Hosting this year s G 8 summit reportedly cost Canada a fortune, despite the absence of any significant results.

Ms. Zou Xiaoqiao noted that the number of women in the parliament was very low despite the absence of formal barriers.

Similarly data relating to the CSS examination shows that despite the absence of a quota in this examination, women are making progress.

Countries such as France and Germany that opposed action in Iraq were willing to use force in Kosovo despite the absence of Security Council authorization.

Despite some prominent women at the top of Latin American politics, the general absence of women from the region s political life causes a serious democratic deficit.

Despite the strides made recently against malnutrition, millions more people will be undernourished than would have been the case in the absence of official support for biofuels.

(By contrast, non financial corporations rarely borrow more than 70 of their assets, and often much less, despite the absence of any regulation of their leverage ratios.)

Yet, despite the difficulties that have bedeviled the CFA (and the euro of late) indeed, despite the absence of viable regional customs unions (except in the East African Community), let alone a single market Africans retain a strong allegiance to the idea of a currency union.

However, Egypt's strong material and diplomatic support for Iraq in the war with Iran led to warmer relations and numerous contacts between senior officials, despite the continued absence of ambassadorial level representation.

Faced with absence.

Despite the painful thought of her absence and the disappearance of his brother in an ISIS jail, despite his own exile and memories of jail, Yasin still writes about manners and hope, and still teaches us that while the kidnappers can change the direction of our lives, but how we live in our hearts is entirely up to us.

Despite Sharon's absence, Kadima maintains its lead in public opinion polls the most recent gave it 44 of the Knesset s 120 seats, compared to 21 for Labor and 14 for the right wing rump Likud, under Binyamin Netanyahu.

Procedures in the absence of notification

Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

Despite the absence of a universally agreed to definition of terrorism, some 120 States have ratified the 1999 International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism, which identifies the elements of the crime of terrorism with reasonable precision.

Absence of State party submissions

The absence of disease is not health.

The news has been mixed during your absence.

My mother died during my absence.

The Local blog posts a Human Rights Watch report that states French police use broad powers to conduct abusive identity checks on black and Arab young men and boys despite the absence of any evidence of wrongdoing, Human Rights Watch said on Thursday.

Despite the fact that there is no automatic linkage between poverty and terrorism, communities can be exposed to extreme attitudes by fanatical groups as a result of grave social and economic problems, especially when associated with the absence of civil and political liberties.

Despite the absence of a financial mechanism similar to the Multilateral Fund for the Montreal Protocol or the GEF for activities in a wide range of other environment related fields, UNIDO is making progress with the mobilization of funds for projects in this important area.

Uribe s absence has opened the election in unforeseen ways.

The absence of such knowledge invites trouble, often disaster.

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

Alwar Balasubramaniam Art of substance and absence

sickness absence prevention and support within companies.

Its absence as a buyer contributed to the euro s decline.

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.

Once that occurs, its absence dominates all else.

We worry about his guilt over her absence.

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

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

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

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

Despite the absence of special linkages to the country office in the host country, the programmes tend to be more active in their host country and there is a perception among those countries that do not host programmes that they are forgotten and do not benefit from the RCF.

Despite the lack of significant financial contagion risk, a renewed Greek crisis, stemming from a lasting and serious breakdown of negotiations between the new government and EU institutions, would constitute a major problem for European cooperation. The absence of financial contagion would not rule out serious political repercussions.

(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.

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

Energy policy or its absence seems another clear example.