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Not to mention Joint Special Operations Command's "executive assassination ring" operating out of the former Vice President's office, who without so much as a by-your-leave, bumped-off official regime enemies.— WHAT REALLY HAPPENED
The best way to see any city is to walk it, but everywhere I walk Icelandic men plow into me without so much as a by-your-leave.— Pastoral Portuguesa
In the case of AIG (and all the other bailouts that our government has inflicted on the American taxpayer without so much as a by-your-leave), the— The New American
She could also have pointed out that Russian submarines and icebreakers enter Canadian waters without a by-your-leave, and in the Arctic Ocean they have staked Russian claims to ownership of the North Pole, and the 8 billion tons of oil and gas that lie underneath.— The American Spectator
Then, mid-conversation, without a by-your-leave or a— The Corsair

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