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That rarest of beers: a lager you can take in to the second act of the opera!
It is that rarest of political beasts, the lesser spotted Jon Huntsman campaign TV ad.
The bird, one of the UK's rarest , was killed with a lethal dose of the illegally held poison carbofuran on a grouse moor near Inverness in the eastern Highlands, an area notorious as one of the worst areas for golden eagle persecution.
But the violence always serves the demands of a logical, well-structured plot, and it doesn't change the fact that "Dawn" is that rarest of enterprises: a pacifist blockbuster.
Daniel Bell, a liberal sociologist, described him as that rarest of creatures: an economist with a tragic sense of life.Schumpeter is best remembered today for "Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy", published in 1942.
FREDERIC BASTIAT, who was that rarest of creatures, a French free-market economist, wrote to this newspaper in 1846 to express a noble and romantic hope: "May all the nations soon throw down the barriers which separate them".
Mr Lincoln, by a rare combination of qualities patience, sagacity, and honesty by a still more rare sympathy, not with the best of his nation but the best average of his nation, and by a moderation rarest of all, had attained such vast moral authority that he could make all the hundred wheels of the Constitution move in one direction without exerting any physical force.
On June 17th Sotheby's will hold its first London sale of bonsai for nearly 100 years, with the rarest of the miniature trees expected to fetch £50,000 ($80,000).
Yet India (like much of South Asia) has largely given up executing people, even as some 400 convicts languish on death row.Indian law permits executions only in the "rarest of rare" cases, such as Mr Kasab's.
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RSPB negotiators expressed their fears about the long-term implications: if nests of one of the rarest breeding birds in England were removed and the chicks reared in captivity, which rare species would landowners want to control next?
The Last Unicorn: A Search for One of Earth's Rarest Creatures by William deBuys [368 pages, Little, Brown US; 2015; Guardian Bookshop; Amazon UK hardcover/paperback/Kindle UK; Amazon US hardcover/paperback/audio download/Kindle] Publisher's synopsis: An award-winning author's stirring quest to find and understand an elusive and exceptionally rare species in the heart of Southeast Asia's jungles.
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The word "rarest" functions as a superlative adjective , modifying a noun to indicate that it is the least common or most infrequent of its kind. As Ludwig AI confirms, it's used to describe things that are exceptionally uncommon. For instance, "the rarest species" identifies a species with minimal presence.
Expression frequency: Very common
