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What was striking, though, was the absence of any reaction. None of the 30 people in the class so much as winced.

To her dismay, however, the young man roughly brushed her aside and went by without so much as a glance at her.

Moderation: Avoid extremes. Forebear resenting injuries so much as you think they deserve.

Avoid extremes; forbear resenting injuries so much as you think they deserve.

Sometimes it use to annoy me so much as I was educated in Britain, paid my taxes and yet I was being told to go back to my own country! !

If I hear so much as a mouse fart in here the rest of the night, by God and Sonny Jesus, you'll all visit the infirmary.

I knew not, neither did I so much as consider whither I should steer; for any where to get out of that Place was my Way.

He had not so much as the price of a cup of coffee on him.

KM: I mean, I didn't really think of that as an argument so much as just a lively discussion.

Yes, that trial the big bear felt ready to stand; and as he knew in his heart he had never so much as tasted the butter.

We were able to convince them that they weren't interested in a completion milestone so much as a confidence milestone.

While the slump did not reflect pessimism so much as an overdue dose of realism, it has had severe consequences nonetheless.

Disappointed with her husband, Mary left home without so much as looking back at him.

Not so much as I could wish, Sir; but I dare say he may spend half his time here; and Miss Darcy is always down for the summer months.

He said he has never seen so much as a fight at the rink.

The sakura is glorified, worshipped and enjoyed so much as it is only natural to have the status of the flower of Japan.

This book is the introduction of economic globalization is not so much as it is a subject of economic globalization for a long newsletter.

Parry closed his eyes and breathed in deeply, not praying so much as gathering his strength.

Moderation: Avoid extreams; forbear resenting injuries so much as you think they deserve.

It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants.

standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breath, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner.

The scales along his back seem to be blackish, and so much as is discovered under his belie, appeared to be red. . .

Getting people motivated to take on responsibility is not a question of organizational structure so much as organizational attitude.

for there is nothing which would surprise a geometer so much as if the diagonal turned out to be commensurable.

It still requires a bit of discipline and commitment, but not nearly so much as making a permanent change.

And if I so much as mention Ashley's name, she had thought irritably, he cocks his eyebrow up and smiles that nasty, knowing smile!

lf he so much as suggests what she's suggesting, you give me a call and we'll sue the hell out of him.

Knowing Io Welland as he had, he deemed it very improbable that she had even so much as mentioned him to any of her friends.

The innocent is me, and the names weren't changed so much as invented to make it look as if I didn't eat expensive meals alone.

MODERATION. Avoid extreme; forbear resenting injuries so much as you think they deserve.

Moderation: Avoid extremes; forbear resenting injuries so much as you think they deserve.

form did not weight so much as gravity was not a pull so heavy as today , but a gentle push from outside forces.

It seems to me that the question here is not do animals experience grief, so much as do they understand death?

Financial globalisation itself, they imply, ought to be seen not so much as a bad thing, but as too much of a good one.

l He did not so much as punish one of the murderers, nor did he show the least tenderness to the survivors.

they had never so much as looked at their fallen comrade , though he was not dead , and i could see him trying to crawl away.

And he took and sent messes unto them from before him: but Benjamin's mess was five times so much as any of theirs.

Even how we were on the rock he said nothing, nor so much as relaxed the frowning look upon his face.

Unlike Claes Oldenburg and his wife, Coosje van Bruggen, the Lalannes did not collaborate so much as co-create.

The gay dads might have "looked straight, " but I have never so much as seen the imprint of a wedding band.

It does not appear that he means by this an acceptance of original sin so much as a prelude to major change or revolution. But to what?

The areas of brick hovels without so much as a toilet, which used to shape the cityscape in many districts, have begun to vanish.

The captain's " little blow up" , in so much as the waves were from 6 to 18 feet high, was what I'd have called a storm.

Not one time had I ever bothered to express to any of them so much as a simple, sincere "Thank you. "

Carl has really been bitten by the green-eyed monster; he gets jealous if his wife so much as talks to another man.

