Sentence examples for instead of absent from inspiring English sources

Being present instead of absent makes friends more willing to lie for you, the results showed.

Artificial electronic light receptors were proposed instead of absent or damaged retinal cells under ophthalmological diseases; the electric response of the retinal prosthesis is passed to neurons restoring (at least partially) light sensing (reviewed in 41, 42).

Let yourself get absorbed into conversations, instead of absent-mindedly nodding while your head is in the clouds.

Instead of being absent, he should have been partnering with his wife to ease Miley through the tough spots.

Our data of hoxb4a mosaicism is more in agreement with data from hoxb2−/− mice where the r4 5 facial motor nucleus exhibited maturational defects, including path-finding and termination, instead of being absent [39].

We also observed that lamin A/C expression is reduced or heterogeneously expressed instead of completely absent in breast cancer.

Across all schools, teachers confirmed this pattern sometimes stating that instead of being absent for several days, girls will come to school but refuse to wear a uniform.

Something similar dawns on you watching Atlanta, another new FX comedy about two cousins trying to make it in the southern entertainment Mecca's hip-hop scene – except instead of men being absent it is white characters.

In the present study, we evaluated the accuracy of pallor by examining four pallor grades- none, mild, moderate and severe (instead of present or absent): a grading commonly used by physicians at the bedside.

Students sent home were often marked "unexcused absent" instead of "suspended," Walker said.

Melody, as such, was still virtually (if not entirely) absent, but instead of free-verse narratives, the characters have rhymed, rhythmically uniform verses and refrains, each about different aspects of love and loneliness.