However, and this is an evident truth, unprecedented and clearly orchestrated attempts were made to discredit our efforts to organise and host the Olympics.
Some people say that the current crisis is unprecedented, but the truth is that there were plenty of precedents, some of them of very recent vintage.
While the idea of a boxer standing before the footlights telling his life story may seem an unprecedented novelty, the truth is that pugilism and the American theater have been in bed together from the very beginning.
With this understanding, all of us need to face a simple and terrible truth, unprecedented in our nation's history: We face a presidential nominee so irredeemably unfit to serve as commander-in-chief that he poses a genuine threat to the country.
The unprecedented persecution of truth-tellers, initiated by the Bush administration and severely accelerated by the Obama administration, has been mostly ignored, while record numbers of well-meaning people are charged with serious felonies simply for letting their fellow citizens know what's going on.
Taking the simple idea at the core of his faith - forgiveness - Tutu led a brutalized nation in an unprecedented exercise in truth-telling.
It is, in truth, an unprecedented effort to identify the interest of a party with the interest of the country and, once that is accomplished, to merge the interests of two countries as if they were in no way different.
"It goes without saying that this is a false claim from a presidential candidate with an aversion to the truth and an unprecedented lack of knowledge".
The TRC's authority and resources were unprecedented in the history of truth commissions.
The truth behind this unprecedented domestic spying will never see light.
We all know there is truth to the unprecedented lengths to which Republicans have made disrupting the political process, and any possible success attributable to President Obama or his party.
