How To Use Much as In A Sentence
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Having drop-dead gorgeous, private, windowed offices makes it a lot easier to recruit the kinds of superstars that produce ten times as much as the merely brilliant software developers.
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Otherwise you'll just have to pump as much as you can into the scheme through voluntary contributions, although scope here is limited as you are restricted to a maximum of 15% of your annual salary.
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And that culture was nowhere near moribund, but being kept alive, and by ordinary people as much as ‘elites’.
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Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves. Henry Ward Beecher
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Some executives estimate that Citigroup could dispose of as much as $12 billion in "noncritical" assets.
Bhutto Assassination
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Industry research firm Watson Wyatt estimates Australian companies face a combined shortfall of as much as A$25 billion in these defined-benefit pension plans, known as superannuation in Australia.
Australian Firms to Pay Scarce Cash for Pensions
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For no apparently good reason, she told me that she hates the word "coochie" just as much as she hates the word cunt, maybe more.
Drbigbeef Diary Entry
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I'd like to have something special planned that will keep them occupied and outside in the garden as much as possible.
Times, Sunday Times
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It's an evolutionary trick to distract the pursuer, much as lizards lose their tails.
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This finding is of great concern inasmuch as the protection principle and measures of gaseous arsine are different from the airborne arsenic particulate.
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Pasolini clearly did not intend Salò as a late work, much as Mozart did not design his requiem as adumbrative lament.
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That also means a commitment to private residential care as much as to local authority residential care.
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Knowing as much as you can about the problem is helpful in finding solutions.
Coping with Stress at Work
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*** Pharmaceuticals Sigma Pharmaceuticals said that it is likely to breach loan conditions with bankers after taking a charge of as much as 270 million Australian dollars ($253.4 million) from the A$900 million fire sale of its pharmaceutical division to South Africa's Aspen Pharmacare.
Business Watch
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I think the real target oftentimes is not the underclass so much as it is college students.
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Still, on watching the movie a good couple of decades since I last read the book, as much as I found it enjoyable enough, I couldn’t help but start to think through just what Lewis is saying here, in allegorical terms, just how it all turns on the idea that, by the rules of Deep Magic, Edmund must die.
Thoughts on Narnia
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The road itself twisted and contorted as much as the river as it dodged through and around clusters of trees and boulders: indigenous and erratics.
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Hence statements vary insomuch as the clips themselves vary.
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Nothing kills the festive spirit as much as someone whisking under your feet with a dustpan and brush, folding up wrapping paper and tutting about all the pine needles.
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The young woman wore dark leathers, much as the old tapestries depicted the Harshini.
TREASON KEEP
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But it was the bowler's general bearing and neatness which charmed the young writer almost as much as the name he'd been seeking for his newly conceived character of a gentleman's gentleman.
From Jeeves to Herriot: all creatures great and sporty | Frank Keating
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Some of you may be surprised to see Mr. Jerrold here in person-in as much as our notice card intimated that he had been "liquidated" - which process we have come to understand in recent years is somewhat of an ordeal.
The Present Condition of England
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But in furnishing its imaginary, cultural platform for the revival of liberal politics in America, The West Wing has also slipped into an uncritical cult of personality — much as the adoration of Bill Clinton has in the real-life house of liberalism.
The Feel Good Presidency
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She painlessly moves back and forth from fiddle to guitar, singing to whistling, without so much as a flinch.
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Oh sure, the boxing was kind of fun to watch (as much as I hate to enjoy it … what can I say, I’m a fan of forms of gladiatorship, even when they are rife with disgusting amounts of - isms), and Hillary Swank is Hillary Swank.
Million dollar baby « Love | Peace | Ohana
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Nothing cements a friendship between countries so much as trade.
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You can't really go wrong with a loaf of wholemeal organic bread, but as much as I love the UK I find it difficult to get remarkable fresh bread.
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I must have a prodigious amount of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up! Mark Twain
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He will not use oil and will eat as much as he wants to avoid hunger pains.
Times, Sunday Times
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This miserableness went on as much as six or seven minutes; but it seemed a sight longer than that.
The War of The Worlds
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Therefore the learning of many languages is injudicious, inasmuch as it arouses the belief in the possession of dexterity, and, as a matter of fact, it lends a kind of delusive importance to social intercourse.
