Without the added parts required for a fully geared drive train — derailleurs, shifters, cables, cable carriers, multiple chain rings, freewheel hub, brazed-on mounting lugs — a fixed gear bicycle weighs less than its geared equivalent.

Without saying or seeming to say that in portraying the Sartoris and the Compson families Faulkner's chief concern is social criticism, we can say nevertheless that through those families he dramatizes his comment on the planter dynasties as they have existed since the decades before the Civil War.

Without a precise knowledge of Germanic philology, however, it is debatable whether their use was not more often a source of confusion and error than anything else.

Without such forward planning, investment funds are wasted because manufacturing facilities are completed before there is power to operate them or before there is transport to service them ; ;

A true university, like most successful marriages, is a unity of diversities Without forcing all components into a single pattern, the preparation of a master plan is an opportunity to consider interrelation of knowledge at its highest level, which a university -- in contrast to a multiversity -- should stand for.

Without losing the distinctive undertow of Brahmsian rhythm, the pacing is firm and the over-all performance has a tightly knit quality that makes for maximum cumulative effect.

`` Without any officious and improper interference on the subject, the price of labor or the wages of mechanics will be regulated by the demand for the manufactured article and the value of that which is paid for it ; ;

Without such a declaration, Paine concluded, “ he custom of all courts is against us, and will be so, until, by an independence, we take rank with other nations .”

Without this money creation benefit, it is actually more expensive to outsource the IT operations as the outsourcing adds a layer of management and increases overhead.

Chapter 17 of William Bates ' 1920 book Perfect Sight Without Glasses, in which the author argues that observation of the sun is beneficial to those with poor vision, includes a figure of somebody " Focussing the Rays of the Sun Upon the Eye of a Patient by Means of a Burning Glass.

Without diagnosis and treatment, the infection can be fatal in one to six days ; mortality in untreated cases is approximately 100 %.

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

Without protected memory, it is possible that a bug in one program will alter the memory used by another program.

Without salvation from sin ( see below ), a person's separation from God is permanent, causing such a person to enter Hell in the afterlife.

Guided by Arkyn, Corum, Rhalina and companion Jhary-a-Conel cross the planes and encounter the King Without A Country, the last of his people who in turn is seeking the City in the Pyramid.

According to Tibor R. Machan, " Without a market in which allocations can be made in obedience to the law of supply and demand, it is difficult or impossible to funnel resources with respect to actual human preferences and goals.

: Without doubt this is the most important work on general algebra that the Annalen has ever published.

Without experience of meditation, one's knowledge of the world is too limited to fully understand dukkha, as required by the first noble truth, and proceed to enlightenment.

" 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 a price mechanism, socialism lacks the means to relate consumer satisfaction to economic activity, it is argued.

The scene in which Lee states that his style was the style of " Fighting Without Fighting " and then lures Parsons into boarding a dinghy is based upon a famous anecdote involving the 16th century samurai Tsukahara Bokuden.

Without this suffix, a countable noun is understood to be singular.

Without knowledge of the key, it should be difficult, if not nearly impossible, to decrypt the resulting ciphertext into readable plaintext.

Hal Hinson of The Washington Post wrote a particularly scathing review, stating that " It's impossible to know what Francis Coppola's Life Without Zoe is.

Without some earlier ones, such as the spinning jenny and flying shuttle in the textile industry and the smelting of pig iron with coke, these achievements might have been impossible.

Without the oral tradition, keeping this law would be impossible.

Without a working taxonomy of the organisms in any given area, estimating the amount of diversity present is unrealistic, making informed conservation decisions impossible.

Without training in the preliminary practices, the ubiquity of allusions to them in Vajrayāna is meaningless and even successful Vajrayāna initiation becomes impossible.

Without frame synchronization decommutation is impossible.

Without this, the varying reaction of the wood against the torque of the tool makes it impossible to control with the precision normally required.

Without an extra Global navigation satellite system, receiver tracking is difficult, but not impossible, as the position of a mobile unit can be determined using a Doppler shift calculation from the satellite.

Without advanced tools, it was impossible to distinguish these incompatible formats.

Without the key, the handcuffs cannot be removed and so the handcuffed person is unable to move his or her wrists more than a few centimetres / inches apart, making many tasks difficult or impossible.

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.

In this ballad, an elf threatens to abduct a young woman to be his lover unless she can perform an impossible task (" For thou must shape a sark to me / Without any cut or heme, quoth he "); she responds with a list of tasks that he must first perform (" I have an aiker of good ley-land / Which lyeth low by yon sea-strand ").

Without the combination required for the combination lock, it was almost impossible to break into the safes.

Without Louis XVI's ability to keep the nobles in " constant attendance ", it became impossible for him to monitor and reverse the growing anti-royalist sentiment .< ref > Price, Munro.

Former University of the Philippines president Francisco Nemenzo stated that: " Without Radio Veritas, it would have been difficult, if not impossible, to mobilize millions of people in a matter of hours.

Without TexMex, it would be nearly impossible for KCSR and KCSM to act as a single company under Kansas City Southern.

Without the query designed by the Marquis of Pombal, this would have been impossible.

Without the Croatian delegation it was impossible to reconvene the congress.

Without strong and flexible muscles, management of Qi or breath, and proper body mechanics, it is impossible for a student to progress in the Chinese martial arts.

Without the ships, this became impossible and the colonists were saved for the time being.

Without implants, it is quite difficult or even impossible to do so.

Without such a period, they argue, progress towards social justice is impossible, and thus " treason to whiteness is loyalty to humanity.