There is a danger that events could spiral out of control in the absence of decisive action".
" He went on: "In the absence of decisive assistance from our European partners, Ireland is stumbling towards a default event.
In the absence of decisive action from Washington, London, Paris or Ankara, two autocratic monarchies that embrace medieval forms of Islam have grabbed the wheel and are following their own narrow interests.
In recent years, with the absence of decisive Pakistani military action in the area, America decided the best way to kill those deemed a risk to US security was by firing missiles at them from unmanned aircraft.
According to the International Classification of Headache Disorders, the essential diagnostic criteria of PH disorders are based on the presence of specific clinical features and the absence of decisive pathological or radiological findings.
In the absence of decisive evidence regarding the link between anger and sexually violent behavior, our results support previous research which suggests that anger management strategies may be warranted for both MSO-R and MSO-CM.
We have to decide, then, whether there were two first-rate minds in their marriage or only one, and in the absence of decisive evidence for the former possibility, one might argue, parsimony favors the latter.
In the absence of decisive leadership (a.k.a. political suicide) about lack of entitlement, we are heading into The Matrix.
In the absence of decisive international action, clearly, we are going to turn the planet into a living Hell.
Therefore, in our study an absence of sequence reads supporting miR* was not considered as a decisive criterion for the annotation of low abundant novel miRNAs.
"Lateral": an absence of escalation.
