| Your mother was taking her mother shopping today, and I should have gone to help out with mother-management, but I absented myself. |
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| She said that her son was known as a bright child and had never absented himself from school. |
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| He absented himself from council meetings, got into debt, and sold off his wife's inheritance. |
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| There are those of his nine children from whose lives he absented himself for several years. |
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| Of those who absented themselves, he said that many in their second year of secondary school felt disaffected by the education system. |
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| If they fail to pay within the next six weeks they will be absented from university for the full academic year. |
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| He absented himself from the major press conference held by Senator D'Amato on Friday before the world's press. |
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| My wife was not at that meeting, and she specifically absented herself from that meeting, so as to avoid even the appearance of a conflict of interest. |
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| Four years later, he has absented himself utterly from the quagmire in which nearly 90 million Egyptians find themselves. |
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| So, to his credit, he absented himself on a whipped vote, and I do thank him for that. |
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| He absented himself for a quarter of an hour and returned with the desired approval. |
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| I would just simply say, to the member's credit, actually, the member absented himself on that occasion. |
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| Another officer was named to be the commander of the foot, but he seems to have absented himself on the day of the battle. |
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| From 8 April to the day of the prorogation, a period of several days, he absented himself from the Chamber. |
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| Indeed, C. H. C. Wright, the Chairman of Architecture at the University of Toronto, absented himself from her convocation ceremony in protest. |
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| Judges frequently absented themselves from court cases to avoid sentencing members of armed opposition groups or remanding them in police custody. |
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| It's been seven and a half weeks and I haven't absented myself once. |
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| This work was strictly voluntary, but any animal who absented himself from it would have his rations reduced by half. |
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| After 1989, when Havel became the first president of the Czech Republic, his art took a back seat to his public position, but that doesn't mean he absented himself from the arts. |
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| Dr. Malan absented himself from the Cape Town ceremony of the address of welcome even though the wording of the address, which made no mention of loyalty, was agreed upon between the parties. |
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| Had Tory rebels known that Labour MPs were going to be whipped to vote against the government then many of the 81 would have abstained or simply absented themselves from Parliament. |
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| But that three of Labour's brightest hopes have absented themselves from the front line of their party's debate about the future for this reason is worrying. |
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| The authorities of the sending State shall similarly inform the authorities of the receiving State of any member who has absented himself for more than twenty-one days. |
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| Busby had a special affection for Law, who was rated alongside Edwards, Charlton and Best, but when the Scot absented himself once and issued an ultimatum seeking more money he was promptly transfer-listed. |
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| Delius was then sent to represent the firm in France, but he frequently absented himself from business for excursions to the French Riviera. |
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| Gladstone had absented himself from the funeral, with his plea of the press of public business met with public mockery. |
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