Sentence examples for without too great from inspiring English sources

We want to complete this enormous task without too great a pomp, possibly with making mistakes.

"Also it was essential that their rougher edges be smoothed down in order that they might pass to their true goal without too great distress to the drinker".

The commission is busying itself looking at various issues, such as the overall economic case for expansion and ways of expanding air traffic without too great a greenhouse-gas burden.

Tells about an officer he met during WWII who knew that his bombers' mission was misguided, and so he obeyed orders without too great efficiency, and didn't urge his men to heroics.

The nonchalantly choreographed pre-match routine, when the Manchester City left-back ducked Terry's handshake, made its point without too great a fuss while his 78th-minute substitution spared him any unwanted post-match showdowns.

Something inside him, which could perhaps, without too great a risk of error, be called the writer's spirit, trapped him in a limbo of apparent passivity, and began to harden or change him, or prepare him for future surprises.

Some of his new Depression-era skiffles accentuate elements of the persona, without staking too great a claim.

As the program goes forward with 9 states instead of 10, some power companies say that the sweet spot will be lowering emissions without imposing too great a financial burden.

Only the foolish would scoff at this as a cover for cuts (as some do) though its work may be one way of achieving them without doing too great harm.

If nations shifted billions from subsidies to programs to buy out boats and retrain their crews, experts say, the industry could shrink without exacting too great a cost in jobs.

Despite their reservations, the governors felt the risk of proceeding without consultants was too great.