Sentence examples for without dragging from inspiring English sources

Still, Germany supported today's NATO statement on Iraq, and one senior American official pronounced himself "gratified" that it had done so "without dragging its claws or being pushed".

The story goes slowly and steadily, but without dragging.

We like to savor the moment without dragging it out.

The competitor's horse is trained to hold the rope taut without dragging the calf.

"It's as if the board cannot go one meeting without dragging classrooms down into the culture wars".

A sense of lives doomed to struggle and disappointment pervades the writing without dragging it into lugubrious or melodramatic territory.

But there is enough vulnerability and brittle emotion in the Olympics without dragging family relationships into the mix.

Maybe we could debate the best way to help the homeless without dragging Jesus' family into it.

In Japan, they have inflated the money supply, pushed rates down to zero and run huge fiscal deficits without dragging themselves out of a long period of stagnation.

"What we're saying to Amazon is, 'Please, in your dispute with Hachette — please settle it without dragging authors into it, hurting us,' " Preston told me.

By inventing an incurable disease, he can meditate on its impact on a marriage, on a career, on a character's self-esteem without dragging in the baggage of a familiar illneself-esteem without