• Absent menstruation means no menstrual flow, or period.

• If the workplace experience is absent from students' lives, long hours are not.

• For years, absent fathers have taken the blame for this, because growing up quickly has negative consequences for girls.

• Interestingly, however, petals-typical of many flowering plants-are absent.

• To say that the peer group is more important than parental input points to the absent parent.

• Underneath they found soil that seemed absent of human contact.

• May your wines be good, your legend lasting, and all alligators absent.

• But the extra bulk allows for some attractive features absent in other tablets.

• There was one core humanistic discipline largely absent from this unconference: my own, philosophy.

• But throughout the developing world teachers on the public payroll are often absent from school.

• Empidonax flycatchers have eye rings and wing bars, which are absent in the eastern phoebe.

• If specific to a disease, they are likely to be found in high levels in those with the condition, yet be absent in healthy people.

• Others had free access to areas controlled by absent landowners.

• Barking is common in domesticated dogs, but infrequent if not downright absent in their wild counterparts.

• Walt never poses the question of why realists are largely absent from newspaper opinion sections.

• In the popular press, however, such dissent is almost entirely absent.

• Species may be common along these sections but absent in nearby areas where habitat has been destroyed.

• On the open ocean, however, flies and other insects are largely absent.

• Absent that gadget you can make a circle of crumpled tin foil, put the circle on your burner, put the pot on the circle.

• Fossils of early humans are rare, but those of chimpanzees have been absent from the fossil record altogether, until now.

• Many faculty members purposefully absent themselves from the business end of the enterprise.

• The event and the deliberations preceding it are absent.

• At subsonic speed, which is below the speed of sound, shock waves are absent.

• Absent that, there is no a priori way to orient yourself.

• The key is finding traits that are shared in some organisms due to common ancestry but are absent in others.

• The same gene that will be highly expressed in some subjects will be completely absent in others.

• While the exchange was informative, empirical evidence to support multiple intelligences was largely absent.

• Whole families of genes that were prominent in one line were rare or absent in the other.

• Among some populations the behavior was rare or absent.

• Strikingly absent from the discussion is the fact that the false positive rate can be controlled.

• Absent a catastrophe of biblical proportions, you'll come up with a pretty good prediction.

• Neo-fascist skinheads were notably absent from the rally.

• In ten years, terns, gulls and black guillemots have declined by over half and are now totally absent from many areas.

• Absent excessive bleeding uncontrollable by medical means, once menstruation begins, hysterectomy seems hard to justify.

• Obviously the stress of weight-bearing is absent in space.

• The power of an early good example in a life where they are scarce or altogether absent would seem to go without saying.

• The scanner records when she's tardy or absent and even plays a song for her birthday.

• The certainty of death was absent at the origin of life.

• But an element of make-believe is never absent either.

• There is always the sound of laughter, something conspicuously absent at the dump.

• Absent effective control, public opposition will grow, thus putting continued production at risk.

• Notably absent from his speech were any condolences for the families of those killed during the protests.

• Sometimes one would squeal for his absent mother, and then the other would let loose with a high-pitched cry of lament.

• It necessitates a level of long-term speculation and prognosis that is absent from other industries.

• Others described absent fathers, households plagued by alcoholism, lonely teenage years and their frustrated desire to belong.

• Boy fantasizes about his absent father, spinning outlandish tales about his dad's adventures to schoolmates.

• Fuchs and her colleagues created a line of mice in which the gene that makes alpha-catenin was absent in the skin cells.

• But despite the excitement, something is conspicuously absent.

• The intent is to provide students who are absent from school with opportunities to engage in a relevant learning experience.

• Although animal rights groups may disagree, absent people, the places would not be dangerous.

• These are important for the growth of nerve cells and are abundant in human milk but generally absent from formulas.

• She came from a family of strong women, little money, and absent men.

• So, absent some spurious argument about ground water, there is no reason not to build it.

• Some predictions will be neither right nor wrong but simply absent.

• But until this week a key government panel that helps to regulate the accrediting agencies has been absent from the debate.

• Now two recent studies show that a mere reminder of an absent beloved-a photograph-can deliver the same relief.

• And you won't mourn the absent fat in these boldly.

• Works of social conscience have been largely absent from the stage for, well decades.

• So, basic result: the theory is correct absent the presence of determined outside interference.

• Commonly reported feelings of relief or elation were absent.

• But until now the flowers have been absent from the fossil record.

• The more overweight a child, the more likely he or she is to be absent from school, a new report suggests.

• Notably absent in the statement is any hint that any legalities are involved.

• Wainwright recognized that the premise is illusory absent competent.

• Absent any evident justification, such treatment is clearly forbidden by our.

• Monday afternoon, and will be absent through the week.

• Some decide to be absent from campus on the day of the other candidates' visits.

• Even wholly absent fingerprints, however, don't eliminate all identifying marks whatsoever.

• Teach to the ones who arrive, but do not complain about those who are absent.

• The mutations were absent in populations that speak tonal languages, but abundant in nontonal speakers.

• Novell is surprisingly absent given the importance of networking to.

• Any modes of activity or facilities that would contribute to collegiality were absent.

• Ethnic strife in a multi-ethnic land has been notably absent.

• Areas absent of any compensation program see significantly greater lion kills by local.

• The g-forces of acceleration would not be felt because the field of gravity would be absent in the direction toward the hole.

• Conspicuously absent from the witness list, however, are representatives of the contractors themselves.

• Regular police officers, however, are largely absent.

• But electric vehicles aren't as clean as their absent tailpipes might suggest.

• But absent a highway boom something would have been built and markets would have optimised to that something.

• In effect, these claims offer little more than plausible explanations for psychological phenomena, absent any evidence.

• It wouldn't hurt to stop the nonsense of telling everyone that their life is worthless absent a college degree.

• Peer-reviewed data is golden but absent from these pages.

• Not that religion has been absent from the university as an object of study.

• It was striking how the issue of the mainland itself was absent.

• Like normal glucose, this concentrates in regions of high energy demand and is absent in regions of low demand.

• The sense of permanence, of rooted certainty, seemed absent from their lives.

• Notions of corporate governance and shareholder accountability are almost entirely absent.

• Although decomposers are included in food webs, they are absent in food pyramids.

• Absent a devaluation, it would be hard for banks to inflict pain on their local units: abandoning foreign subsidiaries is taboo.

• Everybody may grow up with a crazy dysfunctional family or an absent father.

• Renewable power is fickle, available when the wind blows or the sun shines but absent when it does not.

• No absent limb ever restored by prayer, yet re-attachment surgery is improving.

• This, critics suggest, allowed rioters to muster in numbers where police was absent and avoid spots where it was present.

• There simply is no way to know whether someone is lying or not absent solid evidence.

• The predicted phenomenon is startlingly and entirely absent from the observational record".

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