Look at him, all day he doesn't so much as fart , but everything gets done!

THE VOICE OF IOKANAAN: After me shall come another mightier than I. I am not worthy so much as to unloose the latchet of his shoes.

There was no room for error; even so much as grazing the nerve bundle could permanently paralyze the patient.

Keyboards weren't designed for ergonomics and performance so much as to be compatible with what was already familiar to typists of the day.

In Dr Shaw's opinion, the industry's problem has not been bad products so much as a failure to think big.

Nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman - or the want of it in the man.

Swearing he had never so much as looked at another woman, Jack assured Jill he was no philanderer.

But Mr Phillips suspects that race is not the problem so much as the cultural and religious separateness of many Asians.

Don't even so much as give me a look like you might be thinking about it.

The sun's rays do not warm the water so much as they do the land.

More to the point, the police hadn't noticed so much as a scratch on Kenny immediately after the crime.

Nothing upsets an Englishman so much as not being able to " place" another --or worse, making a mistake about another' s social position.

Indeed, it may be that the conversations we're used to having with our books aren't disappearing so much as changing.

This book is cast not so much as a description of his travels, but rather as a warning.

Mr Beck is not advocating piety so much as claiming a divine imprimatur for his own prejudice against big government.

But other promises that may remain unfulfilled do not reflect bad faith so much as the scale of the task.

Thus, the difference is not in the direction of the service so much as the intention.

Our intent is not to remove your voice so much as it is to allow others to have theirs.

Before I knew it, I had begun a conversation. . . . and I was not writing so much as taking dictation.

I just wish you would not interfere with me so much as you have been doing.

They did not so much as greet the leader, but joined the one, sniffling and hitching and scraping their feet.

China has neither openly backed assertions that the North sank the ship, nor so much as hinted at disapproval of North Korean behaviour.

The biggest and most attractive centres, however, would not suffer so much as they would still attract shoppers.

Kratos slowly makes his way toward the Blade of Olympus, so weak that he can't even so much as swing his blades.

She inched her way along, never letting herself so much as blink, even when her eyes burned.

And the young people today don't want to listen so much as they want to see, to see love in action, to see faith in action.

and he was so hungry that he did not mind the woman's angry words half so much as the loss of the cake.

The problem set for society is not the virtues of the type so much as its adequacy for its function , and here grave difficulties arise .

He was standing so when the two young men strode freely up the aisle, confident and cool-eyed, smiling, not giving him so much as a glance.

It might be more accurate, in other words, to start thinking of Amazon not as a retailer so much as a technology and logistics firm.

His various appearances before congressional committees resembled nothing so much as the clubbing of a baby seal.

Her face hadn't changed so much as settled, and into a mold unlike the one he had given her in his imagination.

I have not so much as heard of him, much less know him.

I wasn't bothered by his loud playing of the trumpet so much as by his lack of music talent.

No one would employ him or give him so much as a crust of bread to keep him from starvation.

Really, she wasn't demeaned in Hollywood so much as she was ignored.

He DID not alter his position so much as modify its severity.

What mattered most was not the substance of the course so much as the way she thought, the style of learning she fostered.

For years Microsoft took it, he said, without so much as counterpunch.

But none of the sisters wanted to go so much as the youngest sister wanted to go.

It was like nothing so much as the phantasmagoric play of the northern lights.

if he does not so much as know what they are, he has no ground for preferring either opinion.

No fields bordered it, no dwelling anywhere. Not so much as the barking of a dog suggested human habitation.

Not only did he never cross the threshold, but he never so much as showed his face at a window.

This new world is not -- and will not be -- one global village, so much as a network of different ones.

His Tasmania home is not about self-sufficiency so much as 'the physical benefit of living in a beautiful place. '

Weak and ineffective: By the next weekend, those tough little dandelions didn't have so much as a withered leaf.

