What we do know is that absent U.S. ratification, none of it can happen.
The judge said that absent an actual buyer of the data, the F.T.C. action was premature.
Nor are there persuasive signs that absent more government support, conditions will turn around anytime soon.
We had to choose programs that, absent the fiscal situation, we would not cut".
case, Brazil offered credible expert testimony that absent Washington's subsidies, America would have exported some 40percentt less cotton.
All agree that, absent suspension, the writ of habeas corpus remains available to every individual detained within the United States.
On the one hand, it was possible that absent a settlement, some people now filing administrative claims might have sued.
Jeff Wilpon said he is certain that absent the Sept. 11 attacks, Bloomberg would have proceeded with Giuliani's plan and stadium construction would have soon begun.
But she immediately acceded to a collective verdict that, absent any sign of ill effect, and given the risks attendant on any intervention, the cleats should stay.
What we are left with, then, is a kind of abbreviated paraphrasing of a life that — absent its digestion into art — was almost repellently debauched.
