utmost extent
Example Sentences
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But with a 16-year playoff drought that has become an oversized albatross that haunts every fan, it’s a goal well worth pursuing to the utmost extent.
From Seattle Times ● May 25, 2018
"This power, like all others vested in Congress, is complete in itself, may be exercised to its utmost extent, and acknowledges no limitations, other than are prescribed in the Constitution."
From Time ● Feb. 2, 2011
Notwithstanding this mass of evidence the scholars of Werner were prepared to support his opinions to their utmost extent; maintaining, in the fulness of their faith, that even obsidian was an aqueous precipitate.
From Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology by Sir Charles Lyell
This was, at that time, the utmost extent of their conquest or war-faring progress West, and is in latitude 55.
From Voyages from Montreal Through the Continent of North America to the Frozen and Pacific Oceans in 1789 and 1793 Vol. I by Alexander Mackenzie
That there was no other alternative was due to Napoleon's imperious character, now developed to its utmost extent.
From The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. IV. (of IV.) by William Milligan Sloane