It's not a song, so much as a list poem read through a computer programme to remove all emotion from it.

It was only then that an elderly gent strolled out of the sauna without so much as seeing us.

Jiayuguan Pass was not so much as the "Strategic pass Under the Heaven" as an important communication center in Chinese history.

The short answer in the case of Libya is that Barack Obama has not invented a new doctrine so much as repudiated an old one.

The greatest value of universities is not the brand name or perhaps even the classes so much as the people you meet.

Never has there been a scroll, even such as the one I hold, which earned so much as a penny or produced a single word of acclamation.

And that, they reckon, depends on nothing so much as their continued ability to preside over rapid economic growth.

Beth: I- I don't have much experience with decorating. If I so much as moved a chair, mama would throw a fit.

Coralite forms very fast; structures made of the substance are not built so much as grown.

Ben Stiller is a funny guy, but here Reuben, with his uncooperative stomach and lack of grace, isn't a character so much as a punch line.

and then, says you, Ben Gunn was short-handed - no chaplin g, nor so much as a Bible and a flag, you says.

To make the matter worse , he hadn't so much as his fare home.

We try our luck anyway but are shown away without so much as an offer of a cold one as consolation.

IBM did not release a product so much as unleash an industry.

When Mary walked in, she didn't so much as take a glance at me, which angered me.

He do not smoke so much as you.

Today it regards itself not so much as a political party as the embodiment of the nation.

I can say truly that after God and my honour I treasure nothing in the world so much as you.

At the end of the day, it is not our technology that we must learn to control so much as it ourselves.

With a deepen international communication, we Chinese people enjoyed so much as foreigners.

Mun called me today again, they still worried me so much as I'm a boy for ever in their eyes, it's fortunate to me!

David Duchovny does not have to do so much as the producer but he has some good, provocative scenes with Mary McCormack as a masseur.

In all this great serenity of ocean it is seldom that we espy so much as another ship .

For Putin, democracy is not about competitive elections so much as the implementation of popular will.

But scientists discovered that camels do not sweat so much as other mammals.

You don't just have your mind, after all; you are your mind, and nothing threatens your well being so much as the feeling that it's at risk.

In all this great serenity of ocean it is seldom that they espy so much as another ship.

Zero-waste design strives to create clothing patterns that leave not so much as a scrap of fabric on the cutting room floor.

And probably no one so much as Dostoevsky has managed to give the absurd world such familiar and tormenting charms.

He soon came to a bridge, where he saw a man shivering in the cold without so much as a shirt on him.

My wife is the jealous type. If I so much as look at another woman, she starts making a scene.

He had not so much as his fare home.

Mr Ferguson presents a thesis that the West risks not the genteel decline of old age so much as collapse.

I didn't say so much as he did at the meeting yesterday.

But the cold reality is that eventually Israel may need to look not to "deal" with Hamas so much as do a deal with it.

He did not so much AS thank me.

The northern cluster is centered on X13, which is not a town so much as a ritual center, rather like a fairground.

In China, the shirts were seen not so much as a protest against Obama as they were a hip and ironic joke.

We're not talking about textbooks so much as we are popular writing that will reach the general public.

In this world not worth so much as a breath, the only valid relation is that between man and eternity, not between man and history.

I couldn't bear the fact that, when they were together, he wouldn't so much as look at me.

She let down a tape from the window to the pavement, and it was a sheer drop of thirty feet, without so much as a spout to climb up by.

Not really a science so much as a value - laden form of prophecy .

Consumption is not only an economic behavior but the essential part of ordinary life, so much as the manner to represent ego existence.

People who had never so much as waded in the ocean became convinced that sharks were a menace, better off dead.

wasn't that John was lazy and fat so much as the sky was blue and he wanted to play.

At the end of the day, this is not a biography of Than Shwe, so much as an attack on Than Shwe.

so much as the personal treatment of a well-established pattern.

