The upper bound given in (31) can be considered the worst instance of the worst-case scenarios.
But along with the "best" there were also instances of the "worst".
The overpricing of junk is the worst instance of the increasingly upscale standards adopted by New York City's flea markets.
Take, for instance, the worst of the accidents preceding the Deepwater Horizon explosion.
Sometimes, reading serious case reviews into the worst instances of children's social care failure, I feel as if the system itself has got stuck, with the same patterns and the same mistakes repeated again and again.
And political compromise was nothing less than collaboration with the authorities -- providing information to the secret police, for instance, or becoming the worst kind of careerist.
In either case, if the estimates proved accurate, the episode would be one of the worst instances of civilian casualties in the nine-month war in Afghanistan.
If we assume that the implementation of the protocol at each InP does not involve inter-domain paths through new InPs that have not seen the given instance of the VN request, then in the worst case, with n participating InPs, each will visit all predecessors to map virtual links to inter-domain paths.
The shooting was one of the worst instances of soldier-on-soldier violence in the Iraq war.
It's short, but this video has to be one of the worst instances of bluff tech writing I've ever seen — worse than 24!
Common starlings may be sucked into aircraft jet engines, one of the worst instances of this being an incident in Boston in 1960.
