Under no circumstances should the Congress be railroaded into acting on so vast a rewriting of the law of the land without so much as a single hearing into the implications and advisability of doing so.
But the house was deep in the country, with no other house in sight, and the children had been in London for two years, without so much as once going to the seaside even for a day by an excursion train, and so the White House seemed to them a sort of Fairy Palace set down in an Earthly Paradise.
But presto, Bob is sliding in beside her without so much as a may-I-join-you.
Often without so much as a farewell phone call to his family, he is then hanged.
The Perrys can take a week in the Bahamas without so much as packing a kit bag.
Other experiments have run for long periods of times without so much as a hint of the stuff.
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The movie is a metaphysical Cracker Jack box without so much as a shiny prize in its empty-calories depths.
Better yet, how would you like to develop a career like this without so much as a college degree?
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The debonair Mr. Rossi guided me to a table, and without so much as proffering a menu, started feeding me.
During one stretch in the second quarter, Anthony hit three three-pointers on three consecutive possessions without so much as dribbling.
Make no mistake, the market was oversold in March of last year, but 14-months without so much as a 10% pullback?
Without so much as tapping the brakes, I decelerated and made a U-turn on the empty street, going straight back to the hotel.
And why would any but the most naive Democrat unilaterally propose unpopular Medicare cuts without so much as a hint of GOP movement on revenues?
Saudi Arabia gets off most lightly of all, reducing the Shias to second-class citizens by law, without so much as a squeak from the United States.
We conquered the 15% grade of the treacherous Via Mala (literally, "bad road"), set in a narrow gorge pockmarked by fallen boulders, without so much as a whinny.
Do you remember the time when you could type sms at lightning-speed under the table on the old Nokia phone without so much as glancing at the keyboard?
Once we agree that Obama is permitted to engage in extra-judicial killings without so much as informing the public, what is our guarantee that he will not abuse that power?
Truckloads of Kurds have also flooded into Kirkuk after the Kurdish Peshmergas, backed by U.S. Special Forces, entered the city without so much as a shot fired by Iraqi defenders.
Under civil forfeiture, police and prosecutors can seize your car or other property, sell it and use the proceeds to fund agency budgets all without so much as charging you with a crime.
The professor began winning so much cash that the pit bosses eventually took to the old-school counter-measure of hastily escorting him from the premises without so much as a thank you.
What made it most amazing was that she had spoken articulately, no ums and uhs, no telepromper, no groping for words, for more than forty five minutes without so much as a note.
Soon, with seamless integration with apps like OpenTable and TeleNav, users will be able to tell Siri to book a reservation or navigate them to a restaurant without so much as glancing at their iPhones.
One woman I know was asked to chair a time-consuming major corporate initiative from which the organization would greatly profit without so much as a suggestion of pay increase or shuffling of her workload.
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Amazon.com (nasdaq: AMZN - news - people ) offers hundreds of books about dieting and hundreds more about exercise--all of which can be yours without so much as a walk to the bookstore.
The way the bill is written, the judicial process is basically circumvented, allowing websites to be shut down based on accusations of theft of intellectual property alone without so much as ever stepping foot inside a courtroom.
Some history: He is Fat Boy to some, Tough Guy to others and, to the vast majority of people who pass him by without so much as a glance, "that statue" on the corner of Queens Boulevard and Union Turnpike.
The advertisements are touching just the right nerve with independents and undecideds who, while feeling some attraction to the President, believe like most Americans that it makes no sense to allow people to accept welfare without so much as trying to find work.
But when New York needed money to keep going and Carter Burden wanted out of his 34% investment in the magazine, Murdoch swooped in to buy that stake and steal his magazine right away from Clay without so much as a second thought.
This meant that users were free to swap the CableCARD to another device without so much as a call to Verizon, and more importantly, it meant that all the content was accessible via features like TiVo To Go and Media Center Recorded TV sharing.
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Now, about that little bulge at the base of the screen... just run your fingers beneath it to liberate a built-in, lighted disc tray "without so much as a whisper" ready for DVD or CD playback -- DivX, MP3, JPEG and Video CDs all supported.
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