Absent some explanation, such as large quantities of crystal meth, this is disqualifying.
If the accused has 'possession' he has committed an offense, absent satisfactory explanation therefor.
Montague, who had started in all of the team's first 20 games, was absent without explanation for Yale's next four games.
It was logical to infer, absent an explanation to the contrary, that the defendant was lying on one occasion or the other.
It is one thing to rely on a presumption to justify conditional administration of the estate of a person absent without explanation for seven years, see Cunnius v. Reading School District, 198 U.S. 458, 25 S.Ct.
By and large, it's a less judgmental generation; Smith's student was likely not condoning the actions of the dart-thrower, but, rather, was unwilling to judge — a priori and absent an explanation — the woman who was ready to reconcile with him.
Kate Martin of the Center for National Security Studies, a civil liberties advocacy group, said that "absent some explanation I haven't thought of, this looks like the largest assault on privacy since the N.S.A. wiretapped Americans in clear violation of the law" under the Bush administration.
He was absent without explanation when training started for the 1974 75 season in July 1974, arriving only on the day of a closed-doors friendly against Watford.
In keeping with the original methodology used by Whiten et al. [3], [32], and subsequently followed by Panger et al. [33] and van Schaik et al. [6], each behavior was classified into one of the following categories: customary, habitual, present, absent, ecological explanation and unknown (see Method for definitions).
While that study used approaches that were not available at the subpopulation level, it is reasonable to infer that, absent other explanations, causal effects at the population level apply to subpopulations.