Esperanto: Hearings before the Committee on Education
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The Choctaw [Footnote: Romans, p. 70, Bossu, Vol. I, p. 308.] boys made use of a cane stalk, eight or nine feet in length, from which the obstructions at the joints had been removed, much as boys use what is called a putty blower.
Indian Games : an historical research
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As much as the Formosan exasperated him, Man could not help being fascinated by the story of his life.
MAN'S LOVING FAMILY
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Good programming practice guidelines state that you should adhere to a certain style when writing application code, and this guideline holds true for JavaScript as much as any other language.
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That also means a commitment to private residential care as much as to local authority residential care.
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Much as I wish I could take credit for the word "matriotism," another woman wrote to me and gave me the concept.
Cindy Sheehan: Matriotism
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The lesson of these polls is not that the morality and leadership factors don't count as much as people say they do.
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Look at Arizona, a state torn apart with a needless immigration "debate;" needless insomuch as it exists now.
Charles Karel Bouley: Tucson: In the Blame Game, We All Lose
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I mean, I love bran muffins as much as the next guy, but is Canada really going to just roll over and accept this practical, unspiced (I'm not saying "flavorless," because I admit bran muffins are tasty), unaromatic, home-bound and yes, boring, assignment of what it means to be Canadian?
Diner's Journal
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Staff members will pattern their leadership after those above them - not after what others say as much as what they do.
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Arriving in Athens, the son of Sopaeus was introduced to the banker Pasion, with whom he deposited his money, as much as 1,000 gold staters.
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A NASA study found some clouds that form on tiny haze particles are not cooling the Earth as much as previously thought.
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You can undereducate your youth as much as you like.
NYT > Home Page
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Inasmuch as the defence needs only to secure the vote of one juryman to procure a disagreement, this offer is a comparatively safe one for the defendant to make, since the prosecutor, who must secure unanimity on the part of the jury (at least in New York State), can afford to take no chances of letting an incompetent or otherwise unfit talesman slip into the box.
Courts and Criminals
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While the father and sister were delighted with the crackle, sparkle and pleasant aroma of the bits of spicewood, as Abe tossed them upon the fire, no one could appreciate the thoughtful act of the boy so much as his mother.
The Story of Young Abraham Lincoln
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I returned the coin to Noah, assuring him that I had no further need of it, and he went away well pleased, assured of the protection of the white man's duppy -- the token of the good spirits which he venerates as much as he fears the bugaboos.
Humphrey Bold A Story of the Times of Benbow
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So, much as I’m weary of western politicians who couldn’t tell the Ka’ba from a peach cobbler going on about how extremists are “perverting” Islam — how the hell do they know? — this article, which got its author suspended from his radio talk show hosting job for its claim that “Islam is a terror organization,” is truly, profoundly stupid.
Excommunicated from the Ummah?
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Much as I would love to be wrong I fear there is as much chance of this happening as there was of the Soviet hack-writer Sholokhov giving his Nobel Prize for Literature to some more deserving writer - one who had not only suffered in the Soviet gulag but whose works were actually worth reading.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
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There is a place for off-road cycle lanes, but cyclists have the right to use the road as much as anyone else.
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Everywhere in the 19th century students of folklore itself a newly invented word plumped up their local legends, sagas and fairy tales just as much as Jacob Grimm and Richard Wagner did in Germany.
Hitler's Golden Book
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The Curé would follow the Queen as she collected this small tax for her poor people, a levy which often totaled as much as much as one hundred 'louis' and never less than fifty.
Almsgiving of Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette
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In the continuous working of pits, even where "tubbing" is used to keep the water out of the shaft as much as possible, the quantity of water is not unusually seven or eight times as great as that of the coal raised.
The Coal Question~ Of the Cost of Coal Mining
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Support personnel need to be encouraged by this as much as those on the front lines do.
Christianity Today
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Sarah was just about to mount onto one when Fin without so much as a by-your-leave hoisted her up into the saddle and the tied her horse to his.
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Your only comfort lay in the forced reflection, that, real as he looked, the poor caitiff was but imaginary, a bit of painted canvass, whom no delirium tremens, nor so much as a retributive headache, awaited, on the morrow.
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Raspberry and blueberry production was also up by as much as 25 per cent this year.
Times, Sunday Times
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They were well paid, as much as fourpence being given for a good cock-crower (in 'The Trial of Christ'), while the part of God was worth three and fourpence: no contemptible sums at a time when a quart of wine cost twopence and a goose threepence.
