Sentence examples for institutions absent from inspiring English sources

Deng's idea of two systems for one country was in fact a remarkable admission that Hong Kong had got where it had its people today are on average some 30 times better off than mainlanders because it possessed institutions absent in the rest of China.

It conferred broad powers upon the state government, establishing universal public education for the first time, as well as welfare institutions, absent under the previous government, which were needed in the aftermath of the war.

Examples of Good Samaritan justice are abundant in traditional, remote societies where state institutions are absent.

The role of politics and public policy and the impact of structural problems in markets and institutions are absent from the analysis.

Boris Yeltsin was too careless of institutions, too absent from the construction of the new state, to bequeath more than an anarchic market grafted on top of a decaying command economy.

To get a fair comparison to what we could achieve by making donations to welfare agencies, we should imagine that such preventive institutions were absent and that there were instead cost-effective 'harm' agencies which offered cheap ways of killing.

At the University of California, retiree obligations, even absent the Livermore retirees, threaten the institution's long-term financial viability.

"Growth skewed towards the few (or absent for a large minority) risks social tensions, undermines institutions and encourages policy failures of one kind or another".

SERVICE -- Adequate to absent.

Today, such institutions are either absent or reeling.

Institutions of state, absent under Qaddafi, have yet to take firm shape.