Yet our state is similar to a cancer cell — with its messianism and expansionism, its totalitarian suppression of dissent, the authoritarian structure of power, with a total absence of public control in the most important decisions in domestic and foreign policy, a closed society that does not inform its citizens of anything substantial, closed to the outside world, without freedom of travel or the exchange of information.

Both have apparently similar but invalid forms such as affirming the consequent, denying the antecedent, and evidence of absence.

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.

This latch circuit is similar to an astable multivibrator, except that there is no charge or discharge time, due to the absence of capacitors.

Therefore, the absence of life in Venus, with a somewhat similar composition to Earth's primitive conditions or the absence of life on Mars, given the proposed " resilience " of life in space, damages the panspermia theory, at least based on observations of our own Solar System-the theory suggests that life would be more abundant in the Solar system.

Sir Harry Hinsley, official historian of British Intelligence in World War II, made a similar assessment about Ultra, saying that it shortened the war " by not less than two years and probably by four years "; and that, in the absence of Ultra, it is uncertain how the war would have ended.

In the absence of a direct heir, candidates had to be sought among the descendants of the king's sisters, each with roughly similar claims but very different political implications: a recipe for certain conflict.

The absence of a detectable magnetosphere was also confirmed by the tube ; it detected no radiation belt at Venus similar to that of Earth.

Aside from the absence of segmentation, this is a similar arrangement to that of other annelids.

It is similar to San Michele Maggiore, but different in the asymmetric façade with a single portal, the use of brickwork instead of sandstone, and, in the interior, the absence of matronei, galleries reserved for women and the shortest transept.

Competence in sleep medicine requires an understanding of a myriad of very diverse disorders, many of which present with similar symptoms such as excessive daytime sleepiness, which, in the absence of volitional sleep deprivation, " is almost inevitably caused by an identifiable and treatable sleep disorder ", such as sleep apnea, narcolepsy, idiopathic central nervous system ( CNS ) hypersomnia, Kleine-Levin syndrome, menstrual-related hypersomnia, idiopathic recurrent stupor, or circadian rhythm disturbances.

In the 1950 parliamentary elections, the Wafd Party of el-Nahhas gained a victory — mostly due to the absence of the Muslim Brotherhood, who boycotted the elections — and was perceived as a threat by the Free Officers as they had campaigned on demands similar to theirs.

Its absence in fish and aquatic arthropods is notable, as many have life stations similar to a terrestrial or tetrapod counterpart, or could othewise make use of the added flexibility.

It occurs in the absence of pheochromocytoma, neuroendocrine tumors, and carcinoid syndrome, but it looks similar to carcinoid syndrome such as facial flushing and aggression.

The absence of substitutions, or the presence of only very conservative substitutions ( that is, the substitution of amino acids whose side chains have similar biochemical properties ) in a particular region of the sequence, suggest that this region has structural or functional importance.

* Current-In the absence of two sets of stumps or objects of similar height and structure are total non availability ( where batting stumps are drawn on walls doors etc .,.

He goes on to argue that the absence of cuticle is characteristic of the Chaetognaths ; whilst teeth would be expected, a similar fossil, Wiwaxia, only shows such structures in 10 % of the expected instances, and Anamolocarids are often found detached from their mouthparts, so the absence may be taphonomic rather than genuine.

Thus, in the absence of such statutory provisions, the members of an LLC must establish governance and protective provisions pursuant to an operating agreement or similar governing document.

She also noted the evident love of nature, both wild and cultivated, in Minoan art and architecture, the lack of a striving for monumentality in the palaces and the absence of war and motives dramatizing a sense of destiny, guilt and brooding in Minoan art, as opposed to the heavy, foreboding and warlike architecture of Mycenae and the strong presence of themes of fate, martial heroism and moral guilt in later Greek mythology, some of the stories of which must, in an early form, already have existed at Mycenae ( as well as similar motives in Babylonian literature, e. g. in the Gilgamesh epic ).

The hamon ( line of temper ) is similar to that of the tachi, except for the absence of choji-midare, which is nioi and utsuri.

requirements such as the absence of deadlocks and similar critical states that can cause the system to crash.

Terrified and panicked leave to save their lives from the Servo-Bulgarian advance ... ask shelter and protection from the cold behind walls and wear various rags ... One can see pregnant women lying in the mud, and the complete absence of all elementary sanitary precaution, and not having a single blanket ... one can see women and children starving not having a single piece of bread.

It is thought that, at construction, the Great Pyramid was originally 280 Egyptian cubits tall, but with erosion and absence of its pyramidion, its present height is.

Mahogany was widely used in furniture construction due to its strength, resulting in the absence of the stretcher as seen on many chairs of the time.

The language portrayed at the center of Babel-17 contains interesting linguistic features including the absence of a pronoun or any other construction for " I ".

Although today its use is far more restricted, in the past the size and strength of kauri timber made it a popular wood for construction and ship building, particularly for masts of sailing ships because of its parallel grain and the absence of branches for much of its height.

It was formerly thought that the difference between ' red ' and ' black ' samian was due to the presence ( black ) or absence ( red ) of reducing gases from the kiln and that the construction of the kiln was so arranged as to prevent the reducing gases from the fuel from coming into contact with the pottery.

The Adirondack Phantoms will temporarily remain in Glens Falls until 2013, after which the Flyers ' AHL affiliate will move to a new arena under construction in Allentown, Pennsylvania, returning the team to Pennsylvania after a four-year absence.

A more formal statement takes into account that G may be a topological group ( not simply a discrete group ), and that group actions of G are taken to be continuous ; in the absence of continuous actions the classifying space concept can be dealt with, in homotopy terms, via the Eilenberg – MacLane space construction.

In particular, it may limit the construction of piers in the absence of an official pier line ( pierhead line ).

Cité Soleil, Haiti, 2002Since construction is informal and unguided by urban planning, there is a near total absence of formal street grids, numbered streets, sewage network, electricity, or telephones.

Fires are a particular danger for shanty towns not only for the lack of fire fighting stations and the difficulty fire trucks have traversing the absence of formal street grids, but also because of the high density of buildings and flammability of materials used in construction A sweeping fire on the hills of Shek Kip Mei, Hong Kong, in late 1953 left 53, 000 squatter dwellers homeless, prompting the colonial government to institute a resettlement estate system.

Glenn S. Paxton, Acting State Bridge Engineer while McCullough took a leave of absence to work on projects in Central America, was the supervising engineer during construction.

In the absence of a comprehensive global embodied energy public dynamic database, embodied energy calculations may omit important data on, for example, the rural road / highway construction and maintenance needed to move a product, human marketing, advertising, catering services, non-human services and the like.

Although regarded as a pioneering work, several aspects of its construction lacked durability, such as the absence of bridge deck waterproofing, low concrete cover and poor drainage.

However in the absence of specific orders the permission to defend their property was taken as a permit to build fortress and construction began immediately overnight with all available manpower.

Another notable feature is the absence of punctuation in the 24 sections of the 128 page book involving the reader in the construction of its meaning.

Dense construction, short paths, the absence of large auditoriums in exchange for a large number of seminar rooms, as well as the variety of work, traffic, and quiet areas, are all part of the architectural concept.

The absence of the guard is inherited from the original Caucasian construction, in which the shashka is nearly completely hidden in the scabbard, together with the hilt.

For example, the absence of sky exposure plane provisions in Chicago's Zoning Code makes the Chicago skyline quite different from the skyline of New York where construction of tall buildings was guided by the zoning ordinance since 1916.