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And insofar as “benign neglect” might be a fair description, it is a positive one, characterized by the absence of geopolitical tension or instability in the region.
The “D” of democracy was noticeable by its absence, suggesting a change in policy by Barack Obama’s administration.
On the contrary, the shadow is lengthening with each passing day, owing to the absence of effective policies to get the flow of economy-wide nominal spending back on its previous track.
Most Chinese would probably like to see this absence remedied as much as they favor full reunification.
First, there is the counterfactual case: How would Japan’s economy have performed in the absence of fiscal stimulus?
And on that day, he was so well mourned that his absence seemed like part of a show, somehow making us forget that he was no longer with us.
The monetary union’s distinctive feature is the absence of a common state, despite the single currency.
Falling employment in such industries was expected; the surprise was the absence of offsetting employment gains in other industries.
It should also be obvious that, in the absence of currency markets to act as a “valve” for economic and financial pressures, economic volatility may increase.
Beyond diagnostic disputes in individual cases, psychiatry's absence of objective diagnostic tests implies something more radical.
Indeed, the absence of genuine political competition and the public’s lack of confidence in Russia’s politicians are the country’s main problems, for they undermine the rule of law, enable interest groups to “capture” state institutions, and encourage corruption, all of which have led to capital flight and a brain drain.
But prospects for progress on arms control and nonproliferation are darkening in the absence of a credible push for nuclear disarmament.
And they face an alarming absence of the rule of law, leaving them with no assurances that they will be treated equally, regardless of gender, ethnic origin, or religion.
Regardless of whether Trump’s plan was actually to start with a demand for full denuclearization and then retreat to something more credible, the question now is what the administration might do to achieve denuclearization – or even regime change – in the absence of a summit.
Some argue that the CBO’s initial forecast of the impact of repealing the individual mandate was overly dire, and that many Americans will purchase insurance even in the absence of a penalty.
Social scientists are conspicuous by their absence.
While the Iraq quagmire has made it difficult for America to project force around the world, America’s growing debt, conflicts with friends and enemies alike, absence of any perceivable strategy for changing times, and its political system’s seeming inability to take action to address these challenges have combined to turn America into a struggling giant.
But the trend toward normalcy among European leaders coincides with a remarkable absence of vision and strategy.
To be sure, there are cases where the absence of trust-building efforts could partly explain why a conflict drags on.
In the absence of such changes, the global economy may bounce from one crisis to another without a firm hand on the rudder to establish an overall sense of direction.
Latin America, however, will likely converge only very slowly in the absence of major structural reforms that increase its ability to invest and improve the quality of education.
On the contrary, it could not have been realized in the absence of publicly funded basic research.
That is why it is so vital to continue to support well-designed basic research, even in the absence of obvious benefits to society.
Just what the EU should deliver, and how, in the absence of further integration remains unexplained.
But in the absence of robust local journalism, we often don’t hear about these activities, other than from the few reporters and researchers who have been willing to traverse the country to document what is happening.
In the absence of international leadership in forging a political end-state, Syria’s conflict has tragically become a sectarian civil war – one that is rapidly metastasizing, with far-reaching consequences for US interests in the region and for prior US political investments in projects like Iraq.
But in the absence of a definite timeframe, debt levels can undergo lengthy deviations, the sustainability of which is open to interpretation.
For Jews, given the absence of a homeland, development occurred among the diaspora, with civil emancipation in Europe giving rise to reformist movements aimed at reconciling faith and modernity.
In the absence of an analog to the West’s Industrial Revolution, Muslims (and especially Arabs) have faced multiple humiliations and partial colonization over the past two centuries.
Their interests were aligned, because higher tariffs allowed workers to demand higher wages, while capitalists could still make higher profits in the absence of foreign competition.
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