• The prime minister, Yousaf Raza Gilani, who had previously been almost absent, urged his ministers on August 4th to speed up relief efforts.

    ECONOMIST: Blighted Pakistan

  • He did it persisting on my almost absent flesh that tasted of milk, cookies, cereal, with a desperation of his own that overlapped mine without his realizing it.

    NEWYORKER: Women on the Verge

  • This almost absent-minded gorging had serious mental consequences.

    ECONOMIST: Jazz giants

  • Pippin is the young son of Charlemagne, and heir to the throne, but that's not enough for him: He's desperate to find a meaningful role in life (his own "Corner of the Sky, " to quote his opening song.) On Broadway, John Rubinstein (son of pianist Arthur) imbued the role with a sweet, almost absent-minded innocence.

    NPR: 'Pippin' Is Back, And Surrounded By Broadway Buzz

  • Why don't they ever ask why the high-tech and entrepreneurial ferment sweeping the world is almost entirely absent from Europe?

    FORBES: Fact and Comment

  • As a result Miss Bell was treated with a degree of compassion that was almost totally absent in the Bulger case.

    ECONOMIST: The hounding of Mary Bell

  • Europe is similarly vulnerable and Japan, where signs of recovery are so far almost completely absent, is wholly dependent on imported oil.

    ECONOMIST: Oiling or spoiling the recovery? | The

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

    ECONOMIST: China: Dialectical materialism | The

  • At the very least, they expect the bill to stimulate public debate on an issue that, until recently, had been almost entirely absent in the nation.

    CNN: Death, Be Not Proud

  • And although you'd never know it, the Vioxx recall actually emphasizes one of our pharmaceutical industry's strengths, which is absent almost everywhere else in the world-competition.

    FORBES: Fact and Comment

  • And although you'd never know it, the Vioxx recall actually emphasizes one of our pharmaceutical industry's strengths, which is absent almost everywhere else in the world--competition.

    FORBES: Fact and Comment

  • Its understated style is lovely rather than brash, with a nearly sexy shell that's absent from almost every other SUV on earth.

    FORBES: Vehicles Feature

  • Kickstarter, and other crowd-funding sites like it, allow for a kind of transparency that is absent in almost all other fund-raising and business growth processes.

    FORBES: 9 Tips on Running a Successful Kickstarter Campaign from 3 Women Who Have Done It

  • With Chambers already on the Turin plane, it was left to Britain's young pretenders to scrap it out for the remaining two 60m places, though Tyrone Edgar is almost certain to be absent after tearing a hamstring in the warm-up.

    BBC: Banishing the Beijing demons

  • "Jimmy was shining the ball and when he turned it over it was almost as if he was absent-mindedly assessing the rough side, " he told BBC Radio 5 live.

    BBC: Ball-tampering row angers Strauss despite draw

  • But like most Chinese classics it is now almost unknown to European audiences: Chinese plays have been all but absent from British theatres since the fading of the fashion for "Chinoiserie" in the 19th Century.

    BBC: The Orphan of Zhao comes to RSC

  • Indeed, absent Russian efforts to reduce tensions, Armenia and Azerbaijan would almost certainly have gone to war over Nagorno-Karabakh sometime over the past five or six years.

    FORBES: Putin Isn't "Gaining Ground" Regardless of what Amir Taheri Says

  • Indeed, absent improved dollar policy that tilts toward strength and stability, the economic portion of their presidencies will almost certainly fall short.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

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