Ungeared

Chief Executive Francis Salway said at Wednesday's results that he expects developments to generate a 14% ungeared internal rate of return, double that on acquisitions. ❋ Ren (2011)

As long as the distinction between geered and geared remains intact, the undead can remain ungeared. ❋ BikeSnobNYC (2009)

So 1st Guards Tank Division, far from preparing for a renewed advance, allowed itself to be deluded into adopting a much more passive posture, ungeared to pursuing a retiring opponent at once. ❋ Macksey, Kenneth (1984)

We have disregarded the warnings of our ungeared, disordered machine, or else we have merely tinkered with it. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

Most of us allow the mechanism of the human body to shift as best it can and as long as it can, should it happen to become ungeared, ignoring the frequent warnings which the ever increasing morbid changes and wreckage give us. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

She re-entered the car, which shook from the running of the ungeared motor that Walter had started for her. ❋ Margaret Penrose (N/A)

We are for the time being hardly democracies, even on the surface; the democratic machinery still exists, but is so ungeared by Censorship and Universal Service, that probably it could not work even if it wanted to. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

He must measure, and to a hair's-breadth, every content of the world by means of a bloodied sponge, tucked somewhere in his skull, which is ungeared by the first cup of wine and ruined by the touch of his own finger. ❋ James Branch Cabell (1918)

He must measure, to a hair's-breadth, every content of the world by means of a bloodied sponge, tucked somewhere in his skull, a sponge which is ungeared by the first cup of wine and ruined by the touch of his own finger. ❋ James Branch Cabell (1918)

The Cosmos 'Jupiter' was -- for it is no longer being made -- a 450 horse-power nine-cylinder radial engine, air-cooled, with the cylinders set in one single row; it was made both geared to reduce the propeller revolutions relatively to the crankshaft revolutions, and ungeared; the normal power of the geared type was 450 horse-power, and the total weight of the engine, including carburettors, magnetos, etc., was only ❋ Evelyn Charles Vivian (1914)

There they were, in the trenches, they and the enemy set over against each other, 'like china dogs,' in the words of Grandpère Poirot; and there they would be, so far as Roche's ungeared nerves could grasp, for ever. ❋ John Galsworthy (1900)

All the wheels of divine government stood still amid the dying echoes of receding centuries, as if the clattering machinery of the universe had unhinged its spindles and ungeared its pulleys and stopped every rolling belt and whizzing wheel, and had broken every bar and bolt that united them together in one harmonious whole. ❋ Unknown (1898)

The gates were let down, the machinery ungeared, and, in a few moments, all was still. ❋ Unknown (1852)

"We retain our positive stance on ITV which is making good operational progress and benefits from an ungeared balance sheet," analysts at Numis said. ❋ Unknown (2011)

At the end of 2010, this had plunged to a mere $4.3 billion, allowing an almost-ungeared Rio to be generous to its shareholders.

"Looking forward, the further increase in forward sales and the strong balance sheet, which remains ungeared, means Berkeley is increasingly well positioned to capitalise on the current market conditions," Chairman Tony Pidgley said. ❋ Unknown (2011)

■ Percentage fees can be charged only on ungeared products. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Since Seano has an ungeared bike, we are getting used to losing each other on the bike tracks, and just catching up at the finishing point. ❋ Unknown (2010)