How To Use By no means In A Sentence

  • Fox relied heavily on the strength of his personal image as a caudillo, which is by no means a new phenomenon in Mexican politics.
  • It was a responsible situation he felt for a boy of thirteen, and he meant to do his very best to keep it now that he had been lucky enough to get it; in the far-off future, too, he saw himself no longer the van-boy, but in the proud position now occupied by Joshua as driver, and this he considered, though a lofty, was by no means an unreasonable ambition. Our Frank and other stories
  • He perceived that many forms had been subjected to what he calls degeneration, or, as we say, modification, and that the progress from the simple to the complex was by no means direct. Lamarck, the Founder of Evolution His Life and Work
  • However, the same writer made a poem on the tricks of countryfolk, which is by no means devoid of merit. The memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt
  • Whether or not delegates were so tightly bound by their constituents and the record is by no means clear, they acted as if they were, holding firmly to their preconvention positions. Ratification
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  • The most striking but by no means the only instances are the hole cut in a page of his novel Albert Angelo and the presentation, in The Unfortunates, of a box containing a bundle of unbound gatherings to be read in random order.
  • His was by no means the only example of academicians' pettiness.
  • Copper produces a reddish tinge, which is by no means unpleasant compared with the dazzling whiteness of the nickel deposit. Scientific American Supplement, No. 586, March 26, 1887
  • It can also - though by no means always - result in a similar egotism and aggression.
  • This notion of the singularity is the most popular (although by no means the only) current theory. Think Progress » Cheney: If You Don’t Support Everything I Do, You Aren’t Serious About Terrorism
  • But Stevie is by no means the only disabled performer strutting his stuff at the festival this year.
  • That was by no means forthcoming and on 23 August 1990 the respondent issued an originating summons in the High Court seeking possession.
  • The massive petty crime is implements under the ethyl alcohol function, this by no means coincidence.
  • However, this was by no means the case, even before liberal reforms were initiated.
  • Fair warning: The site is by no means complete or foolproof, so you should always cross-check by going to the source. TOSBack Monitors Terms Of Service Changes To Google And 45 Others | Lifehacker Australia
  • Yet height and niceness are by no means the most vital ingredients in an effective and productive boss. Times, Sunday Times
  • In a country with about 350,000 churches, such arson attacks are by no means uncommon. Times, Sunday Times
  • Quotables: She is by no means a literary genius …. .her excessive use of the word 'glower' ... Evil Beet Gossip
  • Carne (who had taken most kindly to the fortune which made him an untrue Englishman) clapped his breast with both hands; not proudly, as a Frenchman does, nor yet with that abashment and contempt of demonstration which make a true Briton very clumsy in such doings; while Daniel Tugwell, being very solid, and by no means “emotional” — as people call it nowadays — was looking at him, to the utmost of his power Springhaven
  • And indeed, though truly the most pithecoid of known human skulls, the Neanderthal cranium is by no means so isolated as it appears to be at first, but forms, in reality, the extreme term of a series leading gradually from it to the highest and best developed of human crania. Essays
  • Aggression is by no means a male-only trait.
  • But, as a rule, the form, which is French form in language (by no means always certainly or probably French in nationality of author), is not only the original, but better; and besides, it is with it that we are busied here, though in not a few cases English readers can obtain an idea, fairly sufficient, of these originals from the English versions. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800
  • This is by no means the only matter that manages to madden him.
  • By no means should a diplomatic plane with the president be diverted from its route and forced to land in another country. Times, Sunday Times
  • Widow Precious had plenty of sharp sense to tell her that her children were by no means “pretty dears” to anybody but herself, and to herself only when in a very soft state of mind; at other times they were but three gew-mouthed lasses, and two looby loons with teeth enough for crunching up the dripping-pan. Mary Anerley
  • Football is often a particularly egregious example of human reason gone wrong but it is by no means alone. Times, Sunday Times
  • This proposal is by no means a sure thing.
  • Second, it is clear that we sometimes ‘want what we by no means want to want’: our bodies react with pleasure and desire independently of our wills.
  • Dividend pay-outs and share buy-backs are by no means antithetical to business investment.
