How To Use Even as In A Sentence

  • It found itself subjected to harsh rain it was ill equipped for, dissolving the sandstone facades of it's buildings slowly, even as the people chose not to lift their eyes and notice it.
  • Even as large numbers were reintroduced to former habitats, it was not easy to prove that they were surviving and reproducing, the true measure of the project's success.
  • Summer had faded into fall, but even as September wore on Paris still baked under a strange late heat wave that showed no sign of letting up.
  • Life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.In the depths of your hopes and desires lies your silent knowledge of the beyond; and like seeds dreaming beneath the snow, your heart dreams of spring. Trust the dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity. Kahlil Gibran 
  • He was embarrassed and even ashamed of his indiscretion, but then he realized that there was no way he could have been heard above the roar of the boisterous crowd.
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  • Even as the varsity officials maintain that the fee hike was inevitable, most students see the hike as monumental.
  • Interestingly, some jurists even asserted that judges who rely on a coerced confession in a criminal conviction are to be held liable for the wrongful conviction.
  • Even as a child I had heard what a monadnock was - a huge lump of rock rising above rolling forests, a big hunk scraped bare but still left after the icecap had gone back.
  • Even as he watched, a droplet of water dripped heavily down from a stalactite far overhead, landing in the pond with fat, lazy ripples.
  • And, relationships built upon common needs build bridges, even as bridges unmaintained may fall at any time. Rev. Earl E. Johnson: No Poverty Of Spirit
  • One fragment of her mind reeled in shock but a rational response formed even as the connection spun its thread: Of course.
  • I wanted, desperately needed for him to reach across the line that he had drawn, and so it was with dumb horror that I watched him retreat, his expression turning lawyerly even as I read the helplessness in his eyes. Dreaming in French
  • Even as home prices continued to fall industrywide and the number of new houses under construction kept sinking, Paul Saville , the chief executive of NVR Inc., received total 2010 compensation valued at nearly $31 million, according to NVR's proxy statement. NVR Pays Top Dollar
  • My unmarried survey respondents seem to understand that friendship is the basis of a good marriage even as they hold out for chemistry and thunderbolts and soulmates.
  • It is next to impossible for a fruit bat to avoid the grit, which adheres to the sticky fruit it eats as well as to the animal itself; even as a bat grooms itself, it gets a mouthful of the ash.
  • Building her account around key verbs, which she would both act out while she spoke and express in onomatopoeic rhythms and tones that (re) produced history even as she uttered it, Cufassane gave the impression that she was an expert potter even though she had never made a pot in her life. Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique
  • Companies sent production offshore even as growth returned.
  • In the end, accountability groups provide for many of the men a sense of equality with their fellows even as they serve to reify particular types of social hierarchies.
  • Even as the funeral took place, guerrillas hidden nearby fired/let off a fresh volley of machine-gun fire.
  • It is the Oporto silene (S. portensis), a curious growth, a lover of the sea-side dunes, which, though of Portuguese origin, as its name would seem to indicate, ventures inland, even as far as my part of the country, where it represents perhaps a survivor of the coastal flora of what was once a More Hunting Wasps
  • After leaving school he trained in Leven as an engineering draughtsman, then spent his National Service with the Royal Army Medical Corps in Aldershot.
  • Seven astronauts perished when hot exhaust gas leaked from one of the booster rockets, destroying the vehicle less than two minutes into the flight.
  • Preferably swathed in a scarf which can double as a belt, a bikini top - or even as a scarf.
  • Still, even as he ran to the car, dripping sweat and bleeding from the gash in his forehead, with the river already up to the wheel wells, he realized that the choices he had just made said something about who he was. Publication of 3rd place string of 10
  • So even as they mutter racist slogans, members of Siberia's Lumpenproletariat benefit from proximity to the dragon.
  • I have yet to see -- again, maybe I missed it -- anybody ask Dodd or even ask apostrophically the $218 million question, although today's Hartford Courant editorial -- ths "blogger" appreciated the shout-out -- begins to home in on it. Courant.com Blogs
  • I raise my face, even as a peach pit hits my forehead.
  • Thinking full well" makes no sense to me, not even as an archaicism. Languagehat.com: THINKING FULL WELL.
