Sentence examples for rather absent from inspiring English sources

This formula means that the sitting, or rather, absent Sinn Féin MP, Michelle Gildernew, now faces a stiff fight to hold on to the seat.

For example, James Dawson's amazing This Book Is Gay hasn't gotten nearly as much publicity as it deserves (hence me mentioning it now… Sneaky publicity bomb…) But people in wheelchairs have remained rather absent.

She was sort of seeing a guy a guy who made no effort to be "nice" to me, which per my reactionary sensibilities I considered "mean," though looking back I guess he was rather absent about the whole matter, and it was I who was the neurotic prick.

Tumour imaging with 99mTc-DTPA was of unacceptably poor quality, and rather absent in 3 out of 5 cases.

In this study, we undertook a global study of lipid metabolism in response to different INO-levels (INO2 and INO4): (1) normal INO-level using wild-type (CEN.PK113-7D CEN.PK113-7DNO-level using an opi1Δ strain, and (3) low (or rather absent) INO-level using an ino2Δ ino4Δ double deletion strain.

If you were a rather absent spouse before, you will need to change your behavior.

And so it goes that our genuinely sweet, but rather absent-minded protagonist accidentally swaps bags with Jacob Kowalski, a No-Maj with a flair for baking, who promptly unleashes a mini menagerie of creatures into the city.

Because the real problem is not that women of colour are over-sexualised in music videos, but rather how absent they usually are in the dominant culture as well as in discussions of cultural issues.

Never underestimate man's capacity to hand on misery to man – and I'm sure the next generation will lament their irritatingly hands-on dads – but I hope it will be broadly positive for so many boys and girls to grow up with involved rather than absent fathers.

The ideal situation is to have an anticipation of epidemic arrivals for rapid response to the epidemic rather than absent or late reporting of epidemic arrivals that translates into a certain, possibly high magnitude outbreaks.

As such, my motivation for going there was to understand the irrelevance of this activity in Delhi -- to ask questions not about something that was abundantly practiced, but rather decidedly absent; ultimately, to better understand the social and cultural factors that prevented this activity from coming into being.