The absence of instrumental music in New Testament worship is significant given the abundance of Old Testament references and commands.

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

Some historians think Kling's absence was significant enough to prevent the Cubs from also winning a third straight title in 1909, as they finished 6 games out of first place.

Some languages, such as Jalapa Mazatec, use creaky voice as a linguistically significant marker ; that is, the presence or absence of creaky voice can change the meaning of a word.

For Domitian, this meant that a significant part of his adolescence was spent in the absence of his near relatives.

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.

These factors can also cause hydrocodone and related drugs to have a threshold effect, cause significant lengthening or shortening of the duration of effects in the absence of tolerance, and increase or decrease the de facto conversion ratio between hydrocodone and other drugs like morphine, hydromorphone, and synthetics like levorphanol and methadone.

Louis Feldman states that it is significant that the passages on James, John and the Testimonium are found in the Antiquities and not in the Jewish Wars, but provides three explanations for their absence from the Jewish Wars.

Advocates respond that it is difficult to undertake a comprehensive design effort in the absence of significant funding for such efforts, and that despite this handicap much useful design-ahead has nevertheless been accomplished with new software tools that have been developed, e. g., at Nanorex.

Burma has a low fertility rate ( 2. 23 in 2011 ), slightly above replacement level, especially as compared to other Southeast Asian countries of similar economic standing, like Cambodia ( 3. 18 ) and Laos ( 4. 41 ), representing a significant decline from 4. 7 in 1983 to 2. 4 in 2001, despite the absence of any national population policy.

Burma also has a low fertility rate, of 2. 07 children per woman ( 2010 ), especially as compared to other Southeast Asian countries of similar economic standing, like Cambodia ( 3. 18 ) and Laos ( 4. 41 ), representing a significant decline from 4. 7 in 1983, despite the absence of a national population policy.

According to James Jankowski, " What is most significant Egypt in this period is the absence of an Arab component in early Egyptian nationalism.

Single-stage-to-orbit has been achieved from the Moon by both the Apollo program's Lunar Module and several robotic spacecraft of the Soviet Luna programme ; the lower lunar gravity and absence of any significant atmosphere makes this much easier than from Earth.

The absence of significant structural changes indicates that the relative motion of the electron and hole is frozen, which demonstrates that this is a Frenkel exciton.

Given the lack of a significant outer convection zone, theory predicts the absence of a magnetic dynamo in earlier A stars.

During pregnancy, even in the absence of preconception cardiovascular abnormality, women with Marfan syndrome are at significant risk of aortic dissection, which is often fatal even when rapidly treated.

A significant advantage of this approach was that, unlike the position adopted by Burckhardt, it was unfalsifiable according to the knowledge and technology of the time as the absence of a known correlation between physical brain pathology and mental illness could not disprove his thesis.

Research at the University of North Carolina for the U. S. Department of Transportation found that the presence or absence of a sidewalk and the speed limit are significant factors in the likelihood of a vehicle / pedestrian crash.

In post-processing a nanometer thin polymeric lubricant layer gets deposited on top of the sputtered structure by dipping the disk into a solvent solution, after which the disk is buffed by various processes to eliminate small defects and verified by a special sensor on a flying head for absence of any remaining impurities or other defects ( where the size of the bit given above roughly sets the scale for what constitutes a significant defect size ).

Wisden commented, " f there really is a blemish on his amazing record it is ... the absence of a significant innings on one of those ' sticky dogs ' of old ".

This is a significant departure, with the goal of streamlining application code by removing capability-checking code and special cases based on the presence or absence of specific capabilities.

A significant feature of the Kibbutz was the enhanced absence of gender roles.

After 1910 steady population decline was driven by the lack of significant population in outlying areas, migration to larger urban centers, and the absence of dynamic economic factors to generate wealth.

In addition, changing Constitutional conventions have led to significant changes in the structure of Chinese government in the absence of changes in the text of the Constitution.

Agnosia ( from ancient Greek ἀγνωσία, " ignorance ", " absence of knowledge ") is a loss of ability to recognize objects, persons, sounds, shapes, or smells while the specific sense is not defective nor is there any significant memory loss.

A vociferous advocate of seizing private homes, Chernyi agitated against the state in the pages of Anarkhiia, the anarchist weekly newspaper, proposing increasingly detailed means of decentralized production and " complete absence of internal power structures ".

In the absence of a proper stock control system, an overall coordinating agency, and an adequate numbers of engineer depot units, the allocation and distribution of the meager supplies on hand were difficult tasks.

The claim was in respect of their rangatiratanga over the allocation of radio frequencies ; the claim being that in the absence of an agreement with the Māori, the sale of frequency management licences under the Radiocommunications Act 1989 would be in breach of the Treaty of Waitangi.

