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So when giant clams start to disappear from coral reefs, their absence can serve as an alarm bell for scientists to start paying attention, similar to the canary in a coal mine.
As part of a year-long public holiday series, I use performance art as a form of social commentary to draw people's attention to certain issues, as well as addressing the absence of the black female body in memorialized public spaces, especially on public holidays.
This is Jim Dine, and it's the absence of presence, etc.
The absence of sound, in fact, when it comes to cars, it can be quite dangerous.
And then the only thing that is left to do is to correlate a certain signature with the presence or absence of certain medical conditions.
Your computer uses this presence of current to represent a one, and the absence of current to represent a zero.
In my absence, my parents would growl to each other that I was never to set foot in their home again.
And they can totally leapfrog over the absence of legacy infrastructure to go straight to newer and better systems.
Given the absence of a naturally occurring protein that performs the necessary chemistry, we decided we would evolve our own protein in the laboratory to convert A into a base that behaves like G, starting from a protein that performs related chemistry on RNA.
And the black rock is the sediment on the sea bottom in the absence of plankton.
When Hercules’ squire was abducted by a water nymph, Jason sailed on– oblivious to the absence of his most powerful crewmate.
And our committee, which consisted of a lot of hard scientists, did feel at the end of that study that the absence of play and a progressive suppression of developmentally normal play led him to be more vulnerable to the tragedy that he perpetrated.
Roy warns that the tragic consequences of their relationship “would lurk forever in ordinary things,” like “coat hangers,” “the tar on roads,” and “the absence of words.”
The pandemic circulated three times in 18 months in the absence of commercial air travel.
The absence of the ability to just get over it is depression.
Fortunately, no one has noticed your absence so far.
And of course we know this intuitively, that happiness is not just the absence of misery.
To His shock and awe, Shiva also felt the profound emptiness left by his wife’s absence.
Until anesthesia, the absence of sensation.
In the absence of a sink, use the sanitizer as thoroughly as possible and rub your hands together until they’re dry.
What it takes to turn a person who is destitute and vulnerable into a slave, is the absence of the rule of law.
The only thing that is keeping us from basically saving the lives of everybody who needs the medicine to stay alive are the absence of systems necessary to diagnose, treat and care for people and deliver this medicine.
And the absence of systems that function break the connection which got you all in this seat tonight.
Carers have their own limits and needs, and in absence of adequate support, many could be stretched to the breaking point.
But the absence of some metaphorical fishbowl is a recipe for misery and, I suspect, disaster.
What he showed me is that courage is not an absence of fear; courage is fear walking.
Mr. Spock is a scientist as well, and at the same time, he's the first [officer] of the starship Enterprise, and during the adventures of the Enterprise crew, he and his colleagues are dealing a lot with the presence or absence of Mr. Spock's emotions.
And full absence of mutual aid.
It's a leaden load of old cobblers that has far too much self-justifying, 'explanatory' religious waffle but barely any decent dialogue and certainly a total absence of anything even approaching magic or charm.
Despite the complete absence of originality, this low-budget thriller manages to come up with some decent special effects and has several good performances (particularly by Robin Evans, oozing campy viciousness as the leader of the girls).
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