The Growth of English Drama
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As if Ian Hamilton Finlay were not to be remembered here, he appears, in the form of a reference to his home, a little country estate which he filled with literary sculpture of his devisal, much as Simon Cutts has decorated his quaint Irish dwelling, Coracle, and outbuildings with words, turning edifice into literature.
Dbqp: visualizing poetics
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The island will not be ground down so much as wasted away.
THE EARTH: An Intimate History
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The coalition document did not mention either doorstep lending or payday loans, where borrowers can be charged as much as 2,000 per cent.
Times, Sunday Times
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The "hup" was rather an exclamation of necessity than of delight, inasmuch as that it was caused by Davie coming suddenly down flat on the ice in the act of vainly attempting to go leap-frog over Mivins's head.
The World of Ice
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It's not that it's been hot so much as the very high humidity that's made me feel darned uncomfortable.
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Today the female tradition is continued to some extent inasmuch as most hospital, hospice, and district nurses who do the job are women.
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He is concerned by the mainstream media's portrayal of women as much as Internet pornography.
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As much as I love Lynch's truly bizarre take on the story, it's as if Paul rides a sandworm - drinks the water of life and suddenly he's 'the one.'
Pierre Morel’s Approach to Dune: “Faster, More Modern,” Compared to the ‘84 Version | /Film
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Their craft demanded literacy and numeracy as much as culinary knowledge.
The Times Literary Supplement
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For the most part the audience obeyed, dancing as much as space would allow.
Times, Sunday Times
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Remember that you're like a peacock on show, so puff your chest up as much as you can, try to keep your forearms just above stomach height so that your bi and triceps are slightly defined.
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The linesmen check the goal nets which are full of holes, much as you'd expect, and the teams huddle.
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` ` Na, Laird, '' Jeanie replied, endeavouring as much as she could to express herself with composure, notwithstanding she still trembled, ` ` I canna gang in --- I have a lang day's darg afore me --- I maun be twenty mile o 'gate the night yet, if feet will carry me.' '
The Heart of Mid-Lothian
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I was feeling fine, didn't have any pain, any stiffness, so when that happens, you've really got to stretch it out as much as you can and try to get in rhythm as much as you can, and that's what I'm trying to do, Bryant said.
Charlie Crist's first pitch strong on comedy if not accuracy
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Far Orientals begin their year when Nature begins hers, instead of starting anachronously as we do in the very middle of the dead season, much as our colleges hold their commencements, on the last in place at on the first day of the academic term.
The Soul of the Far East
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High bail - reaching as much as $1 million - was imposed for those arrested by police.
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They broke the basic rule of presentation which applies in politics as much as it does in other fields.
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His lips press and his arms enfold not her so much as the ideal of her, and unless she unmake herself, he cannot unlove her.
The Kempton-Wace Letters
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State aid is being allowed insomuch as governments can underwrite war risk insurance for airlines until the end of the year.
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The patterning is loud and garish but totally aesthetic, and functions as much as designer camouflage as an integrating device.
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She is swimming lengths in the club pool and walking as much as she can rather than grabbing lifts.
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'Fun' is a word much associated with him, yet for all the flamboyance and jocularity, you sense he is not into fame for a laugh.
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This, however, would not be positive so much as negative reinforcement, ie it was nice when the pressure stopped.
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For the most part the audience obeyed, dancing as much as space would allow.
Times, Sunday Times
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And stuff ( "neuk") me up as much as you can, because you'll still have to come along and pay for what you did.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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I promise you never henceforth to offend your cause except in that mere woman's sympathy with what you call rebellion, for which women are not so much as banished by you -- or if they are, then banish me!
The Cavalier
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As much as he hated the notion of prolonging his exposure to those sons of bitches, once someone breathed the word assassination it all became a new ball game.
Scott Free
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Casey blushed, her hands full, not being able to reciprocate, but grinning as much as her anyway.
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However , the resource of inquiry station can not increase as much as the users' demand, therefore the problem is how to meet the demand of users with limited resources.
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The teacher should not move around too much as this makes lip reading more difficult.
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Those koa trees will do more than just provide roosting sites for birds, they'll also help capture moisture, raising the air temperature near them by as much as 5 degrees.
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However, she's a patron of the hunt and, insomuch as she fills that roll, she's kind of outmatched by an existing goddess.
