Before leaving, he did not formally place Vice-President Goodluck Jonathan in control of the government, essentially creating a power vacuum without any clear succession plan.
Such an overly simplistic conclusion implies that Treasuries exist in a vacuum, without taking into consideration fund flows between asset classes and between instruments of different credit quality.
If, as seems likely, the new Homeland Security Department is unable or unwilling to take on this task even though it will be impossible to succeed in its mission without doing so the Congress must fill the vacuum.
Self-contained vacuum, pump and filter system works without suction lines or other modifications to existing systems.
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If the 28 May deadline passes without resolution, the country will face a constitutional vacuum.
French Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin argues that any force operating without a U.N. mandate will do so in a legal vacuum.
Colonels and Generals, whether in the military or marketing, are often so far removed from the line of engagement that, without listening to front line personnel, their decisions are made in a vacuum.
My silent digital monologue lead me to wonder what had happened to thermometers filled with shiny but toxic Mercury, watches (with or without hands), cameras with 8mm film, and television sets with vacuum tubes and knobs labeled horizontal hold.
The Times Co. has been without a CEO for more than 10 months, at time when it can ill afford a leadership vacuum.
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Faced with a total media vacuum, Mr Romney's campaign has found a way to keep him in the news without actually having him hustle for votes while the Atlantic seaboard gets pounded.
Foreign Secretary David Miliband said on Tuesday the war in Afghanistan was not a "war without end" but stressed the need for a "clear political strategy" so as not to leave a "vacuum which the Taliban will quickly fill".
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