Sentence examples for on absent from inspiring English sources

How much longer can the moderates hang on, absent some progress toward a Palestinian state, before the Islamic winds blowing through the Arab world sweep them away?

I think writers have to be careful not to over-rely on absent parental figures, however.

Such measures were part of welfare reform's crackdown on absent fathers who let taxpayers pay for their kids.

Seeing mobs of readers cheer for Ann, focussing their love on absent author and present translator at once, has been thrilling to behold.

For visual effect, and civic education or outreach purposes, the party could enlist 16- and 17-year-olds as proxies to follow, as marching orders, the rankings on absent voters' ballots.

A10 Gore on Absent Fathers Vice President Al Gore called for measures to encourage absent fathers, whom he called "the No. 1 cause of child poverty in America," to pay child support.

The rulers of Europe went away on absent-minded July holidays to their old familiar spas, but the troops and trains kept on rolling in the background.

One morning — an exultant, lovely morning, the day after my own baby had gotten engaged to be married — I boarded a No. 2 bus, asked the driver for a new ticket, and was looking on absent-mindedly when I realized that he was punching a hole in a reduced-fare senior citizen's ticket.

If filtration on absents (or presents) is used to remove transcripts that have absent call in all the arrays then 40,450 transcripts were found, and the number of transcripts expressed in all of the bone biopsies is approximately 14,300.

It is what was missing that my mind homes in on--absent was Robbie's beginning, never mentioned was his middle; his legacy is, and was, his tragic end.

Moreover, more similar, medium distractors were also fixated more often than thin distractors (F 1,11) = 62.1; p<.001), and all of these differences were again stronger on target absent than on target absent trials (all Fs>39.7; all ps<.001).