The Obama administration arrived in Washington with a mandate from voters in one hand and a blank check from Congress in the other.
No one expressly designed it, no one sat down with a blank piece of paper and designed a code.
At malls, shopping centers and at other public locations, a Pepsi representative set up a table with two blank cups: one containing Pepsi and one Coca-Cola.
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One exercise I use features blank index cards.
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Also included in the retail box is one 25GB Sony BD-R blank disc.
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Every iProduct is a veritable blank-slate, one that each user can fill with their favorite songs, bands, photos, applications, and any other signifier of their individuality that can be transferred to a digital file, and make it look good, neat, and organized in the process.
Yet one more person stepped forward with a blank check, asking how she could help.
The last time I scrambled up and down one, however my stone tablets came back blank.
In his NCIIA talk, Blank defined a pivot as changing one component of your business model canvas.
So would controlling the blank ballots better, and only distributing one to each cardinal per vote.
In Ogilvy's case, the product to be sold was a pretty nice one, but he had to start with a blank page, nonetheless.
And when Fulham finally did create a chance - Northern Ireland striker David Healy meeting Simon Davies' cross with a point-blank header - Hart made a fine one-handed reflex save.
One of those things was the unfortunate chronic shortage of blank ammunition to create realistic training exercises.
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Just like the trashcan on the other side, this one was full of paper, most of which was blank.
"It was a totally expressionless, blank stare, " said Larry Whicher, one of the victims, whose brother, Alan, 40, an agent with the U.S. Secret Service.
She fills the blank that no biography of Billy Tipton, even one as beautifully researched as Ms Middlebrook's, could ever wholly explain.
In one sequence early in the fourth, Lin missed a point-blank layup and then a few plays later, he had the ball literally ripped away from him by Sundiata Gaines.
At one point, Artyom delivers a shotgun blast to a mutant at point-blank range, and a burst of tinnitus blanks out the sound of the world for a few moments.
Casillas was also in inspired form and made one breathtaking save just before the interval as he kept out Renato's point-blank effort from a Diego Perotti cross.
Translation: The blank check the Treasury gave Fannie and Freddie (on Christmas Eve 2009, when no one was supposed to notice) remains in force.
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In the campaign headquarters of Moulod Hamrouche, one of the leading ex-candidates, adrenaline-charged campaign staff manned the phones and faxes beneath blank result-charts, working desperately to pass word of the pull-out to all the campaign offices across Algeria's vast desert hinterland.
Eidur Gudjohnsen had two opportunities - one which he guided wide and high and the other blocked by Green - and Zola had a point-blank header saved before Stanic's goal.
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