Sentence examples for In absent from inspiring English sources

Equalities minister Jo Swinson is right to point out that fathers who take paternity leave, or simply take their turn calling in absent because a child is sick, are often mocked or considered oddities, if not nuisances, in the workplace.

In Absent Friends (1974), meanwhile, all the conversations are overshadowed by Carol, the recently drowned fiancee of a man who has just reunited with a group of acquaintances.

Career to date She began her career off-Broadway in Absent Friends, before moving to Los Angeles.

It's directed by fellow hot talent Jeremy Herrin, who is hoping to follow up on a terrific run of recent productions in Absent Friends and South Downs.

You throw in absent fathers, losing family to crime, people with no support; all those are ingredients for mental health problems".

And I shall never forget him as the recently bereaved Colin in Absent Friends, radiating the reckless, rise-above-it good cheer of the truly insensitive.

Breathes the soul who has not at some point, in absent-mindedness or ignorance, substituted "its" for "it's," and vice versa?

As she talked she stared in absent-minded fascination at the way the dying sun shone crimson through her husband's earlobe and made his dandruff into flakes of fire, but her thoughts were hurrying ahead to the evening".

In the US, about a third of boys are raised in absent-father homes, while in the UK about a quarter of children are raised by single mothers, triple what it was in 1971.

President Nicolas Sarkozy of France spoke of imposing them in December, absent an "in-depth change".

Present trials are shown in 2a; absent in 2b.