Instead, there is not so much as a flickering light.
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Not so much as a weapon, as a tool for intimidation.
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Sort of and yet not so much, as it turns out.
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Nothing living, not so much as a blade of grass anywhere.
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Germany, the world champion, did not so much as drop a point.
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He can be gross, but perhaps not so much as was Lyndon Johnson.
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One horse in attendance, however, will not so much as break a sweat.
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India, not so much as yet, but maybe one day it'll be there.
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The two men did not so much as glance sideways at each other.
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It succeeds wonderfully, not so much as an argument but as an emanation of spirit.
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Somehow they used enough to kill parasites, but not so much as to kill themselves.
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They had lost a bit of helium, but not so much as to ground them.
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I'm a fan of his as a player, but maybe not so much as a person.
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Not so much as a trailer for one of the movies has ever crossed my screen.
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They're comfortable, if slightly heavier than standard sunglasses, but not so much as to be burdensome.
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There's a whole lot about being good, but not so much as a whisper about Jesus.
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Divorce followed, but the book depicts it not so much as a tragedy as a joyful rebirth.
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Coco Chanel, immortalized not so much as a young woman but as an elegant matriarch, retires nearby.
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The blingless kingpin himself wore scruffy shoes and did not so much as take a sip of water.
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It's angular, yes, but not so much as to offend the human eye or the laws of aerodynamics.
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Despite Garland's much-proclaimed moderation, Mitch McConnell declared that he would not so much as get a hearing.
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We saluted the dark, starry, silent sky, and it did not so much as whistle or wink back.
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Russian and American intelligence agencies see one another not so much as potential allies but as persistent threats.
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This is embarrassing, but if I'm being honest, I have not so much as kissed anyone in six months.
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Consciousness has been exploded not so much as an aftereffect of a violent shock but thanks to becoming superfluous.
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Not so much, as it turns out, although Mironov was a perfectly serviceable defenseman for three seasons in Toronto.
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Perhaps not so much as a turning point, but rather a statement of our intentions and self-belief perhaps.
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Credentials require just the right amount of friction: enough to be trusted, not so much as to block career transitions.
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But when nothing came — not so much as a tribute post on either star's social media pages — the Beyhive swarmed.
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"The rest of this flight, that flight attendant would not so much as look me in the eyes," she said.
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In Italy, the Five Star Movement began not so much as a party but as an online decision-making platform.
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In Eisenstein's thinking, which was tinged with violence, individual shots are not so much as linked together, but in conflict.
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Many saw Obama's 'apology tour,' not so much as a repudiation of the Bush Doctrine, but a repudiation of American exceptionalism.
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At the culmination of the biggest game of his long broadcasting career, he will not so much as raise his voice.
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Hassan Rouhani, a moderate who was promising change but not so much as to provoke the system's wrath, won the presidency.
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You need to stir it: but not so much as to make it too thick, nor too little in case it burns.
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States can tax users to deter consumption—though not so much as to make consumers turn first to the untaxed black market.
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The room itself is tightly lightfast, with not so much as a stray reflection to distract from the piece — these details count.
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It's not on her VEVO account, it's not on the Grammy's YouTube page, and it's not so much as mentioned on GRAMMY.com.
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Before now, Obamacare was being referred to more as a government program and not so much as a tax even by Republicans.
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There is not so much as a footnote on the now-defunct Christian Armenian communities in the area — Apostolic and Catholic alike.
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Now I view privacy not so much as the ability to keep your personal details away from prying government agencies or companies.
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Ms. Morawetz saw makeup not so much as a means to transform a woman, but rather as a way to complement her.
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A constant, it buffets not so much as it wraps you, making you a part of the island by heightening your senses.
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From the moment Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton stepped on stage in Las Vegas, they did not so much as acknowledge each other.
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"We present the clock not so much as doom and gloom as an opportunity for the public to discuss important issues," Krauss said.
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The team had not so much as tied a game on the road in 2018 — and, with theatrical flourish, offered a deep bow.
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"I've got a screw loose, sure," said Mark Philipps, 46, who still tends goal but not so much as a rental goalie anymore.
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Not so much as a glimmer of gold dust, let alone the tons of precious metal they said an FBI contractor's instruments had detected.
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It's also streamlined, but not so much as to look identical to every other supercar trying to hit the lowest possible 3093-60 time.
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Broadly, I like to borrow from Steve Jobs in thinking about design not so much as what things look like but how they work.
