The supreme leader, who has the ultimate word on all affairs in Iran, made the comments during a meeting with students on Monday, according to Digarban.
The sentence from which the phrase is taken - "To deride the hope of progress is the ultimate fatuity, the last word in poverty of spirit and meanness of mind" - may strike us as overelaborate and flowery in this texting and blogging age when the analogous sentiment is expressed as "Yes we can".
Back to the top It is true that Khamenei has the ultimate power and the final word in all state matters in Iran but, as previous experiences have shown, a new president can significantly change the trajectory of the country.
While there are still those for whom the large diamond solitaire is the ultimate status symbol, dealers say the word in the jewelry business right now is big and bold -- and relatively cheap.
Thus, just as the shuttle-making carpenter is guided by the weaver who has commissioned his product, so too the name-maker is an expert who, ideally at least, is guided by that ultimate expert in word use, the dialectician.
It's the ultimate in product placement, a new achievement, if that's the word, in the transformation of television into one giant commercial.
"Keep this one word in mind: betrayal," Mr. Stackhouse told the panel, "because what you're seeing in this case is the ultimate betrayal of an infantryman".
Bill Maher comments, "It's the ultimate bad word", observing that thanks to Lenny Bruce, comedy clubs have become "the freest free-speech zone" in the United States.
The ultimate piece ran at fifty-five thousand words in three consecutive issues of the magazine.
Congress trampled on free speech and the principle of equal justice under law when it sought to muzzle Legal Services lawyers, and the court's ultimate ruling should mince no words in saying so.
