Kim Jong-il ruled the country as chairman of the National Defense Commission, which he made the top governing agency after making the presidency permanently vacant in memory of his own father, Kim Il-sung, the North's founding president, who died in 1994.
For Ronan, time exists in the present moment, vacant of episodic memory or abstract future plans.
— It could have been one of those forsaken downtowns, with its abundance of vacant storefronts and memories of what once was.
Though the term "senile dementia" did not appear in the traditional Chinese medical literature, ancient medics were conscious of the phenomena and depicted elaborately its clinic exhibitions in medical books, including memory letdown, vacant face expression, lack of responsiveness and decline of intellectual ability such as comprehension and judgment, as well as emotional abnormity.
His energy is so keenly focussed that he nearly erases memory of his vacant, earlier work.
Civic ecology stewards create opportunities for learning, for forging social connections, and for drawing on "social-ecological memories" to reclaim vacant lots and polluted waters, and communities.
Episodes like the fire at the vacant Deutsche Bank building stir up haunting memories.
Elsewhere in the show, there are renditions of furniture and domestic architecture, such as distorted cribs and a doorway onto a vacant closet space, which conjure bedevilling childhood memories.
His memory of the land from years past was bleaker: a vacant lot and lots of weeds.
This early memory inspired her senior project, a plan to buy one of Detroit's vacant houses and convert it into living quarters for several currently homeless individuals.
