(n.) A state of being absent or withdrawn from a place or from companionship; -- opposed to presence.
(n.) Want; destitution; withdrawal.
(n.) Inattention to things present; abstraction (of mind); as, absence of mind.
Example Sentences:
(1) These data suggest that the hybrid is formed by the same mechanism in the absence and presence of the urea step.
(2) In the absence of atrial dilatation there was minimal stimulus for ANF secretion.
(3) This diagnosis was obscured by the absence of cutaneous, oropharyngeal, and respiratory involvement.
(4) Despite their absence, photoreceptors maintained a normal rate of OS assembly.
(5) It is likely that trunk mobility is necessary to maintain integrity of SI joint and that absence of such mobility compromises SI joint structure in many paraplegics.
(6) It was concluded that the significant factors affecting outcome are tumor cell type and presence or absence or mitoses.
(7) PMN were found to be nonpermissive for HSV replication and were unable to bind virus in the absence of antibody.
(8) Issues such as healthcare and the NHS, food banks, energy and the general cost of living were conspicuous by their absence.
(9) The results indicate that OA-bearing macrophages primed T cells and generated helper T cells, whereas the culture of normal lymphocytes with soluble OA in the absence of macrophages generated suppressor T cells.
(10) In the absence of an authentic target for the MASH proteins, we examined their DNA binding and transcriptional regulatory activity by using a binding site (the E box) from the muscle creatine kinase (MCK) gene, a target of MyoD.
(11) The patients were classified into two groups according to the presence (n = 166) or absence (n = 176) of documented episodes of atrial fibrillation preoperatively.
(12) Because of the short detachment interval, and the absence of underlying pathology or trauma, the recovery process described here probably represents an example of optimum recovery after retinal reattachment.
(13) Names, and the absence of them, could be important Facebook Twitter Pinterest Don’t look back … Daisy Ridley’s Rey and John Boyega’s stormtrooper Finn.
(14) This observation not only provides definitive evidence for the photogeneration of O2-, but also indicates that only a fraction of this species is transformed into H2O2 in the absence of SOD.
(15) The relative strength of the progressions varies with excitation wavelength and this, together with the absence of a common origin, indicates the existence of two independent emitting states with 0-0' levels separated by either 300 or 1000 cm-1.
(16) Peptide:N-glycosidase F removed both the asparagine-linked oligosaccharide chains of ricin B-chain in the absence of lactose.
(17) When labelled long-chain fatty acids or glycerol were infused into the lactating goat, there was extensive transfer of radioactivity into milk in spite of the absence of net uptake of substrate by the mammary gland.
(18) On the other hand, if we correct for the population of HMM with degraded light chain 2, the difference in the binding constants in the presence and absence of Ca2+ may be as great as 5-fold.
(19) In fact, the distribution of [3H]oleate between plasma membranes and unilamellar vesicles of lipids extracted from these membranes was in favor of the lipids, indicating the absence of a detectable amount of binding to a putative fatty acid binding protein in plasma membranes.
(20) Patients were selected for the severity of their malnutrition and for absence of other diseases.
Destitution
Definition:
(n.) The state of being deprived of anything; the state or condition of being destitute, needy, or without resources; deficiency; lack; extreme poverty; utter want; as, the inundation caused general destitution.
Example Sentences:
(1) As one of the richest countries in the world it is beyond belief that the richest get a top rate tax cut while the poorest are being forced into deepening destitution," he said.
(2) Depictions of them by the likes of the Daily Mail as destitute Roma, desperate to leave shacks in the shanty towns of Sofia, are denounced as discriminatory and ill-informed.
(3) It is a chain of ragged destitution, on the doorstep – sometimes literally – of phenomenal wealth generation.
(4) For the most part, their journeys pass unseen, until they hit a barrier – the English Channel; the lines of police at Ventimiglia on the Italy-France border; the forests of Macedonia – that creates a bottleneck and leads to scenes of destitution and chaos.
(5) The government has just announced emergency aid for the destitute and the Greek Orthodox Church has revealed it is feeding 250,000 people a day.
(6) Housing First simply can’t tackle the problem – especially not in Skid Row, the downtown Los Angeles area synonymous with destitution.
(7) Four years since this crisis began, Syria’s people have been plunged into the dark: destitute, fearful, and grieving for the friends they have lost and the country they once knew,” said David Miliband, president and CEO of the International Rescue Committee.
(8) Until the early 2000s, the South had been presented to North Koreans in their official media as a destitute, near-starving colony of US imperialists.
(9) The need for a free medical sevice and rehabilitation of the disabled destitutes in Lagos is highlighted.
(10) The disease, destruction, and destitution created by the recent conflicts in the Persian Gulf have resulted in increased international travel to affected countries for relief and reconstruction.
(11) Meanwhile, thousands of Haitians displaced by the disaster continue to live in makeshift housing, squalor and destitution.
(12) No one wants to support a charity or business that puts sick, disabled and unemployed people to work without pay on threat of destitution, and that is why workfare schemes will ultimately collapse."
(13) On Wednesday they debate the social fund – an awkward lump in the social security system, small potatoes, yet a last lifeline for the utterly destitute.
(14) Many of these children are destitute without families or from very poor landless families in rural areas.
(15) The subsequent property crash leaves the couple – and the rest of the island, and indeed the whole state – bankrupt and near destitute.
(16) Photograph: AAP In her famous 1913 pamphlet, Round about a pound a week , Maud Pember Reeves wrote contemptuously about “the gospel of porridge” – the idea, still common among the wealthy, that the destitute wouldn’t be so wretched if only they invested their money wisely.
(17) The RNIB's threat of legal action comes as Archbishop Nichols, the most senior Catholic in England and Wales, said the Coalition's benefits system was becoming increasingly "punitive" and was leaving people destitute .
(18) I guess time will tell.” Gopman spent the first half of 2015 expressing regret for dissing the destitute and attempting to tackle the problem.
(19) A middle-class made destitute in 2007-08 has been restored, Coltart added.
(20) In addition, recognised refugees have only a matter of days to move out of reception centres once their applications are successful, at which time they stop receiving monthly stipends and risk becoming destitute.