It's not technology that will determine the shape of land transport so much as political, economic and environmental considerations.

If the Church cannot find ways through, that is not an index of its incompetence so much as of the sensitivity of such matters.

they did not love their lives so much as to shrink from death.

Hard questions to answer, since a critic's job is not prophecy so much as the anticipation of surprise.

Traders must have found their lives awfully dull, without so much as a currency crisis to get the pulse racing.

not a spell so much as a magical effect , caused by seeing the reflected eyes of a basilisk.

There's many a calling that don't bring in so much as mine, if it comes to money.

And they say that she's not so much as spoke to him since they were at Greenhill Fair.

Yet it was not her beauty so much as the look she gave me that fascinated me, melted me.

but, his morning's chocolate could not so much as get into the throat of Monseigneur, without the aid of four strong men besides the Cook.

Almost all the sediments on the continental shelf from the land-based sediment brought by rivers, while the ocean so much as.

Every animal is attached to nothing so much as to its own interest.

The larger problem of democracies' weakness has not been caused by the economic crisis, so much as revealed by it.

If a glass layer's shape is off so much as a fraction of a micron, the scope's precision takes a mighty blow.

He never so much as kissed her.

In reality, though, the cloud won't do away with jobs so much as it will change what skills employers need.

But, until recently, most umbilicals were discarded after birth without so much as a second thought.

I don't think it's a disagreement between the authors so much as a disagreement within each of them.

or it inspires me so much as to pick up a brush to paint, to splash, and then why am i here talking to you.

The debt ceiling was raised without so much as a whimper every other year of W's presidency and guess what.

Although the novels are set in the church community, they are not about religion so much as about the state of society in general.

Since nobody managed to pluck so much as one leaf of the tree, the king assembled the wise men to explain the magic spell.

He didn't so much as thank me for returning his money that I found.

Just look around you. Mars gets along perfectly well without so much as a microorganism.

It is not the destination so much as the journey, they say.

Britain's new coalition government seems intent on bowing out without so much as a whimper.

The overarching story of the past five centuries is not about China's absolute decline so much as about the West's relative advance.

Part of the reason why I'm so open to the idea of living simply is because, I think, I read so much as a child.

It didn't so much as quiver when a car door slammed on the next street, nor when two owls swooped overhead.

The cracked bed of Lake Eyre, meantime, resembles nothing so much as a lunar landscape.

I've got a gun aimed at your navel. If you move so much as one muscle, you can just say adios muchachos.

All the townspeople fled for their life, giving not so much AS a backward glance at their burning town.

if a little knowledge is dangerous , where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger.

This was not a burden so much as a privilege.

We now pass through these electronic friskers without so much as a sideways glance; the machines, and what they stand for, have won.

Think of it not as messing so much as digressing.

No one else needs our help so much as he does.

Millions of older drivers have never had so much as a speeding ticket in decades of driving.

The superstar walked through the crowd without so much as turning her face to either side.

I experienced this, not so much as a geographical shift, as a linguistic one.

I guess we weren't scared of the Germans so much as of our own authorities.

It's been a long time since I enjoyed myself so much as last night.

But the Security Council broke up without so much as issuing a statement, much less passing any new resolutions or sanctions.

How strange that people should spend years preparing for retirement and not take so much as five minutes to prepare to meet God.

If you so much as lay a hand on her, I'll kill you.

Those of us over 40 don't remember having so much as a conversation about food allergies in school.

not brains so much as heart, not genius so much as self-control, patience, and discipline, regulated by judgment.

Would you like the tale of the little Snow Girl who was not loved so much as a hen?

and perhaps never before has it served so much as in the recent events in Europe.

Magic isn't something they learn, so much as something that appears to be instinctive to them.

These recent rises, therefore, may not indicate recovering demand, so much as output rising to find its real floor.

Bear in mind that it is not fine clothes so much as clean ones that makes a gentleman.

In China, senior government and Communist party officials vanish all the time without causing so much as a ripple in the domestic media.

