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Absent US pressure on others to follow its lead, there would be nothing to stop the rest of the board from approving Cuba’s application.
Absent a sensible guest-worker program, they remain in the shadows, and they and their children crowd public services.
A fairly wide territorial distribution of economic activity, together with strong local governments and civil-society organizations, has contributed further to a general sense of contentment – a sense that is absent in much of the world nowadays.
Negotiations for the new multi-year fiscal framework for 2007-13, already underway, are not tackling the issue, because the longer-term interests of the EU are absent from the negotiating table.
In 1801, with Congress absent from the capital, Jefferson took matters into his own hands, ordering a new fleet of frigates to sea to protect merchant shipping.
Absent its leadership and the initiatives of key players like the UK and France, the crisis would have been much worse.
Though law-enforcement, anti-trafficking, and child-protection agencies have long known about these abusive practices, solutions – such as employment schemes, legal immigration status, and improved health-care access – remain absent.
Absent a no-risk strategy, Europe, Japan, and Canada might well choose to wait and see.
Consider, for example, the response last year by some activists in Key West, Florida, to efforts aimed at stemming the spread of dengue fever, a serious, potentially life-threatening disease, which reappeared in the area in 2009 after being absent for more than 70 years.
Absent a breakthrough, the inevitable new round of sanctions and counter-sanctions would likely push Russia and Europe into recession, dampening global economic activity.
Egypt was ripe for revolution; dramatic change would have come at some point in the next few years, even absent the spark of Tunisia or the existence of social media.
But, absent that monumental folly, long-term interest rates are unlikely to rise significantly as long as the Fed keeps short-term interest rates low – which it recently committed to do until unemployment falls to 6.5%.
For example, of the top 100 economists in September 2015, only 14 were absent from the much wider top 5% in 2006, and only two others had advanced more than 200 spots over the previous decade.
Violence is conspicuously absent from the list.
Yet in most countries, the generational dimension is remarkably absent from the political debate.
Russia emerged not as a renamed Soviet Union, but rather as a state with its own history and symbols, a member of the international state system that had been absent for some time, but had suddenly returned.
China’s rulers know that in a system in which justice is absent, Liu’s efforts to speak to a higher moral calling requires only moral courage to be followed.
Tunisia may not be able to prevent special interests from capturing its government, but, if public financing of electoral campaigns and restrictions on lobbying and revolving doors between the public and private sectors remain absent, such capture will be not only possible, but certain.
Second, his ostensible task--representing the EU abroad--must depend on a degree of agreement between the member states on foreign policy that is now completely absent.
Absent that, we should commit to leaving most fossil fuels forever in the ground.
After consultation with his staff, Bush responded that, absent a plutonium extraction facility, US intelligence could not confirm that the plant comprised a nuclear weapons program.
Where corruption has been absent, incompetence has replaced it.
When this is absent, political and economic troubles fill the void.
And when accountability is absent, both the cunning and the aggrieved feel that they must turn to corrupt means to make their concerns known.
Absent any special deal between the EU27 and the United Kingdom, British and EU regulators will come together in Basel, not in the European Banking Authority.
Although his position was weak (on a good day he ranked in the low 90s on a list of Russia’s top 100 politicians, while on a bad day he was absent from the polls altogether), his candidacy in the 1996 presidential elections made casting a ballot worthwhile for at least some Russians.
Many pundits would have one believe that Ireland would have pulled through unscathed absent Germany’s blundering statements.
Fears that robots will destroy jobs are notably absent in Japan’s national debate.
Yet myth-making was not absent on the night of her victory.
Absent a more balanced deal, what is likely to emerge from negotiations is simply another layer of largely ineffectual and ultimately divisive sanctions.
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