It is the specific test of one's devotion to freedom to help organizations whose first act if they were ever to attain power would be to abolish organizations like the American Civil Liberties Union.
"Our people must know that if they are ever to attain … any position in the civilized world," he argued, "they must forgo comfort … and fight for it; make up their minds to become something more than the hewers of wood and drawers of water".
Sure, some of you need shutting down if games are ever to attain the artistic status enjoyed by music and movies, but games are young, and growing all the time.
On the other hand, mastery of wood and bronze for military purposes reached a level during this period that was seldom, if ever, attained afterward.
Wagner's total of 252 triples is the greatest ever attained by an NL player.
At the time, the California attorney general, John Van De Kamp, was quoted in The Wall Street Journal as saying it was the "largest settlement ever attained from a health products company".
To start at the top, the highest position slaves ever attained was that of slave minister, or ministerialis.
But just as crucially, if not more so, no single bank is ever likely to attain a sufficient scale with which to satisfactorily meet domestic demand.
Here's another question that may well trigger more worry in Amstell: would his very successful comedy career be ruined if he ever attained true happiness?
The coveted job was never attained.
