A prolonged upward movement, the extent of which is illustrated by some graphs which we print in a later column, has been built up over a series of years on the amazing and unexampled prosperity of America.
Borgia, the notorious son of Pope Alexander VI, had, as commander in chief of the papal army, sought with unexampled ruthlessness to gain control of the Papal States of Romagna and the Marches.
Behind its frontiers the country flourished in unexampled peace and prosperity.
The union was childless and was described by his biographer as a "married life…of unexampled devotion".
As a result of misguided administrative actions and unexampled severity toward his opponents, he eventually lost his authority in the south; at the end of his reign, the sultanate had begun to decline in power.
Wellington twice reached the zenith of fame with a period of unexampled odium intervening.
His funeral was the occasion for an unexampled manifestation of love and grief on the part of millions.
Even Garrison, a man of unexampled courage, could not face down a mob in Boston but had to be saved by the police.
Mass incarceration on a scale almost unexampled in human history is a fundamental fact of our country today — perhaps the fundamental fact, as slavery was the fundamental fact of 1850.
But the photographs of Cash, behind the performers, and the anecdotes about him, and the complex and moving speech his daughter Rosanne made near the end of the evening — and, four or five times, the music itself — cut through the Matrix-like atmosphere with the kind of authenticity and unexampled individuality that Johnny Cash stood for.
Ahmet has many credentials, and to him the fact that thirty years ago he recorded Negro music that was in some way unexampled and that played a part in the evolution of rock and roll and the contemporary adolescent orthodoxy is not of compelling importance.