  • Even as he watched them he felt the last remnants of his love curdle and settle into thick hatred. MIDNIGHT IS A LONELY PLACE
  • These keyboard works were written mainly for the clavichord, an instrument that was on the way out; yet even as he played and wrote increasingly for the piano, he took the earlier instrument to the greatest heights.
  • I like to grow varieties of the Nantes type, which reach deep into the cultivated soil and strike a perfect balance between sweet and carroty, even as they reach maturity. Groundwork: Rooting to the last
  • Even as it soothed my heart, I had to wonder if it was a sham for my bene. THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
  • He loved to talk to youngsters and at one stage he even asked me for a reference to get into church work.
  • To morrow morning, in the fresh and gentle breath thereof, we will rise and walke to such places, as every one shall finde fittest for them, even as already this day we have done; untill due time shall summon us hither againe, to continue our discoursive The Decameron
  • Again this year, Saturday night's Harvey Awards ceremony will be emceed by "PVP" creator Scott Kurtz, who acknowledges the necessity for some event growth -- even as he's a bit nostalgic for an even smaller 'Con. BALTIMORE COMIC-CON: Has it become the supreme antidote to San Diego?
  • Their anger was a pose, and the pose made a lot of people a lot of money, even as it sneered at the commercialisation of mainstream pop and rock.
  • Even as it was carried across the room, it was clear that the crimson-red saddle of marinated venison was exceptionally succulent.
  • The seven astronauts are prepared for two weeks in orbit.
  • The sirens had sounded before the plane droned over, but for some reason the all-clear wailed even as the flares ignited. CORMORANT
  • I got there in the end thanks to the RNIB and Calibre Talking Book Libraries plus a rota of loyal readers, but the fact that none of the books I chose is currently available on UK commercial audio even as a download is depressing. Sue Arnold's audiobook choice
  • Even as the funeral took place, guerrillas hidden nearby fired/let off a fresh volley of machine-gun fire.
  • Then they returned to Dunyazad and displayed her in the fifth dress and in the sixth, which was green, when she surpassed with her loveliness the fair of the four quarters of the world and outvied, with the brightness of her countenance, the full moon at rising tide; for she was even as saith of her the poet in these couplets122: — The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • But the French like nothing better than endless discussions and over-intellectualizing, so Allen's cinematic navel-gazing never lost its luster here -- even as his films became stale and a chunk of his American audience drifted away. Beth Arnold: Letter From Paris: The Other Side of Midnight in Paris
  • At regular intervals along these walls occur little towers, for their defence, reminding one of beads strung on a rosary; the great watch-tower at the gate, with its projecting machicolation, forming the pendent cross, -- the whole serving to guard the town within from the dangers of war, even as the rosary protects the city of Mansoul from the attacks of Sin and Death -- though, sooth to say, since the invention of gunpowder and the Reformation, both the one and the other appear to have lost much of their former efficacy. Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers
  • It's not a particularly bright colour, nothing like the sunshine intensity of gorse, or a male brimstone's wings, not even as showy as the palest daffodil. Country diary: Claxton, Norfolk
  • He also gets to brag to his base about that victory, even as he demoralizes conservative voters. The Real GOP Debt Choice
  • Life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.In the depths of your hopes and desires lies your silent knowledge of the beyond; and like seeds dreaming beneath the snow, your heart dreams of spring. Trust the dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity. Kahlil Gibran 
  • Even as a young woman she had been perceived as a future chief executive.
  • For know that I am proud and revengeful and lascivious, and I prate even as thou.
  • Seven assistants had experience working with elementary-school children in small-group or tutorial settings, and two assistants spoke Spanish and English.
  • It is obsequious for a reason: a correspondent will not be given stories or even asked to briefings if he does not toe the line. Times, Sunday Times
  • Quoth I, O thou Ifrit, it would besit thee to pardon me even as the Envied pardoned the The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • Nevertheless, in a Nov. 22 report Fitch noted that Mexico has used its oil bounty less productively than Russia, which is running a fiscal surplus even as it spends many of its petrodollars to pay down the country's debt.
  • Despite her artistic success and ability to insinuate herself into positions of power, however, Uma fails to maintain a stable alternative identity, even as Parvati.