Deity of Your City
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Composites cost up to eight times as much as aluminum, and the newfangled plane will require suppliers to retool the manufacturing process.
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Everything here is natural, untouched and unchanged, perhaps much as it was in Vedic times.
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Mug up as much as you can about the country before your trip.
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It seems daft to me that anyone who so much as flirts with the idea of a career in education would fail to remember what they know about how teenagers behave.
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Then I realized it wasn't Gantry of whom I was reminded so much as another Lewis character, Berzelius "Buzz" Windrip, the politician who poses as a populist, then once elected president turns the United States into a fascist dictatorship, aided by an angry, unknowing electorate and a paramilitary group called the Minute Men.
Michael Winship: The Awful Price for Teaching Less Than We Know
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Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence. Leonardo da Vinci
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Enterprise 2.0 is often derided as a buzzword enveloped in ivory-tower abstractions that obfuscate as much as enlighten.www. newsgator.com) today launched a new blog from the trenches of Enterprise 2.0 - yes, there are trenches - called "Everyday Enterprise 2.0," authored by Christy Schoon, the company's director of Enterprise 2.0 consulting.
Undefined
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I think it will be WONDERFUL not to have a body ... as much as my body gives me (and others) a lot of pleasure, being corporal is a very heavy way to exist.
The Great Beyond
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This costs about half as much as remaining fully staffed.
Times, Sunday Times
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The low temperatures here are a function of the terrain as much as of the climate.
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If you charge as much as that, you'll scare customers off.
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He knew the man -- H'yemba, the cunning ironsmith, one who in other days had before now crossed his will and, dog-like, snarled as much as he had dared.
Darkness and Dawn
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But so far has he been from stirring and taking away that which is, or contradicting that which evidently appears, that he casts not so much as one single word out of the accustomed use; but taking away all figurative fraud that might hurt or endamage things, he again restored the ordinary and useful signification to words in these verses: -
Essays and Miscellanies
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Authenticated items usually go for about twice as much as unauthenticated items.
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Some banks try not to foreclose on farms because some owe so much money and if they foreclose on the farm the amount of money they get back is nowhere near as much as what they lent to the client.
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What I hadn't realised, though was that it had happened pretty much as soon I was out of earshot round the corner.
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Dice up the leaves and feed only as much as the fish will consume in ten minutes.
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Consequently, reducing enzyme activity by much as 50% has a negligible effect on flux through the pathway.
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He sang in choirs, played at balls and weddings and baptisms, made "arrangements" for anybody who would employ him, and in short drudged very much as Wagner did at the outset of his tempestuous career.
Joseph Haydn
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Cover your head by day as much as you will, by night as much as you can.
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Booker T. Jones collaborated with Neil Young and the Drive-by T.uckers on a rockin 'instrumental set that emphasized aggressive guitar and grungey rhythmic drive as much as Jones' famous B-3 organ.
StarTribune.com rss feed
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The architect's brief was to design an extension which would harmonize as much as possible with the existing building.
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I wouldn't conterminate myself by so much as 'avin' a word with 'im.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, September 26, 1891
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For the frazzled chef, relocating to a suburban or rural setting can be a lifestyle choice as much as it is an economic one.
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It appeared I had an indestructible parasite, which didn't bother me too much as long as it stayed in my ankle.
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However, at that time, the definite opposition of the United States already had arisen, inasmuch as for some time back it had dreamed of the idea of annexing Cuba to its territory at some point.
100TH ANNIV.- DEATH OF MAJ LOYNAZ DURING WAR
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There are different strands of liberalism, much as there are different strands of socialism and conservatism.
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But the carmakers argue that Tokyo's threats to resume intervention have kept the yen from rising as much as the euro, the pound and the Canadian dollar.
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Church leaders should gather data much as airline pilots read their instrument panel during flight.
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If you find it difficult to stop drinking altogether, try to cut down as much as possible.
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People like the president and Republicans need to go to the NAME convention to learn as much as they can and then take the knowledge back to Washington.
KansasCity.com: Front Page
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Forasmuch as this self-love is so natural to them all that they had rather part with their father’s land than their foolish opinions; but chiefly players, fiddlers, orators, and poets, of which the more ignorant each of them is, the more insolently he pleases himself, that is to say vaunts and spreads out his plumes.
