Without firing a shot, by the mere display of military force, he has achieved a dominating position in Europe which Germany failed to win after four years of war.

Without the use of pulleys, wheels, or iron tools, they used critical path analysis to suggest the Great Pyramid was completed from start to finish in approximately 10 years.

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.

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 Chains " is about Murat Kurnaz, a Turkish citizen who was born and raised in Germany, held at Guantanamo Bay detainment camp for four years.

Without the perturbations from the terrestrial planets the Lyapunov time would be close to 10, 000 years.

Without the ability to swap genes with its pair, it is racking up with mutations and may stop functioning in 10 million years.

Without external assistance, with 75 % of the necessary draft animals dead from the previous four years of war, agricultural guidelines written by idealists, and work overseen by zealous cadre, the country soon sunk into the depths of famine.

Without further continuing congressional intervention, the SGR is expected to decrease physician payments from 25 % to 35 % over the next several years.

Without supplies of fixed nitrogen entering the marine cycle the fixed nitrogen would be used up in about 2000 years.

Without a by-election in the previous four years, the 1996 election shaped up as the first test of the ' Kennett Revolution ' with the electorate.

One extreme was the so-called Year Without a Summer of 1816, one of several years during the 1810s in which numerous crops failed during freakish summer cold snaps after volcanic eruptions reduced incoming sunlight.

Without improved conservation measures, Pakistani archaeologists fear that the site could disappear within 20 years.

Without her presence, a distraught William became increasingly tyrannical until his death four years later in 1087.

Without the all-important cabaret card he was unable to play in any New York venue where liquor was served, and this severely restricted his ability to perform for several crucial years.

Without surgery, Bichons with shunts on average live to be 4 – 6 years old.

Without making serious practice of the law he settled at Basford, and for three years was occupied with the composition of Festus, which appeared anonymously in 1839.

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

Without a seat in the cabinet, he remained in the latter post for 20 years.

Without a valid license from the Hong Kong Police Force, it is a crime to possess and can result in a fine of $ 100, 000 and to imprisonment for 14 years.

" Without crossing the threshold, Akiva turned about and went back to the academy, to return at the expiration of another twelve years.

From the mid-14th century, and for over 500 years, the north transept of the building was used as the parish church of St Nicholas Without ( i. e. the part of the Parish of St. Nicholas outside the city proper ).

( In later years Kuzmin incurred Akhmatova's enmity, probably because of a 1923 review she took as condescending, and she made him a prototype of one of the villains in her " Poem Without a Hero ".

Without a valid passport, the Swedish authorities were legally compelled to deport him to the United States, where he was sentenced to 12 years in a federal prison for multiple counts of forgery.

Without apologising for the remarks, Schreyer said he supported same-sex marriage as the existing legislation did not force religious institutions to marry same-sex couples, and added: " It was 19 years ago, and I didn't even for a split second suggest that there was no need to ensure that there was equal protection of the law with respect to the people who are homosexual.

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 referral to an aether, this physical interpretation of relativistic effects was shared by Kennedy and Thorndike in 1932 as they concluded that the interferometer's arm contracts and also the frequency of its light source " very nearly " varies in the way required by relativity.

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 remote uploading functionality, the user would be required to download the file first to their local host and then upload it to the remote file hosting server.

Without this, the varying reaction of the wood against the torque of the tool makes it impossible to control with the precision normally required.

Without the combination required for the combination lock, it was almost impossible to break into the safes.

Without the capital required to buy large tracts, they entered into a partnership with pirate Jean Lafitte in 1818 to raise money.

Without that provision, it would have required a strained reading to construe that all actual presidents born in the colonial period were born in the U. S. A., because the United States did not exist prior to July 4, 1776, the date on which the Declaration of Independence was adopted, and Alexander Hamilton ( who did not ever actually run for the office, but was considered presidential material by some ) would have been barred because of his birth in the West Indies.

Without an operculum, other methods, such as ventilation, are required.

Without the opportunity to reach a larger audience in earlier time slots and achieve greater revenues, the show had limited ability to offset the residuals and music clearances required by the many performers appearing on the show.

Because her contract required her to make one film a year for the studio, she reported to the lot of 20th Century Fox in March 1952 and was cast in the film noir Night Without Sleep ( 1952 ).

Without their involvement, of evaporation ponds, costing at least an additional $ 70 million, would have been required.

Without losing any time with the opera, Caleb moves to the Gothic Library, located in the midst of surrounding forests: there he barely escapes the minions of the Cabal after recovering all the keys required to leave the place.

Without understanding or even knowing the characteristics of these enormous copper spider webs, it is very difficult, and expensive to ' provision ' ( connect ) new customers and assure the data rates required to receive next generation services.

Without the capacity for stressed words based merely on pitch or on volume of articulation, structures of this kind are required in order to stress a certain element:

Without the added parts required for a fully geared drive train — derailleurs, shifters, cables, cable carriers, multiple chain rings, freewheel hub, brazed-on mounting lugs — a fixed gear bicycle weighs less than its geared equivalent.

Without the effects of gravity, skeletal muscle is no longer required to maintain posture and the muscle groups used in moving around in a weightless environment differ from those required in terrestrial locomotion.

Without the required £ 450 million capital investment available from government funds to do the work on a traditional install and commission system, Connect has had to be underwritten with private investment.

Without light metering equipment or sure emulsion speeds, exposure times required inspired guesswork, between five seconds and twenty minutes depending on light conditions.

Without the Waterway as a viable source of transportation, an average of 284, 000 additional truckloads per year would be required to handle the materials currently being shipped.

Without mentioning it specifically, D & H later give what might be the required ( above ) justification while arguing that, an assumption that the solvent is incompressible.

Without the necessary two dimensions required to form the cone shape, conical intersections cannot exist in these molecules.