  • Su Ai-chih, a 67-year-old retiree and spiritual medium, says a woman who was drowned by Chinese soldiers and turned into a goddess has even asked believers for help in reconnecting with her family on the mainland. Archive 2008-04-01
  • Even as he watched them he felt the last remnants of his love curdle and settle into thick hatred. MIDNIGHT IS A LONELY PLACE
  • The survey results underscore the pervasiveness of academic dishonesty even as schools employ more sophisticated means to catch cheaters and take a tougher stance to discourage unethical behavior.
  • But others "amplidyne," for example seem to get added to dictionaries even as their usage is plummeting. Ars Technica
  • He had respect for them, even as he respected the grizzly and the rattlers that his trail crossed.
  • Whereas our analogues on the right used to effuse over how W. was doing a helluva job even as the country went to hell, we mutter or post disparaging comments about how Obama has let us down. Mark Klempner: Hope 2.0: Standing With Obama Over the Long Haul
  • Newspapers are hardly known for opening up the coffers for promotion, even as they strong-arm their ad clients into doing so.
  • Our lives would thus be greatened and strengthened, even as Expositions of Holy Scripture
  • I do, however, have a reason for not writing, a reason that I can express in two horrific words, words I wince at even as my trembling fingers tap them out on the keyboard: FINAL EXAMS.
  • Maybe they just didn't want to ask too many questions, because they rented us a room without even asking to see our papers.
  • I stood inthralled until, even as he was talking, the clock struck three, when he rose up, and moving slowly across the floor, barely visible, murmured regretfully that he must be off, with which he faded away down the back stairs. Ghosts I Have Met and Some Others
  • We know, of course, that historically the Kabbalists were wedded to traditional Jewish practice, even as they added to it by way of innovation.
  • The debate over the safety of GM foods continues even as more and more customers in the supermarket reach for the bright-red tomato, the plump juicy chicken and the perfectly round head of lettuce.
  • Life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.In the depths of your hopes and desires lies your silent knowledge of the beyond; and like seeds dreaming beneath the snow, your heart dreams of spring. Trust the dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity. Kahlil Gibran 
  • People seek more balanced diets even as hunger lurks for lack of purchasing power and distributive shortcomings.
  • Colter's buildings are memorialized here for just this sort of delicate balancing act: They complement one of the most beautiful spots on earth, even as they momentarily distract from it.
  • He smiled, and though his eyes had been replaced long ago by visual sensors that glowed dimly red in the half-light, I imagined that I could yet detect a spark of that charismatic man who had won the hearts of thousands even as he brought about their destruction. Lo, a fic. « Love | Peace | Ohana
  • Even as he was delivering his welcome home speech it had already been decided to send the SAS to another war.
  • Although every baboon is a distinct, highly individuated self, each seems to exist simultaneously as self-in-community or even as self-in-communion.
  • Che clocks in at four and a half hours, and even as a two-parter, which is how Sundance is screening the film, that's a whole lot of movie. Undefined
  • He says we mythify rivers in poems and literature, even as we defile them with human use CNN.com
  • The answer may lie in some useful precedents going even as far back as the genesis of modern Israel.
  • And I set her there in her favourite place, by the sweet-scented wood-fire; and she paid me porterage without my even asking her; and for all the beauty of the rain, I was fain to stay with her; until our Lorna Doone
  • A 35-year-old woman detailed how she was beaten with rifle butts and fists before five soldiers threw her to the ground, tore off her clothes and took turns raping her, even as she vomited, urinated and defecated. Congo colonel gets 20 years after rape trial
  • Do you think your father would stop work to talk to tramps?" she demanded of the boy, who visibly quailed, even as Josiah. THE PRODIGAL FATHER
  • These migrants are not being treated as slaves or even as animals - they are being treated worse than that.
  • But even as he skips over subjects and themes, Kureishi has always returned to his own life for inspiration.
