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Parliamentary democracy is slow at the best of times, and these are not the best of times.
The government is slow-moving in the best of times, and these are hardly the best of times.
Doing your taxes can be confusing at the best of times, and a completely draining drag at the best of times.
"That region is not a five-star destination at the best of times, and this was not the best of times," he said.
Brexit would be a hard enough task at the best of times—but then Brexit probably wouldn't have happened at the best of times.
It's incredibly easy to get sick at trade shows at the best of times, and this is very much not the best of times.
Unfortunately, video calling is a laggy, pixellated mess even at the best of times — and these are definitely not the best of times, what with everyone stuck bingeing Netflix indefinitely.
He views these as the best of times in America.
THESE should be the best of times for Binyamin Netanyahu.
Game at the best of times, murderous at the worst.
London is an expensive city at the best of times.
America cannot afford them, even in the best of times.
Orbital insertions are difficult manoeuvres at the best of times.
But make no mistake, Beyoncé is the best of times.
Social media can be ugly at the best of times.
But that wouldn't be easy at the best of times.
He finds Hungarian winters hard at the best of times.
At the best of times I am an anxious person.
"In the best of times, DHS is unruly and difficult to manage organization and we are not in the best of times," said former Inspector General John Roth during a House Homeland Security Committee hearing.
NATURAL selection is a harsh interrogator at the best of times.
Pictionary can be a tricky game at the best of times.
At the best of times, Congress struggles to pass trade deals.
EVEN AT THE best of times Nigeria is awash with speculation.
Perhaps, even in the best of times, Ginzburg was at risk.
Even in the best of times, there are germs on airplanes.
It's a tough and strenuous journey in the best of times.
It was the best of times, it was — well, you know.
Conversations with kids can be adversarial at the best of times.
This has not been the best of times for the FBI.
After all, even in the best of times foreign acquisitions are difficult.
They were the best of times, they were the worst of times.
Congress has been tardy passing funding bills in the best of times.
THE Israeli parliament is a rowdy place at the best of times.
Such terrain would be tough for Republicans at the best of times.
Running a business is a challenging prospect at the best of times.
The ocarina isn't a great instrument even in the best of times.
Clothes shopping can be a stressful experience at the best of times.
It was the best of times, it was the worst of time.
Medical services—poor at the best of times—are overwhelmed in winter.
However, these are hardly the best of times for the British economy.
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.
In many ways, these are the best of times for auto dealers.
The sixties were the best of times and the worst of times.
Juggling work and life can be tough at the best of times.
Another thing people try to avoid, even in the best of times?
At the best of times, traveling between Indonesia's many islands is challenging.
In case you haven't noticed, these aren't exactly the best of times.
Yemen is among the poorest of nations at the best of times.
And moves like this can be tricky at the best of times.
It was the worst of times, it was the best of times.
Even at the best of times, Trump and McConnell were uneasy bedfellows.
Let's be honest, dating can be difficult — even at the best of times.
Getting legislation through Congress is a heavy lift in the best of times.
ISRAEL'S border with the Gaza Strip is tense at the best of times.
The statistics bureau's responsibilities are hard to balance at the best of times.
Twitter can be a troll-filled, argumentative place at the best of times.
It was the best of times, it was the blurst of times, indeed. 
Even in the best of times, building a vehicle from scratch is hard.
Maintaining those lines was an extraordinary task even in the best of times.
The record high stock market may be signaling it's the best of times.
Even at the best of times, this inveterate introvert wasn't an actor's director.
Regulatory triggers tend to be slow motion unfoldings at the best of times.
LONDON — It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.
It was the best of times that quickly became the worst of times.
HOUSTON — It is the best of times, it is the worst of times.
That's because even in the best of times, farming is a fragile industry.
It was latex, which is hit or miss in the best of times.
Lots of people dislike roasts like Gridiron even in the best of times.
A fragile communications system, too, was unreliable even in the best of times.
The 1970s were not the best of times for this republic of ours.
She would likely tell us that 2628 was not the best of times.
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times," he said.
And politics in Ghana can be a grubby business at the best of times.
Unfortunately, even in the best of times, the Nietos are used to being overlooked.
Going for a high five is a risky business at the best of times.
Explaining the movements of deep, liquid markets is tricky at the best of times.
Your computer freezing on you is a moderate annoyance at the best of times.
Both jobs, baby-daddy and business-owner, are challenging at the best of times.
"I would make the argument it's the best of times right now," said Mona.
Kubrick, prickly at the best of times, insisted Sagan never talk to him again.
The saying "not all superheroes wear capes" feels trite at the best of times.
Weddings are stressful at the best of times but a ROYAL WEDDING OOOOOOHHH HONEY!
Pursuing undisciplined fiscal policy is not a good idea at the best of times.
Even in the best of times, the ranks of serious watch buyers are thin.
In the best of times, it's challenging to be a food and business entrepreneur.
Packing for a two-month trip is a challenge at the best of times.
Voters tend to pay scant attention to politics even in the best of times.
Plus, antidepressants even at the best of times are an imperfect fix for depression.
It was the best of times, it was the wo—actually, who are we kidding?
At the best of times, 30 people showing up to a restaurant unannounced is chaos.
Even though he's maybe not having the best of times, we can enjoy his experience.
Being lazy at the best of times, we wanted to road test a dance compilation.
LONDON — Hunting for small creatures must be a tall order at the best of times.
Considering how complicated VR can be at the best of times, that's no small thing.
They are hard to navigate for a piss or shit at the best of times.
That's not enough in the best of times, and it is certainly not sufficient now.
Banks are often reluctant to lend to small businesses even in the best of times.
The story of 2012's Max Payne 3, at the best of times, is convoluted.
If you were young, 1968 was the best of times and the worst of times.
He couldn't even work out if it was the best of times or the worst.
Even in the best of times, Americans average under seven hours of sleep a night.
Even in the best of times, it's hard to know how our families are doing.
"We went from the best of times to the worst of times overnight," Tajer said.
Paybarah: Ah, 2009: it was the best of times, it was the worst of times.
The politics are treacherous for health reform in the best of times, with a popular president.
Because... And here's where the slither meets the slime:Harvey was showing us the best of times.
Trade shows like MWC are a difficult place to demonstrate products at the best of times.
With a tariff-loving populist in the White House, these are not the best of times.
The black unemployment rate, in the best of times, is still double that of white Americans.
Ah, Prime Day 2019: It was the best of times; it was the weirdest of times.
Equities trading is a tough business for big Wall Street banks in the best of times.
At the best of times, congressmen are reluctant to vote for spending cuts and tax rises.
For Republicans, it is the best of times; for Democrats, it is the worst of times.
The retirement outlook offers the "best of times and worst of times" in the Trump revolution.
Doctors' appointments can be stressful at the best of times, but this one was actually fun.
He's been with them through the best of times and definitely the worst of them, too.
And the Trump administration, at the best of times, isn't the best implementer of government programs.
At the best of times, British politics is full of 'who is up, who is down.
A life on soccer's fringes can be exasperating, and lonely, even in the best of times.
Even in the best of times, we have collectively ignored the abuse of an entire generation.
Facebook & Cambridge Analytica These aren't the best of times for the world's fave social media site.
Chinese politics, especially at the highest level, is a black box at the best of times.
So you have best-of-times-worst-of-times weeks like the one that just passed.
She wanted to be judged on her "merits", a vexed concept at the best of times.
Yet even at the best of times, gauging the state of North Korea's economy is fiendishly hard.
"This is the best of times for retailers," said Ken Perkins, founder of research firm Retail Metrics.
