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In the absence of working-class solidarity, Socialists fumed, there was no hope that Udinese laborers could pull off a decent strike, for "the capitalists would be chuckling under their mustaches because they knew they could easily find other workers...."As I came to feel less awed in his presence, I would sometimes bring to him the case of a scientist or technician who needed a leave of absence for personal reasons.

(Such considerations at first carried little weight in some pietistic circles: the absence of any fragment of Esther from Qumran — the only biblical book not represented in the library of the Dead Sea sectarians — suggests that as late as the first or second century B.C.E.

In Leo's absence, nine-year-old Gerard, even in his weakened condition, took on the role of surrogate husband to Gabrielle and father to Ti Jean and Nin, doing his best to hold the shattered household together.

In her husband's absence, the job of taking Spot the English springer spaniel and their frisky black Scottish terrier Barney for their morning walk had fallen to the First Lady.

Now, in his absence, with memory uninterrupted, I could study him like the bud of a flower and see the petals open slowly one by one.

No wonder that Robert Moses, a luminous figure in the civil rights revolution of the 1960s, is convinced that "the absence of math literacy in urban and rural communities throughout this country is an issue as urgent as the lack of registered Black voters in Mississippi was in 1961."Typically, neighbors or relatives discover the abandoned children, often hungry and distraught over the absence of their mother.

After repeated absences a friend or relative, particularly a grandmother, will often step in to care for the children, sometimes petitioning the authorities to send her, as guardian of the children, the mother's welfare check, if she gets one.

During his absence, business had gone badly, and now one of its investors had withdrawn.

Stricter attendance rules have not stopped schoolboys and girls from going to Opening Day, but have forced their parents to tell more white lies about their absence.

If absence notes from past years serve as a guide, today likely will see an outbreak of one-day colds and viruses in local schools.

Nevertheless, as the second act gets under way, the movie's major issue is resolved and the absence of a woman in Ollie's life gets taken care of the minute Gertie and Ollie walk into a video store and clerk Maya (Tyler) smiles at Ollie.

The story then alternates between a hospital and the brothers’ seaside family home, observing the strengthening bond between Thomas (Bruno Todeschini), whose blood condition leaves him an enervated wreck, and Luc (Eric Caravaca), whose initial resentment at his brother’s long absence from his life gives way to a greater understanding.

The one thing it is missing, in the absence of the world-record-holder Paula Radcliffe, is a British runner who can be taken seriously.

I wasn’t crazy about giving her a look either, particularly in the absence of any sort of privacy.

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