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.
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?
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
What's more, while the company was rather insistent that songs couldn't be streamed to multiple devices at the same time, it seems that Google's system of checks and balances is spotty at best -- we were able to simultaneously stream tunes to three devices without so much as a hiccup.
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He's sometimes gone days without getting so much as a bite, even as 5-pound bass--considered trophies in most places--breach the water all around his boat.
Governments will thus walk a tightrope in 2011, trying to show enough budget discipline to reassure the markets without doing so much as to damage their recoveries.
The biggest issues in my mind are the lack of willingness in these Northeast States to get natural gas and refined product pipelines built so they are not so dependent upon refined products for heating and they can get refined products delviered without as much trucking or barging.
Control-room operators, in a mock-up of a real off-shore control room, can be trained to deal with a range of tricky situations including explosions, leaks of poisonous gas and oil-well blow-outs, without the risk of so much as a scratch.
Teaching was a topic to which Peter Drucker returned often, in part because, without quite saying as much, he found it to be so complex and vexing.
We might find that Steve Jobs banishment from Apple when he was 30, and seeing Gil Amelio and others almost kill his baby was the seminal experience that helped him spend so much time planning how to help his company to succeed without him as the leader.
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The tiny Massachusetts island is compact enough so that visitors do not need a car and most arrive without one, yet it creates the illusion of being much bigger since so much is preserved as protected natural space.
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