  • In that flashing glimpse, even as he reined and spurred to make his own horse leap sidewise out from under, Harley Kennan observed the scratched skin and torn clothing, the wild-burning eyes, and the haggardness under the scraggly growth of beard, of the man-hunted man. CHAPTER XXXVI
  • Branca agreed; and thus the book reveals that "ever since, even as the goat endured public discourteousness for 60 years, he praised God, reciting every morning and night the "Our Father," a "Hail Mary" and a couplet of his own: "Make me worthy of your love; make my love worthy of you. Rabbi Joshua Hess: Ralph Branca: A Tale Of Two Faiths
  • Her face was fixed on her, through the night; she was the creature who had escaped by force from her cage, yet there was in her whole motion assuredly, even as so dimly discerned, a kind of portentous intelligent stillness. The Golden Bowl — Complete
  • Even as he'd spoken, there had been an admonitory voice in the back of his head, warning that he was saying far too much. THE LAST TEMPTATION
  • It is destined to drown all lesser years, even as sunrise dims the morning stars with day; it is a year bright with promise and bodeful with ill-tidings also; for in the world at this moment there exist stupendous differences that this year will go far to set at rest. New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 3, June, 1915 April-September, 1915
  • The economy stagnated in the second quarter as the global slowdown hit exports and manufacturing, even as consumer spending picked up.
  • Even as vehicle tariffs fall in compliance with WTO rules, fuel economy standards will restrict imports of classic American light truck and luxury cars.
  • Laodicea is given the crowning promise, not only the two former blessings, but a seat with Christ on His throne, even as He has sat with His Father on His Father's throne (Re 3: 21). Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
  • Core indices have continued to move up in some countries even as headline inflation numbers have declined.
  • It was an intemperate outburst, but even as he stamped out of the room with a dark glower, his inquisitors were breaking into smiles.
  • Cliff Waldman, an economist for the Manufacturers Alliance/MAPI, said high unemployment will keep consumers anxious and keep household and business demand subdued even as a global recovery takes hold.
  • The interlocking ways in which a vast country shaped an individual poet, even as he shaped its contentious, loosely confederated poets, is the subject of Aidan Wasley's "The Age of Auden. Keeper of the Affirming Flame
  • Even as a fierce blizzard looms on the horizon, she finds herself with more than just a truant husband on her hands.
  • Even as high-ticket items, separators are built to last, with many models lasting 15 to 20 years with minor adjustments and replacements.
  • Here, in the scrubby land mantled in the after glow of a soft sunset, springbok leapt and Cape mountain zebra grazed even as herds of black wildebeest stared at us intently and then galloped away.
  • Dini said inflation was kept to a moderate pace during the year, even as gross domestic product rose 3 percent.
  • It was an intemperate outburst, but even as he stamped out of the room with a dark glower, his inquisitors were breaking into smiles.
  • Even as I write, I can taste the juicy steak, the melting cheese, the caramelised onions and zingy sauce wrapped in bread which was crispy and not overlarge.
  • The series opens with " Woman in the Dunes, " a film celebrated for its spareness in which Takemitsu ' s sound design is virtually a character, even as his electronically manipulated music — compressed strings, plinking percussion — is used stintingly. Japanese Cinema
  • Even as he basks in the glory of his school's achievement, he nurses a grudge.
  • Over the past five years or so, even as the work-in-progress story spread into our culture, the discipline of adolescent brain studies learned to do some more-complex thinking of its own.
  • Primetime newsmagazines have proliferated even as the nightly newscasts have lost some of their luster.
  • Even as he went into the lighted, public place he remained dark and magic, the living silence seemed the body of reality in him, subtle, potent, indiscoverable. Women in Love
  • They must recognize that it is possible to work with Tehran where their interests cohere, even as they seek to counter it at other points. Erin Fitzgerald: Iran's Shadow Diplomacy
  • The actor later revealed that the taxmen came calling with this notice even as he was being wheeled in for surgery at the Leelavati Hospital in Mumbai.
  • Viols and lutes sounded in the background, laughing dulcimers wove in and out between the harp notes, bassoons and oboes crooned to violins and the deep, sweet voice of cellos, and he knew it couldn't happen even as it did.
  • Even as India heads for an e-waste crisis, most of the global electronic brands have no functioning e-waste takeback services in India.
  • Even as someone who makes a living by being comfortable with sexuality, I admit, it's not always easy projecting your inner sexpot.
  • I would be surptised if their CTR is even as high as 1%. Youtube is already wildly profitable. « The Paradigm Shift
  • Even as the animated brushwork makes them teeter on the edge of abstraction, these works have the natural light of 19 th-century plein-air paintings.
  • Queen's Majesty is not pleased that I should molest her Highness with any more of my colourable letters, which, although they be termed colourable, yet not offending the Queen's Majesty, I must say for myself that it was the plain truth, even as I desire to be saved afore Studies from Court and Cloister: being essays, historical and literary dealing mainly with subjects relating to the XVIth and XVIIth centuries
  • He directed it so beautifully that even as an audience member knowing what was going to happen, I was completely flipped out in a great way.
