Example sentences of "without resorting [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Surely the situation can be assuaged without resorting to the interference of outsiders . ’ |
| 2 | The late Professor Ragnar Nurkse used to tell his students at Cambridge in the 1950s , of whom I was one , how important it was that Third World countries should develop their agriculture without resorting to the internal combustion engine . |
| 3 | To at least some of its attackers this pattern must be intimidating and its value is that it may allow the cobra to repel its enemy without resorting to the use of its precious venom . |
| 4 | Herreweghe ( Harmonia Mundi ) takes a broadly naturalistic view , allowing the text to unfold without resorting to the jet-propulsion treatment of so many Baroque choral recordings nowadays . |
| 5 | The thousands of strays created by reckless , thoughtlessly uncontrolled cat-breeding could all have been prevented by the tube-tying techniques , without resorting to the full butchery of neutering . |
| 6 | They passed an Emergency Powers Act which , under the guise of doing anything they felt necessary to ‘ relieve the distress of the people ’ , allowed them to do as they pleased without resorting to the Volkstag for authority . |
| 7 | It might be crass to describe Screaming Trees as The Cult Without The Stupid Bits , but they do have a rare knack of crafting glorious , quite literally classic heavy rock without resorting to the pompous clichés . |
| 8 | But the record shop remains a great place to do a large part of your Christmas shopping , and with a little imagination you can find great gifts without resorting to the obvious Greatest Hits albums or the record token cop-out . |
| 9 | Cleverly , IBM reckons MPTN manages to gateway without protocols without resorting to the lowest common denominator — instead it claims to have mapped the functions of every protocol onto every other . |
| 10 | He also manages to end it — master that he was — without resorting to the curiously limp ritardando-diminuendo that Brüggen comes up with . |
| 11 | But they convey all its urgency , and they find the intensity and dynamic range for the central Largo assai without resorting to the excessively slow tempo adopted by the Beaux Arts . |
| 12 | The user can not zoom around the screen selecting items from a menu here , altering data there , changing files and programs without resorting to the keyboard . |
| 13 | We will continue our vigorous enforcement of existing statutes , and I will once again press the Congress to strengthen the laws against employment discrimination without resorting to the use of unfair preferences . |
| 14 | Useful results can often be achieved through simple analysis without resorting to the more sophisticated techniques . |
| 15 | Another key point made in that report , and raised independently by many participants at the colloquium , was that the capacity of people to learn about and respond to HIV can be improved without resorting to the aid of high technology . |