without reference

This was a discourse almost entirely without reference to ideology or values except to dismiss their significance.

On the podcast, without reference to any particular team, Trump said middle-class fans are “your biggest sports fans.”

In an introduction to the book, John Chamberlain, a conservative editorial writer for Life magazine, endorsed Buckley's accusation that Yale had set-up "an elite of professional untouchables . . . The elite would perpetuate itself as it chose. Departments would select their staffs without reference to alumni or parental or undergraduate opinion . . . This is caste rule as applied to education, it might be unkind to call it 'Fascism,' but it certainly is not democracy."

"For any challenge faced, for too long the answer has been more arm's length bodies, quangos and regulators which end up blocking the government," Sir Keir writes in the Daily Telegraph, without reference to any particular such body.

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