Sentences with phrase «absence of anything»

There is, of course, always the possibility of simply going to «first principles» in the absence of anything directly on point.

In the absence of anything else, they provide a useful guide for in - house counsel and lay clients alike, and a vital guide for practices attempting to analyse the competition.

A Flawg will often contain posts about the latest legal tech gadgets, or the how to gain new clients through the awesome power of the internet, in the absence of anything remotely legal to discuss;

As New York is busy trying to revamp its lawyer advertising rules, the majority's rationale brings essentially every writing within the scope of advertising, commercial solicitation, despite the total absence of anything in the content to suggest it.

So it would be simply lovely if people would never again say crap like «cold can not heat hot» on this list as if that either describes the GHE correctly or is in any way relevant, invariably in the complete absence of anything like a problem presentation.

But after Damien Hirst took the # 20,000 prize last year with his formaldehyde - encased sheep, and Rachel Whiteread in 1993 with her concrete - encased house, the big shock in this year's shortlist was the absence of anything shocking.

But with that stupendous growth came the absence of anything that would ruffle the feathers of the museum's myriad supporters.

With the company's new focus on casual gamers, a lot of its key brands were put to one side, and in the absence of anything other than shallow party games to play, many gamers lost interest in Nintendo's systems.

We've seen more lucrative promotions in the past but, in the absence of anything better, this isn't too bad.

Always provide something for Fido to do when he is in his crate as boredom will cause him to revert to destructive behaviors and in the absence of anything else in his crate, he may begin to lick or chew on his paws or tail.

One is the number of coffee - stained pages and the second - disaster for a critic expected to take notes - is the sudden absence of anything jotted down in the margins.

What's really puzzling about this however is the complete absence of anything resembling a sport mode.

We're persisting with it in the absence of anything else we can do.»

Obviously, some people might frown upon the absence of anything relevant outside of the modifications to the Golf R's turbocharged four - cylinder engine.

In the absence of anything substantial to cling to, the movie tries to amuse with extraneous things.

Laughton is great and the picture is a high quality production the only negative is the complete absence of anything but American accents which can be distracting.

The absence of anything traditionally «painterly» reflects an ambivalent attitude toward the kind of capitalistic pro-growth machinations on display in the film.

When you feel an absence of anything in your life, it's natural to want to replace it.

In the absence of anything which can be called an «investigatory press» in Rockland County, elected officials must know that their behavior is being publicly scrutinized by the social media and that past behaviors which resulted in Rockland County becoming bloated with over 100 patronage appointments and millions of dollars in ballooning property taxes, bonded debt, and deficit spending MUST stop.

They should signal that it's their preferred option and get on with the leg - work; in the absence of anything as bold, you can be forgiven for mistaking a lot of this week's railing against the city as so much cynical flannel.

in the absence of anything factual.

Of course, «nothing» is not any kind of thing in the first place but merely the absence of anything.

While Russell promoted a logical and metaphysical view that seemed to stress disconnectedness, nonconstitutive external relations, and the absence of anything resembling inherent order, structure, or community, it is hard to find a more passionately engaged «community figure» in the contemporary philosophic scene.

Not exact matches

«Investors seem reluctant to price in anything more severe than trade sanctions, and the absence of another «fire and fury» Trump tweet has helped encourage markets to respond warily.»

In the absence of a full review, and considering some of the things Clark and Lake said publicly, Whitmarsh worried he'd be made the scapegoat for anything that was found to have gone wrong, the letter said.

«In the absence of any other similar incidents before or for years after, there was no evidence that indicated it was anything but an anomaly,» the automaker said.

Except for the absence of gleeful Assassination Arts and Crafts, the situations mirror each other to a remarkable degree, and the administration has little reason to fear anything from the right except for their boisterous opposition and the possibility that the more spiteful among them might sing «na, na, na, na, hey, hey, goodbye» as Marine One carries the former President Obama to Andrews Air Force Base.

And a gap is an absence, not evidence of anything, and certainly not an invitation to insert unreasonable claims as if they were equivalent to truth.

I believe god is love, I think we have little ability to understand much beyond that at this point and those who would define and codify god are arrogant fools doing harm in this world, I believe that the absence of love in anything is proof that it doesn't come from god, fire and brimstone does not come from god, unconditional love and acceptance does.

The dictionary definition of purity in one general purpose dictionary is: 1 - freedom from contaminants: the absence, or degree of absence, of anything harmful, inferior, unwanted, or of a different type.

But the pieces of information which alone could give us certainty on these points are lacking, and in their absence no guess as to what is probably meant can be thought of as anything like a certainty.

In the absence of such data, the phrases do not denote nonexistent or transcendent objects or entities; rather, they simply do not denote at all, and the presumed metaphysical puzzle is, as much as anything, merely a function of awkward grammar.19

Even God could not prehend anything incompatible with the existence of God, nor — in my view, as in Whitehead's — could God prehend the total nonexistence of the world, that is, prehend the total absence of nondivine beings.

The absence of objective likeness between music and anything in the world may lead us to think that the subject matter of music must, therefore, be subjective.

With the return of Pjanic and Benatia, the absence of their defense leader, Ramos, and with luck on our side this time around, anything can happen in football.

The line of thinking is something like this: (1) contact between players in the box is not automatically a penalty — there has to be sufficient contact in the opinion of the referee — here the contact was trivial; (2) in the absence of indisputable proof of a blatant foul, a referee must take the situation into account; (3) anything short of certainty about a blatant foul should not be a penalty, particularly in the last seconds of a game.

He says the same of the former Arsenal right back Sagna who has been playing instead of the injured Zabaleta, whole Bony has yet to really show anything like the form that made City sign him from Swansea in the absence of Aguero.

The absence of Iraqi insurgents blowing anything up, even in spite of the aggression shown them by the British and American forces, and the fact that Loach helpfully signposts the bad guys by giving them non-Liverpool accents, adds a sort of clichéd unreality to the proceedings.

Despite the absence of any groundswell in support for independence, the first minister's sheer force of personality and his unparalleled success in winning an overall majority at the 2011 Holyrood election had created the sense that anything was possible.

Among his many failures Blair did not establish clear ministerial oversight of post-conflict strategy, or ensure ministers took decisions to address it, or seek adequate reassurances that the UK could meet its obligations, or test British strategic objectives against anything but best case scenarios, or press Bush for definite assurances on US policy or seek advice on the absence of a satisfactory plan for UK objectives.

«Heads of security agencies must not leave anything to chance; some people may be taking advantage of the C - in - C's absence to plot what only they can explain.

More than that, it was important and, if anything, underplayed the absence of ideology and excess of personality inside the new Labour project.

Sometimes some crisis occurs — anything from a personal problem that requires a professor to take a leave of absence to someone quitting without notice.

I think that's a tremendous disservice to the entire effort, because with the absence of competition Illumina is under no pressure to improve anything like output or customer care, and those are important considerations.

Second, from the absence of craters, sand dunes, or anything else on top of the [eroded] gullies, they appeared to have formed very recently, possibly as recently as yesterday.

The absence of extra fat and anything artificial creates better flavors.

So you won't notice anything of my absence;) If you want to stay up to date with my vacation adventures please do follow me on instagram via @RedReidingHood.

These days an absence of a wedding ring can mean anything.

What's intriguing about the series is the absence of a visible enemy — with a citywide communication breakdown, hardly anything is known about the status of the rest of America — and the focus on keeping citizens from becoming their own worst enemies

The reintroduction of the campaign in the new SOCOM doesn't manage to offer anything memorable - save for the inclusion of the Korean female character - along with the disappointing absence of the co-op option.