In Praise of Folly
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Creed, bk.iv. ch. iv., secs. 13, 14), "the circumincession is most proper and perfect, forasmuch as the Persons mutually contain Each
NPNF2-09. Hilary of Poitiers, John of Damascus
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The new dwarf varieties were able to stand two or three times more artificial fertilizer and to provide an increase of yield per decare from the previous maximum of 450 kilos to as much as 800 kilos per decare.
The Nobel Peace Prize 1970 - Presentation Speech
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Behavioral therapy may reduce the mean number of incontinence episodes by as much as 50 percent.
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When steel is made very hot, and suddenly immerged in very cold water, and moved about in it, the surface of the steel becomes cooled first, and thus producing a kind of case or arch over the internal part, prevents that internal part from contracting quite so much as it otherwise would do, whence it becomes brittler and harder, like the glass-drops called Prince Rupert's drops, which are made by dropping melted glass into cold water.
The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation
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There are more armed police than normal but it isn't as much as when the Olympic torch was here.
Times, Sunday Times
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Cover your head by day as much as you will, by night as much as you can.
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News is delivered not so much as reportage as an opinion piece.
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At residential clusters where vendors decant the product in small cans, a 60 centiliter bottle goes for as much as N120 while a four liter gallon goes for about N600.
AllAfrica News: Latest
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The principle behind a chain letter is basically the same as a pyramid scheme, except that with chain letters, you don't have to deceive yourself as much as with pyramid schemes.
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A signed linocut by Henri Matisse will set you back £15, 510, or a signed Lichtenstein screenprint as much as £20,000.
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I was pretty affable myself, just then, and pretended not to hear one or two of the more jealous remarks that were dropped - about how odd it was that Her Majesty hadn't chosen one of the purple brigade to squire her young cousin, not so much as Guardee even, but a plain Mr - and who the deuce were the Flashmans anyway?
The Sky Writer
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In time, I owed so much money to the bank that the company's net worth was zero - I owed as much as I had in inventory and receivables.
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When I worked in the music promo industry, I had some label execs tell me that in the early stages of a campaign for a new artist, as much as 90% of the online discussion for an act was generated by people who were being paid either directly or indirectly through freebies and promos to talk about the music.
Buying into blogs - Anil Dash
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It is alleged to have duped some 5,000 people out of as much as $40 million.
Times, Sunday Times
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That's the continental tradition as much as adaptationism is the English tradition.
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It was certainly intended that Charles should sit up to his neck in warm salt water for ten minutes, and Mr Young says that with the plaister, and with the greasy, and resisting quality of the ointment, that the water would not penetrate near so much as you seem to suppose it would.
Letter 170
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He wants a family as much as you do but fertility tests feel like a point of no return.
The Sun
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In 1997 the average English home cost three times as much as the median local salary.
Times, Sunday Times
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Smile and swoon as much as you like at the flowers, but it won't help you cut through the crowds.
Times, Sunday Times
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He found him in a dull room, fadedly furnished, much as I had found him in his barrack-room but a little while before, except that he was not writing but was sitting with a book before him, from which his eyes and thoughts were far astray.
Bleak House
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The CCC thus saw the atrophied bodies of those joining the program much as it viewed cutover forests and eroded soils: as a degraded natural resource in dire need of conservation.
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Do some people dread them as much as others crave them?
Times, Sunday Times
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It was not that his spirits were visibly high -- he would never, in the concert of pleasure, touch the big drum by so much as a knuckle: he had a mortal dislike to the high, ragged note, to what he called random ravings.
The Portrait of a Lady
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Inasmuch as you are more noble than others by birth, so should you be more noble than they by virtues," adding that, "few great men have gained renown for prowess and virtue who did not entertain love for some dame or damoiselle.
Historical Tales, Vol. 6 (of 15) The Romance of Reality. French.
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Relative humidity in the mornings is 94% to 99%, dropping in the afternoon as much as 70-80%.
Mount Nimba Strict Nature Reserve, Guinea and Côte d'Ivoire
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The grapes are destalked and crushed, and the skins briefly macerated to preserve as much as possible of the aroma and flavour of the grapes during fermentation.
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Mr. MARGOLIS: He didn't really talk him into it as much as he sort of euchred him into it.
The Last Innocent Year: America in 1964
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WE know you love Perks as much as we do because all the fab freebies are being snapped up so quickly.
