Lot of bad -- lot of -- it's a terrible situation.
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The reason is that they represented the "best of a bad lot".
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As industry slumped and trade faltered this year, America still looked the best of a bad lot.
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Verhoeven's division in 2016 has all the depth of a puddle, but don't confuse that with him simply being the best of a bad lot.
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"We need them, we don't have any alternatives, and so we need to make the best of a bad lot," Mr. Miller said, explaining the mind-set.
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There remains the issue of climate change, since the secretary of state leads climate negotiations for the U.S. Here, too, Tillerson among the best of a bad lot.
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"It's a bad strategic idea, but you can understand why military planners would gravitate toward it," Mr. Lewis said, calling the plans "the best of a bad lot."
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Eberhard, W. G. Beetle horn dimorphism: making the best of a bad lot The American Naturalist. — 1982. — Vol. 119, № 3.
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The defendant argues that damages should be slight, since "he is such a very bad lot," while the plaintiff argues that she loves the defendant fervently and seeks "substantial damages." After much argument, the judge resolves the case by marrying the lovely plaintiff himself. With Sullivan's brother, Fred, as the Learned Judge, the opera was a runaway hit, outlasting the run of La Périchole. Provincial tours and productions at other theatres quickly followed.
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Taking over in late 1861 were C and D Companies, 4th California Infantry Regiment. Locals considered these troops, with some recruited from Alcatrez Prison, as a bad lot including one of the fort's lieutenants who murdered John Burt. On July 11, 1862, B and C Companies, 1st Regiment Washington Territory Volunteer Infantry, took over the fort. On May 26, 1865, one company of the 1st Oregon Volunteer Infantry Regiment took over the fort.
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Marc was not popular; he and his relatives have been judged a "bad lot". He and his relatives are specifically mentioned in the Magna Carta. At Runnymede, King John agreed to many clauses, but clause 50 specifically calls for the end of Marc. During the rebellion, Eustace of Lowdham did not take the side of the King, but rather that of John de Lacy; in 1216 both the deputy and Marc made their peace with King John.
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The origins of the word are a point of debate. An early use is in the novel A bad lot by Brian Glanville (1977). According to Alex Leith's book Over the Moon, Brian - The Language of Football, "nuts refers to the testicles of the player through whose legs the ball has been passed and nutmeg is just a development from this". The use of the word nutmeg to mean leg, in Cockney rhyming slang, has also been put forward as an explanation.
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Gänzl, Kurt. "A Bit of Jessie Bondage", Kurt of Gerolstein, June 12, 2018 She soon became the leading contralto soloist at the Seel Street Benedictine Church (now known as St. Peter's Catholic Church) in the same city.Ernill, p. 308 Her father's enquiries revealed that Schottländer was a "bad lot", and he forbade any engagement until Bond was older.Bond, Chapter 2, accessed 10 March 2008 On 8 March 1870, Schottländer abducted the 17-year-old Bond on her way to sing at a church service, took her to a friend's house and forced her to stay the night with him.
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Steve was caught selling stolen car radios, and falling into a bad lot which got his brother, Andy, beaten up. Steve ran away with a teenage love to the Lake District and had to be retrieved and defended against Jim by his mother. The McDonalds did not have a lot of money and this seemed to fuel Steve's ambitions, always looking for a way to make money. Steve started working with Jim in a building business but Jim was drinking a lot and during an argument and scuffle on scaffolding, Jim fell into a skip and was paralysed for a time.
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He was Inspector > Lestrade. We do not know his first name, only his initial: G. Although he > appears thirteen times in the immortal adventures of Sherlock Holmes, > nothing is known of the life outside the Yard of the detective whom Dr. > Watson described unflatteringly as sallow, rat-faced, and dark-eyed and whom > Holmes saw as quick and energetic but wholly conventional, lacking in > imagination, and normally out of his depth - the best of a bad lot who had > reached the top in the CID by bulldog tenacity.Jeffers, H.P. (1992) Bloody > Business: An anecdotal history of Scotland Yard, p. 95\. New York, NY: > Barnes & Noble.
