Their work ethic and determination can overwhelm the opposition and that would have been the case for Liverpool had it not been for Reina.
But, according to Rose, in the larger picture, a free stream of a show or movie does not necessarily mean the viewer would have paid for the show had it not been available for free.
Such powers, too, are not unique: Britain had its Riot Act until 1986, though it had not been used for years.
It may be that America would have exercised the same caution in Libya even if it had not been for Iraq.
Of these, 4m are people whose incomes will sink below the poverty line, while 2m are people who would have risen above it had it not been for the recession.
Borrowing costs are up to 6.4% and would have gone much higher had it not been for the intervention of the European Central Bank.
"We estimate that all these improvements would not have happened for another three years if it had not been for the Euro 2012 event, " he says.
It is, though, fair to say that the modern day IOC wouldn't be the same if it had not been for Juan Antonio Samaranch.
It also has a broadband Internet subsidiary called Chello that would have been floated this month had it not been for the manoeuvrings in Denver.
The FSA said those payments might never have been made by the bank, had it not been for complaints from customers that they had been left out.
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He spent a single semester at college, and says that he would have left sooner had it not been for obligations to the music school.
"Our study showed an excess mortality, meaning these are people that would not have died, had it not been for Katrina, " said Dr. Kevin Stephens, who is director of the New Orleans Health Department and the study author.
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Yahoo said it did not know for sure that the file had been taken but told AFP it could not "deny the possibility".
This difference, " according to Wishy, "is not surprising for it had not been decreed that the mother formally replace the father.
It is hard to imagine that the debate would have ended like this had it not been for the sheer speed of the change.
Meanwhile, Australia's Anna Meares set a world record to win the women's 500m time trial in a race she might well have missed had it not been for an injury to her older sister.
It will also be interesting to know if the situation at the supply-end has improved after Q4, when Nokia had problems meeting demand and could have sold even more Lumias had it not been supply constrained for most of the quarter.
That number of household connections would have been 12.5 million higher had it not been for an immediate decision by Time Warner Cable not to show Al-Jazeera programing on its system.
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Both teams said that temperatures would have been higher if it had not been for the La Nina weather pattern that brought cooling to some regions.
Her hair had been cut like a boy's, but it had not been cut for a long time and was now not even parted.
This agreement would not have been possible had it not been for Nissan's negotiation of new working practices with Spanish trade unions.
And that could not have been accomplished had it not been for the men and women here at Fort Bliss and across the country.
The housing bubble never would have reached such obese proportions had it not been for Greenspan's weak-dollar policy.
Also not taken into account is the amount of new tax payers the industry has created through businesses, jobs, property owners, and industries that would not even exist in Louisiana had it not been for the implementation of the tax credit program.
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The Constitution of the United States, for example, would not have been written had it not been for the compromise of small states and large states, at the Constitutional Convention.
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Obviously, most recently, the operations in Libya could not have been as effective had it not been for the precision and the excellence of the Danish armed forces and their pilots.
Had it not been for the centralized growth and strategy council, Corning might not have even been in the market.
"If it had not rained it would have been unbelievable for four days, " the 46-year-old said.
Both fines would have been higher still had it not been for Shell's co-operation with investigators.
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