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 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.

The group ' Doctors Without Borders ' ranks the place 179th among 179 countries when it comes to freedom of expression, even lower than North Korea.

Without his support, the senate might have remained too frightened to even meet.

Without the proper slaughtering practices even an otherwise kosher animal will be rendered treif.

Without exception, many processes are needed before a clean even staple is obtained-each with a specific name.

Without the Imprimatur, molecular disintegration would result ; this serves as a safeguard against misuse of time travel even if the TARDIS technology were copied.

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

Without realistic motion blurring, video games and computer animations do not look as fluid as film, even with a higher frame rate.

Without the forces necessary for a counter-offensive south of the Gheluvelt plateau towards Kemmel Hill, Rupprecht began to plan for a slow withdrawal from the Ypres salient, even at the risk of uncovering German positions further north and the Belgian coast.

Without even having had the time to pack a few clothes, he arrived at Victoria Station on 19 July.

Without Harrison or Buller present to restrain him, the Prince took command from Carey, even though the latter had seniority.

Without the line-item veto, Presidents have often felt compelled to sign controversial riders into law even if they did not support them.

Without Lindros, the Flyers had trouble scoring in the playoffs even after having re-acquired Mark Recchi at the trade deadline.

* In The Simpsons episode, " Take My Wife, Sleaze ", a parody of Rebel Without a Cause became an inspiration for Homer Simpson to form his motorcycle gang, even though he watched it with his vintage 1955 Harley-Davidson motorcycle he won at a ' 50s nostalgia cafe earlier in this episode.

Without the inmates, the average population of Salem would be older, there would be very few minorities, and there would be a nearly even balance of males and females.

Without such guidance, our facts would be desultory and fruitless ; we could not retain them: for the most part we could not even perceive them.

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

Without the influence of Ben, Peter became a troublemaker, even going so far as to steal cars, and was eventually exposed to a gamma bomb that transformed him into this reality's version of the Hulk ( Bruce Banner becomes this world's Spider-Man during experiments on the animals that were affected by the bomb ).

Without those, the broken man could last hours and even days, during which birds could peck at the hapless victim.

Without Lorenzo's support it is doubtful that Pico would have survived even the 10 more years that he did.

Without some form of barrier delineating “ self ” from “ non-self ” it is difficult to even define the concept of an organism or of life.

Without this to anchor their wing muscles, they could not fly even if they were to develop suitable wings.

Kaysen notes that McLean is “ a refuge as much as a prison .” Without school, a job, bills, parents, or the outside world to deal with, the girls are free to ignore responsibility, even as that responsibility has been taken from them.

Without a murmur he resigned himself to this hardship ; and even when a lion devoured his donkey, and a cat killed the rooster whose crowing was to herald the dawn to him, and the wind extinguished his candle, the only remark he made was, " All that God does is for the good.

Without money or property, what would you have had at Baton Rouge ''??

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 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 the good magazines, without their book reviews, their hospitality to European writers, without above all their awareness of literary standards, we might very well have had a generation of Krim's heroes -- Wolfes, Farrells, Dreisers, and I might add, Sandburgs and Frosts and MacLeishes in verse -- and then where would we be??

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

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

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 it she would have been drab and limp.

Without RIMAs or the MAOI of MAO-A, DMT would be oxidised ( and thus rendered biologically inactive ) by monoamine oxidase enzymes in the digestive tract.

Without the contrast of light, the figures would blend in with its surrounding environment.

Without a register like an accumulator, it would be necessary to write the result of each calculation ( addition, multiplication, shift, etc.

Without using the term, 1920 saw the first rule that would be referred to today as defensive indifference, as stolen bases would not be credited, unless an effort was made to stop the runner by the defense.

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

Without a significant amount of memory, a computer would merely be able to perform fixed operations and immediately output the result.

Without adequate roads, the traffic would get rather jammed during the summer months.

Without Salic Law, upon the death of John I, the crown would have passed to his half-sister, Joan ( later Joan II of Navarre ).

Without them, they would be unable to obtain any nutritional value from plants.

If only layer C changes, we should find a way to avoid re-blending all of the layers when computing F. Without any special considerations, four full-image blends would need to occur.

Without an Afghan say in the matter, the Joint Anglo-Russian Boundary Commission agreed the Russians would relinquish the farthest territory captured in their advance but retain Panjdeh.

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 money to facilitate easy comparisons, non-market socialism lacks any way to compare different goods and services and would have to rely on calculation in kind.