Examples of absent

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Gone is the breaking down of language into discrete parts; absent is the analytic "researcher's" voice.
Being absent without first obtaining approval was considered a ghiyab (absence).
Figures 14 and 15 are included to illustrate instances where case marking is absent after prepositions that require a specific case.
Reconstruction of language spread and its socio-economic matrix is no less necessary where state systems and historical records are absent.
What is nearness if, along with its failure to appear, remoteness also remains absent?
The small, tinkling sounds, absent of the background noise, pull a listener in.
In general, the focus of the paper remains with technology, and gender discourse is absent.
The significance of the other states, both those present and those absent, should be clear.
Income-distribution and employment goals, two factors absent from the paper's model, are particularly important.
Corresponding solutions are obtained in the up- and downstream regions (in which n is absent).
Adults showed a smaller or absent effect, depending on the study and the dependent measure.
Subjects rated these and other possible side-effects on a scale from absent to severe.
Lost production can therefore be calculated by multiplying the time absent from work by the wage rate.
Proteins below this marker were absent from total cell extracts.
The lower critical power was determined as a minimal laser irradiation for which the self-consistent solution of the mathematical model is absent.
Few of these hitches and per turbations are entirely absent from other talk-in-interaction.
Given that this metamorphosis is absent in the libretto, we might even consider it necessary.
Excessively brief or fragmented traits, such as riffs, are absent.
They also produced a wider range of prepositions for the scenes when the other objects were absent.
Surprisingly, examples that would illustrate the proposal most convincingly are absent from the book.
Further, even if the putatively crucial examples are absent, learning might still be possible.
The process of relating meaning to form, central in natural language learning, is therefore completely absent in the process of acquiring a finite-state grammar.
The problem here is that in the terrestrial environment these external forces were never absent.
Moreover, representations of absent future events can play two major functional roles: expectations and intentions.
Nevertheless, there is a specific pathophysiological correlate of fever that remains absent in patients with the same disease, but without fever.
Perceptual grouping is far from being completely absent in schizophrenia, however.
During task performance in patients with positive symptoms, typical interhemispheric connections in the beta2-range were also absent.
The interhemispheric connections were absent in both situations.
Thus, perceptual-level attention might be expected to have various spatial properties that are absent from working memory-level attention.
Both products were absent in primary breast tumours, possibly reflecting a 'switch' to symmetric division during tumourigenesis.
The pathogen on the other hand was apparently completely absent from the host population in several periods implying its survival elsewhere, perhaps as resting spores.
I had thought of absenting once, but the bills had so many problems.
I use the first person singular and report my opinion, rather than write impersonally, supposedly absenting myself from the text.
Instead, all are marked in the score as representations, formulated, it would appear, by a master voice that has entirely absented itself from the music.
In particular the research is criticized for absenting the social context from our understanding of daily hassles, and for focusing too strongly upon the individual.
I absented myself from a couple of demos.
The few who deliberately absented themselves, or who questioned particular phrasing, were not just entering an argument about the constitution or religion.
Only by physically absenting herself from the legislature, so as not to count among those present, may the legislator ensure that she has no effect on the vote.
If a minister absents himself, boycotts the committee meetings, or opposes any policy or issue of a committee, the committee can rarely do anything about it.
Although chloroform was absent from injected lysates and pseudolysates, no other attempts were made to refine these preparations.
Talent has not been lacking, not at all; but, a center absent, talent collects for itself the materials of some unique cosmos.
Rather than being transparent the poem is the site of radical eclipse, of sun-down, of a "voice" absent to itself.
They were foreigners to themselves, absent from their non-existent homeland.
By examining conditions in which personal control was either present or absent it was possible to distinguish between the two positions.
Each was absent from the talks the other attended.
Text has become absent and logic a figure.
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