Sentence examples for nothing asked of from inspiring English sources

With the threat of a global struggle so long, and as profound as Secretary Kerry described, is it possible to prevail with targeted military action on the part of our troops and nothing asked of the rest of us except to watch it on TV?

That was my approach to covering the Senate: I told myself that I knew nothing, asked basic questions of the insiders, hunted down the trivial details that are of interest mainly to the anthropologist.

Nothing was asked of East Germans for this extraordinary benefit.

"Nothing is asked of them," the official said.

"While no amount of flexibility can avoid the fact that middle-class families will bear the brunt of the cuts required by this bill, nothing is asked of the wealthiest Americans," the White House said.

"And because nothing is asked of those at the top of the income scales, such an approach would close the deficit only with more severe cuts to programs we all care about — cuts that place a greater burden on working families".

Re "When Johnny Comes Marching In" (New York Observed, April 12), about a soldier's visit to a literary bar in the East Village: We should reconsider what it means to have a mercenary force hired to fight and die while nothing is asked of the rest of us.

Nothing was asked of the average Americans.

Nothing is asked of the reader in terms of filling in the blank that exists between picture and word, and that may be precisely why this book is so uninvolving.

("Still nothing?" asks the patient wife of a fiftysomething Star Wars enthusiast as he slams the newspaper down on the breakfast table yet again).

"These bankers got away with murder, and it's obscene that close to nothing is being asked of financial institutions.