Sentence examples for without a means from inspiring English sources

Fashion is becoming an end without a means.

Consequently, merchants and tradesmen were often left without a means to pay for goods or taxes.

The innocent owner can be without his car for months or years without a means to contest the seizure".

Without a means of generating income, the carrying costs of fallow land dwarf any gains in savings realized through implementing plant-based methods.

But Representative John D. Dingell, Democrat of Michigan, said the rest of the bill would be worthless without a means to enforce it in court.

Scientists running the mission were devastated: without a means of sending back high volumes of data, Galileo would be severely hobbled.

And a book of Mr. Ellis's is nowhere without a mean streak.

I would later say at his funeral, "Without a mean bone in his body to start with, the sweet bones won out".

After three years, Mathilde and Theo Schurz were divorced, without a mean thought, and even Theo says she is better off now, married to Alain Poix.

She's Cher, Jane Austen's Emma transported to 1990's Beverly Hills, and Alicia Silverstone plays her perfectly in Amy Heckerling's CLUELESS (1995), a satire without a mean bone in its body.

The New Yorker, February 20 , 1995P. 240 After three years, Mathilde and Theo Schurz were divorced, without a mean thought, and even Theo says she is better off now, married to Alain Poix.