Without warning, without giving her a chance to prepare for it.

Without the bright flame and dense smoke trail produced by the burning of aluminized propellants, these smokeless propellants all but eliminate the risk of giving away the positions from which the missiles are fired.

Without this device, workers may overtighten the micrometer on the work, causing the mechanical advantage of the screw to squeeze the material or tighten the screw threads, giving an inaccurate measurement.

Without this care, the broken skins could leak tannin into the juice, giving a markedly coarse taste and throwing off balance the Riesling ’ s range of flavours and aromas.

* The canary trap was also used in Clancy's ( chronologically ) earlier novel, Without Remorse, when a CIA official alters a report given to a senator, revealing an internal leak who was giving information to the KGB.

Without taking up irrevocable vows, the Brethren banded together in communities, giving up their worldly goods to live chaste and strictly regulated lives in common houses, devoting every waking hour to attending divine service, reading and preaching of sermons, labouring productively and taking meals in common that were accompanied by the reading aloud of Scripture: " judged from the ascetic discipline and intention of this life, it had few features which distinguished it from life in a monastery ", observes Hans Baron.

Without changing country of residence ( or, if a U. S. citizen, giving up one's citizenship ), personal taxation may be legally avoided by the creation of a separate legal entity to which one's property is donated.

Without giving it much thought, he used the term as the title of his talk.

Without giving specific numbers about the UMD sales, Square Enix stated that it had enjoyed good sales, performing better in North America than in Japan.

Goldie then heads to a meeting where his younger brother Olinga ( Roger E. Mosley ), a Black Nationalist, is giving a speech about creating a " Black America Within But Without White America ".

Without giving any details of the disaster at Isandlwana he informed him that all previous orders were cancelled, and that he was to take such as action as he thought fit to preserve his column, including withdrawal from Eshowe if necessary.

Without the gift tax, large estates could be reduced by simply giving the money away prior to death, and thus escape any potential estate tax.

Without the horizontal wire, the RF current distribution in the vertical wire would decrease linearly to zero at the top ( see drawing a above ), giving an effective height of half the physical height of the antenna.

Without the workshop 70 % of couples had lower marital satisfaction relative to before birth ( a common finding ), 58 % of mothers has some symptoms of depression after giving birth

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

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 his support, the senate might have remained too frightened to even meet.

Without this guarantee, they would not reduce armaments because they felt the risk of attack from Germany was too great.

Without delayed neutrons, changes in reaction rates in nuclear reactors would occur at speeds that are too fast for humans to control.

: Without hoping to know whether each separate hypothesis is true or false, we may search for rules to govern our behaviour with regard to them, in following which we insure that, in the long run of experience, we shall not be too often wrong.

Without their symbionts, coral growth would be too slow for the corals to form significant reef structures.

Without the proper data, or with too little quality data, any BI implementation will fail.

Without the formation of pearlite, the steel can be incrementally tempered to achieve the proper hardness in each area, assuring that no area is too soft.

Without instructions from MacArthur's headquarters, Walker decided that Eighth Army was too battered to defend Pyongyang and ordered the retreat resumed to below the 38th parallel.

Without flight controls, they were unable to slow down for landing, and were forced to attempt landing at much too high a speed and rate of descent.

Without delving too deeply into these claims, they are obviously mutually incompatible.

Without unnecessary complications. Since January, when IBM introduced System / 32, thousands of companies have ordered this remarkable, easy-to-use computer. If you still think computers are too complicated for your business, maybe you should find out more about System / 32.

In a similar vein, the online site Television Without Pity has a stable of reviewers and recappers who speak the lingo of audience members rather than of scholars, and who sometimes act as though they, too, are being tortured.

Without Coulee Dam and the greater Columbia Basin Project, much of North Central Washington State would be too arid for cultivation.

Without naming particular individuals, Sivo criticized certain colleagues on the CAMV executive on 17 September of being too subservient to the United Fiji Party, the dominant partner in the ruling coalition.

