"It is that thing that is so distant, it's the pinnacle, it's the apex, to be able to celebrate same love.
Anwar's long-running legal battle over a sodomy charge – brought against him by a former aide in 2008 – ended on Tuesday, when he was jailed for five years by Malaysia's apex federal court.
Runner-up: Bizarre for the sheer editorial absurdity that the most watched televisual spectacle of the millennium would need to be modified for its audience, Grazia's royal wedding cover featured what most would consider Photoshop's apex of pointlessness: a slimmer Kate Middleton.
I did, however, regard them as mementoes of an apex in my professional life, unlikely to be exceeded.
The only adequate response to the crisis is a fundamental questioning of the closed, hierarchical power system of which the pope himself is the apex and the embodiment.
And among the header-practitioners of today, none captures the idea of what it means to be short and more efficient as a footballer at the apex of the body than its base – to be, in effect, a footballer in name only – better than Tim Cahill.
The pointed ends of the leaves meet at the apex of what is basically a cone-shaped device, and the wings are held in place relative to one another by a flexible carbon-fibre ring that connects them.
Analysts at Morgan Stanley, an investment bank, believe that this is the year in which the country's consumption and production will reach its apex, to decline gently thereafter (see chart).
Mr Zhou was also a member of the Politburo's standing committee, the then nine-member apex of party power.
The single currency is a monetary union with the European Central Bank (ECB) at its apex; the gold standard had no such institution.
