations represent the most sustained and significant assault against the Taliban since 2002.
This is one of the most sustained and passionate interactions between music and imagery in any movie.
Iraq has been wracked by a wave of the most sustained violence the country has seen since American troops left in late 2011.
And while that approach makes financial sense, it's hard to achieve across public services during the toughest, most sustained squeeze public spending has seen.
Iraq Body Count says the most sustained period for high-level violence was from March 2006 to March 2008, when sectarian killings peaked and some 52, 000 died.
The fuel shortage elicited the most sustained criticism of the Cuomo administration's Sandy response and endures as a symbol of the chaos created by the storm.
But I think you can say this, that what Phelps did last week may well constitute the single most sustained success any athlete ever achieved in an intense period.
He said the preceding manoeuvre was probably the highest and most sustained of the day in terms of G-force but said flying at a higher altitude "may not have made a difference".
Yet Mr Gandhi, who was arrested (and released) in May while trying to speak up for farmers who had had their land stolen, failed to make much of an impression in recent local elections and is facing the most sustained criticism of his brief career.
The Rolling Stone received perhaps the most sustained standing ovation of the night as he joined his old pal toward the end of Crossroads, a two-night concert festival at Madison Square Garden that brought together a dazzling array of guitar masters, from John Mayer to Jeff Beck to legends like Buddy Guy, and of course, Clapton and Richards.
It has sustained the most deaths of any U.S. military division in Iraq, with 37 3rd Infantry Division soldiers killed in action, said a spokesman for the unit's home base at Fort Stewart, Georgia.
Any effort to modify global prices over a sustained period will most likely fail without substantial changes in the mechanics of supply and demand.
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So I speak from experience when I say that, for most emotionally normal adults, sustained fandom requires the perpetual renewal of the hope that next year, your guys just might win it all.
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But while the rich got much richer, there was little sustained economic improvement for most Americans.
"The most decisive factor in achieving a sustained increase in first-time buyer numbers is likely to be the performance of the wider economy - especially the labour market, " he said.
Russia is thus, by even the most optimistic estimates, vulnerable to a sustained decrease in the price of oil.
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This "open heart" philosophy has sustained me, as well, through the most difficult of times, including a painful divorce about 20 years ago that left me near penniless.
Only when a positive employment trend has been sustained enough to improve the lending environment will most banks step up to the plate with higher rates on savings accounts.
Instead, the evidence instead suggests (to put it mildly) that most of us are running into money difficulties because of the sustained assault on our personal finances since the late 1970s.
"The bank has made it clear that it also needs to see a sustained drop in consumer price inflation and, perhaps most importantly, a run of better external deficit numbers, " he added.
Bottom line, the budgetary rules treating growth as a given instead of the all important variable for achieving budget balance have both sides of the aisle ignoring the most important question: What policy changes would achieve a sustained period of 4% growth?
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This report starts by recognizing the profile of the groups most affected by exclusion and then identifies the barriers that hamper a sustained, timely and full education for these boys, girls and adolescents.
Most observers say the market was due for a pullback after a sustained rally that lasted several months: Year to date, the Dow is up 4.4%, reaching a 52-week high of 13, 0005 Feb. 28.
Do their shoppers come looking for hotter deals on a product, a brand, or most anything else in that store, etc.? Or do they come expecting sustained high quality, good service, products that are durable and reliable, and for which they are willing to pay a bit more.
And we believe, and so does most of the blue chip consensus reports out there, that this growth is going to be sustained at that 3 percent-plus range for the indefinite future.
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There are promising signs but we will need a sustained tenfold increase in efforts from consumers, communities, the private sector, and most importantly, from governments to stop the slaughter before it's too late.
The progressive fantasy, shared by most American voters, is that a modern welfare state with expansive middle-class benefits can be sustained.
Instead it sustained the above-average compensation of members of an influential union, sparing them from most of the sacrifices typically made in bankruptcy.
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However, given that most stock indices peaked only around mid-2007, equity prices could still take a couple more years for a sustained rebound, at least by historical benchmarks.
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