The claim was in respect of the rangatiratanga over the allocation of radio frequencies ; the claim being that in the absence of an agreement with the Māori, the sale of frequency management licences under the Radiocommunications Act 1989 would be in breach of the Treaty of Waitangi.

It was charged with the primary responsibility for the allocation of producer goods to enterprises, a critical state function in the absence of markets.

In the absence of a truly adequate conceptuality in which the gospel can be expressed, the unavoidable need to demythologize it makes use of whatever resources are at hand -- and this usually means one or another of the various forms of `` folk religion '' current in the situation.

Others contend that there never was a golden age of jury trials, but rather that juries in the early nineteenth century ( before the rise of plea bargaining ) were " unwitting and reflexive, generally wasteful of public resources and, because of the absence of trained professionals, little more than slow guilty pleas themselves ," and that the guilty-plea system that emerged in the latter half of the nineteenth century was a superior, more cost-effective method of achieving fair outcomes.

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.

One hypothesis is that the resources devoted in the native range to a defense strategy, can in the absence of enemies be devoted to increased growth and reproduction ( the EICA Hypothesis, Blossey & Nötzold, 1995 ).

During periods when resources were scarce, archaeological studies of ancient waste dumps show less household waste ( such as ash, broken tools and pottery )— implying more waste was being recycled in the absence of new material.

The advent of a global war, the absence of a unified Allied strategy and the complexity of allocating resources between Europe and Asia had not yet been agreed – and soon gave rise to mutual suspicions between the Western Allies and Soviet Russia.

During his master's long absence, Eumaeus acquires from the Taphians a servant, Mesaulius, with his own ostensibly meagre resources.

Although Aboriginal tribes had lived in the plains around the Porongurup Range for tens of thousands of years before European settlement, it is believed that they never or very rarely moved above the plains, largely because of the often inhospitable weather and the absence of useful resources in the forests of the region or on the often bare peaks.

Absolute poverty is the absence of enough resources ( such as money ) to secure basic life necessities.

Differences related to individual, as well as to national, accomplishments depend on the presence or absence of an achievement motive in addition to economic resources or the infusion of financial assistance.

Supporters of the law, however, believed that the requirement that the private capital be directly invested in the new joint ventures significantly reduced the room for corruption and would bring about the development of these " strategic " resources in the absence of any possibility of Bolivia alone funding their development, that the fiscal obligations of the new companies would greatly increase the funds available for human and social, as well as infrastructure development, and that the dividend payouts for the Bolivian people went to create a universal, annual old-age benefit, the BONOSOL, which though small would have an immense impact on the rural elderly, the most marginalized sector of Bolivia's indigenous population

Such resources, in the absence of a money economy, were only to be found in land and its associated assets, which included peasants, as well as wood and water.

The term " American exceptionalism " has been in use since at least the 1920s and saw more common use after Soviet leader Joseph Stalin chastised members of the Lovestone-led faction of the American Communist Party for their 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 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.

In the absence of predators, animal species are bound by the resources they can find in their environment, but this does not necessarily control overpopulation.

“ Library resources and services in institutions of higher education must meet the needs of all their faculty, students, and academic support staff, wherever these individuals are located, whether on a main campus, off campus, in distance education or extended campus programs — or in the absence of a campus at all, in courses taken for credit or non-credit ; in continuing education programs ; in courses attended in person or by means of electronic transmission ; or any other means of distance education .”

In the absence of these resources, people lose their capacity to present their usual image to others.

* In open-access resources like fish stocks, in the absence of a system like individual transferable quotas, the impossibility of excluding others provokes the fishermen who want to increase catch to do so effectively by taking someone else ' share, intensifying competition.

Results of a recent study on this showed that the gray mouse lemur does not move around randomly, but rather use spatial cues to find food resources in the absence of sensory cues, and that they seem to reuse common, highly efficient routes with regard to travel distance.

He attributed the triumph of the liberal worldview in America to its lack of a feudal past, and thus the absence of a struggle to overcome a conservative internal order ; to its vast resources and open space ; and to the liberal values of the original settlers, who represented only a narrow middle-class slice of European society.

In the absence of predation, these lower level species flourish because resources that support their energetic requirements are non-limiting.

Those dreams have taken place yet to make a strong industrial center, which is impossible in the absence of natural resources and adequate infrastructure.

Cherry ended up playing both alongside and instead of Charlton in his first season but was predominantly at left back, with the continued absence of broken leg victim Terry Cooper further depleting Revie's defensive resources.

* Copenhagen, March 2004-Public hearing on the legality of war, legality of putting Iraq's public enterprises and resources on sale, legality of keeping over 20, 000 people under arrest in camps and prisons in the absence of any legal procedure.