  • Though the pathological conditions of hydrophobia and serpent poisoning are by no means parallel, the _rationale_ of the methods employed in opening the emunctories of the skin are the same; and were it not for its powerful protracting effect and depressing action upon the heart, we might perhaps secure valuable aid from jaborandi Scientific American Supplement, No. 421, January 26, 1884
  • I saw it last week, and enjoyed it, but it's by no means even close to being the best film of 2002.
  • In some (but by no means all) species of marsupials, females develop a pouch or marsupium in which the young are nursed.
  • It was by no means a full appreciation of the situation, nor did I offer long-term solutions.
  • This list is by no means exhaustive and is limited only by the boundaries of technology and creativity.
  • These considerations are tied to his view that the post-conciliar liturgical reform should by no means be considered now as a process that is concluded. Roman Professor, Priest and member of Papal Liturgical Office speaks on Benedict's New Liturgical Movement
  • Fine and settled weather in October is by no means uncommon in Scotland. Times, Sunday Times
  • Two of the commitments reflect strong personal interests that were by no means uncommon in his day. The Times Literary Supplement
  • This is by no means an unbiased book, which makes it a delight to dip into casually. Times, Sunday Times
  • She is nevertheless by no means a drinker, and one weak drink usually lasts several hours.
  • Morren, as previously remarked, gave the name "Solenaidie" to tubular deformities affecting the stamens, a term which has not been generally adopted; the deformity in question is by no means of uncommon occurrence in some double or partially pelorised flowers, as _Antirrhinum_, Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
  • We need to remember, however, that inaccuracy by no means connotes inveracity. An Ethical Problem Or, Sidelights upon Scientific Experimentation on Man and Animals
  • Fine and settled weather in October is by no means uncommon in Scotland. Times, Sunday Times
  • Although this has by no means been proved, yet I cannot help calling the attention of the members of this society to a fact which I think strongly bears out the said theory: While watching a gathering of _Vaucheria_ one morning when the plant was in the gonidia-forming condition (which is usually assumed a few hours after daybreak), I observed one filament, near the end of which a septum had formed precisely as in the case of ordinary filaments about to develop a spore. Scientific American Supplement, No. 460, October 25, 1884
  • A gentle smile, decorous as the presence required, passed over the assembly, at a feat which, though by no means wonderful in a hyperborean, seemed prodigious in the estimation of the moderate Greeks. Count Robert of Paris
  • Moving between industry and consulting is by no means a one-way street. Times, Sunday Times
  • He had been so often on the very point of getting his liberty, and still the cup was dashed from his lips. that I had promised to set him free, whenever he could precure an able negro as his substitute; although being a good workman, a single negro was by no means an adequate price in exchange. Journal of a Residence among the Negroes in the West Indies
  • This is by no means an easy thing to accomplish; nothing of real esoteric value ever is easy to attain.
  • Empedocles, and others, to prove there must be something self-existent and eternal, or in other words, "that nothing which once was not can ever of itself come into being," he uses it to disprove a divine creation, and even presents the maxim in an altered form -- viz., "nothing is ever _divinely_ generated from nothing;" [787] and he thence concludes that the world was by no means made for us by _divine_ power. [ Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles
  • By no means is it an original movie, but it is a well constructed one that often rises above its stupendous flaws and contradictions.
  • The cult of hard-headed routine and practicality, as expressed here, was often just another form of romanticism, and by no means always the most effective.
  • By no means a pleasant experience, this is a supermarket after all, but an eminently bearable one with zero stress.
  • So while the challenge facing the peace movement in south Asia is daunting, it is by no means impossibly quixotic.
  • On the other hand, although e-mail messages are faceless, they are by no means characterless.
  • This they either lick up or drink mixed with milk, and from its lees, that is the solid part, they make cakes and use them for food; for they have not many cattle, since the pastures there are by no means good. The History of Herodotus
  • Nor would they appear to be aware that the blunders committed by the censors, such as they were, were by no means confined to malapert blue-pencilling of items of information that might have appeared without disclosing anything whatever to the enemy. Experiences of a Dug-out, 1914-1918
  • Two complicating factors are that the relation between anaphors and antecedents is by no means unrestricted and that often there is a partial match between anaphor and antecedent.
  • By no means, reverend Lady; They are of a delicate pea-green with flame-coloured hair and whiskers.’ The Monk
  • Transnational migration, by no means a novel phenomenon, is also a prominent feature of many communities.
