absence of approval
absence of assent

The absence of approval for children under 5 would limit the market, he said, adding, "Their best calling card was to pediatricians."

This act is according to some commentators, during the republican form of government and in the absence of approval by the Parliament, considered to be null and void.

And the absence of approval threatens to throw many districts into chaos: With the start of school just two weeks away, more than two-thirds of the city's 32 district superintendents are planning to shorten the day in their elementary schools as a way to save money.

Its troubled institutional history is marked by an absence of approval from the province of Quebec of the current constitutional law of Canada and by the impossibility of finding, at least up until now, an original formula to unite the sovereignty of francophone Quebec with its association with the rest of the country.

In the absence of assent, I consider that Parliament must at the very least be consulted regarding every case, in order to increase public awareness and to put the State in question progressively under pressure.