at the end of the day

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“How the federal government is behaving is different from how it used to behave, but at the end of the day, what we have to do is run a mistake-free, perfect election, and to open our offices and operation to everybody — especially the people who ask hard questions,” she said.

From Los Angeles Times

"At the end of the day I'm still there to play football. It's not a fashion show," he said.

From Barron's

He told me he takes "pride" in his work to ensure "the highest respect possible because at the end of the day it's somebody's loved one and you can't be too hard digging".

From BBC

But the community, said Architectural Resources Group’s MacLean, needs something solid sooner: “There are things that were lost that were special to everyone. At the end of the day people just want their community back. They want to gather again.”

From Los Angeles Times

At the end of the day she raced Masahiro home and won easily.

From Literature