Relying on button commands to toss Cappy with precision can be frustrating at the best of times.
The summer movie season was a Dickensian cliche: the best of times and the worst of times.
Hence the sadness engraved on del Toro's features, which are scarcely jovial at the best of times.
The U.S. and India have a long list of economic irritants, even at the best of times.
Especially when we're talking about Triple-A performance, which can be misleading at the best of times.
Studies show that watching the news causes a spike in anxiety (even during the best of times).
RIO DE JANEIRO — The United States and Brazil have been uneasy allies during the best of times.
But, even during the best of times, Trump has done a pathetic job at expanding his base.
At the best of times, the office of commandant is one of the proudest in the military.
"It was the best of the best, best on both sides, of the best of times," etc.
Even at the best of times, the Fed's ability to see shifts in the economy is limited.
Ah, summer — It's be best of times (beach fun!) and the worst of times (if you get bloated!).
Even at the best of times, meetings between Facebook and media executives can feel like unhappy family gatherings.
There is, even in the best of times, a tension between apolitical professionalism and serving the public will.
"I think the farmers out there are doing it pretty tough at the best of times," she said.
In an interview with TechCrunch, Csathy argued that it's become a best-of-times, worst-of-times world.
That it is the best of times for Dalits does not necessarily mean that times are very good.
IT IS ALWAYS the best of times and the worst of times in America for President Donald Trump.
Manning the NOAA's research station at the South Pole is a lonely job at the best of times.
Halloween: It's the best of times and the worst of times, especially if you're a socially conscious feminist.
In many ways, it's the best of times and the worst of times to be a venture capitalist.
Among political actors, norms of decency and probity – strained in the best of times – have been routinely flouted.
In the best of times, Goldman generated more than $6 billion in quarterly revenue from fixed-income trading.
This is a complicated subject at the best of times, and these are the most fraught of times.
Bunts have a hard time being justifiable at the best of times and with the best of bunters.
Like his opponent, dos Anjos hasn't enjoyed the best of times in the cage since capturing championship gold.
This constrains the number of prescribers and limits the number of possible patients, in the best of times.
It's not necessarily the best of times, economically speaking, but things are better than they've been in years.
The uncertainty of entrepreneurship can be a difficult pill for parents to swallow at the best of times.
Then it was the worst of times again, and back to the best of times in the end.
The data shows pretty clearly that despite those problems, we are currently living through the best of times.
The statistics bureau has a variety of responsibilities that are hard to balance even in the best of times.
Lucas, who was barely there as a director for actors at the best of times, didn't seem to care.
The figures remain substantially below the close to 2 million bpd Nigeria has exported in the best of times.
These congested cities or population centers were already likely difficult places to live, even in the best of times.
The fifth season of Orange is the New Black was the best of times and the worst of times.
Even at the best of times in the past, participants have usually started cheating when oil prices have risen.
In the most turbulent and best of times I had the rock of the 12 steps to guide me.
Such an unprecedented endeavor would be inauspicious at the best of times, but it follows the worst of times.
Washington (CNN)In the best of times, Washington is a place for cross-pollination of politics across partisan lines.
Lucas, a shy and defensive guy at the best of times, was mortified by the response to the prequels.
Erdogan's idiosyncratic approach to economic policy would not bode well for the Turkish economy in the best of times.
Let's be real here: Even in the best of times, heading home for the holidays can be anxiety-inducing.
And right now for the entertainment business it really is the best of times and the worst of times.
Caracas was one of the world's most dangerous cities at the best of times; now it felt flatly apocalyptic.
Greece and Turkey are both members of NATO, yet even in the best of times, they are tense neighbors.
Geek conventions are known to be giant petri dishes for infection and illness even at the best of times.
Admittedly, there are extremely difficult financial years ahead in an extremely difficult industry even during the best of times.
Tipping is an etiquette minefield at the best of times, and a highly divisive issue that splits cultures and companions.
It was also a swingeing blow to a transport system that had struggled to cope at the best of times.
Periods are not great at the best of times but imagine not being able to get hold of these products.
However, other aspects of her pledged reform drive, that would have been ambitious at the best of times, have struggled.
It increasingly looks like the best of times for corporate borrowers but the worst of times for private equity firms.
Being bed-bound is garbage at the best of times, but spending the holiday season in hospital is even worse.
As if dating wasn't tough enough at the best of times, now you have to defend yourself from hackers, too.
Smog, congestion and cost: Travelling in a dense urban environment can be a stressful situation at the best of times.
In the best of times, predicting the next outbreak is a fool's game: No one could have seen H251N22017, a.k.a.
I know this, but I struggle to stop using these tools in the best of times, let alone the worst.
Even in the best of times, most women in the low-paid workforce have always lived on a razor's edge.
What this book could be about, based on Trumpian logic: good times, bad times It was the best of times.
The business is hand-to-mouth even in the best of times; last night's receipts go straight into tomorrow's payroll.
An especially vulnerable group in the best of times, the homeless face vanishing resources during a global public health crisis.
I know that even in the best of times, it has never been easy to make a living in entertainment.
"Be capable of sticking with your strategy in the best of times and the worst of times," Mr. Kinniry said.
It's an endurance contest in the best of times, and starting off on a bad pace can keep you down.
Joint news conferences with the president and visiting foreign leaders are an awkward ritual, even during the best of times.
To many observers, there is no tougher job in world soccer than coaching Valencia, even in the best of times.
That would be difficult in the best of times, but it's doubly hard -- and perhaps impossible -- with the current Congress.
"This place has been here for me during the darkest of times and also the best of times," Katie added.
Complicated at the best of times, the relations between Iraq, Iran and the United States are now even more fraught.
Doing that when you can barely keep eye contact with people at the best of times makes it doubly hard.
So Mr Xi, hardly a fan of markets at the best of times, has an extra incentive to go after miscreants.
For IPOs in 2016, it was, as Kathleen Smith quipped to me, the best of times and the worst of times.
Even at the best of times, note production, which accounts for over 70% of the company's revenues, is a volatile business.
Developers have been unhappy that even at the best of times, saying that it's hard for users to discover their apps.
"It's like that Dickens quote, 'It's the best of times, it's the worst of times,'" he said of the US system.
A protracted period of investor and political uncertainty is not a good thing for an economy at the best of times.
The large car makers know that the business is extremely difficult, narrowly profitable in the best of times, and capital intensive.
Even at the best of times, the match between the doctor's and the patient's is less than perfect, sometimes egregiously so.
Hospitals are scary at the best of times and sometimes you don't always get the treatment, doctors, or results you want.
An outbreak could devastate low-income black and Latino communities that, even in the best of times, face serious medical challenges.
The countries ravaged are poor, and many of the flooded rural areas are hard to reach in the best of times.
Even in the best of times there are certain subjects that tend to send good citizens into a state of stupor.
It is concerning in the best of times, but considering the possibility of a pandemic, the potential implications are downright scary.
Even at the best of times, local officialdom does not seem up to the job, says Deirdre Heenan of Ulster University.
I contacted the university and left a message, though they seldom responded to my messages, even in the best of times.
Even at the best of times we all stink like ass by the end of the first day at a festival.
In the best of times (and rest assured, we are not living in the best of times), the John Lennon song "Imagine" is sonic pablum: the cover of choice for mediocre YouTube artists everywhere, the soundtrack to a cheesy soda commercial, the karaoke song that deadens the mood, the clichéd go-to in moments that call for solidarity.
At the best of times, I can&apost understand why anybody would go anywhere near a crumbling cliff above a sheer drop.
