Sentence examples for not one dime from inspiring English sources
dubbed it "a health care plan worthy of the party of Abraham Lincoln" and stressed that "not one dime" of federal money would be spent on the GOP plan.
"Not one dime of Social Security money will be spent on a bigger Washington government," he said.
Today's bill "is not one dime above the president's request," Mr. Byrd said.
"The president requires more hours of work, but not one dime more for child care," Mrs. Edelman said.
Mr. Bush, he said, had allotted "not one dime in his proposal for extending, strengthening, adding to Medicare.
The president still seems curiously hamstrung by his Herbert Hoover-like devotion to fiscal rectitude: he wants to spend but not add "one dime to the deficit," as he announced at his Congressional address on health care in September.
A dime is not only small and difficult to hide behind, but also notably thin, as in the phrase not one thin dime.
I repeat: not one single dime.
The budget plan, he said, "gives no priority to education, none, not one thin dime of additional resources to education".
Some of the most highly promoted missions on NASA's scientific agenda would be postponed indefinitely or perhaps even canceled under the agency's new budget, despite its administrator's vow to Congress six months ago that not "one thin dime" would be taken from space science to pay for President Bush's plan to send astronauts to the Moon and Mars.
