Sentences with phrase «rely on the absence»

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

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.

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

Not exact matches

As you point out, in the absence of evidence either way, your decision relies on faith.

and all those weeks out............... now we all got ta have to rely on slow server and the flame to deputize in his absence!

A spate of injuries to several key forwards will test the Stars» depth at center early in the season and the forward corps will rely on young prospects in the system to step up in their absence.

Since taking the reigns at the Etihad in the summer, Pep Guardiola has continually relied on the Brazilian and often handed him the armband in captain Vincent Kompany's absence.

In the absence of overwhelming physical skills, Jackson relies on his knowledge of the game.

In his absence, England will have to rely on the out - of - form Wayne Rooney and either Danny Welbeck or Rickie Lambert in attack — hardly a frontline that will strike a great deal of fear into the hearts of any top side, not least the Switzerland defence.

In his absence, Antonio Conte can rely on winter transfer window signing Emerson Palmieri, who joined from AS Roma.

Given that Arsenal seems to be out of the top - 4 race and relying on the European competition to secure a Champions League spot next season, Lacazette's absence will surely be felt.

His absence against Wolfsburg would be a major blow for Mancini, who won't be able to rely on the Swiss international to accomplish what is shaping up to be an unlikely feat of winning 2 - 0.

His absence against Wolfsburg will be a major blow for Mancini, who won't be able to rely on the Swiss international to accomplish what is shaping up to be an unlikely feat of winning 2 - 0.

Most concussion and return - to - play guidelines issued before 2000 use numeric grading scales and rely on the presence / absence of loss of consciousness (LOC) and post-traumatic amnesia (PTA) to determine the severity of a concussion and return to play (RTP).

In the absence of reform, such countries will be forced to rely on tax increases or cuts to public expenditures to restore their public finances to good health.

This is how democracy is supposed to work within the EU: in the absence of a truly European demos we rely on the collective wisdom of 28 distinct national demoi.

Scientists generally rely on in situ hybridization (ISH) techniques (using mRNA - specific probes) to determine the presence or absence of particular mRNA molecules in plant tissues.

In the absence of the shuttles, NASA will rely on Russian spacecraft to carry U.S. astronauts to the International Space Station, until private American spacecraft are ready to take over the job.

In the absence of medications that can stop or reverse the progression of the disease, treatment still has to rely heavily on hands - on care and attention, responding appropriately to behaviors, and providing love and security, she says.

In the absence of these important social support systems, it's no wonder more and more college students are relying on finding a Sugar Daddy or Sugar Mommy to pay for college.»

There are a few laughs, but in the absence of a sustained comic tone and consistently good ideas, the script relies on endless bathroom humor and such throwaway visual ideas as a baby stored in a high school locker.

If teachers tend to rely more on lectures when assigned more capable or attentive students, this would generate a positive relationship between the amount of time spent lecturing and student achievement, even in the absence of a true causal effect.

While schools alone can't do all it takes to improve student attendance, every successful initiative ultimately relies on educators deciding to make the reduction of chronic absence a priority.

With the plans now defined by the states, schools and districts rely on their State Education Policy to specify how key topics are defined (including chronic absence) and how these policies will be carried out — and how states will hold schools accountable.

This report relies on the most recent federal chronic absence data for the 2013 - 14 school year, provides a national and state analysis of how many schools face high levels of chronic absence and discusses the implications for state and local action.

We rely on natural experiments in North Carolina and Washington State, which previously extended time to tenure by one year, to estimate models that assess the relationship between the extended probationary period and absence and attrition outcomes for teachers affected by the new tenure laws.

In the absence of prior contact, participants may rely on the general reputation of the other and also on commonalities of race, gender, age, religion, or upbringing.

However, in the absence of hard facts, designer F. Bianco is relying on educated speculation.

As hearing and sight wane, your dog will rely on you more and more for information about her surroundings — and she may become panicked in your absence.

You can rely on them to treat your pet sympathetically even in your absence.

Diagnosis of CMS is challenging and relies on clinical evaluation, morphological studies of muscle and peripheral nerves, electrodiagnostic studies, the absence of serum antibodies against muscle AChRs, demonstration of AChR deficiency, and most recently, molecular genetic studies.

Gamers have been united in their aggravation over the continued absence of the Playstation Store... but spare some thought for the studios that rely on it as a primary source of income.

Winner of the prestigious Turner Prize in 1994, Rachel Whiteread relies on the imaginative associations of her audience, constructing a world where objects are described in terms of absences.

She relies on these shapes in the absence of glamourized female bodies placed in the highly conceptualized environments of her previous work.

