The American Airlines pilots union softened its stand and offered to accept lower wages for flying smaller "regional jets." Even so, airline management rejected the offer.
But reform legislation enacted in 2010 . . . created a system of subsidies to help families pay for coverage. Even so, insurance doesn’t come cheap.
puhekieltätruly Truly the case; in exactly such a manner; of exactly such a nature.
(circa)(w), King Henry V, act 4, scene 1:
Pistol: Trail'st thou the puissant pike?
King Henry V:Even so. What are you?
1850, (w), The Scarlet Letter, chapter 17:
"Hester! Hester Prynne!", said he; "is it thou? Art thou in life?"
"Even so," she answered.
1857, (w), The Confidence Man, chapter 14:
He may be thought inconsistent, and even so he is.
1895, (w), The Golden Age, chapter 13:
What a strange thing, I mused, was this smoking, that takes a man suddenly, be he in the court, the camp, or the grove, grips him like an Afreet, and whirls him off to do its imperious behests! Would it be even so with myself, I wondered, in those unknown grown-up years to come?