Sentence examples for without any top from inspiring English sources

DG: In a year without any top teams or heavy favorites, it's hard to settle on any region as tougher than the next.

Without any top political appointees in place at Treasury, Geithner had no one to bail him out on the AIG mess to make up for his tone-deafness, monitor the bonus process and prod him to nip the issue in the bud before it could explode into a capital-eating and capital-wasting fireball.

The agency's usual practice has been to settle cases against banks without naming any top executives and without requiring any admission of wrongdoing.

However, without any top-level design, these achievements have been supported primarily by new technologies, while traditional industry sectors (e.g., manufacturing) and infrastructure construction have remained largely undeveloped.

It is unusual that it has not happened already - if everyone survives the weekend then it will be 18 years since we have got as far into a season without any top-flight managers changing jobs, and there will have been only two seasons in the Premier League era where there has been a longer wait.

This way, aberrant attentional biasing can ignite or maintain autonomous neuronal activity encoding percepts or movements, without any top-down predictions about the content or nature of the ensuing percept.

Some of Holbrooke's guests expressed as much suspicion of the military whose operations in Swat had destroyed livelihoods without killing any top Taliban leaders—as of the extremists.

A criminal investigation into the collapse of the brokerage firm MF Global and the disappearance of about $1 billion in customer money is now heading into its final stage without charges expected against any top executives.

The Ciel was built without a top of any kind.

If you're a woman who has at any point appeared without a top on, well, people will talk about your breasts.

He has been told to achieve the reform without extra cost or any top-down reorganisation.