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Meaning extreme meaning
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Topics extreme topics
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Simple sentences
I don't want to lose my ideas, even though some of them are a bit extreme.
Your proposal is a bit extreme.
They are the extreme cases.
The town is located in the extreme north of Japan.
That's why I have such an extreme hatred for him.
The soup-spoon is always on the extreme right.
Our teacher lives at the extreme end of the street.
Those who love too much, hate in like extreme.
His ideas are too extreme for me.
His way of thinking is a bit extreme.
He holds an extreme opinion on education.
Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil.
It's an extreme case.
Base jumping is an extreme sport.
Extreme cold covered Europe.
Mary likes the extreme cold of Alaska.
Tom likes extreme sports.
Movie subtitles
The brightness of that searchlight represents the extreme luminosity of stars and I'm gonna use this tiny marble to represent the planet.
I don't know that I feel comfortable with an extreme solution.
You'll have to expect almost ten days of extreme conditions, against forces we can't predict.
The extreme poverty.
He is the unfortunate victim of one of the commoner phobias but in an extreme form.
Forgive my presumption but I must emphasize the extreme importance of Mrs. Alison having complete quiet sleep.
Till eventually I trailed him to the most extreme outpost in Tibet.
But I say unaffectedly that it would be a grief to me to be forced to take an extreme measure.
Extreme hemachrosis.
Have you any conception of the extreme the immeasurable wealth of the Order of that time?
I don't like the idea of a gentleman of your inexperience. leaving with only ten cents in his pockets, so I took the extreme liberty, sir, of having a studio identification card. sewed into the sole of each of your boots.
In fact, what interested me most was the extreme youth of the Beldon brides.
The left wing parties should come to an agreement with those in the centre and those to the extreme left.
Convents panic. They give you Extreme Unction for a cold.
You said the weapon was thrown with extreme force.
I've worked myself up from nothing to extreme poverty. What do you say?
We now see that the stranger is capable of a furious outburst, and we'll see extreme violence, a portent of his obviously unstable and dangerous state.
Showing how the criminal's life produces such extreme nervous tension that it changes his entire mental and physical makeup.
This will be my first Extreme Unction.
Insulin shock treatment is an extreme measure, Paul. as Miss Connell pointed out when she suggested it to me, but.
One extreme or another. This morning you were at daggers drawn. And now it's absolute adoration.
Davidson had been employed for years in a position of extreme trust by the engravings department of the Bank of England.
Your arrival, on the other hand, appears to me unseemly and tasteless in the extreme.
One cannot go from one extreme to the other.
There seems to be an extreme shortage of domestic help at present.
She goes to the extreme with Scott. I mean, she tries to kill him.
YOU WILL PARDON MY INTRUSION SO EARLY IN THE DAY, BUT, UH, BEING AWARE OF MISS LIVVIE'S EXTREME POPULARITY, I THOUGHT TO CALL ON HER BEFORE SHE WENT OUT.
His trade, which may seem simple and quiet to you and I but which is instead one of the most extreme and tiring!
It represents, among other things. over 200 years of extreme discomfort.
I almost bought a white one, but it wasn't extreme enough.
And get rid of those pithy formulas that made your reputation, but that are dangerous in the extreme.
I don't want to talk like that fellow, now. We had the extreme privilege of having jackie gleason make his tv debut on our show.
They are giving him extreme unction.
You need to take extreme measures!
Corpuscle count, blood pressure, teeth, all indicate extreme old age.
I think that would be a rather extreme reaction, don't you?
News and current affairs
If you are a high-net-worth investor, a sovereign wealth fund, or a central bank, it makes perfect sense to hold a modest proportion of your portfolio in gold as a hedge against extreme events.
Greater help for these countries to escape from extreme poverty has been promised for decades but has not been delivered.
Heat waves, droughts, floods, forest fires, retreating glaciers, polluted rivers, and extreme storms buffet the planet at a dramatically rising rate, owing to human activities.
Today's mega-cities, for example, already have to confront dangerous heat waves, rising sea levels, more extreme storms, dire congestion, and air and water pollution.
First, the debts of the countries suffering from extreme poverty and illness would be forgiven entirely.
Unfortunately, Merkel's campaign is off to a rocky start, and the recent entry of Oskar Lafontaine's extreme left-wing party into the fray may necessitate the formation of a grand coalition between the Christian Democrats and the Social Democrats.
But the evictions took place in 2001, and the villagers are still living in extreme poverty.
In any case, in a world with a billion people living in extreme poverty, it would not be difficult for an altruist to appreciate that there are many ways of doing more good than renovating a concert hall for well-off music lovers.
No country can eradicate extreme poverty, combat potential pandemics, or improve nuclear security by itself.
In Bush's second term, some of the most extreme unilateralists have departed from the government, and the president has approached difficult problems like North Korea or Iran with a more multilateral approach than during his first term.
In cases of extreme rights abuses, the chance that an international criminal tribunal will ultimately sit in judgment of those principally responsible is growing, thereby becoming a deterrent to would-be tyrants elsewhere.
Such language is as extreme as any we hear today - and from a man who was shortly to become Vice President (and later President, following the assassination of William McKinley).
In these circumstances, it is not surprising that financial markets have returned to extreme volatility.
Extreme weather events such as hurricanes and typhoons are likely to increase.
But gold bugs are right to worry about whether the government will honor its commitments under more extreme circumstances.
The rhetoric applied to Israel becomes ever more extreme, and conducive to hatred.
In the Arab world, it is mainly extreme Islamists who are hijacking the young generation's wave, stealing their revolution.
If we prepare societies for more ferocious hurricanes in the future, for example, we are also helping them to cope better with today's extreme weather.
Although Djindjic was not popular, only extreme nationalists and die-hard Milosevic supporters are cheering.
For the moment, extreme nationalists and Milosevic supporters may feel triumphant.
For a farm family of five or six living on one hectare, this means extreme poverty, and for their country, it means reliance on expensive food imports, including food aid.
The other left has proved to be more extreme and erratic than many anticipated.
People have finally come to understand that anti-Americanism, born on the extreme right and fed, in Germany, for example, by the philosophy of Martin Heidegger and his acolytes, is a fixture of fascism.
Somehow, it seems, Saudi society has produced a stream of violent fanaticism that draws its inspiration from extreme religious orthodoxy.