| Mr Wilkins said the absence of a cinema in the town is a commonly raised issue. |
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| In the absence of a decent World Cup anthem, we invited you to pen an official Guardian song. |
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| How could you have possibly not noticed the absence of such a fundamental requirement? |
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| In the absence of firm evidence and reliable facts, it is that line which tends to be followed. |
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| The absence of a smoke detector in the room has prompted an immediate investigation. |
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| Courts also have the option of hearing the case in the absence of the defendant, he warned. |
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| In the absence of pictorial reality we reach instinctively for clues to some sort of story. |
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| In the absence of named candidates or any real campaign about policy, what is an election? |
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| I can't believe I actually had the absence of mind to even start caring for you, because look where it got me. |
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| So far he has failed to recant on his support for the war, despite the absence of those weapons. |
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| First check the field for the presence or absence of spider mites on individual green leaves on a corn plant. |
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| But I have nevertheless gone straight to the bathroom, not in unfreedom of will but in ridiculous absence of mind. |
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| While there were periods of indecision in the conquest of this corner of the Empire, there was no absence of mind. |
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| In the absence of a polymer cushion, the aqueous film thickness was found to vary between a few angstroms and more than 4 nm. |
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| The American empire did not develop, as has been said of its British predecessor, in a fit of absence of mind. |
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| In the absence of any effective rebuttal, it had to draw its own conclusions. |
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| When, after an absence of eight years, he attempts to heal the rift with his three daughters, each girl demands a different absolution from him. |
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| Rampant competition among reprinters also helped to guarantee a relative absence of monopoly in the production of literature. |
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| One facet of this tragedy is the absence of visionary leadership capable of leading humanity out of its quagmire. |
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| But, when the humor is flat and repetitious, as is the case here, the absence of a credible storyline becomes a major drawback. |
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| The single advantage of refractive systems over their reflective counterparts is an absence of off-axis aberrations. |
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| Clear skies, the high June sun, and an absence of wind chill offered napping conditions second to none. |
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| The spokesman added that the absence of wives would make it easier for refs and assistant refs to mix socially in the hotel the night before. |
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| It is also likely that the 1913 Scott expedition to Antarctica failed due to the absence of any antiscorbutics. |
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| In the absence of piling, the ancient Khmers often used sand to provide a homogeneous foundation for their structures. |
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| As such, it may be a quantum jump to practice in the absence of diagnosis and prognosis and then proceed immediately to treatment. |
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| Moreover, we have recorded similar photoeffects also in the absence of an electron acceptor in our experiments. |
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| Gerson said rescue workers were facing difficulties in getting aid to isolated areas due to the absence of air transportation. |
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| The absence of dramatic action was of little account to audiences used to the lyrical pastoral play. |
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| In the absence of individual gene analysis, these methods can reveal the overall patterns of gene network systems. |
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| In the absence of other sources of building stone, glacial erratics have been extensively used in Finland and northern Poland. |
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| The absence of an accusatorial procedure places an inquisitorial burden upon an inspector. |
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| Addition of bromoethanesulphonic acid will allow confirmation of acetogenic activity in the absence of methanogenesis. |
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| The absence of acid is called achlorhydria, but many people have this condition without ill effects. |
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| One may lament the absence of a libretto but the CD version will probably be in most collectors' libraries anyway. |
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| Testosterone levels were not correlated with extent of androgenization or absence of feminization. |
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| The absence of meaningful dialogue at the national level about the role of race in teacher quality is perplexing. |
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| An interesting phenomenon of the book was the relative absence of criticism of its flaws by racing people. |
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| The rule of law is fragile, with gangs of thugs running protection rackets in many cities, in the absence of a reliable police force. |
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| That explains the absence of carols, tinsel and holly if you come listening through our keyhole and peering through our window this year. |
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| The shareware experience indicates that it is possible to return a profit even in the absence of enforcement mechanisms. |
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| In people with Addison's disease, the adrenal cortex is destroyed, leading to a deficiency or absence of the hormones it produces. |
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| Cornelius, however, admits that failure to score from penalty corners is a cause for worry in the absence of the talented Jugraj Singh. |
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| In the absence of such a move, calls for a united front will remain a voice in the wilderness. |
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| By the same token, neglecting to share a feast indicated an absence of ties, and exclusion from the feasting community meant rejection. |