"These are the best of times, and the worst of times," Mr Meng said at last year's Interpol gathering, loosely quoting Dickens.
"History shows us that the worst debt transactions are done at the best of times," S&P said in a research note.
Even at the best of times, Fortnite hits players with long waits and server queues when they're trying to join a game.
And it's true that at the best of times, he finds it hard to make coherent arguments unless delivering a prepared speech.
Since she was hardly an early riser at the best of times, Alan could only assume that she must have slept badly.
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg says the U.S. is "not experiencing the best of times" but she has hope moving forward.
This is a highly illiquid market at the best of times (with the holiday season upon us, it is even more so).
The annual address is overhyped and forgettable at the best of times, and Trump's oratorical skills don't lend themselves to the occasion.
Unless you live in some Scandinavian infrastructural utopia, dealing with public transit can be maddeningly frustrating even at the best of times.
China's internet censors, trigger-happy at the best of times, have gone into overdrive to sanitize discussion of the term limit changes.
Hurricane Maria has highlighted why protectionist policies are costly in the best of times, and potentially devastating in the worst of times.
Even at the best of times, Mr. Mugabe was a reluctant peacemaker, as his enemies — real or imagined — discovered to their cost.
Making oneself relevant when you are in the minority, especially in the House, is a challenging exercise at the best of times.
As all Londoners know, using public transport in the city can be a frantic and fraught experience at the best of times.
The report, published on Friday, recapitulated the Fed's view that these are neither the best of times nor the worst of times.
DE: In terms of the mental health field, I will quote Dickens: It's the best of times, it's the worst of times.
While science isn't necessarily partisan in the best of times, the truth is looking more and more like a partisan issue these days.
Dealing with undocumented prisoners is a laborious process at the best of times, but that's pushed to extremes when it comes to Libya.
Parking spaces disappear, doctors' appointments dry up and conflict emerges between students—noisy and messy neighbours at the best of times—and locals.
Even in the best of times, voters tire of long-serving ruling parties, blaming them for everything from bad weather to noisy roadworks.
But it is the best of times for carrot and beet growers, part of a niche industry best-known for stocking farmers' markets.
Squinting at the small print of those elusive discount codes is a feat at the best of times, not least after several Stellas.
The president's tweet has made bilateral relations more difficult with a country where diplomacy is never easy — even in the best of times.
At the best of times, a full-blown Greek economic and financial crisis would be very problematic for the European and global economies.
This sense of crisis would hamper a government at the best of times -- even one that had a parliamentary majority, something May lacks.
In the best of times, conventions are celebrations, four days of speeches and receptions as a party gears up for a fall campaign.
Holiday quality time with the family can be stressful even at the best of times, and TV has always been a welcome escape.
Even in the best of times, nail salon workers are notoriously underpaid and unprotected from the hazardous chemicals and fumes in their workplace.
"Music is my number-one favorite form of expression; it's gotten me through the toughest of times and the best of times," she shares.
"The Runaways' place in Marvel's line-up is pretty much the same as it was in the best of times, off-center," says Lowe.
More ceremonial than substantive at the best of times, it now seems even more of a sideshow to what truly matters in Chinese politics.
It's like the best of times because your billboard travels in a way that it really couldn't before, even when it was on newsstands.
Their plan is estimated to cost our economy nearly $100 trillion, a number unthinkable, a number not affordable even in the best of times.
"Income rises faster than frugality changes," NPD's Cohen said, suggesting that bargain-hunting is hard to give up even in the best of times.
That's not an easy circle to square even in the best of times, but plummeting faith in government institutions makes it that much harder.
However, these are far from the best of times for Europe, given its crowded electoral calendar and the rise of populism across the continent.
Living up to our ideals can be difficult even in the best of times and it can be harder when the future seems uncertain.
Originally released in America as "Chloe in the Afternoon," it's a delicate, articulate expression of male restlessness and desire in the best of times.
In the best of times, we civilians are unlikely to have a clear sense of what to expect from our leaders and government agencies.
"Politicians are risk-averse in the best of times, in this political climate many are more afraid of Donald Trump than coronavirus," Gonsalves tweeted.
Others say he has, at moments, seemed more intense than usual, though he is never exactly a relaxed figure at the best of times.
China's building codes and zoning laws are often so vaguely written and loosely enforced that they can cause confusion in the best of times.
"At the best of times it's hard to get Irish farmers to agree to things, particularly to do with crossing their land," he said.
In the best of times, when left to our own devices, we're often not connecting and our calendar doesn't end up reflecting our values.
"They don't comply with minimum health standards even in the best of times," said Daniel Berlin, a deputy director for rights group Asylum Access.
The integration of minorities, halting at the best of times — unemployment among immigrants in France is higher than the national average — was set back.
In the best of times, an economic cardiac arrest in China, the world's second-largest economy, would not be good for the global economy.
A victim of the most inane biographical rummaging at the best of times, Jane Austen is suffering unconscionable prying two centuries after her death.
"There's a pretty large segment who feel unable to save at all," Plepler says, adding there's this 'best of times; worst of times' contrast.
Op-Ed Contributor The relationship between a new president and the intelligence agencies that serve him can be difficult in the best of times.
Near the beginning of February, in the N.B.A.'s Eastern Conference, it was the best of times and it was the worst of times.
I am not an especially talented drummer at the best of times, but when I'm on my period I am a fucking terrible one.
The negative political rumblings on Libra were one factor behind a dramatic fall in digital-currency prices, a volatile market at the best of times.
Acclimatising to a new environment so that you can out-lift, out-run and out-swim your competition is difficult at the best of times.
On the bright side, Pepe wasn't my favorite meme at the best of times, so I'm not too sad about putting him out to pasture.
Travel can be a pain even in the best of times, and bottlenecks at Transportation Security Administration checkpoints are making things even worse than usual.
These are the episodes that highlight who these people were and have come to be — through the best of times and the worst of times.
In the best of times, it can be hard to accurately assess a problem, and it's even harder to predict the effects of policy proposals.
Even at the best of times, the EU finds it easier to deal with small countries; protectionist interests within Europe resist deals with bigger ones.
It was the best of times: America knew that whatever our disagreements might be, we were all Americans and no enemy could split us asunder.
This trap is especially dangerous for racial minorities and women, who even in the best of times have to combat bias in hiring and pay.
There was "serious drought" last year North Korea, which can feed its population "at a very minimal level" in the best of times, King said.
While it may be the worst of times in Washington, with unprecedented political infighting and gridlock, it's truly the best of times in the states.
The emergency room, busy under the best of times, is a jumble of patients, doctors and nurses all scrambling to treat 164 patients a day.
In the best of times, for example, intelligence officials can't even bring their mobile phones into the workplace, recognizing the security risk that they are.
Let's be clear: In Yemen, any project — even one much smaller than resurrecting an ancient trade — is a serious challenge at the best of times.
At the best of times, this is mildly annoying, but it can make some tasks — like watching a video or playing a game — near impossible.
Even in the best of times, markets are tuning forks not just for the sound of economic activity but for public sentiment about the future.
Even at the best of times, those exams can change lives -- they can be the difference between a prestigious university and no university at all.
Even at the best of times, Cézanne views Zola as a timid romantic fool, at odds with his literary persona as a brutal social realist.
America's Congress is not known for productivity in the best of times; when impeachment poisons relations on Capitol Hill, it will grind to a halt.
What is the likelihood that this relationship, not rock solid in the best of times and about to undergo years of physical separation, will succeed?
Public wifi is insecure at the best of times, but you're also giving away your location whenever you log into a network that's not your own.
