Sentences with phrase «near absence»

The teacher was a talented educator, but the progress of her students was limited by the school's open floor plan, scarcity of instructional resources, and near absence of parental involvement.

The preference for «climate change» and near absence of «global warming» reflects patterns observed in public and media discourse, too.

In the span of a few years, the once towering game genre had fallen from market dominance to near absence on retail shelves.

The near absence of malicious cyber activity from the North Korean mainland from April to July 2017 likely indicates that, for the most part, they are not using territorial resources to conduct cyber operations and that most state - sponsored activity is perpetrated from abroad.

No matter their small selections and the near absence of brands you'd recognize: Trader Joe's and Aldi are winning top honors in consumer surveys and proving to be enormously influential in the supermarket business.

As it happens, one particularity of medieval texts is the near absence of what we would consider cause and effect.

Less obvious, but nevertheless crucial, are the paralysis of architecture, the sterility of visual art, and the near absence of any form of creative expression of newer concrete forms, such as motion picture.

The near absence of chocolate and elimination of nuts automatically cuts my cookie options in half.

This does not however explain the near absence of male relatives.

The state has failed to adopt federal standards that would improve lead abatement practices, resulting in a near absence of enforcement actions to discourage shoddy workmanship.

Additionally, said Johansen, the near absence of lactose enables those with lactose intolerance to enjoy yogurt.

Within months, a near absence of physical evidence had turned into an abundance.

Based on those surveys, and the near absence of dolphins in the 1980s, the team estimates that bottlenose dolphin sightings are increasing by about 6 percent a year.

When operating in a high - fat ecosystem on a ketogenic diet, the primary reason why your blood glucose remains flat is because of the near absence of carbohydrate - rich foods.

It appears that most long living healthy cultures eat high carb diets with a near absence of processed food.

Say what you will about the been - there, done - that nature of the story; the near absence of CGI effects is quite refreshing.

Perhaps the most interesting thing to note about the movie is its near absence of a musical score, aside from the opening credits.

Peerless ride comfort, a near absence of wind or tire roar and muted responses from the V8 conspire to create a relaxed and isolated driving experience.

Due to the near absence of tourism we did not have to bargain to get incredible prices.

The near absence of medkits and the crestfallen usability of snacks and soft drinks make life a treasure to safeguard.

Chou's second body of work Almost Black & White explores the near absence of colour.

The near absence of color is not a reductive gesture in the mode of Reinhardt or Ryman, it seems to me, so much as just a stinginess of spirit, part and parcel of the nihilism that seems the only feasible explicator of his dreary, aimless, pedantic, pretentious and self - satisfied oeuvre.

A narrative reading of my still would suggest that lesbians can be heroes (or more subversively, that someone can be saved through homosexuality), and at the same time the still addresses the near absence of black women (and total absence of black lesbians) as models of feminine beauty (1950 style).

I have several times criticised the structure of climate science for its near absence of review points and its near absence of decision points that say «Go» or «No - go».

Perhaps the biggest weakness of Forest Day has been the near absence of education for the gathered forest audience regarding options for REDD + finance, most importantly including the financial safeguards that advocates should insist upon, parallel to the attention paid to social safeguards.

Still, the near absence of nuclear at CEM7 misses a huge opportunity to build on the Paris Climate Agreement's technology neutral approach to addressing climate change.

In a 2 - 1 decision, the majority held that the expert's reconstruction of accounts was not reliable given the near absence of accounting records.

There's a ton of websites and advertisements that really confuse people which is totally understandable given the near absence of morality among most advertisers.

In part, this can be explained by the near absence of construction in the Central Valley (Bakersfield, Fresno, Modesto, and Stockton) and only moderate growth in many of the larger Southern California coastal markets (Los Angeles and San Diego).