Without a writing system, the Ainu were masters of narration, with the Yukar and other forms of narration such as the Uepeker ( Uwepeker ) tales, being committed to memory and related at gatherings, often lasting many hours or even days.

Without this double feedback, the system would still be bistable, but would not be able to tolerate such a wide range of concentrations.

Without the price system to match consumer utility to incentives for production, or even indicate those utilities " without providing incentives ", state planners are much less likely to invest in new ideas to satisfy consumers ' desires.

Without soil as a buffer, any failure to the hydroponic system leads to rapid plant death.

Without a king, the entire colonial system lost its legitimacy, and the colonists revolted.

Without altering the system, we can take multiple samples, which will have a range of values of k, but the system will always be characterized by the same λ.

Without some specification of the self-reproducing steps, a genome-only system is probably better characterized as something like a crystal.

Without drugs in his system, THX falters during critical and hazardous phases of his job.

Without a robust whistleblower system, directors / trustees of the organization may fail in their oversight responsibilities.

Without such instrumentation one might have to have someone crouched over Windows Task Manager at the server to see how much CPU load the performance tests are generating ( assuming a Windows system is under test ).

"(...) Without taking the argument that far, it is evident that in a market system with uneven distribution of empowering work, such as Economic Democracy ( the model of market socialism David Schweickart has developed and refers to as " economic democracy "), some workers will be more able than others to capture the benefits of economic gain.

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 a sturdy and organized supply system and with overextended supply lines, Russian soldiers found it difficult to maintain combat readiness and good health.

# Without there would be an empty space between and in the Greek sound system (), and a voiced affricate would not have a voiceless correspondent.

Without loss of generality, we will define the optical axis so that it coincides with the z-axis of a fixed coordinate system.

Without him, the two empires go to war, and the Borg are able to enter the solar system.

Without a new tax bill and budgetary cuts, the nation would face even higher inflation " and the possible collapse of the monetary system ".

Without a crew or CSM, there was no need for a launch escape system.

Without effective water treatment, a cooling water system can suffer from scale formation, corrosion and fouling and may become a breeding ground for harmful bacteria such as those that cause Legionnaires ' Disease.

Without clarification from Sharp, it would seem their intention is to abandon the Linux powered devices, as their newest units are the WS003SH and WS004SH which, whilst adding wireless and cellular phone and data features, run the Windows Mobile 5. 0 operating system / application suite.

Without courts or law officers in the mining communities to enforce claims and justice, miners developed their own ad hoc legal system, based on the " mining codes " used in other mining communities abroad.

Without its founders active involvement, the system languished.

Without loss of generality, the coordinate system can be shifted, such that the reference point is set to be the origin.

Without this upgrading, lifetimes in chemical installations are generally believed to be around 50 to 60 percent of the refinery values.

Without a meaning in life, there is no scale of values.

Without gradual underflow, the subtraction a − b can underflow and produce zero even though the values are not equal.

Without this complementarity in the values, bondings, or tact, the systems could not remain productive, viable or operational.

This development, in conjunction with the emergence of the teddy boy and the release of the US films The Wild One ( 1953 ) and Rebel Without a Cause ( 1955 ), saw adolescents in North America and Western Europe collectively express a form of rebellion against the values of their parents and authority in general.

Without named parameters, optional parameters can only appear at the end of the parameter list, since there is no other way to determine which values have been omitted.

) Without it, it might eventually happen that A is of greater value than B, yet B is of greater value than A — which is a case of mutual contradiction in certain statements that determine values of A and B in the system.

Without calibration to the type of material being observed, a PIR thermometer device is able to measure changes in IR emission which correspond directly to temperature changes, but the actual temperature values cannot be calculated.

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 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 ; ;

Without observational constraints, there are a number of candidates, such as a stable supersymmetric particle, a weakly interacting massive particle, an axion, and a massive compact halo object.

Without it, household behavior would be unaffected by uncertain employment and income prospects, financial and capital markets would reduce to exchange of a single instrument in each market period, and there would be no communications industry.

" 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 Coleman, Essendon's fortunes plummeted, and there were to be no further premierships in the 1950s.

Without understanding, there cannot be true faith and that understanding is built on the foundation of the community of believers, the scriptures and traditions and on the personal experiences of the believer.

Without it, there is no flamenco.

Without quantum mechanics, there would be no diamagnetism, paramagnetism or ferromagnetism.

* Without Colors — Before there was an atmosphere, everything was the same shade of gray.

Without an understanding of Puritanism … there is no understanding of America.

Without knowledge of the Bible there can be no peace in the life of the Church or of society, and outside of it there is no real and abiding good ; it is the one authority for the faith.

In Van Buren's own words, " Without strong national political organizations, there would be nothing to moderate the prejudices between free and slaveholding states.

Without the field, there are electrons moving equally in all directions.

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.

Without phenotypic variation, there would be no evolution by natural selection.

Without the axiom of choice, there might exist cardinalities incomparable to ( namely, the cardinalities of Dedekind-finite infinite sets ).

Without this assumption there are only a finite number of distances between two points, hence there is no infinite sequence of movements, and the paradox is resolved.

Without hesitation, Truman picked Marshall, adding " I don't think in this age in which I have lived, that there has been a man who has been a greater administrator ; a man with a knowledge of military affairs equal to General Marshall.

Without this there was a risk of arcing which would burn the insulation between the contacts.