The Sun
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As much as it hurt to say sayonara to someone I truly adore, I know it was the right thing for both of us.
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His responses are delivered without so much as even a change in inflection, always acknowledging the absurdity of his circumstances and the unfortunate reality that has come as a result.
This Week in DVD & Blu-ray: A Serious Man, Couples Retreat, Bronson, and More | /Film
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You can love someone so much...But you can never love people as much as you can miss them. John Green
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As much as any other task an entrepreneur must face, she must deal with these manic highs and depressing lows.
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Until now, Goldman's Level 3 assets -- or illiquid, write-down-prone securities -- weren't increasing as much as at rivals such as o buy back the nonbank, aed commercial-paper holdings of most of its retail clients likely will mean an overall restructuring of the frozen 33 billion Canadian dollars (US$32. 5 billion) nonbank ABCP market will be approved at an April 25 investor vote.
Worry Returns, Boosting Treasurys
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As a patrician of Dordrecht and a patriot, he paid homage to Holland as a trim and handsome place where even the windmills rotated their sails with a Sunday sobriety; much as his contemporary Teniers depicted Flanders.
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His reserve might by the ill-natured have been termed dissimulation, inasmuch as when asked by the ladies of the embassy what had become of the young person who had amused them that day so cleverly he gave it out that her whereabouts was uncertain and her destiny probably obscure; he let it be supposed in a word that his benevolence had scarcely survived an accidental, a charitable occasion.
The Tragic Muse
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Two years of home sellouts and the increased concession sales alone could be worth as much as $15 million.
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Which makes me wonder whether women in - ology don't travel to conferences as much as their male counterparts (because of family obligations, etc.)?
Archive 2006-10-01
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He takes part in national triathlon events - but it's the sheer physical exercise he enjoys as much as the competition, he insists.
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From this topic he transferred his disquisitions to the verb drink, which he affirmed was improperly applied to the taking of coffee, inasmuch as people did not drink, but sip or sipple that liquor; that the genuine meaning of drinking is to quench one's thirst, or commit a debauch by swallowing wine; that the Latin word, which conveyed the same idea, was bibere or potare, and that of the
The Adventures of Roderick Random
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You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection. Buddha
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Staff shared rumours that star complaint handlers were earning as much as 10,000 a month in salary and bonuses.
Times, Sunday Times
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This is twice as much as it costs to insure my two cars.
Times, Sunday Times
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Because of the long iron's comparative lack of loft, any sidespin created with your swing will be accentuated, because the ball doesn't crawl up the face as much as it does on a club with a more lofted face.
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In between the two though there is a perilous journey, for us as much as for the robin.
Times, Sunday Times
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The decision of Government to send reinforcements to Ireland was mentioned as a prelude to the information from Vienna of the birth of a son to the Princess Nikolas: and then; having conjoined the two entirely heterogeneous pieces of intelligence, the composer adroitly interfused them by a careless transposition of the prelude and the burden that enabled him to play ad libitum on regrets and rejoicings; by which device the lord of Earlsfont might be offered condolences while the lady could express her strong contentment, inasmuch as he deplored the state of affairs in the sister island, and she was glad of a crisis concluding a term of suspense thus the foreign-born baby was denounced and welcomed, the circumstances lamented and the mother congratulated, in a breath, all under cover of the happiest misunderstanding, as effective as the cabalism of Prospero's wand among the Neapolitan mariners, by the skilful Irish development on a grand scale of the rhetorical figure anastrophe, or a turning about and about.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith
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The piece is a political whirligig but also a play of ideas, about the politics of life as much as the life of politics, which also includes insights into two very different marriages.
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This feminine fashion with the antique agrees with a great freedom of manners, this vestimentary behaviour lets see the shapes of the body as much as possible, does not obstruct the movements and facilitates the joys of the dance.
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Snape was sitting at the desk, but he disdained to even so much as lay a finger on the keypad.
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While I'd been by myself, as I say, I'd even been thinking in Pushtu, but here I had to hold on tight and remember what I was meant to be - for one thing, I wasn't used to being addressed in familiar terms by native soldiers, much less ordered about by an officious naik* (* Corporal.) who'd normally have leaped to attention if I'd so much as looked in his direction.
