Unprecedented inspections help the world verify, every day, that Iran is not building a bomb.
That generous interest-rate margin enabled the banks to make unprecedented profits, helping to restore their capital.
International cooperation on an unprecedented scale helped vaccinate children in remote or inaccessible areas, such as border territories, refugee camps and conflict zones.
These are tools with unprecedented powers that help farmers in Kenya to get the best price for their crops and traders in Hong Kong to instantaneously invest huge sums.
The Pentagon also attracted considerable attention this month for a proposed database of unprecedented scale to help in government antiterrorism efforts.
Parliament also granted Australia's defense forces unprecedented powers to help in law enforcement, including the right to enter buildings and to stop and search vehicles.
The Disasters Emergency Committee is to launch an unprecedented appeal for help from the public to tackle the Ebola crisis in west Africa, warning that a medical emergency is turning into a humanitarian catastrophe.
Several media commentators and politicians have suggested "unprecedented volatility" to help explain the defeat of first-term conservative state governments in Victoria in November and Queensland in January and the federal Coalition's troubles in the opinion polls.