  • But the botanist that is desirous of wiping off this aspersion should be by no means content with a list of names; he should study plants philosophically, should investigate the laws of vegetation, should examine the powers and virtues of efficacious herbs, should promote their cultivation; and graft the gardener, the planter, and the husbandman, on the phytologist. The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 2
  • By no means should a diplomatic plane with the president be diverted from its route and forced to land in another country. Times, Sunday Times
  • “True, she is no longer young, and even rather elderly, as well as by no means good-looking; but as for loving a mere featherhead, a mere beauty — well, I never could understand that, for it is such a silly thing to do.” Youth
  • He was by no means the only man of letters of his time who had to submit to something like persecution.
  • Although such a case is rare, it is by no means unique.
  • The inquiry is by no means cut and dried.
  • It was by no means the last type of association to detach itself from the state by such a process of abstraction.
  • Some of the material will be familiar to readers who have kept up with this debate, but this volume is by no means a recapitulation of debates now worn threadbare by constant worrying.
  • Of much greater practical significance, and by no means obsolete, is the power to punish for contempt.
  • In capitalist society: The development of the productive forces is by no means a smoothly rising curve.
  • The words _nahal_ and _nahala_, inherit and inheritance, by no means necessarily signify _articles of property_. The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus
  • London ones, though by no means so abominable even, one's company here being mainly God's sky and earth, not cockneydom with its slums, enchanted aperies and infernalries. Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle
  • At the Eaux Bonnes, our female attendant wore her red-peaked _capeline_ in the house, which had a singular effect, but was by no means pretty: indeed, the only impression it gives me is, that it is precisely the costume which seems to suit _a daunce o 'witches_; and cannot by possibility be softened into anything in the least pleasing to the eye. Béarn and the Pyrenees A Legendary Tour to the Country of Henri Quatre
  • Football is often a particularly egregious example of human reason gone wrong but it is by no means alone. Times, Sunday Times
  • These poets by no means offer up religious tracts, but do often engage in the arguments attendant to modes of belief, the debate that basic mortality serves up daily in our uncertain skin.
  • Such loyalty is by no means automatic or the inevitable consequence of propinquity.
  • But Detroit’s transition to greener automaking is by no means assured. I may have been a posting slacker...
  • This man, of Kalmuck extraction, and hideous, even savage appearance, but the kindest-hearted creature and by no means a fool, was passionately devoted to Pasinkov, and had been his servant for ten years. The Diary of a Superfluous Man and other stories
  • We should point out that Rosenberger is by no means insensitive to the responsibilities of those dishing out satire and ridicule.
  • Although vengeance had been wreaked on the assassins in Edinburgh, that was still by no means the main administrative centre.
  • Though the opposition was by no means in the same class, the context and quality of his innings was reminiscent of his solo stands against the Australians six seasons ago - the indisputable apex of his career.
  • These truths were by no means self - evident when Galileo first suggested them.
  • The roast partridge on borlotti beans was correctly brought and by no means terrible. Times, Sunday Times
  • An hour and a half was spent washing down; for along with many coloured polypi, from corals, shells and insects, the big cable brings up much mud and rust, and makes a fishy smell by no means pleasant: the bottom seems to teem with life. — Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin
  • Now these recent weather conditions are by no means a freak event, and if salmon farms cannot prevent their fish escaping into the wild then the licence to farm should be withdrawn.
  • In a country with about 350,000 churches, such arson attacks are by no means uncommon. Times, Sunday Times
  • Some share may also have been contributed by the Platonic notion of the "grossness" or "bruteness" of tangible matter, -- a notion which has survived in Christian theology, and which educated men of the present day have by no means universally outgrown. The Unseen World, and Other Essays
  • Open for non-residents, the restaurant is one of Cornwall's finest - and by no means the most expensive.
  • The idea of a philosophical exposition of the human passions was by no means new.
  • But although it is by no means perfect, I think that my knowledge of these problems and of their imminent issues is sufficiently intimate to justify me in making a prophecy -- namely, that unless the native and other questions of South-Eastern Africa are treated with more honest intelligence, and on a more settled plan than it has hitherto been thought necessary to apply to them, the British taxpayer will find that he has _by no means_ heard the last of that country and its wars. Cetywayo and his White Neighbours Remarks on Recent Events in Zululand, Natal, and the Transvaal
  • The virus is by no means the exclusive preserve of cocaine and other drug users. Times, Sunday Times
  • By no means those who encourage cut-throat competition between national firms at home. After Thatcher
  • But it was by no means an easy game as Ayr gave no quarter.
