IN the early 1990s, Powder magazine, the proudly die-hard ski rag that has weaned countless future ski bums, published an article in which the author spoke of a mystical ski area of unprecedented off-piste challenge.
Reflecting the fear of party splits, Lynn Nofziger, a Republican wise man, recently wrote that the effect of the religious right's activism could be "an unprecedented off-year congressional victory for the Democrats this fall, and maybe even the election of a new Democratic president in 2000 .Mr Nofziger is not alone.
Just before the lunar new year the government announced unprecedented one-off payments totalling 9.7 billion yuan to 74m people living close to the poverty line.
As a beekeeper, I was excited by your report of a new study identifying viral and fungal pathogens as the likely causes of colony collapse disorder, or C.C.D., the widespread and seemingly unprecedented die-off of honeybees in the United States and many other parts of the world since 2006.
The country's only daily newspaper, the Herald, a slavish mouthpiece for Mr Mugabe, conceded that he might face an unprecedented run-off, required within the next three weeks if no candidate won more than 50% of the vote in the first round.
Right now, a catastrophe of this scope seems like an unprecedented, one-off event.
It's not like we found a vaccination". .
Right whales are currently experiencing what has been called a "unprecedented die-off"—only a little over 500 of the whales are left and they are one of the most endangered of all the large whales.
The Chicago mayor's race went to an unprecedented run-off when well-funded Emanuel, mayor since 2011, failed to clinch the 50percentt of the vote he needed for an outright win on Feb. 24.
White band disease (WBD), in particular, has transformed Caribbean reefs by causing an unprecedented die-off of the two dominant shallow-water Caribbean corals, the staghorn coral (Acropora cervicornis) and the elkhorn coral (A. palmata).
History shows that a jump in turnout among young people would be unprecedented in an off-year election.
