Sentence examples for without mainstay from inspiring English sources

Washington was already playing without mainstay center Nicklas Backstrom, out with a hand injury, as well as forward Tom Wilson, who plays right wing on Kuznetsov's line — opposite captain Alex Ovechkin.

There was the 2009 season, the first without mainstay top receivers Plaxico Burress and Amani Toomer, during which Eli had his best year to that point and made Steve Smith the franchise all-time leader in receptions.

Renard's challenge will be to meet the lofty ambitions that the Chipolopolo fans now hold but he must do so without a mainstay of his side - Jacob Mulenga, since the Holland-based striker is missing the tournament through injury.

He was without other mainstays for weeks at a time.

Yet even without these mainstays of scientific rigour, excitement has swept through the community and into the world beyond.

Where would the gaming industry be without these mainstays?

There's been so much talk of this golden generation winning something but if they finally clinch their first title since 1992, and only their second overall, they will do so without some mainstays of recent years - such as Didier Drogba, Didier Zokora and Emmanuel Eboue.

It seems there could hardly be a Prudential Center without Brodeur, a mainstay in goal since 1993.

As a whole package, however, it's a standout look at adolescence that has managed 10 years as a pop culture mainstay without feeling like a MySpace-era throwback.

Surgery with or without radiotherapy remains the mainstay of treatment in symptomatic disease, but the approach should be individualized.

This amazing tourist attraction has increased its daily ticket quota in response to an expected increase in visitor numbers, but media reports say many travellers will still be turned away.Even without the railway, tourism the mainstay of Tibet's economy—has been booming, thanks to growing interest among China's newly affluent urbanites.