Without access to cheap Indian saltpeter ( controlled by the British ), for hundreds of years France had relied on saltpetermen with royal warrants, the droit de fouille or " right to dig ", to seize nitrous-containing soil and demolished walls of barnyards, without compensation to the owners.

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 a living heir, on his deathbed, King St. Istvan raised with his right hand the Holy Crown of Hungary, and prayed to the Blessed Virgin Mary, asking her to take the Hungarian people as her subjects and become their queen.

Without meaningful primary opposition, Clinton was able to focus on the general election early, while Dole was forced to move to the right and spend his campaign reserves fighting off challengers.

Without it, anyone with network access and the right tools can monitor email and obtain login passwords.

In 2007, President Chen proposed a policy of Four Wants and One Without, which in substance states that Taiwan wants independence ; Taiwan wants the rectification of its name ; Taiwan wants a new constitution ; Taiwan wants development ; and Taiwanese politics is without the question of left or right, but only the question of unification or independence.

Without this ' device ' the hero would never find the headquarters and be unable to reach the climactic scene ; however the character becomes less of a plot device if the author gives them a back-story and a plausible motivation for defecting and makes them an interesting character in their own right.

Without self-knowledge there is no basis for right thought and action .” Nehru asked, “ How does one start ?” to which Krishnamurti replied, “ Begin where you are.

Without consulting the Cordillera people, this code gave companies the freedom to devastate tribal lands, allowed 100 % foreign ownership, and gave companies the right to displace and resettle people within their concessionary areas.

“ Without entering into the discussion, whether the principles inculcated in “ The Monk ” are right or wrong, or whether the means by which the story is conducted is likely to do more mischief than the tendency is likely to produce good, I solemnly declare, that when I published the work I had no idea that its publication could be prejudicial ; if I was wrong, the error proceeded from my judgment, not from my intention.

Without the fans, without their support, the NHL would be nothing, the NFL would be nothing, basketball, baseball, you name it right down the line ...

* Without taking more water, wipe your hair from the middle down to the forehead, or vice versa, using the index finger of your right hand ; it is mustahab to use three fingers.

* Without taking more water, wipe the top of your right foot with your right hand.

Reporters Without Borders states that it draws its inspiration from Article 19 of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, according to which everyone has " the right to freedom of opinion and expression " and also the right to " seek, receive and impart " information and ideas " regardless of frontiers.

Reporters Without Borders is a founding member of the International Freedom of Expression Exchange, a virtual network of non-governmental organizations that monitors free expression violations worldwide and defends journalists, writers and others who are persecuted for exercising their right to freedom of expression.

Without the right to vote, blacks were excluded as jurors and could not run for office, effectively excluding them from the political process.

Without hesitation this uncouth group, with Forrester right out in front, went over the top of a parapet and headlong at the crest of the hill.

Without this septum, or if there is a defect in this septum, it is possible for blood to travel from the left side of the heart to the right side of the heart, or vice versa.

According to Milos and Donna Macris, " The need to defend the baby's right to a peaceful beginning was brought to light by Dr. Frederick Leboyer in his landmark work, Birth Without Violence ".

In modern math, this formula can easily be computed using calculus – it is, up to scaling, the integral Without using calculus, the formula can be proven by comparing the cone to a pyramid and applying Cavalieri's principle – specifically, comparing the cone to a ( vertically scaled ) right square pyramid, which forms one third of a cube.

Without the use of his right hand and walking with a limp, Khadr found his injuries a frustrating dehabilitation.

Without such external visual cues, pilots must use an internal cue of attitude, which is provided by gyroscopically-driven instruments such as the Attitude Indicator ( or " Artificial Horizon ").

Perhaps influenced by his recent experience with fellow actor James Dean's rebellious attitude on the sets of Rebel Without a Cause and Giant, Hopper forced Hathaway to shoot more than 80 takes of a scene before he acquiesced to Hathaway's demands.

Without actually claiming that we do not know anything, Pyrrhonism argues that the preferred attitude to be adopted is epoché, i. e., the suspension of judgment or the withholding of assent.

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 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 documents, they could not be employed, educated, treated in hospitals, travel outside of the country, or vote, among other hardships.

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

The reunion led to other collaborations including a limited-edition single release version of Placebo's track " Without You I'm Nothing ", co-produced by Visconti, with Bowie's harmonised vocal added to the original recording.

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

Without the Preface, the two stanzas form two different poems that have some relationship to each other but lack unity.

Without Gandhi's unifying personality, the Indian National Congress began to splinter during his years in prison, splitting into two factions, one led by Chitta Ranjan Das and Motilal Nehru favouring party participation in the legislatures, and the other led by Chakravarti Rajagopalachari and Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, opposing this move.

Without alternatives, Mieszko II was forced to surrendered the Royal crown and agreed to the division of Poland between him and the other two competitors: his brother Otto and certain Dytryk () — cousin, grandson of Duke Mieszko I and his third wife Oda —.

* Without an MDI frame window, floating toolbars from one application can clutter the workspace of other applications, potentially confusing users with the jumble of interfaces.

Without a central fixation on the author, post-structuralists examine other sources for meaning ( e. g., readers, cultural norms, other literature, etc .).

Without other nations enforcing similar legislation to RICO many cross border RICO cases would not be possible.

Together with seven other European nations, Switzerland leads the 2005 index on Freedom of the Press published by Reporters Without Borders ( with a score 0. 5 points, zero being the perfect score ).

* Robin D. Gill, ditto, The Woman Without a Hole – & other risky themes from old Japanese poems as above but with different title and ISBN 978-0-9742618-8-1

The other major theatre practitioner to have experimented with surrealism in the theatre is the Spanish playwright and director Federico García Lorca, particularly in his plays The Public ( 1930 ), When Five Years Pass ( 1931 ), and Play Without a Title ( 1935 ).

Without a director, the series was put on hold and Kawamori left to work on other projects.

He continued to do so in a series of other films: I vinti (" The Vanquished ", 1952 ), a trio of stories, each set in a different country ( France, Italy and England ), about juvenile delinquency ; La signora senza camelie ( The Lady Without Camellias, 1953 ) about a young film star and her fall from grace ; and Le amiche ( The Girlfriends, 1955 ) about middle class women in Turin.

Without hybrids, the output of one amplifier feeds directly into the input of the other, resulting in a howling situation ( upper diagram ).

Without this, the phone user's own voice would be louder in the earpiece than the other party's.

Without this effect, the sunglasses would block the horizontally polarized light reflected from the other car's window.

Without major changes to the Big Bang theory itself, BBN will result in mass abundances of about 75 % of H-1, about 25 % helium-4, about 0. 01 % of deuterium, trace ( on the order of 10 < sup >− 10 </ sup >) amounts of lithium and beryllium, and no other heavy elements.

Without prejudice to the provisions of the Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict of 14 May 1954 ,' and of other relevant international instruments, it is prohibited:

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.