She'd been without contact with them for three decades.
"Without contact with what?" asks Meirelles, when queried by the Guardian about the term.
A variety of plants, including Spanish moss, live without contact with groundwater.
She was born April Minnis but grew up without contact with her biological father in the Denver suburb of Littleton, Colo.
Sehorn, who is scheduled for off-season surgery on his right knee, sustained the injury without contact with another player when he caught his foot in the grass.
That meant I worked without pay, and without contact with the council, through that spring and summer, before submitting my report.
Bin Laden's Syrian and Saudi wives were said to have gone home before or immediately after the September 11th attacks, and the Saudi wives were said to be living in the kingdom, without contact with Osama.
Not only must they endure one another, they must live without many creature comforts (dishwashers, clothes dryers) and without contact with the outside world (no computers, television, telephone or newspapers).
In varied forms – including Islam and Christian evangelism (and, some would argue, militant secularism) – these are insurgent, populist faiths that gather large congregations without contact with the apparatus of the state.
Despite that he is yet to be convicted of any crime, for the past 218 consecutive days he has been made to live in a cell 6ft wide and 12ft long, without contact with any other detainees.
His first play staged in Prague, The Castle (1964), was inspired by a "communist elite of writers who write about the working class but live a life of nobility without contact with it".
