Sentences with phrase «much about the absence»

We don't worry too much about his absence, in part because his Spirit is so alive and present.

But bitters are your ally in this struggle: our unhealthy relationship to carbs is as much about the absence of bitterness as it is about the overabundance of carbs.

It's hard to complain too much about the absence of peril when you're wearing the bottom half of a chicken suit.

I didn't know when I began writing The Lovebird that it would end up being so much about absence and longing.

Not exact matches

Mishkin noted «I am less optimistic about the prospects for core PCE inflation to move much below 2 % in the absence of a determined effort by monetary policy,» adding that «a substantial further decline in inflation would require a shift in expectations, and such a shift could be difficult and time - consuming to bring about.»

Mr Stephen's absence on that historic day points to a lost truth about «Canada's railway»: that it was as much about connecting to Asia as it was about connecting Canada.

But in a major shift away from the previous Saudi - led policy of maintaining production to squeeze high - cost US shale - oil producers, OPEC countries agreed to target a lower level of 32.5 — 33.0 million barrels a day, although there was some skepticism about the absence of details on which members would curb output and by how much, which were delayed until the next meeting in November.

The point here is that they are highlighting so much of what they do that is not the gospel and then when asked about the gospel's absence, they say, «Well, of course the gospel.»

This is what he is talking about when he says «but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling».

There has already been a lot of debate about how much the Spaniard brings to the table for Arsenal and how much his absence has hurt the team and their efforts to claim a major trophy like the EPL title but another question connected with that is how much losing Cazorla affects the other main creative star in our side, Mesut Ozil.

We are not talking about the forced absence for Alexis Sanchez who is taking a much awaited break.

Maybe I just don't care that much about jerseys as some, but I think it's more impactful to have their names bolted to the concrete of the stadium than the absence of a jersey number on the field.

We don't have much choice about our own centre backs but we can at least hope that the absence of Carroll and Cole takes away a lot of their usual aerial threat and perhaps take the pressure of our full backs to cut out crosses.

But our knowledge about how much absence the infant can tolerate without severe suffering is still insufficient to build regular disappearances of a parent into the child's schedule.

Absence of grit: «About the only leading politican to show any [grit] these days seems to be the much - abused Prime Minister Brown.

Asked about Obama's and Biden's notable absence from the Pennsylvania campaign trail in recent weeks, Rendell said it might be «because their last minute appearances in New Jersey and Virginia and Massachusetts didn't serve too much good.»

For decades theories about human evolution had proliferated despite the absence of much, if any, hard evidence.

In the absence of this data, Rhoden's team calculated various values about the latter, in order to see how much eccentric would Charon's orbit would have to be for tidal forces to have any significant effect.

There really isn't much to complain about this is a pretty standard and extremely entertaining racing experience that fans of the series are going to be glad to see back from its rather long absence.

Seth Meyers» opening monologue joke about Harvey Weinstein's absence fell a little flat at first, but then he made is so much better (or so much worse, depending on how morbid you like your humor) by reminding everyone that he'd be back in 20 years as the only person to ever be booed during the In Memoriam section.

However, in the absence of a contract for the last three years between the district and the teachers union, United Teachers of Los Angeles, labor talks remain at a complete standstill, raising questions about just how much remains «TBD.»

Carol and Barbara for caring about Angel as much as I do (and for understanding my absence at adoptions for the last 3 weekends)

The benefits of elite status may not seem like much in the absence of a first class cabin, but if you listen to the top - tier elites at other airlines complain about the stress and uncertainty surrounding their spot on the upgrade list, it doesn't seem so bad.

But I have so much more to «thank» them for... We weren't too happy about the absence of visible work on the game release but it was nothing compared to the fact of losing our game entirely.

There really isn't much to complain about this is a pretty standard and extremely entertaining racing experience that fans of the series are going to be glad to see back from its rather long absence.

You never stop having fun when it's happening, it just strikes you all as a little much — and in the absence of something greater to criticise, or any dramatic kind of innovation, it's what I'm stuck harping on about.

The show is very much about the idea that there are absences in history and place, and fiction is one way to fill in those gaps.

Mauss is as concerned with history's absences as he is with its remnants: in one wall text, he writes that while researching this period, he realized that he might have known much more about the era if the intervening generation hadn't been decimated by AIDS.

Rendered delicately, they are about absence as much as presence and create a tone of longing, while offering a sublime space between potential, personal moments.

By inserting them into the western art - historical canon, black women are given visibility, provoking a conversation about the representation of the black female body in popular culture, its absence from that canon, and how much this visual representation in art has evolved over time.

These stem from a diversity of site - specific conditions, including, but not limited to: local vegetation; presence of building structures and contributions made by such structures involving energy use, heating and air conditioning, etc; exposure to winds, the wind velocities determined by climatic factors and also whether certain wind directions are more favored than others by terrain or the presence or absence thereof to bodies of water; proximity to grass, asphalt, concrete or other material surfaces; the physical conditions of the CRS itself which include: the exact location of the temperature sensors within it, the degree of unimpeded flow of external air through the CRS, the character of the paint used; the exact height of the instrument above the external surface (noting that when the ground is covered by 3 feet of snow, the temperature instrument is about 60 % closer to, or less than 2 feet, above an excellent radiating surface, much closer than it would be under snow - free conditions).

As you mention, much of this has been discussed before, including the principle that small natural variations can't trigger a very long term upward trend in temperature and ocean heat uptake in the absence of a climate sensitivity value that is astronomically high (Swanson and Tsonis have made essentially the same point about long term trends).

So instead of complaining about all that, here's a jolly post about a conspicuous and refreshing absence of sanctimonious environmentalism on the BBC where there could so easily have been so much.

About 52 per cent of Ontario's lawyers work in solo or small firms, so the absence of a plan would likely mean there isn't necessarily much, if anything at all, in place in the event of the lawyer's demise.

Santa Clarita Renters Insurance falls into about the same range, even though California doesn't use credit scoring — the absence of that rating factor hasn't really had much of an impact on prices in California.

Think about how your family will financially survive in your absence and how much they will need to make it.

So here the matter is not about how much you have to spent or how much bank will en - cash from you in the name of Home loan insurance cover, the matter how can you secure your family's future even if you have taken a healthy debt which your family can not manage in absence of yours.

True simplicity is derived from so much more than just the absence of clutter and ornamentation - it's about bringing order to complexity,» said Jony Ive, Apple's senior vice president of Design.

There isn't much to dislike about The Essential, but the absence of a headphone jack will annoy some.

Adolescent symptoms of anxiety and depression were assessed with the five - item Hopkins Symptom Checklist (SCL - 5).18 In the SCL - 5, the presence or absence of the following five symptoms during the last 14 days was reported: feeling blue, feeling fearful, feeling hopeless about the future, worrying too much about things and experiencing nervousness or shakiness inside.