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Absent America, it is difficult to see where this is likely to come from.
Absent a prolonged fiscal-cliff and debt-ceiling mess, the US may be cobbling together a sustainable recovery.
In the long run, however, democracies benefit from intrinsic self-correction mechanisms that are absent in autocracies, where often-inadequate leaders cling to power.
“Voice” is almost absent in Italy, as dissatisfaction, however widespread, remains far from sufficient to give rise to an organized protest movement.
How many children will miss out on education because teachers are absent due to low wages, or simply because poor children must work to supplement their family income?
And accountability is no longer absent in Mexico.
The images that have accompanied past episodes of market turmoil are largely absent today.
The issue was strangely absent from the election campaign.
It will not be absent when the time comes to govern.
Absent the initial push from France and Great Britain, the US would most likely have remained passive, which was what the State and Defense Departments advised.
But perhaps most conspicuously absent from both precautionary and proactionary thinking is the old welfare-state ideal – that we might procreate at will in a world where our offspring are assured a secure existence.
Absent a sudden, immediate, and strong boost in US domestic demand that turns into a durable boom with rapid employment growth, probably not.
This is absent in China.
Throughout their histories, the Indian and Chinese civilizations were separated by the vast Tibetan plateau, limiting their interaction to sporadic cultural and religious contacts; political relations were absent.
Absent that, no amount of well-intentioned diplomatic effort by outsiders can compensate.
The contract between government and governed – imperfect in rich countries – is often altogether absent in poor countries.
Americans have traditionally said that, absent a risk of immediate unlawful violence, this form of speech should be protected under the First Amendment.
The result is the return of geopolitics to Europe at a time when defense spending is modest and public support for armed intervention is largely absent.
Absent either one, the risk of a sequential unraveling of eurozone public finances and a global economic downturn will remain high.
Absent a marked shift in policies and economic trajectory, the political circuit breakers will be tripped at some point, just as they have been in the US and the UK.
The democratic credentials of organizations like the EU are doubtful, and entirely absent in the case of the UN and other world institutions.
In fact, when professional journalism is absent, people can easily become lost in a maze of often-unreliable information, or even fall prey to self-proclaimed, interest-driven experts and propaganda.
But institutional investors have been largely absent from multilateral blended-finance initiatives, which have, in turn, failed to achieve a scale relevant to climate change.
Absent that, plumbing problems will become more acute, and the repairs more complex and threatening to virtually everyone – including both the “one percenters” and those who worrisomely are struggling at the margins of society.
In America in this election cycle, as in Europe, headlines are absent that in the past would have raised questions about an unmarried female partner, a working woman, a woman with a life of her own.
Absent these conditions, budgetary adjustments are almost always growth-reducing, as confirmed by a recent careful and detailed study by the International Monetary Fund.
Until recently, the feeling of urgency that pervades European policymaking was almost entirely absent in the US.
But the will to achieve this division is, sadly, absent among most people in power.
How much more worrying, then, is such concentrated ownership in new democracies and developing countries, where the check of civil society is mostly absent?
Absent a visible payoff, reform fatigue is setting in.
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