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| Except the tattooing both sexes are remarkable for their almost entire absence of any marked adornment or ornament of person. |
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| The more disturbing part of the answer may lie in the absence of a vision of a just society. |
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| The criticisms of the law, and the absence of any satisfactory rationale justifies this course. |
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| The absence of the red fox in Tasmania is the main reason that the island has been something of a Noah's Ark for Australian animals. |
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| We conclude that sophisticated numerical competence can be present in the absence of a well-developed lexicon of number words. |
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| I do not find the absence of aircraft from the 1986 aerial photograph to be evidence of abandonment. |
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| The good aerodynamic design of the A6 and its smooth shape means a noticeable absence of wind noise. |
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| At first, the open news reporting helped to correct wild rumours which were being spread in the absence of adequate official information. |
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| It should be reiterated that the absence of PA denotes anhedonia, which Clark and Watson argued distinguishes depression from anxiety. |
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| It was things like the absence of drinks and the sheer lack of respect for elderly people, which appalled me. |
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| In the absence of any takers, the value of these shares could continue falling until they are worth nothing at all. |
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| Fostering ecological richness on farms requires more than the absence of synthetic pesticides and gigantic manure lagoons. |
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| Both democracy and the free market will not survive long in the absence of an informed, alert, intellectually agile public. |
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| Although I rant, there's no doubt that creative contributions from the world's artists would be poorer in the absence of artistic license. |
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| In Italy he was convicted in his absence of aggravated fraud and sentenced to imprisonment and to a fine. |
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| The absence of a separate letter of intent could have serious financial and legal ramifications for the telecom company. |
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| Both grouping is based on the presence and the absence of agglutinogens and their specific agglutinins. |
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| Thus, the presence or absence of an apertural slit does not necessarily have significance for high-level taxonomy. |
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| Unfamiliar renderings and the absence of starry vocals allow the music to be really heard again. |
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| The specification list is comprehensive for a small car, although the absence of remote mirror adjustment was noted. |
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| This allegation has been denied by the club but in the absence of smoke without fire, it must be considered a possibility. |
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| In the absence of the file, Ms. Sava arranged for a search of the court record. |
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| Diarrhoea often occurs in the absence of recognised pathogens in the stool, and metronidazole has relieved symptoms in some cases. |
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| The absence of symmetrical ripple marks indicates that the site of deposition was protected from wave action. |
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| Interpretation relies on the presence or absence of reactivity to the specific antigens. |
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| The offenders' liberty, in the absence of sentence remission, would actually be restricted for a longer period than if incarcerated. |
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| We only come to grief once, when I ascribe the absence of his body hair to regular wax treatments. |
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| Locals say a lot of this woodland is regrowth that's come back with a vengeance, in the absence of fire and rabbits. |
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| Photo collections in biscuit tins and shoe boxes mediated the void left by this absence of myth and history. |
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| In the absence of an antenuptial contract, persons are deemed to be married in community of property. |
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| The absence of skin, odour and blood means that many visitors are surprised that they do not feel instinctive revulsion. |
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| But the absence of the traditional enemy didn't spoil the fun for assortment of enthusiasts including gunslingers, gamblers, and their womenfolk. |
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| In the absence of Behcet's disease, intracardiac thrombus is often found to overlie an akinetic myocardial segment. |
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| At least, flat prices or the absence of inflation is a darn good thing for consumers. |
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| And so, in the absence of any other widely available metric, the Nielsen ratings provided our performance standard. |
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| Yes, the almost total absence of rural policing is a major problem in urgent need of a solution. |
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| This goes together with the complete absence of any sense of distance or alienation from the government they elected. |
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| To some extent the presence or absence of fine writing is even less important to me here than it is with people journals. |
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| The lack of, and in certain cases, the complete absence of gender equality in our own homes makes its visible appearance in our daily routine. |
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| In the absence of reliable sources, we can only guess at the process of societal formation. |
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| But I noticed one thing and that was the absence of cars parked along the street. |
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| The absence of UN legitimation of this exercise, as I've said many times in the past, has never been the central issue. |
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| The absence of doubt of the rightness of the answers looks more like religion than science. |
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| The issue of domestic violence and the absence of a refuge for women who want to escape abusive partners in Sligo was raised. |
