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- noun Alternative form of
high point .
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Examples
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When the Fourth Congress came around in 1991, the highpoint was the relaxation that allowed religious believers to join the party, although the percentage of believers who joined was not nearly as high as the number of existing members who dropped the mask of atheism and confessed that they had another faith, in addition to Marxism-Leninism.
Yoani Sanchez: Communist Party Congress To Work on Economy but Not Human Rights Yoani Sanchez 2010
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When the Fourth Congress came around in 1991, the highpoint was the relaxation that allowed religious believers to join the party, although the percentage of believers who joined was not nearly as high as the number of existing members who dropped the mask of atheism and confessed that they had another faith, in addition to Marxism-Leninism.
Yoani Sanchez: Communist Party Congress To Work on Economy but Not Human Rights Yoani Sanchez 2010
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The highpoint was the knowledge that Piers has now upped sticks to CNN to see if he can make Afghan president Hamid Karzai weep as easily as, say, Ulrika Jonsson.
The Guardian World News Stuart Heritage 2010
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Overall our American visitor felt a highpoint was the wildness of Co Antrim (the road coming out of Larne.)
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At an elevation of 4,145 feet, Black Mountain near the town of Lynch in southeastern Kentucky was the seventh "highpoint" that Zimmer has scaled since setting off earlier this month on a trip to benefit the Alzheimer's Association.
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At an elevation of 4,145 feet, Black Mountain near the town of Lynch in southeastern Kentucky was the seventh "highpoint" that Zimmer has scaled since setting off earlier this month on a trip to benefit the Alzheimer's Association.
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The netroots can make a difference in certain targeted ways, and at certain times and places, but it cannot deliver enough votes or money to be a major player at the Presidential level, and the blogs media clout is in relative terms, diminished compared to the highpoint (around 05 to early 07).
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There's plenty of good creative comedy writing here including a bizarre musical adaptation of Oliver Twist that proves a real highpoint and enough to suggest that we could well be hearing much more from these three guys in the future.
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While we are nowhere near the highpoint historically of energy cost per unit of GDP, we are moving in the wrong direction.
Steven Cohen: Congress Can't Even Change a Light Bulb Steven Cohen 2011
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I was already tired by the time I regained my highpoint of the previous day.
Training for the Big Wall Michael J. Ybarra 2011
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