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Without and device
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.
Ken Follett's 2007 novel, World Without End uses the alleged murder of Edward II ( and the infamous letter ) as a plot device.
Without some form of electromechanical device, such as a device to release several of the compounds that do spontaneously ignite upon contact with the oxygen in air ( such as silane, a pyrophoric gas, or rubidium ), or some form of triggering device located at the source of the fire, there is no scientifically known method for the brain to trigger explosions and fires at a distance.
Without such a device, considering the great variety and complexity of the set, Diabelli's waltz would become superfluous, " a mere prologue to the whole.
Without a framing device, the stories themselves became the focus.
Without it, exposed live metal in a device under test is at a hazardous voltage relative to grounded objects such as a heating radiator or oscilloscope ground lead ( a particular hazard with some old vacuum-tube equipment with live chassis ).
Without a PRL, the device may not be able to roam, i. e. obtain service outside of the home area.
Without a physical keyboard this device looked very different from later versions.
The sixth movement " Avalon ", another reference to the Arthurian legends, is the real slow movement ; its prefatory quotation is " We impose on one another, and it is but lost time to converse with you whose words are only Analytics ". The Finale " The New Jerusalem " is prefaced " Without Contraries is no progression "' alluding to the use by the composer of a structural device known as progressive tonality.
Without the proper power, an electrical device ( or load ) may malfunction, fail prematurely or not operate at all.
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 being unlocked with an Apple device, the car will not go 100 mph.

Without and hero
The Kingpin discovered his plan and threatened to kill the hero, but he was rescued by the Man Without Fear, Daredevil, who then recruited him as a part of his team.
They also took it to Sherwin's hero, Rebel Without a Cause director Nicholas Ray, who liked it but had a nervous breakdown before anything came of it.
Without Vincent's intercession, the hero will not discover that Malus was indeed Dracula reincarnate-not simply possessed by him-and receive one of the bad endings in which the hero rescues the boy.

Without and would
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.

Without and never
Without looking at him, without looking at anything except Drexel Street directly in front of her, she climbed up into one of those orange streetcars, rode away in it, and never came back.
Without Stevenson, Sterne might have been a more decorous parish priest, but then might never have written Tristram Shandy.
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 the insight and assistance of Professor Jon Appleton, the Synclavier idea would never have happened.
Joseph Stalin, during the Tehran Conference in 1943, acknowledged publicly the importance of American efforts during a dinner at the conference: " Without American production the United Nations could never have won the war.
Without the help of Dors, Seldon never would have left it alive.
In The Musical Quarterly, Martial Teneo and Theodore Baker wrote, " Without the example set by Hervé, Offenbach might perhaps never have become the musician who penned Orphée aux Enfers, La belle Hélène, and so many other triumphant works.
Without inflammation, wounds and infections would never heal.
Without limited animation, such ground-breaking films as Yellow Submarine, Chuck Jones ' The Dot and the Line, and many others could never have been produced.
Without an agreed upon interpretation, much less an elaborated political philosophy, these conflicting views of America's destiny were never resolved.
In mediaeval times, Alnwick was a walled town ( although fluctuating economic situations in the Middle Ages meant the walls were never completed ), and one remain — Hotspur Tower, a mediaeval gate — is extant, dividing Bondgate Within from Bondgate Without, and restricting vehicles to a single lane used alternately in each direction.
Without this regulation in place, it is likely that Providence Marketplace would have never been developed.
Without a nucleus to absorb momentum, a photon decaying into electron-positron pair ( or other pairs for that matter ) can never conserve energy and momentum simultaneously.
Without Tremaine's business acumen there probably would never have been a player piano industry.
Without administrative access to the server, users have no way to determine if their mail has been successfully delivered, is still pending delivery, or has been lost and will never be delivered.
Without using their considerable hydropower output, silver mining in the Harz would never have been able to attain its major economic significance.
Without his sanction we could never have kept up our attempts to change OKW's mind.
Without Talmudic study, he argued, the mind could never be elevated — and if the mind is not elevated, the soul will starve.
Without explaining himself, he asks for a detailed list of the items in the possession of the passengers, and finds an incriminating clue: Norman Gale, a dentist who has seemingly never been in the area of the plane where the victim was killed, and has no apparent motive for committing the murder, had an empty matchbox and a lighter.
In a summary, he famously said, " Without Islam, the Frankish Empire would probably never have existed, and Charlemagne, without Muhammad, would be inconceivable.
Of his Garibaldi trilogy, " reeking with bias ", he remarked in his essay " Bias in History ", " Without bias, I should never have written them at all.
Though her funeral effigy is there, Mary FitzAlan was never buried at Framlingham, but at the church of St. Clement Without, Temple Bar and then ( under the direction of her grandson's will ) at Arundel.
Without the years required to build up this Seljuk force, the battle could never have even taken place.

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