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| The absence of pigment in the human sclera highlights the iris and thereby enhances the interpretation of eye movements. |
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| But affability, like intelligence, can mask a mean and meager spirit as well as the absence of a sense of proportion. |
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| Due credit has to go to the hosts for striving to maintain some sense of momentum in the absence of any searching questions. |
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| One evident reason for the absence of any form of bounding flight in bats is the difficulty of folding their membranous wings to save wing drag. |
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| In the absence of a real left alternative, the working class had to choose between one devil and another. |
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| The presence or absence of Kurds neither adds nor subtracts to the legitimacy of the protest. |
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| The absence of this table would appear to be deliberate, as the pages of the resubmitted document were renumbered. |
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| So, in the absence of a mathematical proof deciding this question, none of us has any a priori knowledge about this question in either direction. |
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| They found the samples contained anaerobic bacteria that grew on sugars and proteins in total absence of oxygen. |
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| Surrounded by nice quiet things and an utter absence of familiarity, I went up the wall. |
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| In the absence of any treatable cause, the best that can be offered is control of the symptoms. |
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| And while some have preferred to opt for the waiting game, there are those who are hoping that they will benefit from the absence of the big players. |
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| The absence of woodswallows is probably a seasonal phenomenon. |
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| The Judge assumed that he had an absolute right to those shares and that the absence of a Deed of Disclaimer showed that there had been no renunciation. |
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| Predilection for extranodal sites and absence of the Epstein-Barr virus associated with mature NK cell malignancies further distinguish this entity. |
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| Inhibited proteases of leukocytic origin probably are partly responsible for the damage to the lung in the absence of the major protease inhibitor. |
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| The Recorder of York, Judge Paul Hoffman, signed a warrant for Clarkson's arrest, after a jury at York Crown Court convicted him in his absence of robbery. |
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| The revisionists use the absence of evidence to bolster their claims. |
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| However, out on the open road, the absence of a backdraught excluder screen meant wind noise and turbulence limited cruising speeds to what was comfortable. |
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| In the absence of information on site or geological factors affecting emissions from landfill, we examined data for special waste sites as a proxy for potential hazard. |
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| Our shock is not from indecency, but from the absence of self-possession, the ultimate bourgeois possession. |
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| The absence of scholarly essays, on the other hand, is a relief. |
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| Saints are set to switch Darren Albert from the wing to full-back to offset the absence of Paul Wellens, but Millward also has the option of Anthony Stewart and Sean Hoppe. |
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| Even though this is not relative to warfare of today, the absence of ships means that fairer battles are guaranteed with each person having to build tanks and planes. |
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| Despite the fact that nothing was revealed, and in the absence of a search warrant, the officials continued their search. |
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| Among other particular features of Albanian and other Balkan languages are a postpositive definite article and the absence of a verbal infinitive. |
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| Yet, in the absence of the traditional ruling magnates to supervise border rule and defence, the region's precarious peace dissolved into feuds and reiving. |
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| In the absence of such a consequence, the statement is a lie. |
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| But for the absence of an admission charge, an agreeably small annual fee being the substitute as my host happily told me, this seemed to be such a place. |
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| For me, an evolutionary biologist and zoogeographer, each expedition results in intriguing discoveries of the abundance, presence and absence of species. |
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| Inspection of the bore revealed the near absence of rifling. |
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| In the absence of cultural shifts, then, new reproductive technology might not matter as much for women as it would for men. |
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| In the absence of typical classrooms and curriculums, West Africans have opted for alternate methods of learning and education. |
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| Courage, one recalls, is not the absence of fear but the ability to act in the face of it. |
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| Power, and the accoutrements of power, would fill the vacuum created by the absence of ideas. |
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| The absence of these more technical sections is keenly to be regretted. |
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| Short-winged female meadow katydids discriminate among tremulation signals of males to choose a larger male, even in the absence of a signalling male. |
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| In the absence of a primary diagnosis, the symptomatic management of borborygmus and flatulence should begin with a change to a highly digestible, low-fat diet. |
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| No white knight arrived for inViso in the fall of 2001, however, as it also ran out of money in the absence of customer orders and had to close its doors. |
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| In the absence of ceremonial formalities, Francis favored a business-like manner. |
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| Officials from the National Police Administration told them that, in the absence of any such documentation, a certificate to attest to their statelessness was necessary. |
