Bottom-dwelling organisms are usually absent.
Stipules are usually absent from the leaves of members of Sapindales.
Television sets -- "too harsh a reality," in the words of Ms. Wharmby, the Oakland stager -- are usually absent.
Time and Newsweek reporters are usually absent, and the Hearst Newspapers' desk is occupied three days a week by Kumar.
Endocarp shape and size are similar in both sections, but deep furrows are usually absent in section Amygdalus21.
The principles of participation, transparency and accountability, which form the cornerstone of the notion of free, prior and informed consent (FPIC), are usually absent in such transactions.
Most children aren't interested in 30th-birthday parties, where games and crafts are usually absent and the humorous subtext is often the honorees' rapidly vanishing youth.
Answer: When negotiating with foreign suppliers, you'll confront a variety of obstacles, such as unfamiliar laws, ideologies, and governments, that are usually absent from negotiations with U.S. suppliers.
Most other mammals have numerous apocrine glands in the hairy skin; eccrine glands are usually absent from the hairy skin and limited to friction surfaces.
In renal agenesis, or Potter's syndrome (absence of one or both kidneys), the ureters also are usually absent, and sex organs may be abnormal.
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. Desert environments are so dry that they support only extremely sparse vegetation; trees are usually absent and, under normal climatic conditions, shrubs or herbaceous plants provide only very incomplete ground cover.