Most of these fit in a series entitled Les Hommes sans Futurs Without A Future, which portray the desperate and often all too futile wanderings of the last men and women on an Earth now inhabited by unfathomable new mutants.

Without the layer of flor, amontillado must be fortified to approximately 17. 5 percent alcohol so that it does not oxidise too quickly.

Without informing the producers, Hitchcock used the Schüfftan process to film the scenes in the Reading Room of the British Museum since the light levels were too low for normal filming.

Without too much math we can write probability of choice statements based on attractiveness, and these take a form similar to some varieties of disaggregate demand models.

Without such procedures, they felt, there would be too much arbitrariness, and eventually the legal system would become ineffective.

Without relay valves, it would take too long for sufficient air to travel from the brake pedal valve to the rear of the truck or trailer in order to apply the rear service brakes concurrently with the front service brakes, resulting in a condition known as brake lag.

Without the infrared atmospheric window, the Earth would become much too warm to support life, and possibly so warm that it would lose its water as Venus did early in solar system history.

Without question, it takes the anti-war side of things, and one could argue it goes for a pro-Vietnamese bent as well .... In the end, Hearts and Minds remains a flawed film that simply seems too one-sided for its own good.

Without so much as a grimace or a gesture to show that he had noticed ( although he later admitted that he had ) Palmer proceeded to sink his 25-footer, and his gallery sent its explosive vocalization rolling back along the intervening fairways in reply.

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

Without data decoding, the carrier can be detected by much simpler ground antennas and receivers.

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.

* Games Without End — A galactic game of marbles back before the universe had formed much more than particles.

Without Virginia, a new convention might have been held and a new constitution written in a much more polarized atmosphere, since the constitution did not specify what would happen if it was only partially ratified.

Without some mechanism to find ports and the services they represented, much of this flexibility would be lost.

Without Robbie Robertson as primary lyricist, much of the songwriting for the album came from outside of the group.

Without the huge marketing budgets of mainstream publishers, their products almost never get as much recognition or popular acclaim as those of larger publishers such as Sony, Microsoft, or Nintendo.

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 the ions from the electrolyte, the charges around the electrode would slow down continued electron flow ; diffusion of H < sup >+</ sup > and OH < sup >−</ sup > through water to the other electrode takes longer than movement of the much more prevalent salt ions.

In The Confessions of a Revolutionary Proudhon asserted that, Anarchy is Order Without Power, the phrase which much later inspired, in the view of some, the anarchist circled-A symbol, today " one of the most common graffiti on the urban landscape.

Without much memory of what happened before, he reenacts the scene, this time from the other point of view, and calling himself " Joe " so as not to confuse his earlier self.

Without trade, its opportunity cost per shoe was 2 shirts ; by trading, its cost per shoe can reduce to as low as 1 shirt depending on how much trade occurs ( since the more-efficient country has a 1: 1 trade-off ).

Without trade, its cost to make a shirt was 1 shoe ; by trading, its cost per shirt can go as low as 1 / 2 shoe depending on how much trade occurs.

Without tandem charges, hitting the same spot twice is much more difficult.

Without really intending to, he hits her across the face (" It wasn't the blow that ' urt me much ; it was the wy you was talkin '").

Without an agreed upon interpretation, much less an elaborated political philosophy, these conflicting views of America's destiny were never resolved.

Without a waiver, California would have to import a much larger amount of ethanol per year and gas prices were projected to increase drastically.

Without much explanation, the Party chief of the factory that Zhao was working at informed Zhao that he was to go at once to Changsha, the provincial capital.

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 the stresses of salinity that is undergone by its salt water counterpart, the diversity of the plants and animals that live in and use these marshes is much higher than salt marshes.

Without the public discourse on the controversial contents of the U. S. Constitution, ratification would likely have taken much longer as individuals worked through the issues.

Without Toulouse, Midi-Pyrénées would probably be declining much more than it has in the recent decades, both demographically and culturally as well as economically.