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Discover LudwigThe phrase "absence of value" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation or condition where something lacks worth or significance.
Example: "The absence of value in the proposed changes led the committee to reject the project."
Alternatives: "lack of worth" or "devoid of value".
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Companies started to notice the absence of value for their legal dollar, legal budgets were tightened, and the excesses that fueled the bubble ultimately caused it to burst.
As they deteriorate freely, these buildings are generating a debris field of outdated components, architectural detritus that testifies not only to an absence of value but, more importantly, to an architectural culture that defined buildings as concepts, regarded decay as a theoretical impossibility and saw the difference between concrete and cardboard as immaterial.
Objectivity then follows from transparency about, rather than absence of, value judgements (Longino 1990; Douglas 2000; Althaus 2005; Hermansson 2012; Hartley et al. 2016).
The absence of value.
The absence of value and/or meaning acts like a vacuum that creates the significance of Brown's "crypto-relics".
The tax rate is therefore significantly lower than in Metropolitan Norway, including the absence of value added tax.
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Humanity is threatened not only by nuclear annihilation but by the absence of values.
"I think it's an absence of values, an absence of spirituality, of understanding and knowledge of the culture these young people came from.
Camus felt that an absence of values had led Europe to disaster, that societies had decided that a leader was right merely because he'd succeeded.
He writes: Tensions within the world's most powerful media family were dramatically laid bare on Thursday when Elisabeth Murdoch set out her own vision of media leadership, emphasising humanity over profit and criticising her father's News Corporation for operating with an absence of values.
Presence, or absence of, values are in themselves determinants of population health [ 24, 34- 36].
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