| The Liberal member who just spoke is absolving himself of responsibility in this area. |
| Individual savings cannot substitute for social provision, and should not be seen as a way of absolving the state of its ultimate responsibility to provide security for all. |
| Nor can it involve absolving all those, including leaders of states, who have scandalously feathered their own nests out of disregard for their people and for sound budgetary management at even the most basic level. |
| I'm quite conscious that preoccupation with the past can also be a way of absolving oneself of present obligations. |
| He assumed a priestly character, preaching, absolving, annulling marriages. |
| The first sequence spoke to me of how merciful God is for absolving my transgressions. |
