The attitudes of some unwed mothers quoted in Chapter 2,, revealed both considerable preoccupation with being accepted by others and a marked absence of self-certainty.

There was some resistance to his accession as count, which was suppressed with the help of his mother Blanche of Castile who was acting as regent in the absence of Louis IX.

After a seemingly long absence from New Zealand, the Lions returned in 1930 to some success.

However, it was not until 21: 00 that the Marquis de Blanzac, who had taken charge in Clérambault's absence, reluctantly accepted the inevitability of defeat, and some 10, 000 of France's best infantry had laid down their arms.

With the absence of the tea trade, some clippers began operating in the wool trade, between Britain and Australia.

In the absence of centralised organisation, some differences exist amongst Christadelphians on matters of belief and practice.

Still, in the absence of naked singularities, the universe is deterministic — it's possible to predict the entire evolution of the universe ( possibly excluding some finite regions of space hidden inside event horizons of singularities ), knowing only its condition at a certain moment of time ( more precisely, everywhere on a spacelike 3-dimensional hypersurface, called the Cauchy surface ).

" Even before the absence of the AME and AMEZ churches at the January 2011 plenary, some in CUIC had noticed the lack of commitment to racial reconciliation.

" The attempt by some twentieth-century Catholic theologians to present the Eucharistic change as an alteration of significance ( transignification rather than transubstantiation ) was rejected by Pope Paul VI in his 1965 encyclical letter Mysterium fidei In his 1968 Credo of the People of God, he reiterated that any theological explanation of the doctrine must hold to the twofold claim that, after the consecration, 1 ) Christ's body and blood are really present ; and 2 ) bread and wine are really absent ; and this presence and absence is real and not merely something in the mind of the believer.

Unlike the feel of pain, which can be fully absent in some human conditions, there is no such condition as congenital absence of fear ( although psychopaths are known to have a much lessened feeling of fear ).

Israel Finkelstein proposed that the oval or circular layout that distinguishes some of the earliest highland sites, and the notable absence of pig bones from hill sites, could be taken as a marker of ethnicity, but others have cautioned that these can be a " common-sense " adaptation to highland life and not necessarily revelatory of origins.

In the absence of hard facts as to haggis ' origins, popular folklore has provided some theories.

On some islands, major rivers provide a key transportation link in the absence of good roads.

Madison objected to a specific bill of rights for several reasons: he thought it was unnecessary, since it purported to protect against powers that the federal government had not been granted ; that it was dangerous, since enumeration of some rights might be taken to imply the absence of other rights ; and that at the state level, bills of rights had proven to be useless paper barriers against government powers.

The references found in Antiquities have no parallel texts in the other work by Josephus such as the Jewish War, written 20 years earlier, but some scholars have provided explanations for their absence.

While some archaeologists interpret the absence of pig bones from the highland sites as an indicator of ethnicity, this is not certain.

Audubon found that during his absence, he had lost some subscribers due to the uneven quality of coloring of the plates.

In the absence of some momentum factor that makes later trees more likely to fall than earlier ones, this " domino effect " approaches zero probability.

On the other hand, there are believers who assert that some lakes do have reports of monsters, despite an absence of pinewoods ; a notable example would be the Irish lough monsters.

Salt water provides for greater organic activity than freshwater, and in particular, the shipworm, terredo navalis, lives only in salt water, so some of the best preservation in the absence of sediments has been found in the cold, dark waters of the Great Lakes in North America and in the ( low salinity ) Baltic Sea ( where the Vasa was preserved ).

The similarity of some aspects of the game to agricultural activity and the absence of a need for specialized equipment present the intriguing possibility that it could date to the beginnings of civilization itself ; however, there is little verifiable evidence that the game is older than about 1300 years.

However, academic degrees serve some amount of meritocratic screening purpose in the absence of more refined methodology.

Lack of evidence and the absence of any first person historical references has led some to believe that the mass suicide is a myth.

In some rare cases, acquired neuromyotonia has been misdiagnosed as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis ( ALS ) particularly if fasciculations may be evident in the absence of other clinical features of ALS.

In the absence of externalities and public goods, perfectly competitive equilibria are Pareto-efficient, i. e. no improvement in the utility of a consumer is possible without a worsening of the utility of some other consumer.

Other legislators worried about the absence of the United Kingdom.

Allied airborne doctrine prohibited big operations in the absence of all light, so the operation would have to be carried out in daylight.

The distinction between recklessness and criminal negligence lies in the presence or absence of foresight as to the prohibited consequences.

Historians, likewise, have noted the absence of a citation to the specific law in which the Spaniards supposedly prohibited the natives from tucking in their shirts.

