This season, however, Nowitzki is scoring and rebounding at his lowest levels since his second N.B.A. season, which is to say nothing of his disappointing (and uncharacteristic) 43 percent shooting from the field.
Hurricane Katrina struck at a time, they said, when Mr. Bush was already in a weakened state, with his approval rating in many national polls at the lowest level of his presidency and his political capital in Washington diminishing.
His approval rating is at the lowest level of his presidency, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll, and only twice in the past six decades has a president delivered his annual speech to the nation in a weaker condition in the polls -- Harry S. Truman in the midst of the Korean War in 1952 and Richard M. Nixon in the throes of Watergate in 1974.
The "Muselmann" was the term for the inmate who, utterly depleted of the will to live, awaited his murder at the lowest level of racial degradation: a "staggering corpse", in Jean Améry's words, "a bundle of physical functions in its last convulsions".
He paints sitting down, bent almost double before the canvas, which he pegs at the lowest level of his easel.
He used the biologist Lewis Thomas' elaboration, which distinguishes three technological development stages in medicine so as to make his position explicit: at the lowest level, the non-technology level, where the relation between the patient and the disease is entirely understood.
Evans introduced intensive post-mission analysis to refine their technique, and permitted his pilots to bomb at the lowest level possible at which the bombsight would operate.
"Cheating at its lowest level".
Exports were at their lowest level since 1904.
Homebuilding is at its lowest level since the 1920s.