He's pleading to clean up his act and feeling miles away—it's a combination that'll get a person sad and tuneful at the best of times.
"I would say that we are not experiencing the best of times, but there's hope in seeing how the public is reacting to it," Ginsburg said.
But it's also been pretty sparse, with few from really respected firms, and Colorado is a tough state to poll even in the best of times.
Add terrorism and fear over the world economy (looking at you Brexit), and these feel more like the worst of times than the best of times.
And while exchange stocks have only limited price-signaling power at the best of times, they shouldn't be determined by the current opaque warehouse incentive market.
Link can crouch down and move slowly to limit the noise he makes, but the in-game execution feels iffy even at the best of times.
That's a tough undertaking in the best of times, but even more daunting given hedge fund closures have been outpacing openings and startup costs are rising.
If the Greeks — bankrupt and tired, with a state that is dysfunctional at the best of times — can try their best, the union can try harder.
It could be the best of times or the worst of times: Donald Trump is going to host a Reddit Ask Me Anything (AMA) on Wednesday.
This noble judicial role — as the guardian of liberty, separate from the elected branches — is an essential part of our democracy in the best of times.
In the best of times, prefabricated dome shelters receive high marks from environmentalists and penny pinchers alike because of their low cost and minimal environmental impact.
We don't know what's in them at the best of times, and right now, we know that what is in them can potentially be life-threatening.
And while exchange stocks have only limited price-signalling power at the best of times, they shouldn't be determined by the current opaque warehouse incentive market.
Finally, it is important to remember that wage growth lags behind a tighter labor market, so the best of times for workers may well lie ahead.
At the best of times it would've been like, some worry but we've got everything under control but at this point, it was untenable and irresponsible.
Its optimistic message of embracing life, love, and wanderlust —"roam if you want to, roam around the world"—would be touching at the best of times.
Long-distance travel is an ordeal at the best of times, so you can imagine the world's longest commercial non-stop flight ain't for the faint-hearted.
The supply of electricity to the capital by Afghanistan's national power company, known as DABS, is never enough to meet demand, even at the best of times.
Yet US-Iranian relations are rocky at the best of times, given the two countries have been at odds on issues across the Middle East for decades.
Chinese statistics on its metals sector can be opaque at the best of times, but when it comes to lead, we're entering a particularly ill-lit place.
"I don't like large groups of people at the best of times so… I never wanted a wedding that was lots of people," Sheeran told Entertainment Tonight.
Acting is a tough skill at the best of times, but it gets even harder when you're meant to be reacting to something you can't even see.
I'll be seeing the recently un-engaged friend soon and we'll both be without the social scripts and decorum that make best-of-times encounters so easy.
But my anxiety would be happening in the best of times—when activated, it shoots obsessive, intrusive thoughts into my head probably thousands of times a day.
For all our good fortune there is a sense in the country that these times, the best of times, have not brought out the best in us.
"It's the worst of times for national America, and it's the best of times for local America," says Richard Florida, an urbanist at the University of Toronto.
This city of $50 hamburgers and $25 mineral water — the site of an annual gathering of the world's business elite — is surreal at the best of times.
We have become so numb after two years of Trumpian politics that we tend to forget what the office can be about in the best of times.
More recently, the EU slapped sanctions on Turkey over hydrocarbon drilling off Cyprus, and Ankara's relations with EU member Greece are tense at the best of times.
In the best of times, that would be a tough task; the next president will enter office with Ms. Park on trial and Mr. Kim rattling missiles.
Workers are taking advantage, and are quitting their existing jobs and taking new ones at a rate that is only seen in the very best of times.
At the best of times, those places can be crowded and perhaps not matchlessly clean, but the subway in the time of a pandemic is uniquely fraught.
I'm financially disorganized at the best of times, and with a baby and a toddler, I was barely even trying to keep track of my business expenses.
As bad as a four-year breach is at the best of times, bizarrely it's only the second company to admit a security issue dating back to 2014.
Even at the best of times this arid, sparsely populated belt of land that runs along the southern fringe of the Sahara desert is poor and badly governed.
" At the same time, he said, "The best of times are the companies like Netflix, the Amazons, the Apples — some of these major new tech-driven media companies.
Yet US-Iranian relations are rocky at the best of times, given that the two countries have been at odds on issues across the Middle East for decades.
Being a teenager is a rough ride at the best of times, and even the most confident of youngsters could do with a bit of a confidence bump.
Patent law is complicated even at the best of times, but a new project led by researchers from the University of Surrey could make it more convoluted still.
Ironically, Barlow made 2012's siege, with its dark, oppressive imagery, during what, in retrospect, seem like the best of times, the run-up to Obama's re-election.
Pushing a baby out of you is difficult at the best of times (we imagine), but doing so thousands of feet above the ground is just not ideal.
VICE Impact has partnered with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation on a short film called The Best of Times, Worst of Times, narrated by actress Lupita Nyong'o.
And business in Iran is uncertain at the best of times: corruption is rife and the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps has its fingers in nearly every major deal.
And the abrupt cancellation of, well, just about everything has forced people to engage in an activity undesired even in the best of times: the scramble for refunds.
One French woman tells me she's about to try fire tossing—which seems risky at the best of times—and then casually mentions that she's just dropped acid.
They give me the feeling that I have control over my environment, which is no small thing even in the best of times, but particularly worthwhile right now.
Even in the best of times, the song's melancholy lyrics about a native son longing to return to Puerto Rico before dying is guaranteed to make listeners cry.
Their public image, shaky in France at the best of times, suffered even as officers were repeatedly pressed into service on successive weekends to handle Yellow Vest protests.
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times — and in the luxury sector, only Gucci and Louis Vuitton can truly say they conquered both.
Gretchen and Jimmy are completely self-absorbed at the best of times, but it's hard this time to fault them for the quest to thaw Jimmy's cold, dead heart.
Relations between the two nuclear powers, never easy at the best of times, are under extra strain as Donald Trump prepares to take over as president on January 20th.
"It may not be the best of times for manufacturers, but it is pretty close to that," said Joel Naroff, chief economist at Naroff Economic Advisors in Holland, Pennsylvania.
" Brin starts his letter by quoting the opening lines of Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities — "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.
" Malik—a slow, deliberate, hassled man at the best of times, the sort who seems to be exhaling deeply against the troubles of the world—said, "You're making excuses.
In a music era dominated by Spotify, SoundCloud has been, at the best of times, a startup in stagnation, and, at the worst of times, an organization in disarray.
" But in the best of times, noted Baker, healthcare players "will scream bloody murder if Congress does anything that will reduce their income… The groups affected are hugely powerful.
In liberal cities, where the military isn't popular even at the best of times recruiters are really struggling, and the Army in particular has missed its latest recruitment target.
The Best of Times, Worst of Times highlights the great progress made in poverty reduction over the last 25 years, and the important work that remains to be done.
We don't need more hassles, but fewer: Even in the best of times, the trucks that bring our bees south routinely face delays of six hours at the border.
"Snake Eyes: A Nicolas Cage Activity Book", available on Amazon, $10.69 Join this Snake Eyes version of Nicolas Cage on puzzles, games, coloring pages, and "the best of times." 
Matches with more than two competitors tend to be a bit of a mess even at the best of times, and that usually means just three people are involved.
In the best of times, finding live-in child care can be challenging, but right now it leaves parents facing what can seem like a set of difficult choices.
In the best of times, finding live-in child care can be challenging, but right now it leaves parents facing what can seem like a set of difficult choices.
