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"To put it mildly, it was a surprise of my life," said Professor John Clarke, who was born in Cambridge, UK and now works at the University of California in Berkeley.

When Carina tells her that she didn’t homeschool her son for kindergarten but sent him to public school, Suzanne is mildly horrified.

Trying to get a precise figure from government officials is challenging, to put it mildly, but I understand from sources it's about £600,000.

The conference, he wrote, “underscored the movement’s vision of an America rooted in limited immigration, Christian identity and the preservation of what speakers called the nation’s traditional culture” — which is putting it very mildly.

“What’s been coming out of Washington has been — putting it mildly — very confusing,” he said.