Venezuelan President Chavez threatened to refuse to sign the declaration to protest Cuba's absence from the hemispheric gathering, and to protest the document's failure - as it is now reportedly written - to demand an end to the U.S.embargo of the island.

VOA: standard.2009.04.18

The absence of this smaller region tells you that this sample came from a sickle patient.

小片段的缺失就能告诉你,该样本是取自病人的

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

But there is an absence of what Kaufman would call this meta-divine realm, this primordial realm from which the gods emerge.

这里也没有Kaufman所说的,无量的国度，这是众神诞生的国度。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Key Camara ally Defense Minister Sekouba Konate returned early from a trip to Lebanon and is now running the military council in Captain Camara's absence.

VOA: standard.2009.12.07