  • Several activists were even assaulted by delegates who punched and kicked them before the Secret Service arrested them.
  • Laban studied corporeal movement in notably impersonal terms, disciplining bodies even as he asked them to pulse with new life.
  • One study showed that even as few as ten cigarettes a day can damage fertility.
  • And this ruler is distinguished from him that exhorteth, and him that teacheth, with whose special work, as such, he hath nothing to do; even as they are distinguished from those who give and show mercy; that is, there is an elder by office in the Church, whose work and duty it is to _rule_, not to exhort or teach ministerially, which is our ruling elder. The Divine Right of Church Government by Sundry Ministers Of Christ Within The City Of London
  • (Potere Operaio, No. 61, July 16, 1973) Even as late as November 1978, after the kidnapping and killing of Aldo Moro, Negri's own magazine, Rosso (Red), far from condemning the escalating violence of the Red Brigades, wrote: "In claiming as its own all militant actions on the proletarian side, the movement must relaunch the initiative on the terrain of organized counterpower and mass illegality. 'Apocalypse Soon': An Exchange
  • Something, for example, is astir in Latin America which gives an unanticipated scope for hope even as the Middle East continues to blindly grope its way towards partnership with Asia.
  • Even as the bandwagon rolled over their son's grave, they honoured his memory by voicing nothing but calm compassion for his killer.
  • On Friday, even as the fighting had died down, it was still impossible to enter the camp to check the stories we had heard.
  • The black horse rivaled the mare; he was of the same great size with a long black mane and a lively prance even as he stood tethered.
  • Watching him bat even as he was being honoured took the crowd's enthusiasm to dizzying heights.
  • But the Turks were never just Ottomans, or Muslims, or even Asiatics.
  • Its sound is a seesaw that will throw the piper further into Death, even as it brings the listener into Life. LIRAEL: DAUGHTER OF THE CLAYR
  • What a liberty, to refuse the invitation on your behalf, without even asking you!
  • And the dyer said, “Even as thou art beknown of the King, so also am I;” — And Shahrazad perceived the dawn of day and ceased saying her permitted say. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • But surprisingly, even as her life became increasingly complicated, Diana never became jaded.
  • Even as a young man, when he was labouring to transform wilderness into BP profit, this future hammer of papyrology found time for opera, contemporary art and visits to artists 'lofts. Why are we letting business big shots alter our society?
  • Today, we not only have oil companies making record-setting profits even as they spend more money extracting bitumin (sp?) from Canada's oil fields (this is petroleum mixed with other components and is costly to extract). Beyond Oil Prices-- How Big Oil and Big Auto Companies Are Hurting America
  • Transportation systems have a habit of being overtaken by new technology even as they reach their apogee.
  • A pull of the trigger and the short bark of the gun filled the immediate area even as other bullets and screams grew louder.
  • So, even as voters have become kind of disenchanted with both parties -- more likely to identify themselves as independents, more likely to vote for people on either side of the ballot when they're voting -- the parties have gone the other direction. CNN Transcript May 27, 2001
  • In a sense, Beloved returns Morrison to her own novelistic origins even as it returns African Americans to their ancestral past.
  • “And the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we do toward you; to the end he may establish your hearts unblamable in holiness before God, even our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his saints.” The Weapon of Prayer
  • Even as a child, he was always cute enough to get what he wanted.
  • Even as they immerse themselves in facile debates about the Boy King's "A-list", it could have a material effect on their electoral prospects. Talking about them… talking about themselves
  • Further, he had agreed never to quote the man, even as an anonymous source.
  • Pakistan lost Umar to a superb inswinger by seamer L Balaji even as play was extended by an hour to complete the quota of 90 overs.
  • This slam-bang B-movie pastiche is wildly uneven as it doggedly strives (sometimes with obvious strain) to sustain a freewheeling, anything-goes air of exuberant junkiness," writes Joe Leydon. Venice film festival opens with Darren Aronofsky's Black Swan
  • If it's not close, between the exit polls and the early counts, we could have an idea even as early as tonight or tomorrow morning.
  • The suspicion did cross my mind, even as he spoke, that the man was lying and on further reflection I was sure of it.
