In fact, female characters, hitherto felt by some readers as a decided absence, are among the liveliest here.
The denouement came as no surprise as Ferrer won the tiebreaker and then closed out the match with a decided absence of delight, 4-6, 4-6, 7-5, 7-6 (4), 6-2.
That alone should have made the choice simple, but the fad conscious editors must have decided her absence from the spotlight trumped the significance of her contributions to the film industry.
There's just one hitch: the boss may decide an absence that particular day would "unduly disrupt" business operations and specify an alternative date when the child happens to be well and in school and the World Series has come and gone.
At the beginning of the movie, his girlfriend goes to bed with him and then returns to the man she has decided, in his absence, to marry.
According to one foreign aid official, a United States civil affairs unit here has decided, in the absence of the United Nations, to try to get the aid rolling by itself.
When he learnt what his European colleagues had decided in his absence, he tried to invoke his country's veto, only to discover that the decision was subject to majority voting.
As an exile Briton running Reuters' Moscow bureau, I had never heard the term applied to her and decided – in the absence of other news – that it was worth a story of my own.
i) Greater powers to hold a hearing in the absence of an accused officer so that where accused officers claim that they are unable, through ill health, to appear at misconduct hearings, matters can be decided in their absence, with appropriate safeguards.
Julian Huppert, the Cambridge MP whose seat was surveyed, is also believed to be on holiday, but his local association decided in his absence to hold a meeting on 13 June to decide whether they "can support Nick Clegg's continuing leadership or consider issuing a notice to the party to hold an election for leader".
Julian Huppert, the Cambridge MP whose constituency was surveyed, is also believed to be on holiday, but his local association decided in his absence to hold a meeting on 13 June to "decide whether they can support Nick Clegg's continuing leadership or consider issuing a notice to the party to hold an election for leader".