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| Among The Fighter's virtues is the absence of a single reference to the ballpark or its tenants. |
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| The boy stops making noise, and there's a hollow absence of sound for few moments before the Iraqi soldiers start shouting again. |
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| Low-income work was a necessity, either to make up for the absence of a man or to bolster his own low-income paycheck. |
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| Brain death implies the complete and permanent absence of neurological function in the cortex and the brainstem. |
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| Although Early Triassic rifting in East Greenland and west of Norway has been described previously, limited evidence has been presented, mainly because of absence of data. |
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| In the absence of walk-in clinics the options available to the public are self care, care in an emergency department, or care by a general practitioner. |
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| As a professed historian, he exhibits an inexcusable absence of mind. |
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| The idea that competent writers produce first-rate verse in a fit of absence of mind, not knowing it to be good, is altogether too absurd to be considered. |
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| By all accounts he was a good lecturer, although better in his younger days than towards the end of his life, when his absence of mind made him the victim of practical jokes. |
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| However, the Wigginton wallopers graciously conceded that their York opponents had been badly hampered by the absence of one of their star players. |
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| While alleged want-away star Reyes is a more than able replacement, the absence of Henry will no doubt be sorely felt by Arsene Wenger's men in this must-win contest. |
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| A major limitation of the system is the absence of a comprehensive cadastral information system for identifying each ratable unit and for classifying land uses. |
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| If, as we are led to believe, that child safety is the prime reason for the changes here in St Paul's Drive I wonder if someone could explain the absence of a safe crossing. |
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| Economists will be disappointed by the absence of quantitative analysis. |
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| The presence or absence of cyanosis was not noted in the remaining cases. |
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| There certainly remains a need for more accurate methods to estimate heritabilities and genetic correlations in the absence of pedigree information. |
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| They believe that no government that suffers form faintheartedness, weak-mindedness and the absence of professional integrity and competence, deserves to be trusted to govern. |
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| In the absence of any actionable evidence, the world's media seems to have made up its mind on who precisely was responsible for the Northern Bank raid. |
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| In place of these, we analyzed timing of anthesis, presence or absence of seed wings and pistillate racemes, and prevalence of acuminate leaf apices and attenuate leaf bases. |
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| But an absence of niceties nor an unwillingness to conform is not a legitimate cause for impeachment. |
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| He and CR5 had made use of the ship's wetware downloading system to temporarily enhance his brain to the point where he could easily function in the absence of time. |
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| In the absence of the traditional gale, the course is easier than any of these pros have ever seen it, soft and receptive with not a whiff of wind in the air. |
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| It praises loyalty, absence of bias, deference, and the appraisal of facts. |
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| Acoria consists in the absence of normal sense of satiety after eating, so that the patient never knows when hunger is appeased. |
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| By acoria is meant that condition in which there is an absence of the sensation of satiety. |
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| The blackness of outerspace comes from the lack of anything to reflect light rather than the absence of black. |
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| The areas of lung dysventilation with an absence of alveolar air are visualized in the form of consolidations adjacent to the pleural line. |
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| McNab thought that an area of very small erminea in the southwest of the species range was a result of the absence of the smaller nivalis. |
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| The absence of the Lyric's usual work-horse heldentenor William Johns was sadly evident here. |
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| In the absence of compensation or a satisfactory reply, he declared war on England in June. |
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| Feudalism allowed the state to provide a degree of public safety despite the continued absence of bureaucracy and written records. |
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| His failings were largely due to the absence of concepts like mass, velocity, force and temperature. |
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| Interestingly, oath breaking and the absence of just judgements for ordinary people were mentioned a number of times. |
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| In the absence of a settlement, Louis remained in London with his remaining forces, hoping for the arrival of reinforcements from France. |
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| Between 1815 and 1914, the Navy saw little serious action, owing to the absence of any opponent strong enough to challenge its dominance. |
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| Elizabeth's supporters in the government, including Lord Paget, convinced Mary to spare her sister in the absence of hard evidence against her. |
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| The campaign was notable for the absence of party posters on roadside hoardings. |
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| It had no single leader, and in the absence of one, the Independent Labour Party nominee Ramsay MacDonald was elected as Secretary. |
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| Joseph Henry later defended interest in it, in the absence of the facts, as relevant to the management of movable type. |
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| The presence or absence of gene flow fundamentally changes the course of evolution. |