  • Alternatively, you may be able to make greater returns from investing your capital, but this is by no means certain.
  • The Remi succeeded to their place, and, as it was perceived that they equaled the Aedui in favor with Caesar, those, who on account of their old animosities could by no means coalesce with the Aedui, consigned themselves in clientship to the Remi. Caesar's Commentaries on the Gallic and Civil Wars: with the Supplementary Books attributed to Hirtius.
  • As delicious as it was, it was by no means a filling dish.
  • While they were by no means rich music hall provided the Chaplins with a comfortable living.
  • This is by no means an attempt to negate the faults, hypocrisies and deviations of the American system.
  • The individual members of this particular community are by no means all wonderfully multifaceted, but they are at least inconstant, generous and judgmental, visionary and blinkered, capable of extreme kindness and gross inhumanity.
  • Now, of course, there are a number of poets, by no means uninfluential, who read Chinese and Japanese and who are philosophically Buddhist or Taoist or both.
  • These heavy goods are by no means the only desirable objects. The Times Literary Supplement
  • As to Madame de S **, I am by no means bound to be her beadsman -- she was always more civil to me in person than during my absence. Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 5 (of 6) With His Letters and Journals
  • Poverty is by no means something to be looked down upon, especially when one is earning a living through honest labour.
  • The cocaine habit may be cultivated as easily as the alcohol habit, and the two forms of disease, alcoholism and cocainism, are by no means rare. Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say
  • I was distracted from my thoughts by the clumping of male feet on the stairs, accompanied by snorts and that peculiarly Scottish sort of giggling usually depicted in print-but by no means adequately-as "Heuch, heuch, heuch! A Breath of Snow and Ashes
  • Boulanger's delight, while Isidore on donning the new made, and by no means unornamental moccasins, declared that nothing could be more comfortable, and that he felt able to accomplish any journey that the guide might think fit to lay out for the day. The King's Warrant A Story of Old and New France
  • The Jesus who heals the sick people is by no means described as someone who fulfils a pre-established programme.
  • The legitimacy of local government was also occasionally called into question in the late 1980s and 1990s, though again by no means without precedent.
  • I did not know that upon the hot stream beside which you found me, a certain woman, by no means so powerful as myself, not being immortal, had cast what you call a spell -- which is merely the setting in motion of a force as natural as any other, but operating primarily in a region beyond the ken of the mortal who makes use of the force. Lilith, a romance
  • Volcanic scenery is by no means confined to what we call the volcanic national parks. The Book of the National Parks
  • By no means should a diplomatic plane with the president be diverted from its route and forced to land in another country. Times, Sunday Times
  • Another Instance of the strange _loosening_ nature of a violent jarring Motion, or a strong and nimble vibrative one, we may have from a piece of _iron_ grated on very strongly with a _file_: for if into that a pin _screw'd_ so firm and hard, that though it has a convenient head to it, yet it can by no means be _unscrew'd_ by the fingers; if, I say, you attempt to unscrew this whilst _grated on by the file_, it will be found to undoe and turn very _easily_. Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon
  • The state was by no means a constituent part of the productive relations, which economic theory has been called upon to study.
  • So while he was credited with the intention of bringing out Stabat Mater waltzes -- by no means a difficult feat with Rossini's work -- and a Dead March gallopade, we must never forget that he was the first conductor to introduce symphonic music to the masses and the authentic pioneer of the movement which Sir Henry Wood has carried on at the Queen's Hall for the last twenty years and more. Mr. Punch`s history of modern England, Volume I -- 1841-1857
  • Ockham's contributions were by no means the only factor in the increasing mathematization of science in the fourteenth century. William of Ockham
  • If the attack really was the result of a spur-of-the-moment misunderstanding or overreaction, this is by no means good news for the risk profile of the Korean peninsula.
  • This is by no means strange and alien terrain for the Bank of England.
