Thus, absent a recession, demand has remained largely unchanged over the past year.

The images that have accompanied past episodes of market turmoil are largely absent today.

In depth coverage of specific environmental issues is largely absent from public media, which continue to target youth primarily in terms of advertising and entertainment.

Thus, the second referendum campaign has brought back into play the economic dimension of Ireland s EU membership, which was largely absent from the 2008 debate on the Treaty.

In the south of the plain, where permafrost is largely absent, rich grasslands that are an extension of the Kazakh Steppe formed the original vegetation (almost all cleared now).

Asian leaders have often complained that at a time when Asia became increasingly interconnected and China began to enlarge its sphere of influence, America was largely absent in the region.

Absent America

I was absent.

Absent Minded Killers

Diyab was absent.

Tom is absent.

Is anyone absent today?

I'll be absent tomorrow.

This is absent in China.

Older persons are often afflicted by poverty, owing to a host of factors, and poverty among the rural elderly, in particular older women, tends to be severe since formal or informal social security is largely absent.

Calcium is absent from his diet.

She is absent because of sickness.

She is absent because of sickness.

The absent party is not faulty.

And will not be absent thence .

And will not be absent thence .

Both Tom and Mary were absent today.

Violence is conspicuously absent from the list.

And never therefrom will they be absent .

And never therefrom will they be absent .

Mexicans make up more than half of the flow and stock legal or not of all immigrants in the US, but a point of view attempting to reflect their interests and aspirations has been largely absent from the American discussion.

Absent these conditions, the US is ultimately powerless.

And accountability is no longer absent in Mexico.

And the international community is absent as well.

They are conspicuously absent in the north Atlantic.

nor shall they ever be absent from it .

And they will not be absent from it .

and they shall not be absent from it .

and from it they shall never be absent .

nor shall they ever be absent from it .

And they will not be absent from it .

and they shall not be absent from it .

and from it they shall never be absent .

Unfortunately, Africa and Africans were absent from the piece.

In Bombay blood group, the H antigen is absent.

Mr. Kasanda recalled that the Working Group had stressed the fact that people of African descent were largely invisible because they were often absent or excluded from domestic data collection, statistical analysis and programming, as well as from national public life and the media.

Absent a foreign bailout, no other solution was on offer.

Of course, domestic considerations are not absent from Sarkozy s thinking.

In Tunisia, the banned Islamist party Ennahdha (Renaissance) was absent.

Unfortunately, Colombian President Álvaro Uribe was absent from the meeting.