Sometimes it's a phone call from a long absent friend, checking on you.
The first is economic nationalism, a force long thought absent from the corridors of power.
All of it was accomplished with, if not flair, at least a certain understanding of public relations that had long been absent in Beijing's diplomatic posture.
Several long-absent major galleries returned to FIAC this year, among them the London dealers White Cube, Sadie Coles HQ and Lisson, as well as Pace from New York.
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Jaguar said it had been "absent for too long" from making sports cars, with the last, its E-Type, made in 1975.
The Knicks didn't want to worry about any future decisions after Saturday's abrupt end to their season, choosing instead to focus on the achievements that had been absent for so long in New York.
Discussion of how the U.S. will pay for the stimulus and what inflationary effects the stimulus might have in the long run were both notably absent from President Obama's White House press conference Monday night.
Sadly, though, that spirit is too often absent when tackling the long-term, but no less profound issues facing our country and the world.
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The majority of those absent are off due to long-term illness.
Absent from his speech was a long-term plan to reduce the debt and deficit, create jobs, and achieve lasting economic growth.
Some of the most compelling arguments for free trade have been only modestly summoned or absent from the discussion for too long.
Yet Apple is oddly absent among the companies described in each chapter-long case study.
Absent once again, was the mysterious consumer device that Apple has been long rumored to be working on as a follow-up to the successful iPod music player.
Strangely absent from the list of issues being hashed out by NFL Owners and Players in this long-running labor dispute is perhaps the most important issue of all: revenue sharing among Owners.
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Liberals have long complained that such religious courts are biased, with women finding it hard to win a divorce from an absent or abusive husband.
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Tolkien, he reported, would write long lists of words on the blackboard, obscuring them with his body as he droned on, then would absent-mindedly erase them without turning around.
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