  • As for a temporary faintness, that is by no means outside our experience. Lady Good-for-Nothing
  • Many a sheep had been there ingulfed, and never saluted by her lambs again; and although a lawyer by no means is a sheep (except in his clothing, and his eyes perhaps), yet his doings appear upon the skin thereof, and enhance its value more than drugs of Tyre. Mary Anerley
  • By no means is this book comprehensive, though it may be the most teachable book available on the economic importance of the recent American aerospace industry.
  • By no means, say I. It is perfectly vindicable orthography.
  • In the year in which we live -- and it is sometimes necessary to remind the austerer critic that we always live in the present -- there are a hundred books, of poetry, of essays, of biography, of fiction, which are by no means of the first rank and yet are highly important, if only as news of what the world, in our present, is thinking and feeling. Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism
  • Mexico. 11 The language of Nootka is by no means harsh or disagreeable; for it abounds, upon the whole, rather with what may be called labial and dental, than with guttural sounds. Narrative of the Voyages Round The World, Performed by Captain James Cook
  • I am by no means an expert on coins but I have uncovered frauds in other spheres, bzw the fake Rodin and Remington bronzes which I exposed some years ago. NCS Conserves Coins Recovered from the Steamship New York : Coin Collecting News
  • From passages such as the ones we have just quoted one might infer that he was an interactionist who thought that there are causal interactions between events in the body and events in the soul, but this is by no means the only interpretation that has been put forward. Descartes and the Pineal Gland
  • Liputin's teeth are by no means the only things that hang by a thread.
  • More touristy but by no means inferior is the string of quayside restaurants serving up classic Italian and French dishes. The Sun
  • This shows that violent sabotage is by no means unknown in the passenger ferry industry.
  • This degree of inequality was by no means true of all Victorian marriages.
  • Although by no means a cure, it goes a long way towards making the patient's life more tolerable.
  • And in so far as strangeness in the form of novelty is not intrinsically valuated as positive or negative, does not automatically accrue a boulomaic modality of "should have happened" or "should not have happened", it is by no means unfair or inaccurate to say that the SF narrative is capable of exhibiting an entirely different narrative grammar to any of those outlined above. Archive 2008-01-01
  • By no means the most beguiling feature about this outstanding car, but a unique offer that could be a trend setter.
  • Even researchers who have found that pot use has long-term detrimental effects, like the link to psychosis that was announced earlier this week, tend to qualify their statements by noting that the link is "by no means simple" and arguing that we need a lot more research. Fake-Pot Panic
  • I am keeping my food down and this has led to my weight remaining constant, although by no means ideal.
  • Besides, there remained some who, after the conflict at Culloden was over, could even view the enterprise as having been by no means unauspicious. Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume III.
  • This is, by no means, a comprehensive guide to winterizing your boat.
  • As the Devil is ordinarily by no means wanting in shrewdness, the omission might perhaps be set down to his credit on the score of charity, but for his abominable taste in matters of diabolical vertûe, as shown by his penchant for sanguinary signatures to all compacts and bonds for bad behavior made with or exacted by him, in the course of his "regular dealings" with mankind, and hence it must be considered a clear case of ignorance or oversight, that this test, compared to which there is toleration for boils even, was not applied. Life in the Rocky Mountains
  • The new technology was satisfactory under test conditions but was by no means uniformly beneficial. Science, Technology, and Social Change
  • The regimes under which nationalised industries function are by no means the only examples of vertical devolution under the United Kingdom constitution at present.
  • The cult of hard-headed routine and practicality, as expressed here, was often just another form of romanticism, and by no means always the most effective.
  • That's by no means a defeatist attitude, it's realistic - although every now and again a shock happens.
  • Dr.H. G. H.rrison by no means overstates the case when he says that the development of the heddle is the most important step in the evolution of the loom (H.rniman Museum H.ndbooks, No. 10, pp. 47-49). Ancient Egyptian and Greek Looms
  • sworde of metal keane" a useless encumbrance, 168 miles from the last water, and not knowing where the next might be; he would have to admit that the wonderful beasts which now alone remained to us were by no means to be accounted "meane," for these patient and enduring creatures, which were still alive, had tasted no water since leaving Australia Twice Traversed, Illustrated,
  • But literature, I warn them (contrast Sartre and Camus here), is about people, not ideas, and the novel at hand is just that, a novel, an attempt to let us inside one man's head, and by no means a primer in existentialism. The Familiar Stranger
  • Contrary to stereotypical images of Muslim women in Arab-Muslim societies, peacebuilding is by no means an exclusive male prerogative or male-dominated field. Qamar-ul Huda, Ph.D.: Where's the Dove? Peacebuilding and Conflict Resolution in Islam
  • This is by no means in the danger zone, but performance freaks may say bah!
