This is superficial thinking, at best.

At best, it is a mixed record.

This is a puzzling statement at best.

Somalia s political future is uncertain at best.

To watch it wither is at best frivolous, at worst dangerous.

At best, the law is a great equalizer.

This obsession with virginity is shallow at best and deadly at worst.

And the CSF s track record is dismal at best.

Regulation is at best a partial remedy for such problems.

But Microsoft s ambiguous at best behavior is part of a pattern.

And the incentive for authors to cooperate is, at best, mixed.

This is the kind of operational intelligence that is best done at the national level.

So the near term outlook for the US economy is weak at best.

As observed following Egyptians over social media, at best the anniversary is bittersweet.

So we formed Coursera, whose goal is to take the best courses from the best instructors at the best universities and provide it to everyone around the world for free.

and the best seats in the synagogues, and the best places at feasts

At best, Russia is a potential partner in the effort to manage globalization s challenges at worst, it is a potential problem.

The results are mixed, at best.

But the Tea Party movement at its best (or in its origin) is constitutionalist.

The aurora can be seen best at this time, which is called magnetic midnight.

If a problem is not completely understood, it is probably best to provide no solution at all.

ODA has, at best, a patchy record.

Yet compliance has been patchy at best.

But at best I have mixed emotions.

But that judgment seems premature, at best.

He was best at the standing jump.

Both sides may believe that their best option at least for now is to negotiate.

But to frame the issue in this way is, at best, to engage in delusion.

At best, it is a safety valve for democracy rather than an engine of it.

Ridicule of Pangloss's theories thus ridicules Leibniz himself, and Pangloss's reasoning is silly at best.

The present report is being issued at the present time to best reflect data availability.

The present report is being issued at the present time to best reflect data availability.

These are places where water is so scarce year after year that crop production is marginal at best.

It's a perverse irony at best an utter abomination at worst.

At its best, this genre is part of America s gift to the rest of the world.

At the moment the best known Latvian player is Andris Biedriņš who plays in the NBA.

Until now, negotiations have been desultory at best.

In short, the benefits are at best small.

They can at best try to be opportunistic.

Otherwise, such reform will be cosmetic at best, and meaningless at worst.

In December 2012, she received three nominations Best Female Artist, Best Song and Best Video (for In My City ) at the World Music Awards.

But, as Princeton economist Avinash Dixit likes to say, the world is always second best at best. An approach that presumes that we can identify and directly regulate problematic behavior is unrealistic.

Quantitative easing is a blunt instrument, at best, and operates through highly circuitous and thus dubious channels.

What poor nations get out of Chinese mercantilism is, at best, temporary growth of the wrong kind.

In 2012, the region proved once again that it is truly the best at perpetrating the worst.