The pursuit of trade surpluses inevitably triggers conflicts with trade partners, and the effectiveness of mercantilist policies depends in part on the absence of similar policies elsewhere.

The absence of consensus on climate change, or resistance in Congress to new trade agreements, weakens the president s hand.

In the absence of efficient sources of financing, the transaction costs of South South trade, technology and investment flows will be increased.

But if exports continue to grow in the absence of consumption led import growth, distortions occur and the trade surplus and foreign reserves increase.

There was also a risk that, in the absence of a banking system, the traffickers would be the ones who controlled the country's trade.

Instead, the US stresses to foreign governments that an effective global trading system requires not only the removal of formal trade barriers, but also the absence of policies aimed at causing currency values that promote large trade surpluses.

In the absence of Communist Party control, these security officers betrayed their corporate ethic and engaged in horse trading, applying force when a trade did not go well.

Indeed, identifying sectors and modes of economic interest and the trade barriers to be removed is not an easy task in the absence of adequate data on the services sector.

The Obama administration s decision to maintain trade and investment sanctions on Burma in the absence of meaningful change, particularly with regard to the Burmese government s intolerance of political opposition, is correct.

Absence of State party submissions

These preoccupations are exacerbated by lack of data, the absence of competition and other relevant laws and regulations to support modern trade, or where such laws and regulations exist, their inadequate enforcement.

Other trade agreements have insisted on financial liberalization and deregulation as well, even though the 2008 crisis should have taught us that the absence of good regulation can jeopardize economic prosperity.

Perhaps Doha was unlikely to achieve much in the current circumstances, but the absence of any continuing dialogue on world trade at worst, a useful safety valve adds a new level of risk.

And, on big global issues like climate change, organized crime, trade, and prevention of atrocities, the absence of the US as a policy catalyst and active negotiator will be quickly and keenly felt.

In the absence of US leadership in matters of international trade, the majority of Latin American countries will not open their economies further to foreign competition, and some may even return to increased protectionism.

Procedures in the absence of notification

Faced with absence.

Alwar Balasubramaniam Art of substance and absence

The absence of disease is not health.

The absence of such knowledge invites trouble, often disaster.

(In the absence of secretion, creatinine behaves like inulin.

After thirty years of absence, he finally returns home.

the absence of a sustainable system of financing of health care,

(m) The absence of appropriate efforts to prevent and prohibit the production, trade, export and use of equipment specifically designed to inflict torture or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment, in particular in the light of allegations of the use of electroshocks.

My mother died during my absence.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

Policymakers need to bear in mind two lessons from Mexico s frustrating encounter with globalization to date. First, external trade and foreign investment on their own cannot lift an economy in the absence of the simultaneous development of productive capabilities at home.

In the absence of leaders no solution can be reached.

This condition usually occurs in the absence of a tumor.

Monetary coordination cannot succeed in the absence of fiscal harmonization.

Peace is not merely the state of the absence of violence.

Absence of the Chairperson at meetings of the Committee 102 20.

Their access to economic and legal information is limited because of the absence of relevant education, the absence in rural areas of a broad network of legal information centres, etc.

One of the major shortcomings of the global trading system in recent decades has been the absence of an effective constraint on countries that intervene heavily in order to keep their currencies undervalued. A significantly undervalued currency implies a potentially large trade surplus.

sickness absence prevention and support within companies.

Alcohol expectations can operate in the absence of actual consumption of alcohol.

(c) in the absence of such a convention or special arrangement

Human rights cannot be realized in the absence of effective institutions.

Most troubling is the absence of open debate about these matters.

But the absence of a peace process could encourage its return.

This reflects the absence of adequate political institutions at the center.

In the absence of objection, I shall now suspend the meeting.

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The news has been mixed during your absence.

Once that occurs, its absence dominates all else.