  • Although the picture painted here is a pessimistic one, despair or fatalism is by no means called for. Macrosociology: An Introduction to Human Societies
  • Descent in the female line, not uncommonly found among primitive peoples, undoubtedly tended to place women in a position of great influence; but it by no means necessarily involved any gynecocracy, or rule of women, and such rule is merely a hypothesis which by some enthusiasts has been carried to absurd lengths. Essays in War-Time Further Studies in the Task of Social Hygiene
  • By no means am I insisting that these three paintings literally constitute a triptych, religious or otherwise.
  • I fail these exams, and it is by no means an easy out.
  • My assertion is by no means groundless if we take into account our 1.3 billion population and per capita arable land.
  • “You should never let those troubles touch you so closely,” said his lordship, whose own withers at this moment were by no means unwrung. The American Senator
  • But if any one going, would call godlike Ajax, and king Idomeneus; for their ships are the farthest off, [343] and by no means near at hand. The Iliad of Homer (1873)
  • This, though a plentiful, and by no means unwholesome fare for growing boys, was not what he had been accustomed to, and feeling far too heavy and unwell after it to venture upon an encounter with the Doctor, he wandered slow and melancholy round the bare gravelled playground during the half-hour after dinner devoted to the inevitable "chevy," until the Vice Versa or A Lesson to Fathers
  • Parts of these ideas had appeared in prior films as well - Videodrome is by no means the origin of Cronenberg's dalliances with these concepts.
  • Furthermore, there are good grounds for assuming that the distinction between sentence processing and discourse processing is by no means a clear one.
  • Such texts are by no means a straightforward reflection of the actual behaviour of ordinary sinners, but they do reveal a lot about the aims and perceptions of those trying to build a Christian society.
  • Like the people of Southern Europe, the Semite is easily managed by a jest: though grave and thoughtful, he is by no means deficient in the sly wit which we call humour, and the solemn gravity of his words contrasts amusingly with his ideas. Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah
  • That form of male vanity is by no means absent from the seafaring tribe today.
  • Transnational migration, by no means a novel phenomenon, is also a prominent feature of many communities.
  • Such now familiar terms as Orientalism and primitivism, while they mark the beginning of a consensus, are by no means completely defined or delimited.
  • Carmine in ammonia is not the only solution that may aid science in the investigations now being carried forward by the vitalists and non-vitalists with so much bitterness and asperity of feeling between them; and now that Professor Beale has made _his_ happy discovery, it is by no means certain that some other equally persistent worker in this interesting field of inquiry may not hit upon quite as happy a discovery in the same or some equivalent direction -- one that shall throw the bioplasmic theory as far into the shade as Mr. Cook thinks the bioplasts have already thrown the cells. Life: Its True Genesis
  • Philip, at whose request he had come, had charged him by no means to divulge the secret, as the King was anxious to have it believed that the ostensible was the only business which the prelate had to perform in the country. The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Complete (1555-66)
  • Laboratory life may seem austerely clean and clinical, but it is by no means genteel.
  • It is by no means an entirely cloistered existence.
  • Thus, "We know that this statement" (about the almost blotless lines) "is ridiculous; that if the players had any unblotted manuscripts in their hands (which is by no means probable) they were merely fair copies ... Shakespeare, Bacon, and the Great Unknown
  • Lenin's word was by no means accepted as holy writ.
  • The turmoil of the past few years by no means mitigates the explosion of prosperity that has taken place since the early 1980s, when President Ronald Reagan enacted promarket reforms to free the economy from the Carter-Nixon stagnation of the 1970s. How Capitalism Will Save Us
  • Even within the domain of reproducible products, quantity of labour is by no means the only determinant of price.
  • This obsession with "localness" - and the Liberal Democrats are by no means the only party it afflicts - is one of the factors that is leaching all meaninful contact from British politics and thus disaffecting the voters. Archive 2008-06-01
  • Though her husband lacked the expertise in her subject he by no means lacked the interest. Times, Sunday Times
  • This is by no means an exhaustive list - but it clearly shows that there's no such thing as a risk-free summer.
