In his 2003 inaugural address, Mr. Marx — quoting from a speech President John F. Kennedy had given at Amherst — asked, "What good is a private college unless it is serving a great national purpose?" On Sunday, Mr. Marx presided over his final Amherst graduation.
This is a book for those who get no kick from Champagne, unless it's served with ramps.
Sudhir Trehan, who runs Crompton Greaves, Avantha's electrical equipment-maker, jokes that when he joined as a trainee in 1972, the management would not drink tea unless it were served with white gloves from a silver pot.
Billy the Kid was allergic to dairy products and the Sundance Kid wouldn't eat an egg unless it was served to him sunnyside up.
Vilifying ACORN, and public schools, and the role of government (unless it's serving corporations and rich people).
That is, unless it's being served up at Fellini's in Atlanta (yeah, we said it!).
Reacting to his election last year, Maxime Verhagen, the Dutch foreign minister at the time, said, "He is not welcome in the Netherlands unless it is to serve his prison sentence".
Unless, as here, the term is served with lashings of irony.
College campuses, high schools, elementary schools, and hospitals are all places where you have to eat what is served, unless you really planned ahead.
Dinner, with Continental dishes like spinach quiche, chicken with ratatouille, mahi-mahi in tomato cream sauce and coconut shrimp -- and no choices unless there is a dietary need -- is served at a communal table set in the lodgelike building that houses the bar, a small library, the offices and the kitchen.