This will be fun for Trudeau, who will have to struggle to have Canada meet those international standards (a tenuous goal for the Liberals in the best of times).
"For all our good fortune, there is a sense in the country that these times, the best of times, have not brought out the best in us," she writes.
Headstrong and willful even at the best of times, she becomes self-destructive at others: After her love affair with an artist turns sour, she tries to kill herself.
Actively working to preserve the bizarre system of employer-sponsored insurance is foolish at the best of times, but it is pure madness during a pandemic and possible recession.
The internal workings of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) can be a black box at the best of times, but there are a number of theories that make sense.
Three possible explanations The dust is still settling, and even at the best of times Iran's motivations can be opaque, but there are three possible explanations for the action.
What Really Happened: If you will, please now turn your attention to life on the other side of the Atlantic, where other politicians aren't having the best of times either.
"The market doesn't like elections at the best of times, and given it has a natural capitalist orientation, it's not a surprise it worries over this Labour government," said Mellor.
Even at the best of times without the added risk of Western sanctions, there would only be a few foreign investors with deep enough pockets to buy a big stake.
A more recent event suggests that Tesla, which is never especially financial stable at the best of times, was in real trouble: on May 16th, an email from Musk leaked.
The club have always remained very close to the town, in the best of times in the 1950s and 1960s and the worst of times in the 1980s and 1990s.
Any of these scenarios could boost the anti-Rousseff faction within the PMDB, an umbrella party with no defined ideology that is an unreliable ally at the best of times.
The family started to strain to make $2,000 monthly payments on a loan that, even at the best of times, "was a little bit beyond our means," Mr. Janson said.
This suggests that even in the best of times executive branch agencies routinely ignore the instructions in President Clinton's Executive Order 12866, which lays out requirements for regulatory impact analysis.
"When I was an athlete, I feel like sports really helped me through the best of times and the worst of times," Johnson said when The Titan Games trailer premiered.
Her immediate family was upper middle class at the best of times: Her parents — unhappily married, as she recounts in "Yesterday Morning," her 22009 volume — lived chronically above their means.
Europe's transnational system of governance is complicated in the best of times, but we've broken it down — and explained the dynamics at play — in a guide you can read here.
Also, when people are feeling ill, they're unlikely to hit the gym even at the best of times — so changes are anyone who is feeling truly sick will stay home.
Now, the Mariners' hopes have dimmed significantly, and even if they do reach the postseason — a big if in the best of times — Cano will not be there to help.
"This is going to be the best of times for retailers that are well capitalized," said Burt P. Flickinger III, managing director of Strategic Resource Group, a retail consulting firm.
Labor Day: It's the best of times (because you have an extra day off of work to have sex), it's the worst of times (because summer is pretty much donezo).
London (CNN Business)Cities are difficult to navigate at the best of times, but for people with disabilities they can be like an obstacle course and a maze wrapped into one.
In the best of times, as well as during the most challenging of times, Elijah Cummings remained steadfast in his love for, his belief in and his presence among his community.
And it has spread through remote villages that are hard to get to at the best of times—and are now reachable only in armoured cars escorted by UN blue helmets.
The US-UN relationship is fraught in the best of times -- during the George W. Bush administration when the US imposed a unilateral vision globally, or during the 1990s, when Sen.
But China's cultural commissars, rarely open-minded at the best of times, have been in an unusually censorious mood since 2014, when President Xi Jinping stressed that art must "serve socialism".
The facts are inescapable: The Obama years have been among the best of times to be a stock investor, going all the way back to the dawn of the 22016th century.
That, plus the prospect of even trying to achieve peace between Israel and the Palestinians -- never an easy task in the best of times -- will become mission impossible under current conditions.
More than three-fourths of the land, he points out, is dark or light orange, which means they are water-stressed in the best of times and during droughts, dangerously so.
But it's also a strikingly ineffective way to govern even in the best of times and most stable of circumstances, which astute readers will recall that these are absolutely fucking not.
Navigating these rules is difficult at the best of times, but becomes impossible when the controlling agencies fail to speak with a single voice or act consistently within a single statute.
Even at the best of times, Port Moresby is one of the most violent cities in the region, with gangs of "raskols" blamed for a high number of rapes and murders.
Matthew Modine does not think Charlottesville and other terrorist attacks are a harbinger of bad things to come ... to the contrary he thinks we are living in the best of times.
With little money to hand at the best of times, and struggling to find the goods they need, bartering is key to getting by for Bakasi's more than 21,000 displaced people.
The instruments typically fund more speculative projects that can't rely solely on bank lending, making them relatively high-risk even in the best of times, suited to deep-pocketed professional investors.
In the best of times, the Department of Justice deleting anything along the lines of "free press" and "public trial" — both constitutional guarantees — from its manual for federal prosecutors would raise eyebrows.
Tanu Gago: We started out as a group of friends who wanted to grapple with the reality of being queer and Pacific, which at the best of times can be extremely isolating.
If Indonesia does not create the right conditions, they will not invest, and Jokowi's promise to return Indonesia to 7% growth—a tall order at the best of times—will go unkept.
Tennis in Yemen is tough at the best of times: power cuts and sandstorms often disrupt matches, and clubs with pot-holed courts lack full-time coaches and adequate funding from ministries.
When Ubl talks about PhRMA's focus as a whole this year, he paraphrases the famous line from a "Tale of Two Cities": It's the best of times and the worst of times.
Truthfully, I hate getting it at the best of times—there are only so many oversized, games-branded t-shirts I'm never going wear in my life (pens are useful, though, thanks).
The back-and-forth made a furious spectacle of what is, at the best of times, one of the most emotionally wrenching contacts between the commander in chief and a bereaved citizen.
Anosmia is depressing enough at the best of times, and the constant cycle of raised expectations coming crashing back down only to be raised again is enough to drive someone completely mad.
I had the best of times, and I'm so happy I was around then, at the age I was then, at the time when television was not as nitpicky as it is today.
MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Beating Roger Federer is a daunting enough prospect at the best of times but Marin Cilic must be wondering when he will get a fair crack against the record-breaking Swiss.
The best of times may be over for now for job seekers, even though June's critical employment report should show a substantial spring back in hiring, and the labor market remains fairly strong.
I read hundreds, if not thousands of other facts, possibilities, probabilities, and potentialities like this, which remind me how amazing it is that our society holds together even in the best of times.
But 2018 marks a decade since the Italians last won a championship, their 16th constructors' crown in 2008, and the pressure — always intense even at the best of times — has been ratcheting up.
A temporary waiver will help, but it is not enough; Congress must repeal the act itself, because it has hindered economic growth and stability on the island even in the best of times.
It's difficult to figure out at the best of times, said David Hickton, a former U.S. Attorney who brought computer crimes prosecutions against members of China's army and the Russian hacker Evgeny Bogachev.
To exist in this world feels challenging in the best of times; to exist in this world without the technologies we've come to rely on — even if they're exploiting us — feels downright impossible.
"We all miss each other so much at the best of times and had a reunion coming up which we've had to cancel, so this feels almost like a stand-in," she said.
For those observing hijab, even in the best of times, the Muslim Ban can heighten anxiety to simply go outside and tend to everyday matters since they can be easy targets for hate.
Home Wi-Fi speeds can be difficult to understand at the best of times, but as I've been testing Three UK's new 5G home broadband package this week, I've been getting especially superstitious.
As the court has recognized over and over, before and since 1935, Congress is a cumbersome body that moves slowly in the best of times, while the economy is an incredibly dynamic system.
That task, delicate in the best of times, is even more difficult in the charged political atmosphere that permeates not only Europe but also the United States and the rest of the world.