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| Opponents also claim that the absence of a market mechanism may slow innovation in treatment and research. |
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| Later medieval chroniclers have provided dubious accounts of his life, in the absence of any real details. |
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| The absence of any histological sign of malignity in the primary tumor and in the metastases, as observed in our patient, is remarkable. |
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| In the absence of the monarch, the Constable of the Tower is in charge of the castle. |
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| The absence of space at Windsor continued to prove problematic, with James' English and Scottish retinues often quarrelling over rooms. |
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| These are reflected in the three possible prefaces to the work and in the presence or absence of certain episodes and phrases. |
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| For one, the absence of war was meant to reduce the burden of taxation, and so help Richard's popularity with the Commons in parliament. |
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| Chesterton wrote a couple of essays on cheese, specifically on the absence of cheese in art. |
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| There are points in the play, however, when there is an absence of patriarchal control. |
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| In the absence of a predominant key, other integrating elements have been proposed. |
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| The resulting refracted beam of coloured light symbolises unity diffracted, leaving an absence of unity. |
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| Examples include the absence of Barrett after 1968, and that of Waters' father, who died during the Second World War. |
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| The absence of vocals left space in the music for MCs, who started rhyming to the records. |
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| The 1934 Ashes series began with the notable absence of Larwood, Voce and Jardine. |
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| The tournament is also notable for the absence of sponsor advertising around the courts. |
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| Type II muscles are needed for anaerobic exercise because they can function in the absence of oxygen. |
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| With the death or absence of the primary wage earner, women were forced into the workforce in unprecedented numbers. |
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| The islands are notable for the absence of trees, which is partly accounted for by the amount of wind. |
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| In the absence of the chairman and vice chairman, groups sometimes elect a chairman pro tempore to fill the role for a single meeting. |
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| It now began to meet in the absence of the sovereign, communicating its decisions to him after the fact. |
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| In the absence of a written constitution, it is a matter for the common law to make this determination. |
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| The mystical shell of Hegelian dialectics is ontological monovalence, manifest inter alia in the absence of the concept of determinate absence. |
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| Absolute poverty is the absence of enough resources to secure basic life necessities. |
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| In the absence of net forces, a moving object tends to move along a straight line path indefinitely. |
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| In other words, Galileo stated that, in the absence of a force, a moving object will continue moving. |
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| The absence of such a signal does, however, not exclude the possibility that the compact object is a neutron star. |
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| Holmes occasionally uses addictive drugs, especially in the absence of stimulating cases. |
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| Left in Dublin with his father, Shaw compensated for the absence of music in the house by teaching himself to play the piano. |
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| More importantly, a major void is apparent with the absence of how their practices act in conversation with prior feminist artwork and concepts. |
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| The story about Duns Scotus being buried alive, in the absence of his servant who alone knew of his susceptibility to coma, is probably a myth. |
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| Smith's discontent at Oxford might be in part due to the absence of his beloved teacher in Glasgow, Francis Hutcheson. |
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| The case for Wales as a football nation was particularly weak in foreign eyes given the absence of any national league. |
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| Other sources had complained of an absence of laws criminalizing violence against women. |
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| In the absence of a formal identity document, a driver's license may be accepted in many countries for identity verification. |
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| This means that absence of consent will be a necessary inference from the age of the child. |
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| The absence of some experts and advisers, such as the United Nations, was deliberate, to avoid delay. |
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| In the absence of stimulation, C. elegans dauers are lethargic and generally immobile but nictate vigorously when disturbed. |
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| These wetlands are attractive due to a dominance of open vegetation, large concentrations of prey, and the general absence of human disturbance. |
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| Living root cells passively absorb water in the absence of transpiration pull via osmosis creating root pressure. |
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| It is distinguished from voluntary manslaughter by the absence of intention. |
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| On 3 May 2016, British Airways reinstated daily flights to Heathrow after an absence of 19 years. |
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| They are generally all regarded as tombs or burial chambers, despite the absence of clear evidence for this. |
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| Succeeding the Late Neolithic culture, its ethnic and linguistic affinities are unknown in the absence of written sources. |
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| In the absence of the archbishops of Canterbury or York, he was anointed by the bishops of Worcester and Exeter, and crowned by Peter des Roches. |
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| In this stage of DT, countries are vulnerable to become failed states in the absence of progressive governments. |
