The upshot of those votes was an emphatic rejection of the notion of absolute American vulnerability to ballistic missile attack a parlous state in which the U.S. has remained for nearly twenty years in the wake of the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center for Security Policy | What The Senate Votes On ABM Mean: The End Of Absolute US Vulnerability

The upshot of those votes was an emphatic rejection of the notion of absolute American vulnerability to ballistic missile attack -- a parlous state in which the U.S. has remained for nearly twenty years in the wake of the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy

But instead, there was an absolute refusal to accept the notion that we needed revenue.

WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

Ms Toynbee, however, has focused on successive governments' failure to tackle inequality and pressed the notion of relative rather than absolute poverty which has grown, even under Labour.

BBC: Analysis

Is the George W. brand of compassion therefore something that will insidiously, albeit unintentionally, undermine a social order based on the notion that America has no established religion and that its citizens have absolute freedom of belief?

ECONOMIST: Lexington