However, the willingness of privately owned galleries (who must necessarily rely on profits in the absence of government funding) to take on such avowedly uncommercial projects serve as an important barometer of the health of the art market in an unstable world economy.

Relying also on the images that surround us, John Baldessari encourages the viewer's attention to minor details, absence, and the space between things, and through his manipulation of the image, and the painting over the faces with primary colors, and the obscuring of the portions of the scenes, challenges and creates philosophical inquiries into art and knowledge.

Our analysis shows that energy efficiency is the biggest part of that least - cost solution, and as a result there is no need to rely more heavily on natural gas than would be the case in the absence of the carbon pollution standards we propose.

The Oklahoman relied on the «absence of compelling evidence» and the comments of a single geologist to conclude that the largest recorded earthquake in Oklahoma's history was not tied to fracking, despite mounting evidence that indicates otherwise.

In the absence of a country - wide water delivery system, many El Salvadorian communities rely solely on natural bodies of water for their health and livelihood.

during the Holocene, most of it experienced in the absence of anthropogenic forcing; it certainly wouldn't mean that we should rely on that cycle continuing in the future, and thus saving us from Man - assisted climate change.

The models heavily relied upon by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) had not projected this multidecadal stasis in «global warming»; nor (until trained ex post facto) the fall in TS from 1940 - 1975; nor 50 years» cooling in Antarctica (Doran et al., 2002) and the Arctic (Soon, 2005); nor the absence of ocean warming since 2003 (Lyman et al., 2006; Gouretski & Koltermann, 2007); nor the onset, duration, or intensity of the Madden - Julian intraseasonal oscillation, the Quasi-Biennial Oscillation in the tropical stratosphere, El Nino / La Nina oscillations, the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation, or the Pacific Decadal Oscillation that has recently transited from its warming to its cooling phase (oceanic oscillations which, on their own, may account for all of the observed warmings and coolings over the past half - century: Tsoniset al., 2007); nor the magnitude nor duration of multi-century events such as the Mediaeval Warm Period or the Little Ice Age; nor the cessation since 2000 of the previously - observed growth in atmospheric methane concentration (IPCC, 2007); nor the active 2004 hurricane season; nor the inactive subsequent seasons; nor the UK flooding of 2007 (the Met Office had forecast a summer of prolonged droughts only six weeks previously); nor the solar Grand Maximum of the past 70 years, during which the Sun was more active, for longer, than at almost any similar period in the past 11,400 years (Hathaway, 2004; Solankiet al., 2005); nor the consequent surface «global warming» on Mars, Jupiter, Neptune's largest moon, and even distant Pluto; nor the eerily - continuing 2006 solar minimum; nor the consequent, precipitate decline of ~ 0.8 °C in TS from January 2007 to May 2008 that has canceled out almost all of the observed warming of the 20th century.

Furthermore, employers should not rely on generalised assumptions, namely that there is an impact on retaining individuals because of the absence of a contractual retirement age.

Prudent IT departments, software developers, licensors, vendors, and applicable service providers should review their compliance obligations and procedures in respect of these CASL requirements and assess where they can rely on deemed consent, in the absence of reasonable evidence to the contrary, in a number of specified cases.

[16] Thus, the issue is framed — can a defendant or third party who has not obtained a doctor's report by compulsion of a court order, and prior to disclosure of any medical - legal reports by the plaintiff or in the absence of any reports, obtain access to the non-treating doctor's notes and clinical findings, or are said notes and clinical records privileged as forming part of the brief of the plaintiff's solicitor until the time when the plaintiff chooses to rely on the non-treating doctor as a witness at trial and the doctor's notes must be disclosed...

[70] In awarding damages for mental distress, the trial judge erred by relying on her observations of Mr. Lau's demeanour while testifying, in the absence of any evidence or testimony other than Mr. Lau's own.

In the absence of any definition as to reasonable time off to deal with bereavement or forthcoming legislation, grieving employees have to rely on the goodwill and policy of their employer.

Absent direct evidence from the complainant that he / she did not consent, the judge or jury must rely on circumstantial evidence to determine the absence of consent.

Under the legislation relied on, in the absence of a crime, there can be no justification for the release of the material to a lawyer for the purpose of pursuing a civil fraud.

In the absence of supporting expert evidence, the claimant was forced to rely on the oral testimony of the hotel manager during cross-examination.

He cited the 1894 decision and pointed out that only 2 members of the House of Lords approved of this in Duff (ibid), although the Court of AppeaI in Kahan (ibid) relied on three of the speeches in Duff and held that there was no submission to the jurisdiction of the court in the absence of an undertaking given to the court at the time when the other party asked the court to exercise jurisdiction over it.