"It's one thing to decide to be isolated," said the artist Liza Lou, who in the best of times longs for uninterrupted solitude in her Los Angeles studio, as so many artists do.
"It's one thing to decide to be isolated," said the artist Liza Lou, who in the best of times longs for uninterrupted solitude in her Los Angeles studio, as so many artists do.
And these aren't the best of times for GE. The company's comeback is stymied by powerful forces outside its control, including lower interest rates, the downturn in manufacturing and the US-China trade war.
I seem a little bit washed-out in them at the best of times, and I'm usually filming at conferences and festivals, where I'm fighting jet lag and a half-dozen strains of flu.
It's tricky to make the choice between seven versions of three consoles at the best of times, but the decision's clouded further by the fact we don't yet know what they can all do.
However, these are not the best of times in the sense that years of very easy monetary policy by the world's major central banks has led to overvaluation in global equity and housing markets.
But then again, as the author Armistead Maupin, the San Francisco faithful and connoisseur, once put it, "The worst of times in San Francisco was still better than the best of times anywhere else."
Even in the best of times the office plays a critical role, policing fraud on Wall Street and ensuring enforcement of state and federal laws, from regulating the financial system to preventing employment discrimination.
Baghouz Al-Fawqani, even in the best of times, has never been on the tourist circuit, and SDF commanders say there are many Chechens among the 500 ISIS fighters holed up in the town.
Sprawling government bodies struggle to maintain a high level of integrity in the best of times, but the GSA could soon become the vehicle for far more serious executive meddling in government contracting decisions.
Adapting any prose novel to the graphic format is an audacious undertaking at the best of times, but translating Octavia E. Butler's fearsomely powerful work in particular must surely have been a herculean task.
"I don't like large groups of people at the best of times so… I never wanted a wedding that was lots of people," Sheeran told ET, praising the "good vibe" that comes from simple ceremonies.
But not only is handing over control of your Twitter account to a third-party app highly suspect at the best of times, the app the Russian Embassy is using has less than solid credentials.
"We have gone from the worst of times to the best of times in a short cycle," said John Bray, chairman and chief executive of Vanguard Furniture, which has focused increasingly on custom order work.
It's not good even at the best of times, but... At its outset, the Moto G was a groundbreaking phone, combining high-end performance and features with great build quality and a budget-friendly price.
Horror games are a natural fit for VR because it can be unnervingly claustrophobic at the best of times; they also tend to be slower-paced, so the problem of physical exertion isn't as acute.
A shambling, slipshod figure in the best of times, the prime minister has seemed undisciplined and occasionally uninformed during several recent appearances — lending weight to past criticism that he is often lazy and ill-prepared.
In the best of times social technologies have a hard time keeping up with physical technologies, but with the Great Recession of 2008 and the political paralysis it engendered, this gap turned into a chasm.
It's a challenge at the best of times, but trying to jumpstart your brain after more than two days off in a row requires the kind of discipline that went out the window with homeownership.
Rakhine State, a ribbon of marsh and mountain on the western coast of Myanmar, is isolated in the best of times, racked by guerrilla warfare and ethnic cleansing that takes place far from international scrutiny.
Mature industries — where double-digit annual profit growth is a reach in the best of times — are especially vulnerable to activist investors' demands for board seats, bigger stock repurchases and other short-term financial rewards.
On the day after the killings, the local medical examiners, John Edland and Richard Abbott, overworked at the best of times, had the nightmarish task of autopsying the bodies of dead inmates and hostages alike.
But the corruption scheme outlined by federal prosecutors has strained the entire nanotechnology program, threatening to knock economic progress off course in places like Utica, where growth was never certain in the best of times.
If the only way to get a voice at the table is to buy it from your congressman, the best of times for America's wealthy will spell the worst of times for too many others.
The Alexandrine line is unwieldy at the best of times, although Claude Perron handles it with admirable panache as the fierce housemaid Dorine in this version, confidently stretching out the throaty vowels of "j'enrage" and "gloire".
In the best of times, it's hard to predict currency movements — a difficulty that's compounded in a world in which central bank policies are rapidly diverging and countries are using currency devaluation to gain economic advantage.
It's always a charged environment at the best of times, and it's noticeable to me that talking about this subject, even with such an easy going group of prisoners, has caused a little bit of apprehension.
Even at the best of times, a relationship with Peter Gill, who was married and demonstrably volatile, sounds like a mixed bag—Guess later testified that, on one occasion, Gill followed her home and choked her.
Even at the best of times — which, given City's success, is most of the time — he seems frazzled, but when things are not going well, when his lofty standards are not being met, everything speeds up.
By that measure we are not living in the best of times, though the United States has faced worse, especially in the 1950s, with McCarthyism's attempt to root out Communists in all corners of American life.
Losing two Champions League finals to one club would be heart-rending enough at the best of times, but when that club is an intra-city nemesis the pain of defeat must be even harder to bear.
"The market doesn't like elections at the best of times, and given it has a natural capitalist orientation, it's not a surprise it worries over this Labour government," said Neil Mellor, senior currency strategist at BNY Mellon.
And since there's no time that people these days like to pretend were the best of times than the 1990's, enjoy watching actors and actresses get their groove on in this dancing compilation from Robert Jones.
Meanwhile, President Sexton's muscular championing of the university's expansion plans in Greenwich Village upset local residents and some City Council members and alienated sections of the faculty, which tends to be fractious at the best of times.
Also, jobs in a small county like Leitrim are scarce at the best of times, and for the newly arrived Kurds, the added barrier of a new language and culture made the search for employment more difficult.
This is weird, not only because a country's leader is normally front and center during a crisis, but because Xi typically dominates media coverage at the best of times, regardless of how seemingly routine his activities are.
The cyclone ravaged rural swaths of the three nations that are hard to reach in even the best of times, making it difficult for governments and international humanitarian organizations to grasp the full extent of the destruction.
His story sort of got worse and worse as we went along, but I think farming ... It's a difficult way to make a living at the best of times, but almost everybody in 2005 was better off.
We managed to load up a PDF from iCloud Drive on Android using the same method, but again you're tapping at tiny icons and trying to cope with a web interface that's sluggish at the best of times.
"The market doesn't like elections at the best of times, and given it has a natural capitalist orientation, it's not a surprise it worries over this (possible) Labour government," said Neil Mellor, senior currency strategist at BNY Mellon.
It's not good even at the best of times, but two weeks ago it was downright harmful to one James Pinkstone of Atlanta, who found 122GB of his own musical creations had been deleted by Apple's renegade software.
Bangkok, Thailand (CNN)Driving in Thailand can be a hair-raising experience at the best of times, but during the country's so-called "seven dangerous days" over the New Year holiday motorists take their lives in their hands.
Democratic strategists have worried that younger voters, turned off by the bitter tenor of the race and more challenging than older voters to turn out even in the best of times, may not bother to vote for her.
In 'Jerry's Girls' on Broadway, I was honored to perform numbers from so many wonderful shows — my favorites being 'The Best of Times,' which I sang with Dorothy Loudon and Leslie Uggams, and 'Bosom Buddies' with Leslie Uggams.
One year's data does not a trend make and tin is the least liquid of the LME's core base metals contracts at the best of times, meaning external factors such as a falling price can generate an outsized impact.
His work in combinations is sloppy at the best of times as his elbows bow out and he leans forwards at the waist, but doing it while his ears are still ringing from a heavy punch is doubly dangerous.
But despite all of the positives associated with Jenner's reveal, the past year has been "both the best of times and the worst of times for the transgender community," said Nick Adams, director of programs, transgender media for GLAAD.
