The phrase "absent the question" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to indicate that something is being discussed or considered without reference to a specific question.
Example: "Absent the question of funding, the project is ready to move forward."
Alternatives: "without considering the question" or "ignoring the question".
"I question its commercial viability absent the major sports," Ebersol said of the U.S.O.C.'s plan.
Third, the response category 'very poor' was absent for the question on SRH in 2002.
A philosophy of nursing education was considered absent and the question at large was "what are the guidelines for nursing education"?
When it must be established whether a diagnostic characteristic (usually a symptom) is present or absent, the relevant question in a structured questionnaire usually offers only the response options "yes" or "no", since "don't know" is unhelpful.
The conversation Americans still needed to have, he said, might be framed as a question: "The question absent from our national catechism," he said, "is, 'What do I owe to my fellow citizens?' ".
While these genes are present in many AFP and some protist lineages, they are absent from others, begging the question of whether these absences are due to recent gene loss.
Xan Brooks Buy this book at the Guardian bookshop "Do they exist or are they spooks?" This is the question, about absent students and addressed to his class, that seals the fate of Jewish classics professor — and reputed racist — Coleman Silk.
Our study used an incomplete factorial design, crossing OSA (present or absent) with INS (present or absent) to more clearly focus on the question, is comorbid INS an epiphenomenon of OSA or an independent disorder?
Talk story about Leonardo DiCaprio's interview for ABC News of President Clinton, and irritation of ABC staffers over his recording repeat takes absent the U.S. leader, on questions he had already asked.
By Jane Mayer The New Yorker, April 24, 2000 P. 62 Talk story about Leonardo DiCaprio's interview for ABC News of President Clinton, and irritation of ABC staffers over his recording repeat takes absent the U.S. leader, on questions he had already asked..
