The intelligence community, moreover, sounded the alarm about proliferation of radical Islamist sites in a 2007 National Intelligence Estimate: warning that, even absent guidance from established terror organizations, the Internet enables "alienated people to find and connect with one another, justify and intensify their anger, and mobilize resources to attack".
But, in order to form a prognosis, Wall Street wants guidance, which was absent from the networker's earnings release, making it Wednesday's Forbes.com's Stock to Watch.
Absent guidance from Washington, states are pressing ahead with their own agendas on electronic cigarettes.
Absent guidance and support from the regulators, the FBI turned to the worst conceivable source of guidance and support - the trade association of the "perps" -- the Mortgage Bankers Association MBAA).
While mature flower parts (stage 14 [ 27] were optimal, the stage of ovule development was critical, with guidance factors completely absent at ~32 hrs (stage 12a) and lower at ~16 24 hrs (stages 12b c) before flowers mature (Table 2, upper panel).
In addition, we now see guidance on target-absent trials.
Absent such guidance, a Syrian merchant could be denied refugee status merely for having sold flour on market day to a militant fighting the Assad regime.
But absent clear guidance from the people who are supposed to explain that economics is not, in fact, a morality play, moralizing became the core of economic policy thinking in Germany, and hence played a huge role in European policy more generally.
Absent clear congressional guidance, we decline to inject such an element of uncertainty into union decisions regarding their representative functions.
Absent any official guidance, hundreds of people in roughly a dozen ad hoc groups have already started gathering in small numbers and discussing plans for a memorial.
Mescalero also went further, suggesting that because of the taxation principle, the Court would refuse to find such an exemption absent clear statutory guidance. Id., at 156.