In their 2004 founders ' letter prior to their initial public offering, Larry Page and Sergey Brin explained that their " Don't be evil " culture prohibited conflicts of interest, and required objectivity and an absence of bias:

Prohibited reasons for termination include discriminatory reasons such as age, race, national extraction, political opinion, sex, sexual preference, religion, marital status, disability, pregnancy and family responsibilities ; refusal to sign an Australian Workplace Agreement ( AWA )( however it is not prohibited to deny employment to a new employee who refuses to sign an AWA ); being involved in proceedings against an employer for alleged breach of the law ; membership or non-membership of a union or participation in union activities ; and absence from work due to illness or injury, parental leave or emergency management activities.

That absence of an urgent self-indulgence dashed them awake like a pail of water.

In the absence of a reservoir of political consensus each organized political group hopes that the elections will give them new prominence, but in a system where there is as yet no place for the less prominent.

The nightmare of a clash between those in trouble in Africa, exacerbated by the difficulties, changes, and tragedies facing them, and other allies who intellectually and emotionally disapprove of the circumstances that have brought these troubles about, has been conspicuous by its absence.

It was during the prolonged absence of Moses that Aaron yielded to the clamors of the people, and made a Golden Calf as a visible image of the divinity who had delivered them from Egypt ( Exodus 32: 1-6 ).

On his release, however, Romanus found that enemies had placed their own candidate on the throne in his absence ; he surrendered to them and suffered death by torture, and the new ruler, Michael VII Ducas, refused to honour the treaty.

While disc players and drives may have capabilities beyond the standards, enabling them to read and write nonstandard discs, there is no assurance, in the absence of explicit additional manufacturer specifications beyond normal Compact Disc logo certification, that any particular player or drive will perform beyond the standards at all or consistently.

In the absence of a worldly foundation it became necessary to build a spiritual one and Ezekiel performed this mission by observing the signs of the time and deducing his doctrines from them.

In the absence of a direct physiological or genetic test or marker for each disease, it is only possible to distinguish them by their specific pattern of symptoms.

Other approaches focus on the problem of the formation of international rules: why states voluntarily adopt international law norms, that limit their freedom of action, in the absence of a world legislature ; while other perspectives are policy oriented: they elaborate theoretical frameworks and instruments to criticize the existing norms and to make suggestions on how to improve them.

A former aide recalled that Ribbentrop threw the German Embassy into chaos due to his erratic personality: He rose, muttering bad-temperedly ... Dressed in his pyjamas, he received the junior secretaries and press attachés in his bathroom ... He scolded, threatened, gesticulated with his razor and shouted at his valet ... As he took his bath, he ordered people to be summoned from Berlin, accepted and cancelled, appointed and dismissed, and dictated through the door to a nervous stenographer ... He cursed people in their absence, calling them saboteurs and communists ... It was my task to put his calls through ; his valet stood within splashing distance holding a white telephone ... Ribbentrop believed only ministers ranked above him: everyone else, including his ambassadorial colleagues, had to kept waiting on the line.

There is so little thought given to eternal issues that their very absence make them pointedly there.

The absence of a personal income tax in the principality has attracted to it a considerable number of wealthy " tax refugee " residents from European countries who derive the majority of their income from activity outside Monaco ; celebrities such as Formula One drivers attract most of the attention, but the vast majority of them are less well-known business people.

The feasibility of Drexler's proposals largely depends, therefore, on whether designs like those in Nanosystems could be built in the absence of a universal assembler to build them and would work as described.

Besides product homogeneity and absence of collusion, the notion more generally associated with perfect competition is the negligibility of the size of agents, which makes them believe that they can sell as much of the good as they wish at the equilibrium price but nothing at a higher price ( in particular, firms are described as each one of them facing a horizontal demand curve ).

My wife, after the absence of her terms for seven weeks, gave me hopes of her being with child, but on the last day of the year she hath them again .</ p >

For them, ' primitive ' denotes irrational use of resources and absence of the intellectual and moral standards of ' civilised ' human societies .... From the standpoint of anthropological knowledge, both these views are equally one-sided and simplistic.

Both of them took six-month leaves of absence from the university to campaign.

But this would only occur in the absence of atomic interaction ; when collisions are allowed, the low speed modes are immediately suppressed by jostling from the higher energy atoms, exciting them to higher energy modes.

He names the other mutilators, among them Alcibiades, who are sentenced to death in their absence.

The two lovers finally settle down in New Orleans, where the virtual absence of class differences allows them for a while to live in idyllic peace.

Mendes asked Hall to prepare the shot in his absence ; Hall assumed the characters would look for privacy, so he placed them in a narrow passage between a truck and the building, intending to light from the top of the truck.

In 862 and 863 he issued charters as King of the West Saxons, which must have been as deputy or in the absence of his elder brother, King Æthelberht, as there is no record of conflict between them and he continued to witness his brother's charters as Ætheling.

From 1920 to 1957, three bodies, successively the Federal Capital Advisory Committee, the Federal Capital Commission, and the National Capital Planning and Development Committee continued to plan the further expansion of Canberra in the absence of Griffin ; however, they were only advisory, and development decisions were made without consulting them, increasing inefficiency.

Most of the Outer Gods have their own cults serving them ; Nyarlathotep seems to serve these cults and take care of their affairs in their absence.