* May 20 – Taiwanese ( ROC ) president Chen Shui-bian makes the Four Noes and One Without pledge to Taiwan.

Reporters Without Borders says the president is promoting a cult of personality of himself and that his portraits have taken the place of the ones of the previous president.

Without a Peruvian president who was willing to accept their terms, on February 22, 1881, the Chileans allowed a convention of Peruvian " notables " outside of Lima to elect Francisco García Calderón as president.

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.

The Institution of Civil Engineers Engineering Without Frontiers panel and its recommendations, and the 2007 Brunel Lecture by the ICE's current president Paul Jowitt, are representative of a change of approach in the UK at least to start drawing together the huge capacity available to western governments, industry, academia and charity to develop such a partnership.

On October 17, 2004, Suskind's cover story in the New York Times Magazine, titled " Without a Doubt: Faith, Certainty and the Presidency of George W. Bush ", revealed that the president was planning to partially privatize Social Security as his first initiative if re-elected — a disclosure that prompted controversy in the final two weeks of the campaign.

" Without a rhythm section to tour with in support of the new album, Type A Records refused to release Kiss the Lie and the album languished for close to two years, held " hostage " by the president of Type A, David Bendeth.

Without a House of Lords to attend, increasing numbers of aristocrats stopped coming to Dublin, selling off their Dublin residences, in many case to buy residences in London, where the new united parliament met.

Members of parliament enjoy parliamentary immunity: Without the parliament's approval, members may not be prosecuted for anything they say in session or otherwise do in the course of parliamentary proceedings, or be arrested or detained except for serious offences.

Without any definite plan in mind, she went to a judge to see what could be done.

Without documents, they could not be employed, educated, treated in hospitals, travel outside of the country, or vote, among other hardships.

Without much added cost, these devices could be designed to also harvest BSFL.

Without valves, the player could only produce a harmonic series of notes like those played by the bugle and other " natural " brass instruments.

Without that extra money, he could not make a living drawing comic books.

Without being closely connected with the rest of fandom, a budding faned could read fanzine reviews in prozines, and fanzines reviewed other fanzines.

** Without a mirror, the great self-portraits by Dürer, Frida Kahlo, Rembrandt, and Van Gogh could not have been painted.

Without their existence, the nuclear chain-reaction would be prompt critical and increase in size faster than it could be controlled by human intervention.

Without this mechanism, many ecologists believe, the species could not survive.

Without the possibility of studying anatomy or drawing from life ( it was considered unacceptable for a lady to view nudes ), she could not undertake the complex multi-figure compositions required for large-scale religious or history paintings.

Without obtaining approval from his boss, Vogel bought the rights to the script, despite the high price of US $ 2 million and the stipulation that Shyamalan could direct the film.

Without a formula clause, the unified credit could be wasted.

Without an earthquake I do not see how such an accident could happen.

Without water, these particular metabolic processes could not exist.

Without the transfer of these rights, Tufts could come in at any time and demand the removal of buildings to obtain minerals.

Without commercial fertilizers it is estimated that about one-third of the food produced now could not be produced.

Without any payload, such a reactor could drive a photon rocket at nearly 10 < sup >− 4 </ sup > m / s² ( 10 < sup >− 5 </ sup > g ; see g-force ).

Without a home in either of the two major parties, Tyler sought an issue that could create a viable third party to support his bid for the presidency in 1844.

Without a stiff core, the wicks of a container candle could sag and drown in the deep wax pool.

Without halftoning, the three primary process colors could be printed only as solid blocks of color, and therefore could produce only seven colors: the three primaries themselves, plus three secondary colors produced by layering two of the primaries: cyan and yellow produce green, cyan and magenta produce a purplish blue, yellow and magenta produce red ( these subtractive secondary colors correspond roughly to the additive primary colors ) plus layering all three of them resulting in black.

Without this detachment the municipal population of Cagliari could be of 228, 347.

Without occupying Manchuria, the Japanese probably could not have carried out their plan for conquest over Southeast Asia or taken the risk to attack Pearl Harbor on the 7th of December, 1941.

Without en passant, a pawn could simply march past squares guarded by opposing pawns ; en passant preserves the restrictive ability of pawns that have reached the fifth rank.

Without careful analysis of the definition, one might erroneously conclude that an instance of http :// www. w3. org / TR / 2004 / REC-owl-guide-20040210 / wine # Merlot was something physical, instead of a type of wine.

Without the first restriction, one could conclude from the hypothesis.

Without a band, but a contract to fulfill and pressure from Decca for a ' hit song ', Latimer was joined by an array of guest and session musicians, including David Paton, Chris Rainbow and Anthony Phillips at Abbey Road studio in early 1982.

Without the smart card, the procedure is almost identical, except the user must specify their username as well as password to get their session.

Without the decay of a sense of objective reference ( except as the imitation of mystery ), the stress on subjective invention would never have been stimulated into being.

Without monitoring, a military hookup becomes a noisy party.

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 careful qualification this can be misleading.

Without abandoning too much, Copernicus sought to make orthodox astronomy systematically and mechanically acceptable.

Without any regard for rest-room protocol, the hulking stranger almost knocked Herford off his pins.

Without further inquiry, Pike jumped to the conclusion that Robinson was guilty, and, following the honorable route that would eventually lead to the dueling ground, sent a message to Robinson through his friends, demanding that he either confirm or deny his complicity.

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.

He was interested in Robert Musil's The Man Without Qualities.

Without public scrutiny the deliberations of public agencies would no doubt be conducted more speedily.

Without a great acceleration in the metropolitan area's economy, there will not be sufficient jobs for the growing numbers of youngsters, and St. Louis will slip into second-class status.

Without question, this time and temper saver should be immediately installed at the Woodside station.

Without these massive trucks highways would still be just an idea of the future.

Without this power we lay open any American industry which the Europeans may find it economically profitable to destroy to the will of others.

Without exception Hino's brothers turned to either one or both of their father's occupations, but Hino showed a talent for neither and instead spent most of his time on the beach where he repaired nets and proved immensely popular as a storyteller.

Without comment he opened the closet and from its shelves constructed a highboard around the egg case which he had placed on the floor inside.

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 right attitude the other aids just do not work right ''.

Without math the men who are continually seeking the causes of and the reasons for the many things that make the world go 'round would not have any means of analyzing, standardizing, and communicating the things they discover and learn.

Without comparing the relative merits of the two courses -- architecture versus interior design -- let us examine the educational needs of the interior designer.

Without further discussion he appeared the next morning with a pile of boards sticking over the end of his light truck and proceeded with the paneling, which he then stained and waxed according to his taste.

Without a system of values there can be no society.

Without such uncertainty we are left with a set of dogmas and myths.

Without agreeing with every phrase in this statement, we must certainly assert the great difference between Christian love and any form of resistance, and then go on beyond the Mennonite position and affirm that Christian love-in-action must first justify and then determine the moral principles limiting resistance.