The absence of knee jerks should suggest the diagnosis.
But what must have surprised and disturbed the industrious and energetic Fournier, even more than the absence of crime, was the absence of ambition and hard work.
Knowledge absence may result from the factor of institutionalization and is characterized by regularity.
“Increasing awareness” about healthy lifestyles is not simply gentle paternalism; in the absence of real support, it’s immoral.
The study, published online by Science magazine, shows that these crops have declined about 5 percent over what they would have been in the absence of warming.
In the absence of air resistance, the only force on a projectile is its weight, and the mechanical energy of the projectile remains constant.
As the 12-day general-election campaign got under way (the first to be held in August in 107 years), there was something quaintly old-fashioned in the absence of television hoopla.
He acted as chairman in my absence.
Original mail returned in the absence of the addressee.
The model assumes the absence of a monopoly, both in the labor and economic markets.
In the absence of explicit instructions from the user, your sovereign application should default to maximized or full-screen presentation.
More and better jobs, and rising living standards, may not be enough to banish the sectarian divide, but their absence could well widen it again.
One of the outstanding characteristics of the Red Army's operations, which follows from the fact that the enemy is powerful while the Red Army is deficient in technical equipment, is the absence of fixed battle lines.
Her inexplicable absence worried me.
The boss discharged her because of her absence.
He cleared up the question of his absence in the presence of all his classmates.
This includes misuse, when drugs are given for the wrong disease, usually in the absence of a diagnostic test.
Its limitless supplies of cheap labour, its efficient production platforms and its absence of currency risk have made it an integral part[主要組成部分] of international capitalism.
He took my place during my absence.
But in the absence of such an event, gold's strength is not entirely irrational.
Benefits of this procedure included plication of diastasis recti, short learning curve, the absence of postoperative board like rigidity of abdominal wall and no need for expensive instruments.
His absence implicates disagreement.
And though she did what she could to make up for the absence of a father, for me, the absence was inescapable.
Measuring the effectiveness of these tools is hard, since nobody can know what the exchange rate would be in their absence.
Lack of temporal concurrence;absence of synchronism.
Their absence, the most prolonged for nearly a hundred years, has taken even seasoned sun watchers by surprise.
His long absence raised fears about his safety.
I bought them in charity shops or asked for them as birthday presents; together, books and CARDS gave me an understanding of words and Numbers in the absence of any formal education.
Several of Europe's big bailed-out firms, including Dexia, a Franco-Belgian lender to local governments, rely heavily on the state in the absence of securitisation markets that are still not working.
The team was crippled by his absence.
This governance topic sometimes sparks debates that sound vaguely philosophical, like "is good simply the absence of evil?"
Darkness is in reality the absence of light. Light we can study, but not darkness.
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