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" And it did, thanks to goth filmmaker extraordinaire Tim Burton, who envisioned his film not so much as a remake as a "re-imagining.
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A cynic might guess that he'd had enough success to touch all of them but not so much as to foster jealousy or resentment.
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I repeatedly dropped them onto a poured cement floor up to shoulder height (about 5 feet) and produced not so much as a scratch.
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I tend to think of L.A.'s influence not so much as a relentless sunniness but as a wide-eyed searching of the horizon.
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Ms. Waldman, however, was drawn to microdosing not so much as a career propellant, but as a last-ditch attempt to find mental equilibrium.
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Highlights are rendered not so much as brush strokes as brush touches, some of the daubs perfect circles that appear as little sequins of light.
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Clinton, however, has not so much as uttered "bankruptcy" and "student loans" in the same sentence since she announced her candidacy for the 2016 election.
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Clinton, however, has not so much as uttered "bankruptcy" and "student loans" in the same sentence since she announced her candidacy for the 85033 election.
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It's also true that Facebook and other Silicon Valley giants have sold themselves not so much as profit-seeking companies but as ideal-pursuing movements.
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The bottom line is that governments need to be in the picture just enough to reassure investors, while not so much as to crowd out innovators.
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This means China is still paying more for its LNG than the spot price, but not so much as to make LNG imports uncompetitive against pipeline supplies.
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I now think of chess not so much as a path to happiness as a ritual where we free each other from the pressure to be happy.
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So the acquisition is being viewed not so much as a "no-brainer" but as a bailout of SolarCity by Tesla, one that may sink both companies.
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Served on a whole wheat bun, it comes with a generous helping of salad but not so much as to overpower the taste of the tender meats.
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It probably reflects a need to do something for domestic political consumption in Iran — but not so much as to spark massive retaliation from the United States.
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Is it accurate to say your approach to design is that of a traditionalist who is fashion-forward, though not so much as to scare off consumers?
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There's not so much as a mention of whether these particular subsidies to large energy incumbents might produce the emission reductions needed, or any emission reductions at all.
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Thus, investors might have begun to wonder whether they should start seeing gold as more of an inflation edge, and not so much as a traditional safe haven.
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Observing a school pickup in his West Village neighborhood could be construed not so much as stalking as research, and also a good way to start this interview.
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"We still see an oversupplied market, just not so much as it was before," said Andrew Wilson, the IEA's oil market analyst in charge of stocks and prices.
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CPAC organizers saw Milo not so much as a voice of conservatism as much as a voice against political correctness that would attract major eyeballs to its conference.
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And though she brings in a couple of vocal harmonies in the second verse, throughout both verses there is not so much as a bassline in the background.
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And by DOA, McConnell meant not so much as a hearing in the Judiciary Committee for Merrick Garland, who was center left but hardly a left-wing nut.
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Other times, bad years force boards to strike a delicate balance, paying CEOs enough to keep them around but not so much as to spark an investor revolt.
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Mr. Kunkin viewed the paper's role not so much as promoting a left-wing or any other agenda, but as reflecting the underserved communities in which it circulated.
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BIJOUX and CHINTZ are not friendly words to squeeze into a tight grid, so there is some glue but apparently NOT SO MUCH as to be a dealbreaker.
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But in Doonbeg, Trump is being welcomed warmly — not so much as president of the United States but as the largest employer in the village of 754 people.
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As Green Bay sent out the kicker, the announcers Al Michaels and Chris Collinsworth did not so much as mention that a two-yard gain would win a playoff game.
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The terrible things Young saw in war disturb him, the random death, the gore, the unthinking cruelty, but not so much as the person he became during those four years.
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A basic income could be structured to provide slightly more than existing benefits, but not so much as to remove the incentive to work a job on pain of living miserably.
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And despite picking The New Order up for Real Money two years ago, I'd not so much as slipped it into my PS4 until a couple of days ago. More. Fool.
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When the Hyderabad plotters were arrested last summer, they could not so much as confirm the nationalities of their interlocutors in the Islamic State, let alone describe what they looked like.
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But journalists -- right-leaning journalists, George Will was talking to Bill Maher about this and he was describing it as maybe not so much as a cult as a culture of fear.
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For the Saudis that amount is enough to ensure that Trump is appeased and that refiners, particularly in Asia, are sufficiently supplied, but not so much as to cause prices to drop.
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The Z3 Play comes with a free battery back (which also makes that phone easier to grip), but there's not so much as a basic rear cover tossed in with the Z23.
