So what we mean by that is we would not support a short-term extension absent an agreement to a larger deal.
What I will say, to be clear, is that we believe a short-term extension absent an agreement to a larger deal is unacceptable.
Mega state funds such as Kentucky and Illinois are so grossly underfunded that their demise is inevitable within a few years, absent a bail-out, and thousands of local public funds are teetering.
In that case, many companies will wake up from a government-funded hangover absent the innovative skills necessary to survive in a true meritocracy.
Raised by his maternal grandparents, Dr Murray proved a hard-working student, eventually following his absent father, also a doctor, to the US - where he enrolled at Texas Southern University.
In President Obama's and Romney's cases, fathers -- present or absent -- are a large part of that cloth.
As I said a few weeks ago, we should not experience a double-dip recession absent policy mistakes.
When you say a short-term extension absent something more significant, are you talking about the McConnell fallback?
He seemed bemused by his transformation from loner to the man everyone wanted to speak to, and perhaps as a defence, he was absent-minded: he had only one lecture a year to give at Oxford, but sometimes he forgot to turn up.
As he spoke, he waved his hand in a vague, regal gesture, like somebody absent-mindedly swatting away a fly.
Gronholm, who needs a top-four finish to have a chance of overtaking absent leader Sebastien Loeb, led overnight after winning the first two stages.
Even the well off must shine (absent a seven- or eight-figure contribution to their kid's first-choice school): Their SAT and ACT scores must be in the superior range if they are to avoid the triage performed by the most selective colleges, inundated as they are with applications.
Pippin is the young son of Charlemagne, and heir to the throne, but that's not enough for him: He's desperate to find a meaningful role in life (his own "Corner of the Sky, " to quote his opening song.) On Broadway, John Rubinstein (son of pianist Arthur) imbued the role with a sweet, almost absent-minded innocence.
As this chart suggests, July brought a small, but notable revival in sub-5% prints, which were largely absent during the choppy second quarter after a strong run during the red-hot market conditions of the first three months of 2012.
It may be a cynical question, but would Ferdinand have been quite so absent-minded if his appointment was for a fashion shoot or a lucrative newspaper interview?
This performance sedan takes GM back to its roots, reviving a rear-wheel-drive tradition absent for 17 years.
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Mighty Toyota Motor is absent from our A-List of the world's best big corporations (see p. 37).
Kickstarter, and other crowd-funding sites like it, allow for a kind of transparency that is absent in almost all other fund-raising and business growth processes.
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Once I absent-mindedly put a bit of SodaMix in the water before I tried to carbonate it.
Some of the new financial instruments also confront investors with a problem largely absent from traditional asset-backed securities: moral hazard.
With little public support for the spending cuts and tax hikes needed to cut the deficit, few lawmakers are willing to make those tough votes absent a clear, easy-to explain, economic payoff.
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The speaker grille is the only feature that disrupts the flat front -- presumably due to cost constraints, it isn't an integral part of the body like the machined speakers found on the One X and S. A front-facing camera is also conspicuously absent and we assume this was another cost-cutting measure.
The positive spin: Most experts, myself included, agree that it's better for a child to have an absent parent than a parent who's present but neglectful -- or worse.
The fastest thing in the universe is light, and the amount of time it takes a photon (in a vacuum, absent of gravity), to transit a planck is called planck-time.
But -- if you're at all familiar with the craft -- there's a very notable name absent from the crowd.
Spec Ops: The Line is by no means a perfect game, but it provides a welcome self-awareness that is too often absent in the medium.
After Ballack's opening goal, several Chelsea players held aloft a replica shirt with Pat Lampard RIP on the back, a reference to the mother of absent team-mate Frank, who died this week.
If you're thrilled by dual-core processors, extremely high-res screens, large camera sensors, customizable widgets, expandable storage, USB mass storage and other such features, then you'll be better off with Android or -- to a slightly lesser extent -- iOS, because that cutting-edge stuff is currently absent on Redmond's OS. On the other other hand, if you want to be part of a carefully crafted, simple and generally happy emerging ecosystem, then look no further.
So, absent a deal that includes increasing income-tax rates for wealthy Americans, the country is still headed for the cliff.
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Absent from his speech was a long-term plan to reduce the debt and deficit, create jobs, and achieve lasting economic growth.
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