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.

While he was busy with the burial ceremonies for his brother, the Danes defeated the English in his absence at an unnamed spot, and then again in his presence at Wilton in May.

While an organism with complete absence of melanin is called an albino ( American English, or British English ) an organism with only a diminished amount of melanin is described as albinoid.

One of the problems facing these full-time teachers is the absence of international governing body for the certification or licenture of English language teachers.

This is largely due to the complex history of the English language, together with the absence of systematic spelling reforms implemented in English, in contrast to the position in a number of other languages.

In the absence of any children, Philip was concerned that after Mary and Elizabeth, one of the next claimants to the English throne was the Queen of Scotland, who was betrothed to the Dauphin of France.

The early English term is also used in the sense of " quiet ", reflecting calm, serene, and meditative approaches to family or group relationships that avoid quarreling and seek tranquility — an absence of disturbance or agitation.

Japanese word order, the frequent omission of subjects in Japanese, the absence of articles, a near-complete absence of consecutive consonants ( owing to the syllabary nature of the Japanese language ), as well as difficulties in distinguishing l and r all contribute to substantial problems using Standard English effectively.

Encouraging the unitary concept-that the later novels feature ' Harry Palmer ' - is the 1974 dust jacket to the Harcourt, Brace & Jovanovich American edition of Spy Story, in which the cover blurb states, " He is back, after five long-years ' absence, the insubordinate, decent, bespectacled English spy who fought, fumbled, and survived his outrageous way through the best-selling Horse Under Water, Funeral in Berlin, and the rest of those marvellous, celebrated Len Deighton spy thrillers.

It is, however, a much more common feature in French than in English ; while in German, with some striking exceptions, it is conspicuous by its absence.

But engellisch also meant English in the vernacular of the time, and so the angelic horn became the English horn and — in the absence of any better alternative — retained the name for the curved, bulb-belled tenor oboe even after the oboe da caccia fell into disuse around 1760.

Although typically applied to women, like English, it is also applied to men, in both cases specifically denoting absence of sexual experience.

Especially old English versions can be denoted by the absence of the white rim that surrounds the edge of most Uno cards.

The absence of sugar in the recipe may instead indicate that, because refined sugar was a recent introduction from the Orient, the medieval English did not have quite as sweet a tooth as their descendants.

After a long commercial absence, she returned late in 1979 with the highly acclaimed album, Broken English.

His knowledge of foreign affairs and of foreign languages, gained during his residence abroad, was considerable, but long absence from England had also taught him a cosmopolitan indifference to constitutions and religions, and a careless disregard for English public opinion and the prudential interests of the country.

He was ostentatiously English, and a zealous upholder of the national honour and interests ; but his position was rendered difficult by the absence of home support.

Under English decision, Letang v Cooper, intent is required to sustain a trespass to the person cause of action ; in the absence of intent, negligence is the appropriate tort.

The absence of presuppositions extends even to elements that seem to inherently trigger some kind of implication, such as ‘ again ,’ ‘ more ,’ ‘ stop ,’ and ‘ also .’ For example, in English, beginning a conversation with a sentence like “ It also rained yesterday ” would probably be met with confusion from the listener.

While William plotted to take the English crown, Conan consolidated his authority in Brittany and planned to take advantage of William's absence and invade Normandy.

The term comes from an English translation of a condemnation made in 1929 by Soviet leader Joseph Stalin criticizing Communist supporters of Jay Lovestone for the heretical belief that America was independent of the Marxist laws of history " thanks to its natural resources, industrial capacity, and absence of rigid class distinctions.

The continuing absence of a Scots translation of the Bible meant that the translation of King James into English was used in worship in both countries.