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She swears sacred oaths that she would rather die than give up her meadow; she won't give up a square foot of it, no, not so much as a blade of grass.
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Fans who had marked their calendars saw that Friday come and go, with not so much as a tweet from Ocean (Not least of all because he doesn't have a Twitter account).
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This was published in an American outlet, for audiences who aren't likely as familiar with the Ghomeshi saga, and there's not so much as an editor's note explaining everything he's accused of doing.
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When dormant, the virus exists quietly within the nuclei of long-lived immune cells called CD4+ memory T cells where it lives not so much as a hijacker, but as an innocuous passenger.
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Not so much as some of the other albums because it was a shared moment and I almost listen to it in a way like it's a Cav album featuring this dude Quelle.
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The anonymity problem can in part be solved by retaining smaller notes and coins; enough for punters to keep buying porn, weed and birthday presents, but not so much as to buy property.
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But BECCS is not even mentioned in the text of the agreement, and the complex discussions around who will bury all the carbon, how much, and when, have not so much as begun.
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The Christmas Prince even says, "No wolves, I promise," right before a festive horseback ride through Aldovia's supposedly wolf-infested mountains, and there is not so much as a howl in the distance.
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Technically, the debate is about how to ensure that an economy has the right amount of money: enough to keep production high and unemployment low, but not so much as to cause undesired inflation.
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"I was a big fan but now not so much as I saw you played golf with Trump & Rush… two people who do NOT support women & children… how could you… sad," one user wrote.
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One middle-aged Yazidi woman described to me how the wife of the man who had enslaved her would not so much as let her take a glass of water out of the fridge.
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"It's not so much as saying there's one specific answer as saying, this is something we have to take seriously," said Hilary Ballon, the lab's curator and a vice chancellor of New York University.
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Day-to-day research — what he termed science in the making — appeared not so much as a stepwise progression toward rational truth as a disorderly mass of stray observations, inconclusive results and fledgling explanations.
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National Review's ultimate assessment of Bowie was that he used his glam-rock persona not so much as a foil for the musical establishment but as only one side of a larger, universalized musical sensibility.
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The plot of "Mad Blood Stirring" grows from a kernel of historical truth — Mayo provides a full bibliography, in case there's any doubt — but his book dazzles not so much as fact than as fiction.
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In the context of Tillerson's mystifying unwillingness to say or do anything of substance, the statement reads not so much as a threat, but as an admission that Tillerson actually has nothing to say at all.
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Canaan is expected to present itself to investors not so much as a bitcoin company, but as a chip designer focused on developing other markets in artificial intelligence and blockchain, the electronic ledger that underpins bitcoin.
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" But Mr. Trump, he said, was "cherry-picking particular facts and figures not so much as a means to shed light on the phenomena but as a means to attack Khan, who has previously attacked him.
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The customers I served saw me, and my co-workers, not so much as people as the furniture of the restaurant, and talked about us as if we couldn't hear, or understand, what they were saying.
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Some of the jokes, which are too raunchy to retell here, are aimed at younger women in the crowd — not so much as advice but as warnings on what to expect as the years go by.
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Watch This on Tonic: Scientists are now encouraging people to learn how to fall to minimize injury—to view falling not so much as an unexpected hazard to be avoided as an inevitability to be prepared for.
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But like many in urban and suburban Alabama, the two women viewed the allegations reported by The Washington Post that Mr. Moore had made sexual overtures to teenagers decades ago not so much as a discrete scandal.
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Ever since Napoleon set up the baccalauréat, which is awarded by the education ministry, this exam has served not so much as a school-leaving diploma but as an entrance ticket to university, where tuition fees are negligible.
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To the Editor: President-elect Donald Trump's pledge on nuclear arms to "outmatch them at every pass and outlast them all" has struck listeners not so much as a policy statement as a reflexive expression of national machismo.
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The position of the Senate GOP under majority leader Mitch McConnell has always been that the next president should decide on Antonin Scalia's replacement — and that, accordingly, they will not so much as consider Barack Obama's nominee, Merrick Garland.
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It is likely that the Chinese government overstates the comparison as a way of undermining the appeal of a movement that it sees not so much as a threat to society, but as a challenge to the party itself.
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Last Thursday, one of the stranger infrastructure debacles in recent American history saw a portion of a five-lane interstate overpass in Atlanta completely collapse after lighting on fire, somehow leaving not so much as a scratch on anyone.