Fiancée
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-- The following is considered a most valuable preparation: Take of extract of yellow Peruvian bark, fifteen grains; extract of rhatany root, eight grains; extract of burdoch root and oil of nutmegs (fixed), of each two drachms; camphor (dissolve with spirits of wine), fifteen grains; beef marrow, two ounces; best olive oil, one ounce; citron juice, half a drachm; aromatic essential oil, as much as sufficient to render it fragrant; mix and make into an ointment.
Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage
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The soul forms in itself likenesses of things inasmuch as, through the light of agent intellect, forms abstracted from sensible objects are made actually intelligible, so as to be received in the possible intellect.
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It was instinct as much as rational decision - thought was still far beyond me.
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The corner bar nowadays has CNBC playing on the TV as much as sports, and nothing sounds tinnier than envy.
Aspirational Economics 101
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As much as this blow-by-blow battlemodo shows you all the problems we encountered, the big picture is that really, mobile web is pretty dandy right now, and getting dandier.
Original Signal - Transmitting Gadgets
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A $20 programmable device lets you preset your heating and cooling systems when you're not home for as much as a 10 percent energy savings.
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We get to the corner, where we part, and he takes his turn without so much as a “milady.”
Camo Girl
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By the way, speaking of tonight's debate which I did watch, and will doubtless re-watch, at least in part, I was reminded of nothing so much as that scene from "Broadcast News" wherein Albert Brooks, as Aaron, says ""I say it here, it comes out there" and then, swacked, ends up singing ""I can sing while I read!
I think I'm going to have to stop watching "American Idol."
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I rubbed swallowwort sap on the bone to stain it yellow, and I told the Dame it was hers as much as it was mine.
Wildfire
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In this exceptionally picturesque region, beauty and grinding toil continue to coexist, very much as described in John Steinbeck's novels, notably The Grapes of Wrath.
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And yet, in Wales, at least in this part of Wales, it's been like nothing so much as having been wired to the terminals of a dead battery.
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The space agency has decided to delay start of construction of the controversial project for as much as 11 months.
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Then he placed his daughter in the one, and her dead husband in the other, and said to the palkee-bearers, "Take these palkees and go out into the jungle until you have reached a place so desolate that not so much as a sparrow is to be seen, and there leave them both.
Tales of Wonder Every Child Should Know
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Our deeds determine us, much as we determine our deeds.
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Rotis made from wheat, jowar and bajra are eaten as much as rice.
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We and the cinema must first conquer the DVD as a medium which serves the furthest peripheries of image production as much as the centre, the dissidents as much as the mainstream.
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The 1968 allusion is not superficial: the images these girls are summoning, just as much as the van-smashers did, are pictures of revolution ? the real thing, in its romantic and large-minded soixante-huitard form.
Student protests: the riot girls
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For the union lasts until that which is analogous to the semen has done its work, and when they separate the female produces the embryo quickly; for the young is imperfect inasmuch as all such creatures give birth to scoleces.
On the Generation of Animals
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He struggles with God, much as the patriarch Jacob wrestled with the angel.
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-- _Spigornel_ (for Adam): 'Sir, according to the custom of the town, he is of age when he knows how to count up to twelve pence, and he shall answer in a writ of Right at that age; and inasmuch as he would answer in a writ of Right at that age, he shall warrant at that age, or shall counterplead, &c.
The Customs of Old England
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Mother Teresa, for example, identified as much as she could with India's Hindus, adopting the sari as the habit for her order of nuns, and she showed her commitment to Christ by succoring the dying in the streets of Calcutta.
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Not a lodge in the "lodging" sense so much as a hippish dive bar in a log cabin setting or, as one Yelp reviewer put it, what you get when you "mix Yosemite and Los Angeles.
SFGate: Top News Stories
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Mainland Chinese collectors have since stepped in, paying as much as $7.3 million at Christie's for a jadeite bead necklace last summer.
The China Factor
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In person, however, they have matured about as much as a sperm in a deep frozen sperm bank.
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At the end there are 11 items for discussion, much as one finds in university dissertations.
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I lost a lot of time at the start of the race and I tried to close the gap as much as possible.
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In many states, the lender can repossess your car without as much as a telephone call or written notice if you fall behind on one monthly payment.
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I know how cruel this game can be and I never doubted that everyone would give of his best and that is as much as we can expect.
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Offering meditations on race and violence, the lyrics resonate as much as the atmospheric instrumentation.
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A whole book could be written on water as metaphor, much as I am attempting with bread.
