It was also difficult to reload without a special mechanism.

He said the state would be flooded with waiver requests from municipalities and school districts without a mechanism to handle them.

Without such a mechanism, they said, school systems might find it easier to follow Richmond's example rather than make difficult budget choices.

"It's interesting that they found a correlation between blood glutamate and stroke progression, but without a mechanism, you worry about what it means."

The lifetime of the Uranian rings without such a mechanism cannot be more than 1 million years.

Without a homeostatic mechanism, this would result in downstream saturation and all information would be lost.

Without such a mechanism, all communication is just 'cheap talk': there is no reason for a firm to believe what the others say.

If you're just fishing for correlation without even a tentative mechanism for causation first you're much more likely to interpret results one way or another.

A bomb without a detonating mechanism was scrap iron.

Without a new mechanism for very large and permanent fiscal transfers - from the prudent to the profligate - the euro turkey is stuffed.