The former world No. 2 doesn't see the absence of injured 11-time grand slam champion Rafael Nadal as having any bearing on Murray's chances.
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Yet several Iraqiya ministers have declined to join the boycott, while others haven't declared that their absence is in protest of the government.
But the All-Star's absence didn't hurt them as much as one might have expected Wednesday.
"We had no offense in the first half, " coach Mike Woodson said, adding that he couldn't use Smith's absence as a crutch.
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Apparently his bosses wouldn't allow a leave of absence to appear on the show because it was too much of a reputational risk.
Westbrook's absence didn't seem to bother Oklahoma City early, as Durant had the big first half and the Thunder looked to be in complete control.
But LIU Brooklyn's players aren't so sure that Goins' absence might not be different.
And while some pieces didn't cross the Atlantic, their absence is redressed by the number of works shown only in Washington.
Of course, oak or its absence alone doesn't make a wine good.
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The new app doesn't use Flash, given its absence on most up-to-date versions of Google's mobile OS, instead using HLS (HTTP Live Streaming) to deliver your weekly doses of Doctor Who.
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Chavez's lengthy absence from Venezuela hasn't stopped his government from making some significant changes.
While some were surprised, Manning and most of the veterans didn't seem overly concerned about Nicks' absence.
But, of course, that's not how we measure police efficiency because, if we are honest, we don't actually believe that crime, or the absence of it, is entirely or even mainly down to the police.
But the team didn't do much to take advantage of his momentary absence.
Underwood says he wasn't concerned about Bowie's 10-year absence from recording.
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This is written by Steve Oedekerk and directed by Tom Shadyac, the team behind the "Ace Ventura" movies (our motto: "more-more-more"), so the complete absence of a light touch isn't exactly a shock.
Firstly, the aforementioned absence of an optical trackpad isn't a bother for the Desire S, which now lets you place your cursor precisely within text using a magnifying glass overlay and offers a couple of draggable pointers for defining text selections.
But Santos said the absence of an agreement on Cuba didn't mean the meeting was a failure.
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The absence of a comma before "who doesn't" implies that there are other brothers.
In the absence of possible remedies, the OFT doesn't yet want to put the Competition Commission and the accounting firms to all the cost and bother of a lengthy and expensive probe.
By itself, the absence of the 80-mg dose probably wouldn't have a great impact on Crestor's sales, Arnold wrote.
But the absence of gunfire -- a welcome absence in this line of work -- doesn't mean they have never identified or mitigated a threat, Sullivan says.
Le's just hope Universal and Apple make nice sooner rather than later, because the absence of a major label from iTunes certainly isn't gonna do anything to turn us into a nation of taggers.
Mr. Courtney is far more candid about the fact that his father left when he was 4 years old, that he felt the absence greatly, and that while he knows he can't be a dad to his mostly fatherless players, he feels he can fill some kind of a void in their lives.
Vogel said Granger's absence in the second half was precautionary and that he wasn't worried about any long-term impact to Granger's knee.
In the absence of foreign antigens, a juiced-up immune system sometimes can't stop attacking its own body.
But the fact that the kids got injections despite the absence of a nerve gas attack does not sit well with critics who don't view Israel's tiny and military trained population as a good comparison group to U.S. civilians.
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