"Malawi has limited road access to rural areas even at the best of times, and after a flash flood earth roads can turn to rivers, completely cutting off affected communities," said UNICEF Malawi Representative Johannes Wedenig in a statement.
India and Pakistan have a fraught relationship at the best of times, but when it comes to cricket, the competition takes on a whole different agenda, where it stands unrivaled at the biggest fixture the world has to offer.
Internet service — essential to placing an order — cuts out frequently during the best of times and goes down entirely for weeks or months during winter, when the trunk line to Srinagar, the state capital, is damaged under the snow.
Family life can be fraught at the best of times, but if one of you suffers a complex medical condition, it is something that affects all of you; every member of the household must face the stress and challenges.
Bachelet secured tax reform in the first year that has helped pay for changes to education, and tweaked the electoral system, but other aspects of her pledged reform drive that would have been ambitious at the best of times have struggled.
I think that's what's so great about the art form, is that at the best of times, it can be about empathy, and about connection, and understanding, and telling stories that don't necessarily get the light that other stories get.
Image: Emanuele Biggi/Amphibian & Reptile ConservationSpiders are creepy even at the best of times, but new photos taken from the Amazon rainforest put these predatory creatures in an even more fearsome light: as they're chomping down on animals of unusual sizes.
The teams of the NL West have soared to the highest heights and fallen into the deepest valleys, having the best of times and the worst of times, and have found themselves now somewhere in the middle, trying to muddle through.
It's easy to drain the battery in your PS4's DualShock 4 controller — at the best of times, you'll get no more than about eight hours on a single charge, and often it lasts more like four or five hours.
Though if you went shopping, you are a stronger person than I. Crowded department stores give me option anxiety at the best of times (yes, Macy's, I mean you), and at this particular time of year, I find them especially overwhelming.
Figure skater Jimmy Ma, who competed yesterday in the short program at the United States Figure Skating Championship, demonstrates: I hate online at the best of times, but occasionally (occasionally) it brings me joy like this and all is forgiven.
Growing tensions between Greece and Turkey over energy resources in the Eastern Mediterranean and revived disputes over sovereignty in the Aegean have further undermined cooperation between the two traditional foes in curbing human trafficking, fragile at the best of times.
But then again, Dandelion's hardly the most trustworthy fellow, at the best of times; and he had a right thirst on while telling Geralt about the city, no doubt due to already being on the sauce for a good few hours previously.
"It's a sensible thing to reduce risk, and bringing in a deep-pocketed partner can help," said John Stephenson, president of Stephenson & Co Capital Management, who acknowledged that it is very difficult to make a joint venture work "in the best of times".
If you pay attention to that indicator only, it would certainly seem like we're now in the best of times: Gross domestic product has grown for 21 straight months, and we are now officially in the longest economic expansion in recorded American history.
Trying to process all these reactions is not easy at the best of times, and yet I find myself struggling as well with the creeping impulses to view everything through the lens of the (whisper it) fashion industry that I predominantly work in.
North Korea is a tricky proposition even at the best of times for China, and simply easing up on U.N. sanctions as a way to express displeasure at Trump's foreign policies could backfire badly for China, said one China-based Asian diplomat.
" And while Clinton writes that the protests helped her overcome the shock of Trump becoming president -- "If the inauguration on Friday was the worst of times, Saturday turned out to be the best of times" -- she does admit the day was "bittersweet.
It was the best of times, and the queasiest of times — and you can bet we'll be watching Dr. Lee's sophomore season come January 2019, for a whole new cast of lumps and bumps that will likely top anything we've ever seen.
While the rules governing censorship on the Chinese internet are opaque at the best of times, the sheer weight of posts and growing awareness at all levels of society of the issue of sexual harassment may be leading to more official tolerance.
Running a secretive spy agency is difficult in the best of times, but Pompeo could have a particularly tough time of it, since Trump has sharply criticized the CIA for its leaked assessment that Russia was trying to help him win the election.
Hard Rock Park had been a dicey proposition at the best of times, when the economy was booming; in 2008, with multi-billion dollar investment banks faltering and world leaders scrambling to avert a global financial meltdown, it didn't stand a chance.
Having devastated the lives of thousands of government employees who live on the financial edge in the best of times, he now wants to take relief funds away from victims of hurricanes and forest fires to pay for his medieval border wall.
"Rudeness is rampant"; "Etiquette today is not about how you hold a teacup"; "These are not the best of times for our friend grammar": These are just a few of the delightfully Jean Brodie-ish proclamations by Nancy R. Mitchell in ETIQUETTE RULES!
"In the best of times, working under Toby Harnden was stressful and chaotic," said Reynolds Hutchins, a former senior web producer who had complained about Harnden to Gurdon when he left the Examiner for a position at another company in June 2019.
Survival in New York City is a challenge at the best of times, for everybody, but this hero's ordeals, by water and fire and social media, are sterner trials of faith than even the mad monks of the Inquisition could dream up.
Welcome to the nerve-wracking world of U.S. immigration policy — a strange place at the best of times but one made all the more confusing by the weaponization of immigration issues for political gain and the media's continuing failure to cut through the spin.
A shattered lifeline Even if all the problems between the Houthis and the UN could be resolved, restrictions imposed by the Saudi and UAE-led coalition on the strategic Hodeidah port mean that aid trickles in to the north at the best of times.
One of the most eye-catching motel signs, with only a majority of its letters lit even in the best of times, has tipped over and deposited its luminous glass into the empty husk of a Prius, passing below it just at the wrong time.
" Russian foreign ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova, a woman whose rhetoric is fiery at the best of times, outdid herself, calling the decision "strikingly filthy and inhumane" and "a betrayal of the high human rights standards that serve as the cornerstone of the modern world.
Amazon is buying film credibility There's no guarantee Allen's Amazon debut will be a commercial success — the director is particularly divisive figure, following on from sexual abuse allegations by his adoptive daughter, and his movies are hardly summer blockbusters at the best of times.
I met the president of the Conservative Association at McGill University to figure out just where campus conservatives—a rare and elusive group at the best of times—stand in the age of Trump, the alt-right, and the sudden near-respectability of white nationalism.
Getting around a city of close to 10 million with an aging infrastructure and a meager mass transit system is a challenge at the best of times but during the Games even the shortest trip can take hours, leaving both locals and visitors frustrated.
For devoted fans, a strong case can be made that it is the best of times: Streaming services allow people at home to watch concerts by the Berlin Philharmonic and performances from the Salzburg Festival, the Vienna State Opera, the Metropolitan Opera and more.
Maintaining even the most basic social media presence from Cuba, where upload speeds can be sluggish at the best of times, is one of the major barriers for the country's metal bands old and new who might want to gain notoriety beyond their own borders.
It's a patchwork Frankenstein's monster of a system, which in the best of times merely ensures millions of Americans' votes are irrelevant to the outcome because they don't live in competitive states, and in the worst of times could be vulnerable to a major crisis.
Quite a lot of reality TV tiptoes along the porn line at the best of times anyway—once you've seen the thrusting, grunting outline of a waxed guy under a thin blanket, can you really say you'd be shocked if the blanket fell off?
These routine viral assaults on food security demonstrate that regardless of the precise route of zoonotic transmission of the current Covid-19 outbreak, our reliance on massive-scale animal farming is neither prudent nor pragmatic in the best of times or the worst of times.
A chore at the best of times, the role essentially reduces the teenage Hester to the butt of numerous jokes, and the young American actress Crystal Clarke can't enliven the part beyond staring at the societal swells in her midst with her chin upturned.
