without reference

Family stories described Billy as short, compact, and powerfully built without reference to his skin color.

An AFM spokesperson confirmed, without reference to the Exor deal, that there is no legal obstacle to an investor jumping various thresholds in terms of accumulating a shareholding in a single day.

Listing species as threatened or endangered must be done, the proposed rule reads, “without reference to possible economic or other impacts of such determination” and be made only based on the scientific evidence.

The Cabinet Office said it made clear Mr Johnson had "a duty to provide sincere witness to the inquiry independently and without reference to the views of the current government".

But if this new way of acknowledging a large number of human beings without reference to gender doesn't hurt anyone, and may in fact help remind some of our shared humanity, then I'm all for it.