That explains the absence of guillotines.
Critics have suggested Dre's close involvement explains the absence of abuse incidents.
I believe culture does matter, although I have no idea how much it explains the absence of Arab democracies.
The sample bias explains the absence of notable groups like American Boychoir or Monteverdi Choir in Britain, which in 2011 was named the world's best by Gramophone magazine.
This explains the absence of air strikes in Tikrit.This is all made worse by the militias' reputation for brutality and summary executions.
The map is designed to be adapted and annotated in the field, which explains the absence of county borders and other information deemed extraneous to the military campaign.
That former wellhead of finance has now run fairly dry.In turn, that explains the absence of bargain hunters, particularly in the debt markets.
This perhaps explains the absence of doubt and emphasis on ritual – the pre-lesson mantra, for example – that leads some parents to compare the school, only half-jokingly, to a cult.
It would be churlish to suggest that the hope of extra funding explains the absence of a more critical stance on the part of social science researchers and their funder.
This explains the absence of brackets in (1).
This explains the absence of growth inhibition upon addition of NP sediment to the wells.
