Sentence examples for without the presents from inspiring English sources

Let us take, for example, a particularly recent event, a little something called "the Diamond Jubilee" or, as I like to call it, "Christmas without the presents".

But without the presents, there's nothing for the family to do together that could possibly fill up this long, long day.

As a reflection of Myerson's inability at the time of composition to write about the past without the present jumping in, the double time-structure creates powerful cross-echoes.

Throughout these examinations, most of which are both difficult and brilliant, there are also hints of the danger that lies latent in nostalgia, for how can the past be sought without the present being overturned?

Japan, the country's No. 1 portal, will enable their respective users to make offers for overseas products without the present difficulties and inconvenience.

Again, the effect is to preserve a sense of presentness ("approaching and examining") without using the present.

The job of the modern Indian chief is to uphold the traditions without fumbling the present.

The underlying challenge has been to conserve the past without stultifying the present.

Lenin, deciding that most anarchists "think and write about the future without understanding the present", got off at platform two.

Only six months into Jane's leukemia, I had drafted the poem "Without" in the present tense.

Then, at the start of the second year, they are required to learn the past tense, without knowing the present.