short order

The company became a true industry disruptor in short order, and growth has been swift.

As this list shows, punishments typically run to a short-ish jail sentence and/or a moderately hefty fine.

And in order for them to realize their vision, they are willing to use any means.

The precision it took to craft such a cohesive, wholly compelling work over 12 years is nothing short of remarkable.

In short, fatherhood gets little attention in policy debates.

He could order the Justice Department to begin the necessary regulatory work.

On the thirteenth of the same month they bound to the stake, in order to burn alive, a man who had two religious in his house.

Now this setting up of an orderly law-abiding self seems to me to imply that there are impulses which make for order.

Turn away from sin and order thy hands aright, and cleanse thy heart from all offence.

Dockier, a prominent leader of the Levelers, in the times of the English commonwealth, was shot by order of the government.

Yet if there is a measure of untruth in such pretty flatteries, one needs to be superhuman in order to condemn them harshly.