She is absent because of sickness.

Unambiguous, impartial criteria for selecting a winner were not at hand and never will be.

Faced with absence.

Unhappily, that quality has been agonizingly absent from Middle East diplomacy for almost as long as anyone can remember.

At the national level, this calls urgently for a degree of unity and decisiveness that has been absent from Japanese politics for years.

Surprisingly, however, this issue has been entirely absent from current global debates on financial reform.

But the truth is that Europe, for all the gallant efforts of Javier Solana, has been absent from serious politics in the Middle East.

Yet even that elementary wisdom has never occurred to traditional ruling elites too set in their myopic and arrogant ways.

And accountability is no longer absent in Mexico.

Another accessory crest, the anteroloph, is present, though small, on the first upper molar in Lundomys , but entirely absent in both other genera.

This is not to suggest that foreign policy is absent from the campaign.

But plans for a functioning Palestinian state that do not depend on foreign aid have been conspicuously absent, save for the recent efforts of Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad.

If markets are confused or pessimistic about China s longer term agenda, but if the direction of structural change and reform is positive, there may be investment opportunities that were absent in the more exuberant recent past.

Gardner was noticeably absent from the movie's premiere on December 15, 2006.

(2) While absent from work in pursuance of subsection (1) a woman employee shall be entitled to be paid not less than half of the remuneration she would have earned had she not been so absent.

The electricity grid is quasi absent except for a few solar panels and battery generators.

All references are erased, leaving only an optical whiteout and white noise of the pulsing nozzles.

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

In a few species, the median workers are absent, creating a sharp divide between the minors and majors.

In other words, Palestinians are playing a long game. But plans for a functioning Palestinian state that do not depend on foreign aid have been conspicuously absent, save for the recent efforts of Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad.

McCulley's concept of a band of men helping Zorro is often absent from other versions of the character.

But what about Africa, the forgotten continent that has been conspicuously absent from Obama s hectic agenda? There, both the resilience of the local political culture and strategic imperatives are converging to define the limits of the West s capacity to impose its values.

The lack of recipes for many basic vegetable dishes, such as potages, has been interpreted not to mean that they were absent from the meals of the nobility, but rather that they were considered so basic that they did not require recording.

Minority rights, institutional checks on government power, human rights the liberal aspects of democracy are entirely absent.

Romani is also absent from legislative, judiciary, and other political texts but it has recently entered some university and elementary school courses.

Third, Greece s eurozone partners wield a massive stick that is typically absent in sovereign debt negotiations. If Greece does not accept the conditions imposed on it to maintain its membership in the single currency, it risks being thrown out of the European Union altogether.

European strategists largely dismissed America s interpretation that force had won the Cold War, believing that cooperation had triumphed precisely because force was absent. They heard in pleas for freedom from behind the Iron Curtain not a desire to become American, but to join the remarkably successful European experiment in collective security and prosperity that emerged after World War II.

While I was absent from Iran, the Islamic Revolution had descended on Iran and had entirely transformed the country from Persian to the Islamic culture.

Viewpoints that deviate in the slightest from Party doctrine are still absent from Chinese TV.

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.

What is crazy about this is that the US has missed the obvious point and has missed it for 40 years.

Many of these codes are bipolar codes, where the pulses can be positive, negative or absent.

Russia had a low profile, but the EU, which considers itself the leader of climate policy, was simply informed post factum.

It is therefore doubly surprising that, aside from the Fed, America s policymaking agencies are essentially missing in action.

In Ethiopia, only 2 of rural people have access to electricity, and telephone communication is more or less absent.

In our database, Geofeminicidio (the machine of memory), feminicide is a story absent from the unfinished lives of women.

The current diplomatic crisis, too, is an opportunity to ensure that transatlantic discussions about privacy and surveillance reverberate in a multilateral setting seizing it would represent a small but significant contribution to the strategic vision that has been sorely lacking for the last quarter century.

I wish to reiterate that the issue of austerity vis à vis world diplomacy is absent in our approach to United Nations reform, and we should include it.

Yet the maxim that women are increasingly present at the lower and middle level careers, but are still absent at the highest levels, continues to holds true.

The issue of the centrality of employment to poverty reduction has been lacking from international policy discussions, with the exception of the inclusion of youth employment in the Millennium Development Goals.

At the national level, this calls urgently for a degree of unity and decisiveness that has been absent from Japanese politics for years. Without it, the authorities will find it difficult to communicate and implement a medium term economic vision that puts rapid sustained growth, and not just reconstruction, at the core of the policy response.

But the truth is that Europe, for all the gallant efforts of Javier Solana, has been absent from serious politics in the Middle East. We have not dared to cross America.

Although all the formal trappings of a true electoral contest are in place, important aspects of authenticity are glaringly absent.

These are believed to be the result of disturbed ovarian function with failed ovulation, reflected by the infrequent or absent menstruation that is typical of the condition.

But one thing is clear a great game is beginning among Asia s great powers, and there are scant rules in place to manage how it will be played.