Sentence examples for pick without from inspiring English sources

Sather said today that he had never traded a first-round draft pick without first seeing him play in the N.H.L.

He is so convinced that Big Brown will win that he has made his pick without devoting too much of his time to analyzing the other 19 starters.

"I think the easiest way to say it," O'Connor said of getting the Knicks' pick, "is you've got an opportunity to have a high draft pick without the pain of going through a season to gain it".

I picked them to make it to the Final Four, but I made that pick without conviction, and it felt more like a default choice — no other team in that region seems likely to make it, either — than anything else.

If you'd gone up to any Leafs fan before news of the deal broke and told them that the team would be able to trade Dion Phaneuf for a solid prospect and a decent pick without taking back any long-term deals or retaining even one dollar of salary, they'd have laughed at you.

Last night I spoke with a friend who's an astute longtime Oscar-parser, and he said something fascinatingly cynical about the category of Best Foreign Film: if a movie had a New York release, it's much less likely to win, because the Academy's mainly Los Angeles-centered voters want to make their pick without the help of New York critics.

(The first two Miss Rheingolds, for 1940 and '41, were picked without a public vote).

It nearly died because Houston wanted the draft picks without restrictions, and the Knicks were worried about giving up too much.

The appeals court ruled that such "jurymandering" violated the defendants' rights to a trial by a jury picked without regard to race.

Raiders quarterback JaMarcus Russell (No. 1 over all) and Jets cornerback Darrelle Revis (No. 14) are the only first-round picks without contracts.

Dressed in natty plaid pants and vest, picking without a slide, this Mississippi-born seplayednaroughplaustereugh, austere music that felt truly foundational.