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  • Gardner's tactics so irritated House Majority Leader Paul Weissmann, D-Louisville, that he excused everyone else on the committee from being on the House floor except Gardner, whom he called absent.

    Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local 2010

  • Gardner's tactics so irritated House Majority Leader Paul Weissmann, D-Louisville, that he excused everyone else on the committee from being on the House floor except Gardner, whom he called absent.

    Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local 2010

  • Nice to hear you havin’ some good times with the Frog in person, instead of having him referred to as absent.

    relative motion 2005

  • The checker perused the list for a few moments, and then declared Mr. Broder's name absent.

    Archive 2008-01-01 2008

  • He had been relieved to see Ariel Burgess's name absent.

    Mirage Tiedemann, Mark W. 2000

  • The tears came to her eyes when she beheld the room whose furnishings and pictures so vividly recalled the absent.

    The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. (Los Cuatro Jinetes del Apocalipsis) from the Spanish of Vincente Blasco Ibanez; authorized translation by Charlotte Brewster Jordan. 1918

  • Seeking to please their masters only so long as these have their eyes on them: as Gehazi was a very different man in his master's presence from what he was in his absence (2Ki 5: 1-18). men-pleasers -- not Christ-pleasers (compare Ga 1: 10; 1Th 2: 4). doing the will of God -- the unseen but ever present Master: the best guarantee for your serving faithfully your earthly master alike when present and when absent. from the heart -- literally, soul (Ps 111: 1; Ro 13: 5).

    Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

  • Seventy-two out of the 104-member parliament voted to adopt the law, while one deputy abstained and 31 opposition members who refused to participate were counted as "absent."

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2008

  • Seventy-two out of CAR's 104-member parliament voted to adopt the law, while one deputy abstained and 31 opposition members who refused to participate were counted as "absent."

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2008

  • When the numbers are checked up at the close of the evening, the checks which have not been removed from the board are marked "absent."

    Russell H. Conwell Agnes Rush Burr

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