The phrase "absent opportunity" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation where an opportunity is missing or not available.
Example: "The project failed due to the absent opportunity for collaboration among team members."
Alternatives: "lack of opportunity" or "missing opportunity".
And having seen "Our Time," it is impossible, for now, to view Mr. Wachtel's tragedy apart from the life that film suggests — one in which parents are absent, opportunities seem meager and the resulting freedoms feel joyless in the wake of so much anxiety about a precarious future.
Absent the opportunity to engage in short sales, "smart money" can only watch from the sidelines while prices soar.
Absent that opportunity, Ms. Wood took her concerns about what Mr. Obama checked to a meeting of the campus chapter of the N.A.A.C.P. last year.
We still look forward to having a public discussion with Senator Simpson, but absent that opportunity, we invite one of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget's young experts to debate Social Security and how best to address the retirement crisis with one of us in a public setting.
So, absent the opportunity to argue that Obama made things worse, what's left is to argue is that Obama hasn't yet made things as awesome as they could be, despite having gotten to do "all these things that the liberals" have wanted to do, which apparently now includes a Bush-era intervention to save the U.S. auto industry.
"We reiterate that the United States intends to withdraw from the Paris agreement at the earliest opportunity absent the identification of terms that are better for the American people," the statement said.
It is in these gripping scenes that we see history repeating itself, and that art and the artist, a nation and its people, are inexplicably linked through their longing for what is absent -- the opportunity to construct one's identity and actually create an imagined community.
Artists and moviegoers commingle casually, and with the media notably absent and the opportunities for preening at a minimum, the stars tend to be less glittering than interesting - and interested.
Diseases whose patients are mostly poor don't represent attractive financial investment opportunities, absent third-party financial support for innovation.
