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How to use the word Absence in a Sentence? Page #5

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MARK RUFFALO, DANNY DEVITO AMONG STARS PRESSING HOLLYWOOD TO CAST MORE ACTORS WITH DISABILITIES Perhaps the most alarming aspect of the UCLA report is its analysis of 11 major and mid-major studios. The numbers revealed that91 percentof C-level( CEO, CMO, etc.) positions are held by white people and 82 percentaremen. In senior executive positions, white people hold93 percentpercent of the jobs and 80 percentare held by men. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP While we are slowly seeing more representation of diverse groups onscreen, the lack of diversity behind the camera is still ever-present, we feel that absence most when directors, producers and writers try to tell stories that are not their own, which results in inauthentic storylines, unflattering angles and caricatures of marginalized groups.

Myasia Burns

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

Their absence was key to the soaring freight rates seen in Q4 and early January.

Anoop Singh

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

It is shameful that this reporter chose to violate the basic rules of journalism and decency. This is another example of how unhinged the media has become in its quest to hurt President (Donald) Trump and this Administration, it is no wonder that the American people distrust many in the media when they so consistently demonstrate their agenda and their absence of integrity.

State Mike Pompeo on Saturday

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Would we be here in the absence of U.S. sanctions law, and ... our response is no, in a typical case, double criminality is not contentious. This case, however, is founded on an allegation of breach of U.S. sanctions, sanctions which Canada has expressly repudiated.

Richard Peck

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

This semester I took off. I just took a leave of absence, but if we get to the White House. I mean, I think there would be no better message for teachers to say,' Hey, look who we are.' We need to lift up the profession and celebrate teachers.

Jill Biden

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Writing is my first and last love. I can survive without her, but not in the absence of writing.

Baba Faiz

added by baba_f
4 years ago

Freedom of the mind requires not only, or not even especially, the absence of legal constraints but the presence of alternative thoughts. The most successful tyranny is not the one that uses force to assure uniformity, but the one that removes awareness of other possibilities.

Alan Bloom

added by Normando
4 years ago

The business environment in our markets is bottoming, the inventory correction is playing out, but given the absence of macro improvement, recovery will take more time.

Chief Executive Reinhard Ploss

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

I have little confidence that these commitments will protect competition and result in deployment of 5G services beyond what might have occurred in the absence of a merger.

Geoffrey Starks

Found on CNN
4 years ago

There is a notable absence of high-quality evidence to properly assess the effectiveness and safety of medicinal cannabinoids ... and until evidence from randomized controlled trials is available, clinical guidelines cannot be drawn up around their use in mental health disorders.

Louisa Degenhardt

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

He wasn't in the room, but his team was, you shouldn't read anything into the American president's absence... The U.S. are with us on biodiversity and on the Amazon initiative.

Emmanuel Macron

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

He wasn't in the room, but his team was, you shouldn't read anything into the American president's absence. ... The U.S. are with us on biodiversity and on the Amazon initiative.

Emmanuel Macron

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

It's a question of whether Macri can continue to build support. The backdrop for his momentum has been the absence of financial volatility, the decline in inflation, improving confidence and some signs of economic recovery. This event could influence sentiment around that question.

Credit Suisse

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

Nelson Mandela

added by jimmy4writing
4 years ago

The absence of a potentially notable pop, as seen with traditional IPOs, may also hamper Slack's retail demand.

Alejandro Ortiz

Found on CNN
4 years ago

In the absence of improvement, such that the sustained return of inflation to our aim is threatened, additional stimulus will be required.

Mario Draghi

Found on CNN
4 years ago

When Jataveon Dashawn Hall left the hospital Friday evening against medical advice, we certainly should have been notified. But most concerning of all is that hospital police did not even know Jataveon Dashawn Hall had left the premises almost 10 hours prior, indeed, Halls absence was only discovered when we placed a phone call to them.

Chief Deputy Sykes

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

Your presence has no meaning when your absence doesn’t alter their life.

RJ Intindola

added by RJ Intindola
4 years ago

The absence of a firm deterrent stance against Iranian behavior is what led to the escalation we see today.

King Salman

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

I ras cardo say this truth:- darkness may be the absence of light, but blackness is not necessarily the absence of white. So, my reggae say, why fuss and fight racially as to who is wrong or who is right? wake up and live!!

RAS CARDO REGGAE

added by anonymous
4 years ago

He was very active, generous and helpful, i don't know how I will explain his absence to his classmates.

Kevin Kuventhirarasa

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

There is a broad hawkishness on China that straddles left, right, and center, the problem with this consensus is that in the absence of a credible counter-argument, the actual facts on the ground can sometimes be lost as people compete to see who can be more hawkish.

Patrick Lozada

Found on CNN
4 years ago

In general, he conducted an objective investigation and confirmed the absence of any trace and any kind of collusion between Russia and the current administration, which we characterized as nonsense from the get go, we fundamentally do not seek a war with Iran.

Robert Mueller

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Only on Aldabra, which has the oldest palaeontological record of any oceanic island within the Indian Ocean region, is fossil evidence available that demonstrates the effects of changing sea levels on extinction and recolonization events, conditions were such on Aldabra, the most important being the absence of terrestrial predators and competing mammals, that a rail was able to evolve flightlessness independently on each occasion.

David Martill

Found on CNN
4 years ago

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