  • Putting aside for a moment that it's primarily non-verbal, so by nature it defies verbal explanation, but I'm also by no means as adept as I intend to be.
  • These truths were by no means self - evident when Galileo first suggested them.
  • Their number is by no means large, and they all consist of mixtures in variable proportions of quartz, felspar, mica, hornblende, augite, and zeolites. Elements of Agricultural Chemistry
  • It is by no means certain, however, that a ceasefire will lead to renewal of the peace process - or even take hold.
  • Although useful, the accessories are by no means essential.
  • [82] How the cosmoramic effects here described were represented on the stage, it is difficult to say, but such descriptions are by no means rare in the poets. Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound and the Seven Against Thebes
  • By no means are cowboys the only great thing about these United States.
  • The first decennia after the return of the exiles, during which they were occupied in adjusting themselves to their new homes, were passed under a variety of adverse circumstances and by no means either in joyousness or security. Prolegomena
  • Furthermore, there are good grounds for assuming that the distinction between sentence processing and discourse processing is by no means a clear one.
  • “As to Madame de S **, I am by no means bound to be her beadsman ” she was always more civil to me in person than during my absence. Life of Lord Byron With His Letters And Journals
  • This is by no means an unbiased book, which makes it a delight to dip into casually. Times, Sunday Times
  • Religious believers are not morally superior. Nonbelievers are by no means amoral. Dr T.P.Chia 
  • Certainly, therefore, anger, and the like affections, can by no means be ascribed to the infinitely perfect God in the proper and usual acceptation of the words, but only by an anthropopathy; attributing that to God, which bears some analogy and proportion to what we find in men. Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. V.
  • The regimes under which nationalised industries function are by no means the only examples of vertical devolution under the United Kingdom constitution at present.
  • They are by no means confined to matters of administration. Times, Sunday Times
  • Although this so-called continuous speech-recognition approach has indeed improved accuracy, it is by no means infallible.
  • If a thing were never perceived, or inferred from perception, we should indeed never know that it existed; but once perceived or inferred it may be more conducive to comprehension and practical competence to regard it as existing independently of our perception; and our ability to make this supposition is registered in the difference between the two words _to be_ and _to be perceived_ -- words which are by no means synonymous but designate two very different relations of things in thought. The Life of Reason
  • The regimes under which nationalised industries function are by no means the only examples of vertical devolution under the United Kingdom constitution at present.
  • Yet height and niceness are by no means the most vital ingredients in an effective and productive boss. Times, Sunday Times
  • Lip-reading is by no means as easy as it sounds. Times, Sunday Times
  • Talk radio and talk television hosts, mostly but by no means all conservative, are proliferating and gaining influence and popularity.
  • 'More systematic,' -- and yet by no means are the lines laid down and the plan marked out; there is no cartography of cosmogenesis; ... but seeds of meditation are sown. The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19
  • His recommendations are estimable, but are by no means new.
  • Of course the presence of either of these defects is certainly and correctly indicated by the appearance of one or the other of the colors, under certain circumstances; but the simple visibility of prismatic color is by no means a reliable indication of over or under correction of color, and, indeed, to the honor of our opticians, it may be stated that very few objectives are made that cannot justly be called achromatic in the general sense of the term. Scientific American Supplement, No. 561, October 2, 1886
  • One may cite in this context the by no means exceptional example of the seventeenth-century antiquary Simonds D' Ewes, who had crammed his notebooks with no less than 2,850 Latin and Greek verses by the time he left grammar school!
  • The appeal of such romantic drama, of course, is by no means confined to Australia.
  • Those sentiments of love, which fathers and mothers have for their children -- those feelings of affection, which children, with good inclinations, bear towards their parents, are by no means _innate sentiments_; they are nothing more, than the effect of experience, of reflection, of habit, in souls of sensibility. The System of Nature, Volume 1
  • She was plump-cheeked, as I've said, and under the grime by no means ill-favoured. Isabelle
  • His influence was by no means confined to England; indeed, his most receptive audience was to be found in the German states.
  • It was by no means the only downside to another deeply unsatisfactory win. Times, Sunday Times

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