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In January 626 Muhammad led the final expedition to Badr, an appointment for a pitched battle between the Quraysh and the Muslims. The battle did not take place because the Meccan army never arrived. Hassan ibn Thabit composed a poem about the situation: We stayed by the shallow well eight nights … Take Abu Sufyan [ibn Harb] a message from me, for you are the best of a bad lot. Abu Sufyan ibn al-Harith composed an answer: O Hassan, son of a moldy date-eating woman, … you stayed by the shallow well wanting us and you left us in the palm-groves hard by.
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"Cara Estranho" is the first single extracted from Ventura album, the band Los Hermanos, the name of the band is Portuguese for "Strange Man". The band, consisting of Marcelo Camelo, as well as other album repertoire, presented in pre-production, a dissenting letter of its final version. Its structure is home to no chorus, turning the verses that begin with "Look" / "Look over there" in striking parts of the song, since there are no elements that are repeated in music. In addition, the verses "It's part of the game / tell the world all / only know their bad lot" and "It's simple like that / when it shrinks the chest / and pretend there is no competition" are also quite sung in their submissions to alive.
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Holmes was then a teenager working for Liverpool Corporation and was friendly with the sons of Wallace's regular chess opponent, a Mr Caird. According to Carlton, Holmes said that Wallace revealed the name of the man he thought was the murderer; it was a man who Holmes knew from Lister Drive School. Holmes stated the suspect was clever but a bad lot, and some years after the murder he had seen the suspect in the dock accused and convicted over a different matter. Speculating about Wallace's motives in asking to see her father, Carlton wrote that he may have suspected that the city's local government establishment wanted to protect the son and nephew of one of their own, and that the case against him was brought to do just that.
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She added that she believed that the young man her parents knew and thought was a bad lot - and very possibly a murderer – was Parry. Author Antony M. Brown surveyed all the published theories, both evidentially and logically, in his 2018 book Move to Murder,Antony M Brown, Move to Murder, Mirror Books, before concluding that, on balance, a previously-unpublished theory "is the best explanation for one of the most puzzling murder cases in British criminal history." The new theory, first posited in 2008 by Merseyside-based researcher Rod Stringer, holds that Parry was indeed the brains behind a robbery, which turned to murder when his unknown accomplice was confronted by Julia after rifling the cash box – after first gaining entry to 29 Wolverton Street on the pretext he was “Qualtrough”.
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When Shockwave arranged for the capture and extradition of Prime and Megatron's forces as war criminals, Soundwave was among the captives, but when Starscream jettisoned Megatron into space on the return trip to Cybertron, Soundwave made the best of a bad lot and teamed with Starscream to return to Earth and conquer it, being reunited with Ratbat in the process. Heading back to Earth in a kidnapped Sky Lynx and with the Combaticons now added to their ranks, the Decepticons attacked the Ark in hopes of acquiring parts to make the Nemesis spaceworthy again, however Soundwave, Skywarp and Thundercracker were defeated and thrown in the Ark's brig. When the Combaticons, combined as Bruticus, laid into the vessel, they were freed. It was not much later that the surviving Megatron made contact with Soundwave from space, and Soundwave was all too willing to return to his service, setting up Starscream to fall before Megatron when he returned.
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" In his acceptance speech later in the year in Stockholm, he said: Fifty years later, in 2012, the Nobel Prize opened its archives and it was revealed that Steinbeck was a "compromise choice" among a shortlist consisting of Steinbeck, British authors Robert Graves and Lawrence Durrell, French dramatist Jean Anouilh and Danish author Karen Blixen. The declassified documents showed that he was chosen as the best of a bad lot. "There aren't any obvious candidates for the Nobel prize and the prize committee is in an unenviable situation," wrote committee member Henry Olsson. Although the committee believed Steinbeck's best work was behind him by 1962, committee member Anders Österling believed the release of his novel The Winter of Our Discontent showed that "after some signs of slowing down in recent years, [Steinbeck has] regained his position as a social truth-teller [and is an] authentic realist fully equal to his predecessors Sinclair Lewis and Ernest Hemingway.
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