But Riyadh's chartering frenzy is unlikely to give it the benefits of such a contango play and could also lock out the traditional speculative players, who even at the best of times have to pay for storage, insurance and the cost of moving oil.
That's efficient spending, but the NHL has a fairly consistent problem with overvaluing depth players—even an intelligent organization like the Maple Leafs gave Matt Martin a contract worth $2.5M per year, just under the NHL average for a fourth liner at the best of times.
It is just that when I look back on the past eight years, in true Dickensian form, they were "the best of times ... [and] the worst of times" for me as a black man who practices law for a living and writes for a side hustle.
The 15-times major champion plays such a limited schedule at the best of times that even if, under a best-case scenario, the PGA Tour cranks back up again in mid-April, there are only a handful of events he will contest before the Olympic deadline.
The 15-times major champion plays such a limited schedule at the best of times that even if, under a best-case scenario, the PGA Tour cranks back up again in mid-April, there are only a handful of events he will contest before the Olympic deadline.
But the call for federal regulation is transparently a stall tactic, and an adequate bill at that level would likely take a year or more of intensive work even at the best of times, let alone during an election year while the president is being impeached.
"I think he served the country very, very well in a very challenging and difficult job at the best of times, and arguably particularly challenging over the course of the last year or so," Petraeus told attendees at a Veterans in Global Leadership event in Washington.
I've toiled in this business for nearly 20 years, and even in the best of times it has been a squeamish and skittering ride, the sort of career you'd counsel your kids to avoid in favor of something less volatile and more enduring — bitcoin mining, perhaps.
Deep divisions over the Syrian conflict, how to deal with more than one million Syrian refugees in the country and the dividing of political spoils have left the country with a presidential vacuum that has ground many government functions, shaky at the best of times, to a halt.
Five pro-Remain parties (Change UK, the Lib Dems, Greens and Scottish and Welsh nationalists) are competing for Remain voters, a foolish strategy at the best of times, but particularly foolish under this voting system, which, though more forgiving than first-past-the-post, still punishes small parties.
Changing the direction and culture of an institution such as the FDA is difficult even at the best of times, but if Gottlieb takes the helm, he will have the power to alter the tobacco landscape in a way that would benefit the health of millions of Americans.
It's the kind of walk you do when you're self-consciously trying to look relaxed and also a little bit threatening—a tough act to pull off at the best of times, let alone after being ripped-off by an extortionate airport taxi in the sweltering Manila smog.
What an interesting time to be Hispanic in the U.S. While I certainly believe that the best is yet to come for Latinos in this country, I'm candidly not always sure whether we are living in the best of times, or the worst of times, for people with names like mine.
Confusing in the best of times and loudly debated almost all the time, the Irish backstop is shorthand for the question of how to deal with the border between Ireland, a European Union member country, and Northern Ireland, a part of the United Kingdom, once Britain leaves the European Union.
In the end, about 10 people were directed off the course at the Houston Street and 23rd Street exits so that the city could get the F.D.R. Drive — a desperately busy road even in the best of times — back, said a spokesman for New York Road Runners, the race organizer.
At the best of times my relationship with weed is a tightrope walk between vacant amusement and total wig-out—yes, I'm the "pussy" you were referring to earlier—so I'd way rather wait until the very end of the night, when I can slip into the muggy ether on a comfortable sofa.
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Sometimes they debate the meaning and legacy of Rimbaud; at other times — and these are, relatively speaking, the best of times — they recite from "Illuminations," as translated by the eminent American poet John Ashbery (who is also a character here), or perform musical numbers in homage to that work, written by seven composers.
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Known as a pugnacious Republican partisan by his colleagues in Congress, Mr. Pompeo is going to have pull off the political balancing act of his career to keep the confidence of the Trump White House while winning over the C.I.A., an agency that is notoriously hostile to outsiders in the best of times.
"Theater is transformative — it has the power to celebrate the best of times, and it has the power to help heal us and comfort us in the worst of times," Broadway League president Charlotte St. Martin and American Theatre Wing president Heather Hitchens, who organize the Tony awards, said in a statement recognizing Herzfeld's efforts.
SH: Yeah I mean big picture this is such a crazy time and people don't like journalists in the best of times, but you know even now when the rhetoric being so overblown and people being unkind and cruel to each other in really public ways, it's showing up in how reporters are treated.
Image: Alex Cranz/GizmodoComputer specs can be a baffling mix of acronyms and numbers at the best of times, but it's worth learning something about them: It'll help you choose a new computer, troubleshoot your old computer, and generally understand more about the relationship between the specs on the page and the experience you're getting.
His other books include "A History of Zionism" (1972); his memoirs "Worlds Ago" (1992) and "Best of Times, Worst of Times" (2009); "The Terrible Secret" (1980), in which he wrote that early reports of the Nazi "final solution" were not believed by Allied governments nor by Jews themselves; and, as editor, "The Holocaust Encyclopedia" (2001), a definitive compendium.
The only certainty was that Israel was in for a wild ride between now and the April 9 ballot, with analysts predicting that the country's political scene — loud, fractious and heated at the best of times — would become only more divisive as Mr. Netanyahu, who is seeking a fourth consecutive term, fights for his political life.
WASHINGTON — Jon M. Huntsman Jr. has accepted President Trump's offer to be ambassador to Russia, people with knowledge of the matter said on Thursday, taking on a diplomatic assignment that would be challenging in the best of times but is more so now, given the questions swirling around the Trump campaign and its links to Russia.
Not only has Trump not nominated any cabinet members, reports have emerged of the transition team fighting amongst themselves, and as of Wednesday Trump's people hadn't yet contacted many federal agencies, including the State Department and the Pentagon, to go over the nuts and bolts of the handover—a tricky operation even in the best of times.
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness…" How to tell what of this was necessary, and what was extraneous?
In the best of times, a matchmaker might find her a decent husband with whom she can raise a family of sons, but these are the worst of times, and, before any match can be made, the Japanese Imperial Army takes Singapore and 17-year-old Wang Di is kidnapped to work as a "comfort woman," the chilling euphemism for a sexual slave.
It can be really hard to maneuver through at the best of times — but add a narrow partisan margin (which means there's exactly one path to a winning coalition), a clueless president, and not even the basic competence of earlier congressional leaders such as former Ways and Means Chair Dave Camp, who produced a plausible reform plan before retiring in 2014, and it's really embarrassing to watch.
" A welcome move The ruling opened with the lines "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness... it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness," from Charles Dickens' "A Tale of Two Cities.
In recent years, I've made two main observations from several public speeches: smart nations, corporations, communities, families and individuals impose self-discipline — especially financially — during the best of times to prepare for the worst of times; and, underneath the glowing national economic indicators of strong GDP growth, modest wage increases and record-low unemployment, America's counties were oddly enough confronting record high, crushing demands on our safety net services.
If the post-recession farm-to-table craze of the last decade brought a return to homier desserts — particularly at bakeries like Christina Tosi's Milk Bar (there are now 15 across North America), where layer cakes and pies are built as much from whimsy as sugar — it also introduced rising labor and operating costs that have made restaurants' margins, punishing in the best of times, even less accommodating to the pastry chef.
Even now, I'm actually surprised that seeing Kesha in person was so emotional for me that day; I had already been to her Myspace Secret Show in February 2010, where my face was practically shoved into her vagina by the mosh pit's tussle while I severely panicked that the drawing pins I'd used to create a $ sign on my homemade shirt would stab me—ah yes, it was the best of times, it was the glitteriest of times.

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