She is absent because of sickness.

She's away.

Faced with absence.

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

Thus, his sister had no other choice but to involve his mother while his father was absent.

All references are erased,

Are you suggesting censorship, miss?

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.

With the maid off, we're roughing it. Won't you sit down?

And accountability is no longer absent in Mexico.

Not so withdrawn and shy and difficult.

Although women were allowed to participate in all economic and social sectors, they were absent from the leading political positions.

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

Sometimes, when she was away, I used to go to the house.

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

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

But we are just literally deaf to that kind of value.

Recovery and social reintegration measures are frequently absent.

The jury finds that Madeleine Elster committed suicide while of unsound mind.

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

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.

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

It is regrettable that substantive information is missing in paragraphs 23 and 24.

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.

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.

(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.

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

Today, Africa has regressed. It is absent at the international level as regards trade and industrial and agro industrial development.

Each feedback in the system has its own internal tipping point, and it is the relationships within this complex, mutually reinforcing system, that have been missing from our climate prediction models.

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.

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.

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.

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.

You know, that is very exciting for us, because it demonstrates that things were changing slowly and progressively, and that evolution is in the making.

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.

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.