But the massacre, in which at least 24 people were killed and more than 300 were wounded, was the worst instance of sectarian violence in Egypt in 60 years.
This may be the worst instance, ever, of data theft, but TJX reckons three-quarters of the stolen details were too old to be of any use to criminals.
This week's clashes in Bria were the worst instance of ethnic killing since France ended its peacekeeping mission last month, leaving security largely in the hands of the 13,000-strong UN peacekeeping force.
It was the worst instance of violence on European soil since the Second World War, the culmination of a conflict that stretched back to the dissolution of Yugoslavia, a few years earlier, and that had its roots in the fourteenth-century Ottoman invasion that brought Islam to Serbia.
While I totally agree that it was the worst instance of industrialized mass murder in history…I'm very wary of using that as grounds because it strikes me as weak place to think from.
Why were the worst instances of incompetence reserved for murder cases when these were precisely the ones where most care ought to have been taken?
Dr. Carroll said that while it was not the worst instance of bias he had seen, he wrote a 13-page letter about the program, listing 26 problems.
The upper bound given in (31) can be considered the worst instance of the worst-case scenarios.
He has long complained that the North American Free Trade Agreement, or NAFTA, for instance, is "the worst trade deal maybe ever signed anywhere, but certainly ever signed in this country". Yet you've never heard Trump say exactly which provisions of NAFTA he dislikes or what he would change, probably because he doesn't know himself.
In this case, we're talking about a study that was actually intended to cause a negative effect in many people, and one open question is how destructive it was in the worst instances that might have occurred.
