It is the sort of shell that estate agents and realtors call "a blank canvas" and which Kirstie Allsopp calls "a project".
To have gone further, giving what the Costa Rican delegate called "a blank cheque" for American action, would have split the Council, to America's embarrassment and Saddam Hussein's delight.Moreover, the pontificating also has a touch of the disingenuous (this is, after all, an election year for Congress).
One committee member, Senator Carlos Uresti, Democrat of San Antonio, voted against the bill, but his opposition had less to do with guns and more to do with giving the governor what Mr. Uresti called "a blank check to offer a variety of tax exemptions and other incentives" to such manufacturers.
Lemos – part of a new breed of politicians with backgrounds in the police or armed forces - suggested such steps were merely the start of a "hard and drastic" shakeup of politics and society Bolsonaro and his allies were plotting after receiving what he called a "blank cheque" mandate from 57.7 million voters.
Starting with what he called a "blank sheet of paper" listing all the companies he wanted to acquire, he proceeded to make deals for FleetBoston Financial in 2004 ($48 billion), MBNA in 2006 ($35 billion) and LaSalle Bank in 2007 ($21 billion).
David Attenborough even made a film called A Blank On the Map in 1971, where he encounters some tribesmen in New Guinea, who promptly tell him to fuck off.
"Blinkset places that image content in an entirely new context, by making each image a flash in a series of flashes, called a Blankest," said Taylor.
While Final Fantasy XIII was in development, Anime News Network's writer Todd Ciolek was unimpressed by Lightning, whom he called a "businesslike blank".
Both a vehicle control (VC) and "sham" control (SC), also called a "method blank", were run in triplicate or quadruplicate in each experiment.
He and his roommates, Jonathan Wu, a software engineer, and Kay Kim, a former creative director at an ad agency, both 27, held plant pop-up sales — their friends nicknamed them the Plantboys — and refined the idea for what Mr. Lee, echoing Ms. Blank, calls a modern plant company.
