On Jan . 11 last year in an act virtually unprecedented in the history of the firm, Corzine was forced out.
The referendum commission needs to act "with unprecedented speed" in order to overcome the logistical hurdles to hold a vote.How likely is this?
Paradoxically, it was an act of unprecedented terror that put this 13-year-old suburbanite on another path to religious consciousness.
To reverse the warming would mean a new energy revolution, which would also require us to act with unprecedented global cooperation.
At the peak of the crisis, on Oct. 16, Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau invoked the War Measures Act, an unprecedented step in peacetime.
He said the administration has "spurred the entire world to act with unprecedented speed and cooperation to disrupt the financial underpinnings of terrorism".
This was an act of unprecedented brutality, a settling of scores between Assad's minority Alawite regime and Syria's Sunni Muslim majority that had dared to challenge him.
That makes his unfortunate resignation the inevitable consequence of poor administration and even poorer memory, and it probably makes things cleaner and easier for the Liberal party – but it's not really an act of unprecedented moral heroism.
Soon we may have a president who lost the popular vote, who won the electoral vote only after bitter controversy, who needs to act with unprecedented humility and discretion to avoid ripping the country apart.
(He is a very persuasive chap, by the way - I ended our conversation agreeing to buy him lunch in the near future, which he regarded as an act of unprecedented generosity on the part of a journalist).
In hours of rambling testimony and subsequent exchanges with journalists, Mr. Kohl, who was chancellor from 1982 to 1998, said the parliamentary investigation amounted to "an attempt to drag 16 good years through the mud" and an "act of unprecedented defamation".