  • CHOPRA: No. In fact we know from science even as you and I speak right now, there are stars that are exhausting their thermonuclear energy, collapsing into black holes, which are called singularities, and exploding on the other side through wormholes into multiple universe. CNN Transcript - Larry King Live: Deepak Chopra Discusses `How to Know God' - May 17, 2000
  • And the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we do toward you: to the end he may stablish your hearts unblamable in holiness before God, even our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his saints. 1 Thessalonians 3.
  • Thus they may be motivated to continue to sell drugs even as they desist from use because of the deterrent effect of bioassay screening.
  • So even as people living the mixed race experience would seem inherently inclusive, there really seems to be no way around those feelings of closing off to others.
  • We could even ask Jones Electronics for permission to quote some of their improved production figures.
  • I can honestly say that not one person from QF national has ever even asked me about a check I wrote for our chapter (I've been the treasurer for 3 years) There can't be more transparency than that to the chapter. Quail Unlimited Implodes
  • He wears a yellow jumper and green beret that I can recognise from a great distance, even as the light begins to fade.
  • Even assuming the improbability that all the wounded died, the overall picture does not change.
  • It was an intemperate outburst, but even as he stamped out of the room with a dark glower, his inquisitors were breaking into smiles.
  • Even as the artworks probe the limits of our most primitive ethnocentric biases, they affirm our place on the planet as the dominant species - having the power to discriminate over other life forms. Spread ArtCulture: Patricia Piccinini's World of Creatures Great & Small
  • The 2004 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and founder of the Green Belt Movement, Wangari Maathai offers a refreshingly unique perspective on the challenge facing Africa, even as she calls for a moral revolution among Africans themselves, who, she argues, are culturally deracinated, adrift between worlds. The Challenge for Africa by Wangari Maathai: Book summary
  • Such tests tend to stultify the most creative teachers even as they, at least in theory, help the worst students.
  • Journalists then, are set to become the butt of criticism and jokes, even as they sally forth to the frontlines.
  • As much as it choked me, I needed to emulate at least some of his attitudes, even as I refused his harsh techniques. THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
  • Gossage is a master of framing, his sense of image within image is dramatic, even as his control of the traditional darkroom techniques puts the full range of modern photographic vocabularies at his disposal.
  • Even as the funeral took place, guerrillas hidden nearby fired/let off a fresh volley of machine-gun fire.
  • Even as both prepare to move into different tracks, it is evident that their involvement with the feminist movement and publishing are their foremost passions.
  • ‘There,’ she said after she finished with the braid, and tried her best to throw a smile even as her eyes reddened with tears.
  • Even as a young actress, she always had Hollywood firmly in her sights .
  • Even as a child, I thought it a lateish hour to be serving an essentially teatime dish.
  • They are so unbelievably horrible, so appallingly unmusical, so dogmatically insensitive to the magic of the art, that they qualify as crowned heads of anti-music, even as the impostor popes went down in history as ‘anti-popes’.
  • How dare he take my bicycle without even asking!
  • Even as these protests reached Berlin, a fifth solution was under discussion there.
  • Even as a young actress, she always had Hollywood firmly in her sights .
  • Even as his team prepare to raise the curtain on the new top-flight season tomorrow, Sir Alex Ferguson remains misty-eyed about the star performer who has left the building.
  • So even as Boomers fret about their parents frittering away their inheritances, there's no assurance that they will behave any differently themselves.
  • She was cruel, omnivorous, heartless - and yet it seemed as if she cared about Margarite and Celeste even as she sought to manipulate them. FLOATING CITY
  • Then, even as it was falling towards the far shore, he shinned as high up its length as possible.
  • Even so, I managed to do it, even as the first rains of the season broke across the South Bay.
  • She could feel it, the terrible katabolism and metabolism in her blood, changing her even as a creature, changing her to another creature. The Plumed Serpent
  • Matrimony, even as in bodily medicines, some are applied externally, such as plasters and drugs, while others are acts of the person who seeks to be cured, such as certain exercises. Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition
  • even aside from the political dynamics, which said that we'd only get one shot, the economic dynamics also said that not doing enough early on only makes an eventual solution harder.
  • Then she said to me, “Know that this handmaiden is to us even as our own child and she is a trust committed to thee by Allah.” The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • Even as he spoke, the ship heeled over in the rising wind, and he moaned.
