The prime minister, Yousaf Raza Gilani, who had previously been almost absent, urged his ministers on August 4th to speed up relief efforts.
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.
This almost absent-minded gorging had serious mental consequences.
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.
Why don't they ever ask why the high-tech and entrepreneurial ferment sweeping the world is almost entirely absent from Europe?
As a result Miss Bell was treated with a degree of compassion that was almost totally absent in the Bulger case.
Europe is similarly vulnerable and Japan, where signs of recovery are so far almost completely absent, is wholly dependent on imported oil.
Notions of corporate governance and shareholder accountability are almost entirely absent.
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.
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.
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.
Its understated style is lovely rather than brash, with a nearly sexy shell that's absent from almost every other SUV on earth.
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.
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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.
"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.
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.
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.
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Indeed, absent improved dollar policy that tilts toward strength and stability, the economic portion of their presidencies will almost certainly fall short.
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