In view of the acceptance accorded the status of motor vehicles for tax purposes, in the absence of any specific provision it would seem entirely consistent to apply the same interpretation to boats or aircraft.

The new Council was itself inescapably of political meaning, which was most clearly revealed in the absence of any U.N.F.P. members and the presence of several Istiqlal leaders.

It is borne out also by the absence of any developed theory about how sin passes from one generation to the next.

In the case of the tapering worm tubes Selkirkia, trilobites are always found with their heads directed towards the opening of the tube, suggesting that they reversed in ; the absence of any moulted carapaces suggests that moulting was not their primary reason for seeking shelter.

Bruce Hindmarsh suggests that the secular popularity of " Amazing Grace " is due to the absence of any mention of God in the lyrics until the fourth verse ( by Excell's version, the fourth verse begins " When we've been there ten thousand years "), and that the song represents the ability of humanity to transform itself instead of a transformation taking place at the hands of God.

Donald Guthrie, who dates the book between 62-64, notes that the absence of any mention of the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 would be unlikely if the book were written afterward.

A major long-term consequence of the Third Reform Act was the rise of Lib-Lab candidates, in the absence of any committed Labour Party.

The absence of any older Iranian ( Avestan ) loanwords in Brahui supports this hypothesis.

This theory is based on the absence of any mention of cavalry in Herodotus ' account of the battle, and an entry in the Suda dictionary.

As a third issue, philosophers who dispute the validity of the Turing test may feel that it is possible, at least in principle, for verbal report to be dissociated from consciousness entirely: a philosophical zombie may give detailed verbal reports of awareness in the absence of any genuine awareness.

The use of chromium-containing dietary supplements is controversial owing to the absence of any verified biological role, the expense of these supplements, and the complex effects of their use.

However, firing a pistol effectively at any significant range requires good training, since the absence of a buttstock makes precise ranged aim difficult.

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.

The second one happens on the evening of 24 December ; gifts are placed under the Christmas tree, usually in the absence of Santa-believing children ( many of whom are occupied with watching the sky in search of the first star ) if there are any in the family.

The kind dealt with is when " to believe something " simply means any cognitive content held as true in spite of the absence of proof or even evidence.

" 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.

At the same time, most healthy tissues in the body express little if any telomerase, and would function normally in its absence.

The absence of any ruling about matches played before 1947 ( or before 1895 in Great Britain ) has caused problems for cricket historians and especially statisticians who have been forced to compile their own matchlists.

Even in the absence of any work in astronomy, Bessel's role in developing the functions which now bear his name would have, by itself, placed him among the most significant and influential mathematicians of the 19th century.

Some believe that in the absence of any public exploits for the problem, full and public disclosure should be preceded by disclosure of the vulnerability to the vendors or authors of the system.

It can be derived from Fick's First law and the mass conservation in absence of any chemical reactions:

Historically, the term ferromagnet was used for any material that could exhibit spontaneous magnetization: a net magnetic moment in the absence of an external magnetic field.

The Anglican Articles of Religion hold that only Baptism and the Lord's Supper are to be counted as sacraments of the gospel, and assert that other rites considered to be sacraments by such as the Roman Catholic and Eastern churches were not ordained by Christ and do not have the nature of a sacrament in the absence of any physical matter such as the water in Baptism and the Bread and Wine in the Eucharist.

A new strategy was agreed, whereby the Ottomans were to take advantage of any absence of Averof to attack the other Greek ships.

However, the absence of any archaeological remains of or documentary evidence for a Roman fort at Hastings suggest that Hæstingaceaster may refer to a different settlement, most likely that based on the Roman remains at Pevensey.

She stood up, smoothing her hair down, straightening her clothes, feeling a thankfulness for the enveloping darkness outside, and, above everything else, for the absence of the need to answer, to respond, to be aware even of Stowey coming in or going out, and yet, now that she was beginning to cook, she glimpsed a future without him, a future alone like this, and the pain made her head writhe, and in a moment she found it hard to wait for Lucretia to come with her guests.

In the absence of radar guns, however, it is difficult to say just how hard Young actually threw.

The term " soft drink " specifies the absence of alcohol in contrast to " hard drink " and " drink ".

Elizabeth's supporters in the government, including Lord Paget, convinced Mary to spare her sister in the absence of hard evidence against her.

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

( Hard disks were high end, not standard, equipment for home computers until the late years of the Tandy 1000 line, explaining the absence of an integrated hard disk controller from most Tandy 1000 motherboards.

While the absence of plentiful primary sources makes it hard for us to map out Isaac ’ s life, piecing together the sources we do have along with the works he wrote give us a good picture of just how popular this Franco-Flemish composer was in his time.

Living conditions were usually much better than in an average taiga camp, especially bearing in mind the absence of hard labor.

It is hard not to notice the absence of comorbidity in the taxonomy ( systematics ) of disease, presented in the International classification of disease 10th edition.

Given the problem of defining death ( absence of EEG, heart beat, ...) it is hard to imagine a set of quantum parameters that could be used in constructing such superposition.

Many modders found that altering the interior of Xbox 360s was difficult due to absence of a power cable ( normally in a PC, this cord attaches the hard disk drive to its motherboard ).

The absence of hard parts in the fossil implies that the animal did not possess organs composed of bone, chitin or calcium carbonate.

Whitebark Pine ( Pinus albicaulis ) can also be hard to distinguish from Western White Pine ( Pinus monticola ) in the absence of cones.

While it generally describes “ open and fair competition ” with equal chances for achieving sought-after jobs or positions as well as an absence of discrimination, the concept is elusive with a “ wide range of meanings .” It is hard to measure, and implementation poses problems as well as disagreements about what to do.

The 1980s saw hard times for Basel as they had an absence from European competition for many years and they were relegated in 1987.

Cornwall's mild climate and an absence of hard winter frosts mean that these cold-sensitive crops can be produced much earlier than in the rest of the country, and early Cornish new potatoes are a lucrative source of income.

In the absence of cones, Limber Pine can also be hard to tell from Western White Pine ( Pinus monticola ) where they occur together in the northern Rockies and the Sierra Nevada east slope.

Factors in play at the time include the newness of Alaska as a state and the previous absence of electoral politics in many of the rural communities, creating an environment which made it hard to attract candidates to file for office during the official filing period.

Sonny, who is running the family in their father's absence, refuses at first ; it has long been a hard and fast rule in the Mafia that policemen are not to be harmed.

The Kelownan scientist Jonas Quinn takes Daniel's place on SG-1 during season 6, although the rest of the team find it hard to get over Daniel's absence.

Their nomadic lifestyle made direct control over the territories hard to achieve, as did general lawlessness, an absence of prior central authority, and a widely held contempt for the kind of settled life that the colonizers sought to bring about.

Iu interfaces carry user traffic ( such as voice or data ) as well as control information ( see Protocols ), and Iur interface is mainly needed for soft handovers involving 2 RNCs though not required as the absence of Iur will cause these handovers to become hard handovers.

Eurogamer echoed criticism on the game's length ; reviewer Tom Bradwell commented that " although I'm hard pressed to criticize what you get, the complete absence of everything we've learnt from the likes of Counter-Strike and everything since is frankly bizarre ".

In the absence of hard cash, traders often seized cattle, or whatever objects of value they could get their hands on, to recoup their loans as quickly as possible.