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| A language area can result from widespread bilingualism, perhaps because of exogamy, and absence of sharp sociolinguistic division. |
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| In the absence of these, Pentecostals teach that seekers should maintain a persistent faith in the knowledge that God will fulfill his promise. |
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| Worship at the racially integrated Azusa Mission featured an absence of any order of service. |
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| The reason behind this was the division among the tribes and the absence of a strong central authority in Yemen during the days of the prophet. |
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| Dictation of thought in the absence of all control exercised by reason, outside of all aesthetic and moral preoccupation. |
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| In the absence of barnacle encrustation, individual scallops swim significantly longer, travel further, and attain greater elevation. |
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| This slant was accentuated by the absence of contemporary primary source documentation from within the Viking Age communities themselves. |
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| In the deep sea, food chains centered on hydrothermal vents and cold seeps exist in the absence of sunlight. |
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| In the absence of disturbance, a climax vegetation cover develops that prevents the establishment of other species. |
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| In the absence of substantial threats or evidence of declines across its range, its conservation status is assessed as being of Least Concern. |
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| Yet in the absence of a superseding principle, this older approach predominates practices throughout the world. |
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| On 20 July 911, at the Battle of Chartres, they defeated Rollo despite the absence of many French barons and of Charles the Simple. |
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| Due to the absence of appreciable rainfall, Egypt's agriculture depends entirely on irrigation. |
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| Both the thickness and structure of the later sequence will be controlled by the underlying geology in the absence of any active tectonics. |
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| Diversity appears to increase continually in the absence of natural selection. |
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| In the absence of humans, brown rats prefer damp environments, such as river banks. |
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| In both instances the beetles cause far more damage in North America owing to the absence of the predators present in their native lands. |
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| In geodesy, the exact shape that Earth's oceans would adopt in the absence of land and perturbations such as tides and winds is called the geoid. |
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| The ocean can be conceptualized as being divided into various zones, depending on depth, and presence or absence of sunlight. |
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| Since landscape painting had not yet developed as independent genre in art, the absence of other winter scenes is not remarkable. |
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| This absence of the apex predator has led to a trophic cascade in many areas. |
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| As noted earlier, pedophilia was cited as both an aggravating and a mitigating circumstance by trial judges, as was the absence of pedophilia. |
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| Of these two mechanisms, Stokes diapir was favoured for many years in the absence of a reasonable alternative. |
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| The absence of gears enables high power transient without impact on service life. |
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| In the absence of the mother crocodile, the father would act in her place to take care of the young. |
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| Detection of estrus, becomes reliant on observation in the absence of bulls. |
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| The resultant phosphoramidite is stable and can be stored in the absence of moisture as a white powder. |
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| The absence of competition permitted, first the Asdingi Vandals and later the Suebi, to expand South and East. |
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| In the absence of Lombardic texts, it is not possible to draw any conclusions about the language's morphology and syntax. |
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| In most instances, the absence of this doubling does not affect the meaning, though it may confuse the listener momentarily. |
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| In the absence of disturbance from waves, the bog mat may eventually cover entire bays, or even entire small lakes. |
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| For Domitian, this meant that a significant part of his adolescence was spent in the absence of his near relatives. |
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| The absence of Frankish literature sources suggests that the Frankish language was forgotten rather rapidly after the early stage of the dynasty. |
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| In the absence of suitable plate culture techniques, some microbes require culture within live animals. |
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| Dias returned to Lisbon in December of that year, after an absence of sixteen months. |
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| In the absence of monkeys and other competitors, these primates have adapted to a wide range of habitats and diversified into numerous species. |
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| In all this, Cadamosto's narrative evinces a degree of honest curiosity and absence of prejudice perhaps surprising for a European of that era. |
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| Challenges include low salaries for doctors, poor facilities, poor provision of equipment, and the frequent absence of essential drugs. |
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| The relative absence of a strong sense of belonging to an independent country was the underlying reason for Joey Smallwood's referendum victory. |
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| In January 1510, obeying the orders from the King and aware of the absence of Zamorin, Afonso advanced on Calicut. |
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| The absence of any large continent south of Asia is evidence that there had been no discovery of Australia at that date. |
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| The one region of the Earth which has an absence of trade winds is the north Indian ocean. |