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In the US, regulatory authority is emerging not so much as a patchwork but a casserole; the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Commodities and Futures Trading Commission, and individual states are all more or less concurrently policing the industry.
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Many economists these days view what we are teaching not so much as a specific subject matter but as a set of analytic tools that are relevant beyond the relatively standardized production and pricing decisions of the business world.
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Enough bronze to assume the shape of the mold is used, but not so much as to fill it entirely: If the largely hollow Heisman were actually a dense hunk of bronze, it would weigh more than 200 pounds.
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One of nauseating disgust because, once again, the world has been reminded that men can get away with seemingly whatever they damn well please with not so much as a slap on the wrist, while women must suffer the consequences.
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The story begins with a seedy scene in a London opium den—by then, smoking the drug had come to be viewed not so much as a bad habit encouraged by the British, but as a Chinese vice menacing Britain.
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Only an infamous inaugural-night supper by Republican Party leaders in the Caucus Room Brasserie, in which they pledged not so much as to entertain any and all presidential initiatives, in order to make him a failed, one-term president.
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"Free to Run" is an idiosyncratic account of the rise of long-distance running over the last 50 years, viewing it not so much as sport as a social revolution shaking off the tyranny of running federations that limited participation.
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Let me encourage you to do the thing you're afraid of doing: Treat him with respect as a fellow human being, showing you're willing to converse with him not so much as someone who needs help but as an equal.
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Prices have come off, but not plummeted, and volumes are also down, but not so much as to raise concerns that liquidity is being choked off for legitimate users of futures contracts, such as steel mills, miners and major commodity traders.
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The only difference I experienced was that the Vivo handset was slower — both to learn the contours of my fingerprint and to unlock once I put my thumb on the on-screen fingerprint prompt — but not so much as to be problematic.
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Here's a brief video explaining this history and showing some of the ways it manifests: The basic history is this: In 1910, Japan colonized Korea, treating Koreans not so much as foreigners but as a wayward subset of the Japanese race now reunited.
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For their crossing to qualify as unsupported, the competitors cannot accept any help from the few humans they might encounter — not so much as a cup of tea from researchers at the renowned Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station as they pass by.
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Unlike the other matches in the I.C.C. this year — all of them glamorous matchups like Barcelona-Juventus, or Real Madrid-Manchester United, or United-Manchester City — Barca-Real is being sold not so much as a game but as a dayslong festival.
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My first impression is that the X5000s exhibit an enthusiasm in the lower treble, one that sometimes overpowers the vocals in a song, but it's not so much as to cause me discomfort or, as in the case of the Pioneer SE-Master1, distress.
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"It's kind of what you avoid not so much as what you own if there is going to be a slowdown that really blows back on the U.S." The yield curve inverts when a shorter-term bond yields higher than a longer-term bond.
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One way to think of that figure is that OpenAI deems a 100-times return to be an ethical margin on building a general A.I. — enough to make it a feasible endeavor, but not so much as to tar it with the Big Tech brush.
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"Governments tend to, on a day-to-day basis, underestimate the importance of the health care community and look at it not so much as an economic contribution as an economic deficit," Raske said, emphasizing that the attitude extends well beyond the Trump administration.
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In a video on Monday, Booker reaffirmed his unity message and vowed to campaign for the eventual Democratic presidential nominee, as well as other candidates down the ballot, though he did not so much as hint at whom he could back in the primary race.
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" Center for American Progress president Neera Tanden, a former Clinton aide, is a notable Stein adversary who once tweeted, "I know I need to let this go but I hope Jill Stein does not so much as whisper a rebuke of Trump pulling out of Paris. #shebuiltthis.
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By contrast, after the destruction of the first temple, when Israel's educated people were either killed or exiled to Babylonia, there is not so much as a pottery shard, seal or stamp with a single piece of writing from the region for more than 200 years, Finkelstein said.
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The prospect of further regulatory action has weighed on the cryptocurrency sector, even as Canaan has sought to present itself to investors not so much as a bitcoin company, but as a chip designer focused on developing other markets in artificial intelligence and blockchain, the electronic ledger that underpins bitcoin.
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The head of the EU executive also repeated what has become a mantra of "no negotiation without notification" for European leaders - that the EU will not so much as talk to the British until May formally triggers a two-year countdown to Brexit under Article 50 of the EU treaty.
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Yet, as Native Americans right now fight for their most basic rights in North Dakota, the National Football League and the Washington team have remained silent, offering not so much as a peep of support or solidarity -- even as they kick off another season to profit off demeaning our heritage.
