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The story is weak, but worse yet the witty scripting from the original is completely absent.
The word Nymphoid was used just to give it strong sexual overtones, which were completely, absent in the movie.
Absent a Palestinian partner, and given continuing Palestinian terrorism - which Israel's harsh responses fail to quell - what Sharon appears to be doing now follows from his strategic-oriented thinking: set up an effective barrier, move some of the isolated and strategically untenable settlements, and wait for another day.
Viewpoints that deviate in the slightest from Party doctrine are still absent from Chinese TV.
Indeed, high investment serves as a sign that other binding constraints to growth are absent, implying prosperity and that things are going right.
Yet, scholars such as Ralph Dahrendorf and Joseph Weiler suggest that a European constitution does not make sense because a democratic constitution presupposes a paramount common identity that is absent in an EU where individual national loyalties still prevail.
Moreover, carrying a huge debt burden runs the risk that global interest rates will rise in the future, even absent a Greek-style meltdown.
But, in the United States, unlike in Europe and Asia, discussion of hydrogen energy and fuel cells as systemic, game-changing technologies is largely absent.
The always-prickly issues of investment and intellectual property should be a part of any new deal; but, with the US absent, some of the more controversial rules that North American businesses have lobbied for could now be excluded.
It may also avoid transplanting solutions that simply won’t work absent complementary domestic legal rules and institutions.
Violence was also absent, but insults were not.
The Iraq war was an immense “project,” yet it now appears that the analysis of its benefits was greatly flawed and that of its costs virtually absent.
The eurozone needs a Germany that is engaged, not absent, and the paper delivers a message that needs to be heard: (financial) solidarity goes hand in hand with (economic and budgetary) responsibility.
Workers are either forced into the informal sector, where basic workplace protections are absent, or they become reliant on state handouts, creating fertile ground for populist politicians and criminals.
In the United States, cautionary voices have been notably absent even among staunchly liberal newspapers like The New York Times .
Absent cross-country transfers (which the recent Franco-German agreement on a mini-eurozone budget is not meant to deliver), this is a further reason why the ECB should err on the side of audacity.
The “D” of democracy was glaringly absent, suggesting a fundamental policy change by President Barack Obama’s administration.
And the customers were absent because the pre-crisis credit boom had left them over-leveraged.
Each country’s cut is measured relative to a particular baseline that averages its actual emissions level in 2005 with emissions expected in 2020, absent international action.
This is not to suggest that foreign policy is absent from the campaign.
At this point, fortification is almost universal in the developed world, yet it is still absent in many low- and middle-income countries.
In Tunisia, the banned Islamist party Ennahdha (Renaissance) was absent.
Absent a surprise inflation spurt, this will be a long process.
Big ideas, or even big questions, are notably absent from the coalition agreement.
But, for many Cubans, the embargo has placed an alternative explanation at hand: Absent the embargo, many goods would be imported from the US, or produced at home with US inputs.
Any increase will depend entirely on improvements in education and training, which are absent from the data, and from investment in equipment and structures, which is depressed relative to historical levels.
Even absent the financial crisis, addressing the shortcomings in these areas would likely have slowed down US growth.
This cannot merely be a state of affairs like the current one, in which hostilities are absent.
Absent private spending, budget cuts will only depress tax revenues, requiring additional budget cuts, without end.
It should also be noted that while Mao was conspicuously absent in the Olympics, his communist legacy was present in subtle ways.
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