As a commander Nelson had great tactical vision with a faultless eye to the main chance, which he always seized without the slightest deference to any contrary instruction from a superior officer.
We don't know whether it's God's will that we act, or God's will that we don't act, absent an instruction manual from God.
Yet without very specific contrary instructions in a living will/advance decision, resuscitation and active treatment are medicine's default positions.
First, we observed, "it has been recognized in international law that, absent a clear and express statement to the contrary, the procedural rules of the forum State govern the implementation of the treaty in that State". Ibid.
Attaining a diverse student body is at the heart of the Law School's proper institutional mission, and its "good faith" is "presumed" absent "a showing to the contrary".
Roughly stated, this principle counsels that, absent a reason to the contrary, we give equal priors to competing hypotheses.
Absent a contract to the contrary, in the great bulk of U.S. jurisdictions the employment relation is governed by the at-will doctrine.
Absent contrary legislation, a private employer can regulate the workplace any way he wants without worrying about the First Amendment.
It was logical to infer, absent an explanation to the contrary, that the defendant was lying on one occasion or the other.
At-will employment thus constitutes a default contract it is the agreement that obtains between employers and employees absent an agreement to the contrary (e.g., a union contract).
Absent an agreement to the contrary, any partner can bind the entire partnership to a contract or other agreement.