In so doing, she dismissed her responsibility to so much as warn returning refuges about the extreme security threat.

not genius so much as self-control, patience , and discipline , regulated by judgment.

Men have lost their reason in nothing so much as their religion, wherein stones and clouts make martyrs.

It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.

He walked away and left her standing by the elevator, never so much as inquiring her name.

I think the problem is not rudeness so much as a mismatch of expectations.

China can revalue just enough to keep inflation at around 2% to 3%, but not so much as to dramatically reduce its trade surplus.

He dos not smoke so much as you .

Despite not so much as a pole position to their name in the 22-year history of premier class Donington competition.

Hast thou found honey? eat so much as is sufficient for thee, lest thou be filled therewith, and vomit it.

We can desire nothing in regard to them so much as to see them consolidate their strength and pursue the paths of prosperity and happiness.

Once a league laughingstock, nobody even so much as smirks at the Hornets anymore.

Neither Charlie nor I will get so much as a clue about the questions to be asked.

However, in so much as designers should also code their innovations, there are downsides to this scenario.

a few other creatures yield oil, but non so much as whale.

Johnny, I told you before, if she so much as mentions my fucking name, you pay.

So the yod isn't really an aspect pattern so much as it is a midpoint pattern.

Before you so much as hit the space bar, call up a friend, preferably a technically inclined one, and try to describe what happened.

He wouldn't change so much as a comma in a medical report to please anyone.

We got thirsty again, and are drinking the same ten-year-old Kool-Aid without so much as asking for ice.

What hurt me worst about it was not so much as their lying.

There is not so much as an error in his answer.

This wood also has a good, not so much as common bent or slit at wood, and mix different colored plastic so that varying paint.

Both my husband and I like the girl, but I don't like her so much as he.

He left the room without so much as closing the door.

"One could write the history of Florentine banking in the 15th century without so much as mentioning the Medici, " he writes.

One never loves those who are near on so much as when one is in danger of losing them.

Our English homework is not so much as math homework.

If you so much as lay a finger on my boy, I'll call the police.

He was too stupid without so much as writing his own name.

There is also the Desert Rose (adenium obesity) which looks like nothing so much as a blooming elephant leg.

I'm not like a lot of photographers, who take pictures without so much as talking to the people they document.

John Adams commented, "He didn't reinvent the wheel so much as he showed us a new way to ride. "

Hatred does not stir the stone men half so much as hunger.

All competitors will be expected to have excellent examination results before they can so much as apply to compete.

You can always find out the youth and cannot so much as ignore adults who are swallowing in games.

He didn't so much as thank me for returning his money found.

In China, policy makers may not be thinking about their stomachs so much as the headache food prices are causing.

She came in without so much as saying hello to me.

It is not great talents that God blesses, so much as great likeness to Jesus.

I didn't eat so much as you yesterday.

The Linux world is based on nothing so much as a deep desire for diversity and choice in computing.

He does not so much as understand this law.

And not so much as a date has been announced for the talks to begin.

Nothing inspires fear so much as a good bank run.

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

All 300 million citizens of the European Economic Area can live and work in Britain if they choose without having to fill so much as a form.

No other city, not even Athens in ancient times, has been fought over so much as Jerusalem.

Eg Nothing in the world can delight me so much as having hamburgers in fast-food restaurants.

Nothing in the world can delight me so much as eating hamburgers in fast-food restaurants.

Many new shipyards are thought to have closed in China without so much as a yelp.

Anybody gets so much as a bad feeling, we stop and we reassess.

The bashful fountain, who attracts you so much as to ripple, sparkling so beautiful?

without so much|as a good-bye handshake?

Another point of view is that higher commodity prices may not signal recovery so much as strangle it at birth.

Of all Rashemen's warriors, perhaps none had felt this disruption so much as Fyodor.

One can get it from so much as touching them or sharing their towels and spoons and forks.