" Without a clear Sinhala connection, they suggest one from the Tamil language instead: anai-kondra ( anaik-konda ), meaning " which killed an elephant .” Per National Geographic, the word anaconda comes from the Tamil word anaikolra, which means elephant killer.

Without clear documentation, software can be hard to use — especially if it is very specialized and relatively complex like Photoshop or AutoCAD.

" Without these questions there is no clear fulcrum on which to balance law, politics, and the practice of arbitration — in fact, no common assumptions of all participants — so the ability to formulate the questions are prior to rights balancing.

Without any statutory change, the managerial functions of Ministries would be hived off into Executive Agencies, with clear Framework Documents setting out their objectives, and whose chief executives would be made accountable directly ( in some cases to Parliament ) for performance.

Without any inhibitions of any kind, I make it clear that Australia looks to America, free of any pangs as to our traditional links or kinship with the United Kingdom.

Without a specification of implementation guidelines there is a very clear likelihood that systems based on the same officially standardised specifications do not understand each other due to implementation dialectal problems.

Without entering into the debate over whether such a distant airport would make any sense at all, it is quite clear that merging both regions would create strong rivalries between Toulouse and Bordeaux, which are competitors economically speaking, not to mention the almost impossible task of choosing which of the two cities should become the capital of the new region.

Without this " specific intent ", there is insufficient evidence that the accused is the clear danger as feared because, at any time before the commission of the full offense, the accused may change his or her mind and not continue.

Without Golding's translation, common knowledge of the ancient text would not have been understood in the same clear light.

Without extending the height, the wrenches to remove caps would not clear and the break flanges for traffic models would not be located correctly in case they were hit.

Without a clear plan for his future he asked his mother if he could live abroad for a while.

Without a large marketing budget, or a clear reason why journalists should write about it, GFA BASIC for Windows remained a comparatively obscure product.

Without that evidence Curtin was found not guilty, the judge declaring that the case was " crystal clear ".

:“ Without permission of the copyright holder, and in clear violation of applicable law, Defendants have copied and sold these Vaad Works and kept the proceeds for themselves … In violation of Federal and State Laws, Defendants have pocketed millions of dollars in revenues that rightfully belonged to Plaintiffs, who would have used the money to continue publishing and disseminating the teachings of the Rebbe .”( page 3 )

Without a clear opportunity to amend the application, hopes for an FM radio station were put in limbo.

Without timeboxing, projects usually work to a fixed scope, such that when it is clear that some deliverables cannot be completed, either the deadline slips ( to allow more time ) or more people are involved ( to do more in the same time ).

Without any clear discussion, Munro-Hay identifies him with a king Alla Amidas, who is also known only through the coins he issued.

Without any clear enemy to fight, brutality against civilians became more common.

Without undertaking the programme expounded by Chtchglov, and the resultant submission to the urban unknown, comprehension of the Formulary is not possible.

" Later in August 2010, he was interviewed on the Al Jazeera programme Without Borders, when asked if he was satisfied with the performance of Paul Bremer during his year as civilian administrator in Iraq, Pachachi replied " No, Bremer was receiving his instructions from the Ministry of Defense and as I told you the Pentagon was controlled by a group of Zionist extremists.

During this period she presented the BBC's Open Air programme, authored a book entitled How to Get Married Without Divorcing Your Family with her friend and ex Blue Peter co-host Caron Keating in 1994, and provided voiceovers for numerous advertisements.

Series creator Russell T Davies has said that he hopes to defy audience expectations of monosexual characters: " Without making it political or dull, this is going to be a very bisexual programme.

Without completing the course for his degree, Prafulla Chandra proceeded to Britain and enrolled in the BSc programme of Edinburgh University where he studied Physics, Chemistry and Biology amongst other subjects.

The artwork featured in this station under the Art in Transit programme is Without Which / Would Have Been / Impossible by Heman Chong.

Without Abkhazia and South Osetia, the population in the regions controlled by the central government of Georgia was 4, 321, 500 in 2005 and 4, 382, 100 in 2008 ( compare the 2008 figure with the CIA estimate of 4, 630, 841 for all of Georgia, including Abkhazia and South Osetia ).

Near the end of her time as governor general, Adrienne Clarkson stated: " My constitutional role has lain in what are called ' reserve powers ': making sure that there is a prime minister and a government in place, and exercising the right ' to encourage, to advise, and to warn '[...] Without really revealing any secrets, I can tell you that I have done all three.

" The Sudanese government simultaneously expelled " the International Rescue Committee, Oxfam UK, CARE, Mercy Corps and the Dutch section of Doctors Without Borders.

The latter definition is evident in the title of David Rusk's book Cities Without Suburbs ( ISBN 0-943875-73-0 ), which promotes metropolitan government.

In 1986, more controversy was caused by an essay published in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung on 25 April 1986 entitled " Land Without A History " written by one of Kohl's advisors, the historian Michael Stürmer, in which Stürmer argued that West Germany lacked a history to be proud of, and called for effort on the part of the government, historians and the media to build national pride in German history.

Without government intervention it seemed very likely that the Awá and their ancient culture would become extinct.

Without an incorporated government or a commercial base to support a sales tax, the residents of the community assessed themselves a community service fee to pay for services normally provided by municipalities.

Without a local government, residents were unable to make decisions that were instead left to the Town of Islip and Suffolk County.

Without a strong central government, warlords begin to rise and fight each other for land, plunging China into a state of anarchy.

Without the buffalo, the Niitsitapi could not hunt enough food and were forced to depend on the United States government for supplies.

( Without this, a U. S. county is simply an extension of state government.

Without direct air support, and short of ammunition, Brigade 2506 ground forces retreated to the beaches in the face of considerable onslaught from Cuban government artillery, tanks and infantry.

Without the support of the US, the anticommunist elements in the government had little choice other than to gradually allow the Pathet Lao to take power.

Without the French army to suppress them, Uri and other rural populations successfully rebelled against the government in the Stecklikrieg.

Reporters Without Borders consistently ranks China very poorly on media freedoms in their annual releases of the Press Freedom Index, calling the Chinese government as having " the sorry distinction of leading the world in repression of the Internet ".

Without any financial assistance available from the government that granted them the land, farmer-settlers accumulated huge debts at very high interest rates from usurious moneylenders.

Without a great deal of thought about where this would lead, without consciously copying any other denomination's model of church government, and without much theological reflection, the Church of the Nazarene became an international body.

Without foreign reserves to support the US-Baht currency peg, the Thai government was eventually forced to float the Baht, on 2 July 1997, allowing the value of the Baht to be set by the currency market.

Without a constant influx of precious metals from an outside source, and with the expense of continual wars, it would seem reasonable that coins might be debased to increase the amount that the government could spend.

Without bothering to consult the Soviets in advance, the Cuban government sent its troops to fight alongside the MPLA.

Without recommending one form of government over another, Leo put forth some principles for the appropriate role of the State in good government.

Without clearance, Qian found himself unable to pursue his career, and within two weeks announced plans to return to mainland China, which had come under the government of Communist leader Mao Zedong.

In response, media rights watchdog Reporters Without Borders wrote an open letter to urge Lee and other top officials of the Singapore government to stop taking ‘ libel actions ’ against journalists.

Idris Jala, the former CEO of Malaysia Airlines, was appointed Minister Without a Portfolio and CEO of Performance Management and Delivery Unit ( Pemandu ), to work with Dr. Koh Tsu Koon in training over 500 government officers to implement the KPI system.