Sentence examples for longstanding absence from inspiring English sources

In Santa Fe, where the reservoir is little more than a damp bowl, the community is trying to adapt to the longstanding absence of water.

Of course, given Apple's longstanding absence from CES, "the lot" was limited to the early Android tablets and the BlackBerry PlayBook, a tablet computer which required a separate phone to handle emails.

7 Association of a genetic polymorphism in cohorts of patients with longstanding disease but absence of this association in an early arthritis cohort led us to hypothesise that the 6q23 region would be associated with disease severity in ACPA+ patients.

In longstanding cases we accepted the absence of congestion, oedema, and haemorrhage if there were chronic changes such as fibrosis of the occluded branch vein near the site of occlusion.

Data on official date of retirement, longstanding illness or disability, and sickness absence came from company records.

"But even in the absence of transfer restrictions, our longstanding policy is to transfer detainees only if the threat posed by the detainee can be sufficiently mitigated and when consistent with our humane treatment policy".

The list of obstacles is daunting, including both longstanding troubles — the shortage of skilled labor, the absence of a solid legal system, deeply embedded corruption and dilapidated infrastructure — as well as new ones, including surprisingly high prices.

We excluded participants who retired because of longstanding illness or disability or through prolonged sickness absence (n=610) from the analytic sample, as previous research has found that health trajectories for these groups are very different from those of other retirees.

Finally, limitations regarding the use of death certificate data have been well described (7, 20, 38), and the presence of multiple end-organ complications is common in individuals with longstanding diabetes (39); for example, CAD is rare in the absence of underlying renal disease in individuals with young-onset diabetes, particularly type 1 (40).

Third, the adoption of laws like those at issue in Romer v. Evans, 517 U.S. 620 (1996), and Lawrence, the longstanding ban on gays and lesbians in the military, and the absence of federal protection for employment discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation show the group to have limited political power and "ability to attract the [favorable] attention of the lawmakers".

We defined the year and type of retirement according to the first of the following events: receipt of an official retirement pension (statutory retirement), longstanding illness or disability, or more than 650 days of sickness absence in two consecutive years.