• Professors are no more a monolith with the same stress-free experiences than are those who work in retail.

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  • As I said just the other day, Wall Street is no more a geographic locale than Hollywood is a GPS location.

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  • Winston Churchill once dismissed India as a mere geographical expression, a place that was no more a nation than was the equator.

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  • "It's something I've always known so it's no more a concern than it was six months ago or a year ago, " he said.

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  • But those who used fake paperwork to get jobs picking our strawberries, caring for our children, or doing award-winning journalism are no more a threat to public order than our pioneer ancestors were.

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  • To his mind he was no more a thief of Nature than when, a country boy during the Depression, he had hooked 20-pound channel catfish, now long gone, out of the Chattahoochee River.

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  • The firm was no more a bum than any of the other Big 4 audit firms who held on as long as they could to as much additional work and fees from audit clients as they could.

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  • The recommendation is therefore no more than two drinks a day for a man, and no more than one for a woman, slightly less than current UK government guidelines.

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  • Surely, you might think, the Congolese army - totalling some 150, 000 men - could easily crush a mutiny involving no more than a few hundred soldiers.

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  • There were graves but hardly what could be called a churchyard: no more than a narrow strip of land beside a path close to the church itself, running all the way around it.

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  • Will Petraeus be thought of, in time, as a hero guilty of no more than a distracting foible?

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  • In the context of the cold war between America and Russia, a weakened Britain was no more than a marginal player.

    ECONOMIST: The British empire

  • Yet the Obama administration seems to think that while Soviet leaders were deterred from using their massive arsenal, the Iranians and the North Koreans might not be deterred from using a nuclear force of no more than a handful of weapons at best.

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  • For a while, it was no more than a twinkle of dwindling lights, and shortly thereafter it was gone.

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  • In nature, we see the fantastic diversity generated by a few basic structural elements: no more than a hundred varieties of atoms and a couple of primary colors, lead to a universe of infinite beauty and diversity.

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  • "Clearly some supporters feel aggrieved that a song they believe to be no more than a tit-for-tat 'wind up' of Celtic supporters should be singled out in this way and merit the attention of police, governments and anti-racism organisations, " said Bain.

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  • Some 35% in China and a stunning 70% in India have no more than a primary education.

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  • Not every mortgage rep did a credit check and the process was usually no more than a telephone conversation and a few mortgage calculations.

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  • For a practiced and calm shooter, swapping magazines takes no more than a couple of seconds.

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  • Beemer is figuring on a flat season for 2010, with sales moving no more than a couple of percentage points either way.

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  • What some might have perceived as a deep inner hypersensitivity or vulnerability may have been no more than a swollen ego, in danger of imploding at the least pinprick.

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  • In the past, the military has dismissed the OPM as no more than a gang of hoodlums and it had given no indication that it was prepared to change its view.

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  • For example, when I lived in Jakarta as a young boy, I can remember the buildings being no more than a few stories tall.

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  • It says much for the tenor of Russian politics that this and other confusions of the moment were swallowed with barely a murmur of disquiet by the financial markets and with no more than a few uneasy gulps by international opinion.

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  • Anti-Thaksin groups suspect that General Surayud is seeking a deal with Mr Thaksin that would let him off with no more than a temporary ban from politics and some tax-dodging fines in return for not making trouble.

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  • The White Wolves is the most obscure of about a dozen tiny far-right organisations in Britain whose total membership is no more than a few hundred.

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  • In order to make a photonic crystal, though, the materials have to be organised into structures no more than a wavelength of light apart.

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  • Eight years ago, Texas resident Cynthia Ivie, a 43-year-old sales rep for Newsweek, struck out for Chicago with no more than a business idea and a 1989 Toyota Corolla packed with clothes, books, a vacuum cleaner, a stereo and a cocker spaniel named Buckley.

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