Sentences with phrase «on the absence of»

You can't rely on the absence of customer complaints as your standard.

As one commentator pointed out, many atheists base their beliefs on the absence of proof.

I can understand his experiment, because a their promised reward depends, not just on the absence of thought crime, but rather heavily on superfluous chants, rules and rituals.

God already knew there was false idols and more would come based on absence of God.

1) This «discovery» is being announced without engaging prior archeological evidence on the matter 2) and the argument here appears to depend on an absence of evidence.

Nofed — it's a fallacy (spelling correction, sorry...) to believe that the zero concept must, by definition, be based on absence of God.

Atheism is predicated largely on the absence of knowledge (proof), not its presence.

Therein lies the issue of an argument based on the absence of evidence — as imperfect observers, people are like King Midas, in reverse.

The build up to Manchester United's game away to Watford on Saturday afternoon focused on the absence of Anthony Martial and Wayne Rooney.

One of the contemnors and radio host Salifu Maase known as «Mugabe» had blamed his provocative comments on the absence of his producer.

However, it tends to blur the relationship between property and republican freedom, and between property and democracy, focusing instead on absence of domination and arbitrary interference by other individuals and groups, including the State.

The presidency has finally clarified on the absence of President Muhammadu Buhari at the launching of Ogoni clean - up in Rivers state.

«For the thankless job of minority leader, your leadership is weighed on the absence of fuck - ups and crises.»

He said the site for the second inaugural was chosen for its practical purposes as well as symbolic ones, as he remarked on the absence of his father, former Governor Mario Cuomo.

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.

Atolagbe appealed that the matter be stood down pending the arrival of Mr. Jacob in Court to come and shed more light on the absence of Dasuki.

-- A Quinnipiac pollster on the absence of polls measuring Cuomo's standing against Democratic challenger Zephyr Teachout.

Yesterday, Jack Straw blamed the «continuing problem» of gang violence on the absence of father figures.

Speaking further, Bichi who said one of the factors responsible for the mass failure, examination malpractices and cultism in Nigerian schools from primary to tertiary level is the misplacement of priorities by the governments, parents, teachers and students blamed the problems on the absence of Social Workers who can help to discover students» potentials and guide them based on their uniqueness.

Mr. Axelbank is planning to offer commentary on the absence of the incumbent, Pedro Espada, Jr. at the beginning of the program.

He blamed the non-perfection of the settlement terms on the absence of Visionscape Group and Visionscape Sanitation Solutions at a meeting held in the office of the Lagos State Attorney General.

Speaking on the absence of the National Chairman of the Party, Chief John Odigie Oyegun, at the meeting, Eta said: «we were told that the National Chairman was duly invited for the meeting like every other person.»

Several studies had already pinned some of the visible abnormalities in clones on the absence of vital molecules that turn gene expression on and off during fetal development.

I blame this on the absence of strong grounded family values.

The prevailing wisdom has been that we should focus on the absence of the body in cyberspace.

«Under the Skin's» failure rests as much on its lack of an empathetic protagonist, as it does on its absence of meaning.

It mainly focused on the absences of Pacific Islander students who are often overlooked since they are usually grouped together with Asian students for reporting purposes.

Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, focused like Conrad on the absence of discourse in her criticism of Johnson's idea, but struck a different tone.

To tell which it is, vets rely on the absence of visible shunts during a doppler ultrasound exam to rule out PSS and a liver biopsy to confirm PVH - MVD.

It seems that the company's inclusion of the band's hit song «Welcome to the Jungle» was dependent on the absence of Slash from the game, both of which Activision included together.

RelyOnHorror recently spoke with Capcom Producer Yoshiaki Hirabayashi about Resident Evil Remaster and while the full interview is yet to be published, the discussion touched on the absence of a Wii U version.

His reductionist practice often involves manufacturing monochromatic simulacra that are intended to encourage the viewer to reflect on the absence of the actual object.

Roman Kraussl Publicizes His Art Index: Taking a page from Jerry Saltz, Roman Kraussl — who was hired to create an art market index for Germany's Manager Magazine — is publicizing it by focusing on the absence of women in his top 50 artists.

Ruscha, known for his pristine esthetic and emphasis on the absence of touch, apparently walked all over the drawing, and left the proof intact.

MYTHS THRIVE on an absence of information.

Carl Andre's observation from a 1968 interview reflects on the absence of image or allusion in advanced art of the period, but it remains pithily ironic: It is one hallmark of American art between roughly 1960 and 1975 that objects and installations were attended by massive quantities of artists» words, texts that fall across the artmaking landscape and settle like a heavy discursive drift.

A response to dadaist Kurt Schwitters's nonsensical sound poem, The Ursonate (1922 — 32), a «sonata» predicated on the absence of language, Büchler's sound installation uses a single laptop and seventy - five horn speakers to distort Schwitters's poem.

While Stella, once he broke from the mold of Greenbergian flatness, could equate presence only with volume and visual weight, Bonnefoi's response to the same strictures was an emphasis on thinness and on the absence of physical weight; an excess of both material and metaphorical lightness.

The self - styled bad girl of British art added a soundtrack of babbling and swearing as pundits ruminated on the absence of painting from the British art scene.

A lot of our fellow scientists, it seems, had trouble getting over their long - held view (based only on absence of evidence) that the only place in Antarctica that was warming up was the Antarctica Peninsula.

The story includes responses from BP and Transocean on the absence of the backup equipment.

Agreed, but if it isn't CO2 [based on this absence of a temperature corrolation] then we would be wise to assume the above solar irradiance, solar UV irradiance, cosmic ray flux, Milankovitch cycles etc as being the most likely culprit.

First, in asserting a non-zero lapse rate, your comment, which, as my comments weeks ago on Tallbloke's Talkshop indicate, I largely agree with, confirms the point I have been making: since Dr. Brown's explanation is based instead on the absence of any non-zero lapse rate whatsoever, no matter how small, it does not merit the non-critical gushing with which this thread is redolent.

You have simply restated your case which essentially relies on the absence of abrupt shifts of climate to fundamentally different states.

The entire analysis centers on the absence of «malice.»

I also assume that the NIPCC was intended for professionals, based on the absence of elementary material for the layman.

In these recent publications, Easterbrook has presented his former position on global warming as largely based on the absence of scientific consensus at the time.

«There is now an abundance of authority on the absence of any need for abundant authority on the principles which should guide a judge as to whether to make a third party order for costs.»

It's not immediately clear to me why a judge on the New York City Civil Court, Housing Part, would be a particular expert on e-mail etiquette for lawyers, but I thought there were a lot of good points in Judge Lebovits» article — which originally appeared in the New York State Bar Association Journal — particularly the reminders on the absence of «tone» and on the need for brevity.

Mr. Chodos charged $ 1,000 an hour for his time but had to sue ex-client for quantum meruit recovery based on the absence of a retainer and had a jury award him $ 7.8 million, his lodestar of 1,800 hour for the divorce work plus a multiplier of five — meaning the jury increased his hourly rate to $ 5,000.