1.   But none of that happened without running gun battles with the centralizers in Washington.

2.   The behaviour of consumer and corporate spending will determine whether this happens without a recession.

3.   Very little activity in the ark, either natural or man-made, happened without the distributed computer knowing about it.

4.   The directors call the shots and nothing happens without their say-so.

5.   Imagination does not lead necessarily to belief, but belief cannot happen without the ground being prepared by imagination.

6.   What happens without it?

7.   Significant moments in history do not happen without some kind of advance warning.

8.   But make no mistake about it, nothing happens without the approval of the board.

9.   Whatever was to happen to him would happen without any provocation on his part, and nothing he did in conciliation could ward it off.