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To compete, workers had to become as flexible as machines: able to work on a task basis; ineligible for unions; free at night; willing to work any shift; requiring no health care or other benefits, not so much as a day off at Christmas; easy to hire; and easier to fire.
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Even a White House visit, if it happens, risks being seen not so much as a triumph for Mr. Zelensky as more kowtowing to Mr. Trump, who could cite it as evidence he never linked such a visit, or American military assistance for Ukraine, to investigations that would benefit him politically.
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From the use of soma as a kind of happiness drug to the erasure of the past not so much as a threat to government, as is the case in Orwell's dystopia, but as simply irrelevant ("History is bunk"), Huxley marked out amusement and superficiality as the buttons that control behavior.
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"Wild Things" doesn't have much of an argument to make other than its premise that we should take children's literature seriously, which I think many people already do, and yet the book succeeds wonderfully, not so much as an argument but as an eccentric essay, and an emanation of spirit.
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Exit from the Shinkansen bullet train at Kumamoto station and there is nothing special on the platform, not so much as a banner – not until you take the escalator down and catch a glimpse of the enormous head of Kumamon set up downstairs, along with a mock stationmaster's office built for him.
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But it, too, remained bound by general laws, so that when any historical actors did this or that (crossed the Rubicon, repealed the Edict of Nantes, etc.), they did so not so much as individuals, but as vessels of a historical process that would be unfolding even if they had never existed.
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With its overheated language and repeated reference to "the ongoing violation of federal law by more than half a million people," the petition the administration filed last month reads not so much as a legal document but as a recruiting brochure, aimed at a very small but immensely powerful audience of nine.
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Credit...Patrick Chauvel MOSCOW — It began not so much as an invasion, but as a slouching stumble through mud and snow by frightened, ill-fed Russian conscripts, the hollowed-out remnants of a force that, before the collapse of the Soviet Union just three years earlier, had been the mighty Red Army.
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The Belgian has admitted on several occasions that he is tempted by the prospect of a move to Real Madrid at the end of the season, though he has not agreed terms with the Spanish team and Real have not so much as submitted an offer to Chelsea, let alone had a bid accepted.
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Not so much as if God was speaking to me, but I do feel that in the last little while, this summer, that I've experienced things, that God has illuminated that, and has moved me forward with what he has called me to do, what he has gifted me with — a platform to reach people and be an example.
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Saturday's show had four sets of encores, and after the first three, Mr. Smith put his hand up on his clavicle, seemingly not so much as a stagy gesture of being overwhelmed, but as you might do reflexively to collect your thoughts when you've got a lot on your plate; he looked away from the audience and briskly walked off.
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In recent years, the Supreme Court has become not so much politicized as weaponized in the culture wars over issues like gay marriage, guns, and abortion, and both the right and the left see him not so much as an individual but as part of a five-justice arsenal poised to make America as a whole more like its red states.
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Not only are the systems in cars far more complex — covering not just HD maps but real-time pictures of road environments, entertainment services and information, navigation and more — but software engineers are now using the network of devices not so much as dumb endpoints, but as new data gathering tools to continue to feed back information to the central system to improve how it works overall.
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Gett, long a trailing player in the on-demand ride space, had early roots in Israel, but more recently has been trying to carve out a position for itself in the market in both the U.S. and Europe, not so much as a direct Uber competitor, but as a service and app for established taxi drivers to use to complement whatever services they might already offer for on-street hailing.
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Young Lucas confessed yesterday that his confessions were false, that he is not the Raffles nor the beguiler of duchesses that he has painted himself, that he has never served two terms in British reformatories, that he has not so much as been up for juvenile delinquency and that he has written his five volumes of confessions (three more in preparation) altogether out of a conscience void of offense.
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In essence, it's fair to think of the F-35 not so much as a fighter with fancy electronics, but the other way round: as a super-sophisticated surveillance and reconnaissance aircraft that just so happens to be armed to the teeth — unlike the typical ISTAR (Information, Surveillance, Target Acquisition, and Reconnaissance) planes, which tend to be lumbering things based on the passenger jet that just flew you from Newark to Albuquerque.
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For just this week, The Handmaid's Tale takes place in a world in which Offred's hair is naturally heat-styled; in which her ear piercings don't close up after being unused for five years; in which, when she cries as the Commander starts to undress her, her face is perfectly set and lovely, with a single perfect tear highlighting her high cheekbones and not so much as a wobbling chin to undermine her beauty.
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