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| They are found in virtually all poxvirus infections but the absence of Guarnieri bodies cannot be used to rule out smallpox. |
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| In its earliest uses, the zero served as a place holder, indicating an absence of a particular calendrical count. |
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| Due to the absence of human development in its remote habitat, it retains more of its original range than any other extant carnivore. |
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| For assessment of the pseudoestrus condition, diabetic mice were inoculated in the presence or absence of exogenous estrogen. |
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| It is also affected by the absence of political will and popular agitations and lobbying against free trade in domestic politics. |
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| Periphrastic forms are analytic, whereas the absence of periphrasis is a characteristic of synthesis. |
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| In this period the absence of an official standard or socially acceptable norm led to further dialect divergence. |
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| How the development of apostolic government developed is difficult to say accurately because of the absence of certain documents. |
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| The motivation for their production and enactment was the absence of a general consensus on matters of faith following the separation from Rome. |
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| In the absence of the diocesan bishop, they may be appointed as deputy head of the bishopric. |
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| In addition, many women contributed to the war effort through fundraising and running family businesses in the absence of husbands. |
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| In the absence of a literal descendant of Aaron, a High priest in the Melchizedek priesthood is called to be a Bishop. |
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| The directeur made a presentation to the jury in the absence of the accused and the jury heard the witnesses. |
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| In the absence of legislation, treaties cannot impose obligations on individuals nor create rights in domestic law. |
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| In the absence of an applicable Act of Congress, a federal court had the right to fashion a governing common law rule by its own standards. |
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| In the absence of the Leader of the Opposition, the opposition questions will be led by the deputy leader of the opposition. |
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| Lord Lansdowne, in the absence of any alternative, remained the leading figure in the Whig opposition. |
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| Along with cranks, treadmills, and treadwheels, they allowed human and animal power of machinery in the absence of electric machinery. |
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| Typically packhorses are used to cross difficult terrain, where the absence of roads prevents the use of wheeled vehicles. |
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| Distinctive features of Locke's railway works were economy, the use of masonry bridges wherever possible and the absence of tunnels. |
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| The presence or absence of menstrual bleeding was then used to determine whether the user was pregnant. |
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| The rate of erosion may have been influenced by the presence or absence of erosion limiting groynes or a pier. |
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| The say-so of one small child is not enough to convict a man of murder in the absence of any other evidence. |
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| Typically, it is believed that this sesquilingual discourse is due to the absence of suitable terms in the inferior language. |
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| The only indication that 139. is a simplex is the sentence intonation and the absence of a break between the verb and the subject. |
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| The absence of slagginess and vesicularity in the considerable thickness exposed is also against its being a lava. |
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| He hung about the doors and windows of shop after shop, hoping for a temporary absence of the shopkeeper, which might leave something snatchable. |
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| The reduction of thromboglobulin is independent of both the change in plasma glucose and the presence or absence of complications. |
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| I've heard just enough now to pick up the accentless absence of all emotion in his voice. |
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| For Muslims, the unfixability of meaning does not indicate an absence of truth, as it does for postmodernists. |
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| The absence of Tc-99m pertechnetate uptake in the expected position or in an ectopic site usually confirms agenesis. |
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| The absence of xenocrystal contamination reinforces the primary character of this layer. |
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| This absence of the decidua basalis leads to a clinically adherent placenta. |
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| When a groundhog can't see its shadow, it indicates the absence of high-pressure air masses that bring clear but frigid weather from the north. |
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| Aspiring teams of players have somehow kept this winter sport alive on their own in the absence of any facility. |
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| However, be prepared for the absence of the two a la carte desserts usually available here, flan and banana cream pie. |
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| It is difficult to compare these ammonoid assemblages with the European standards because of the absence of respective data. |
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| But the absence of dogma gives Hinduism an almost amoebic ability to mold itself to the socio-economic needs of its times. |
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| In the absence of an engineered solution such as MedeGrip, physicians and nurses have commonly used gauze to grip ampules when breaking them. |
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| In the second ANCOVA, the dependent measure was forgiveness as defined by the absence of negative emotion. |
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| The pedestrians find it hard to cross the road in the absence of zebra crossings. |
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| In the absence of chemotherapy, there was an 80 percent chance of relapse. |
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| It is then not surprising that the absence of quality time is often the reason for the downfall of the strategy. |
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