  • Even as late as 1956 a considerable earthquake destroyed half the buildings on the west coast of the island.
  • Even as his minions were, with his approval, flingingsuspected agitators into the Fortress of Peter and Paul, raiding the houses of liberal noblemen, and condemning writers andintellectuals to Siberian exile, a part of Alexander was still the sensitive Sasha, the boy with the mild, lamblike eyes. FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871
  • They noticed that if there was a good water supply, low rainfall did not matter… and could even assist matters, as it meant greater control of when the crop was watered.
  • He had leaned across the double bed and reached for his bag, remembering even as he thrust his hand inside that the book he was half-way through was now probably some - where above the Atlantic, jammed firmly into seat-pocket 22D, between the lifejacket instructions and the boak-poke. Not the End of the World
  • Businesses are stepping up investment, even as their overall orders for big-ticket items such as automobiles and aircraft dropped last month, new data show. Business Orders, Home Sales Tick Up
  • I was dismayed by these feelings, even ashamed, having always presumed that a good feminist would beat this rap.
  • But even as the deal was announced, officials in the group were expressing disappointment at what some described as a marginalized role - a potentially troubling sign for the United States as it moves toward the planned withdrawal of all of its forces by the end of 2011. Sunni group walks out of Iraq parliament
  • I stood in line to get a wristband and was not even asked for i. d.-in fact the young woman in charge didn't even make eye contact with me, probably for fear of laughing or showing her disdain. Vicki Iovine: Girlfriends' Guide to Teenagers: Momma Does Coachella!
  • Then he gave her a barley scone and said, “I love not one who answereth at times when I am in wrath: so henceforth give me no more of these impertinent words and I will sell thee to a good man like myself, who will do well with thee, even as I have done.” The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • There, 150 years ago this month, 132 delegates from 21 states bickered, bargained and tried in vain to bridge the chasm that widened beneath them even as they met. The Willard: Where hope collapsed as slavery raged
  • Not only does she inspire respect and reverence from the kids, they see her as the mother they never had, indeed the mother they ran away from at home, even as they desperately need her in the impersonal streets of Johannesburg.
  • The heavy mofussil kists [harvest instalments] have now been collected by the aumils; the season of tillage is arrived; the ryots [country farmers] must be indulged, and even assisted by advances; and the aumil must look for his returns in the abundance of the crop, _the consequence of this early attention to the cultivation_. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 08 (of 12)
  • He often liked to refer to himself as an "individualist," sometimes even as an "anarchist."
  • Even as young pups, then, Weddell seals have several anatomical adaptations that enable them to avoid overheating in the sunlight.
  • The author tries to draw a conclusion from its seven aspects:the background, basic theory, trait of thought of reform, construction, teaching reforms, range and features.
  • The making so many fires, as above, did indeed consume an unusual quantity of coals; and that upon one or two stops of the ships coming up, whether by contrary weather or by the interruption of enemies I do not remember, but the price of coals was exceeding dear, even as high as 4 a chalder; but it soon abated when the ships came in, and as afterwards they had a freer passage, the price was very reasonable all the rest of that year. A Journal Of The Plague Year
  • Even as a child, during the holidays I would find a way to go on holiday, stay at camps and hotels.
  • In any case, linguistic qualifiers militate against the signification of the terms they qualify, even as they expand or reduce the space of signification.
  • If one is fortunate enough to be associated with a university, even as one ages, teaching allows one to contribute to, and vicariously share, in the creativity of youth.
  • We'd even asked Tony if he'd like to move in with us, but he'd politely declined the offer.
  • Even as a tiny baby, she had a thick head of hair.
  • For the coexistence of absolute spontaneity with absolute necessity is involved in the very idea of God, one of whose intellectual definitions is, the 'synthesis, generative ad extra, et annihilative, etsi inclusive, quoad se,' of all conceivable 'antitheses;' even as the best moral definition -- (and, O! how much more godlike to us in this state of antithetic intellect is the moral beyond the intellectual!) -- is, God is love. The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  • What prolonged boiling and the aid of bicarbonate of soda leave almost intact the fly's grubs quickly turn into fluid, even as the flesh worms fluidify hard-boiled white of egg. The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography
  • He knew that he would pray, and beg, and entreat, even as Big Ivan and the others that had gone before. Lost Face

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