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Soft power be damned, Mr. Simms defines a great power in terms of its geography, population, number of nuclear weapons, size of its economy, network of military bases and resilience in the face of pain.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
“Mark Twain said there are three types of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics. This website contains all three,” Lynn Tramonte, Ohio Immigrant Alliance’s executive director, said in a statement.
From Salon ● Jul. 8, 2026
Instead, the young band just returned from dazzling audiences at Las Vegas’ Sick New World Festival and is focused on the release of its debut album — homework be damned.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 21, 2026
Nature be damned, tech entrepreneurs like Bryan Johnson are all in on biohacking.
From Barron's ● May 21, 2026
"I can't say I've played any this year. I've tried to get away, but Sundays it's always rained, and the courts are so damned crowded."
From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway
We move on to another patchwork team doing its damndest to defy the odds.
From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2024
Marvel has an extensive catalogue of characters to anoint as the next generation of Avengers; it’s also doing its damndest to make the X-Men cool again.
From Salon ● Apr. 14, 2019
Neither, it turns out, are Green Day, who do their damndest to avoid anyone seeing their "secret" NME/Radio 1 stage set on Saturday morning.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 26, 2012
One had to do with the other: The simpler the system was, the less the players had to worry about anything but trying their damndest to execute it.
From New York Times ● Feb. 4, 2012
But inaction is hard to brook, and I thought of Service's lines: Buck up, do your damndest and fight, It's the plugging away that will win you the day.
From The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 by Sir Douglas Mawson
He scored 29 points in the fourth quarter, a post-season record that still stands despite future Warriors like Stephen Curry and Kevin Durant trying their damnedest to knock it down.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 4, 2025
"It can't achieve strategic surprise but it will try its damnedest to achieve operational and tactical surprise. That will involve concealment, camouflage, deception, misinformation which they used quite successfully last autumn."
From Reuters ● Jun. 14, 2023
Bernard called it “controlled confidence,” and it looked just as much like unmitigated energy, and the whole dance reached its hilt in the damnedest sequence amid the third quarter.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 13, 2021
The first couple tried their damnedest to make life better for all, especially those mired in poverty and racial discrimination.
From New York Times ● Mar. 16, 2021
Sometimes I walk the wall with Ida, who tries her damnedest to draw me into conversation, to no avail.
From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland
