In fact, Ms. Bildner had been improvising for years, in response to wrong notes and dissonance in her life: the spinal meningitis that left her using a wheelchair for a year and derailed a promising career as an operatic spinto soprano in Europe; the absconding by a longtime lover with her inheritance from her mother; her estrangement from her wealthy Brazilian family.
The Cox model is ideal as it allows for the inclusion individuals who have not yet experienced the outcome of interest (i.e., absconding) by the completion of the study.
Altman seems almost like the leader of a Nietzschean doomsday cult — or, at the very least, a villain from one of the early James Bond movies, complete with a coastal fallout base and plans to abscond by plane to New Zealand.
In stark comparison, Wiesel, whose funds were absconded by Madoff, proposed an entirely different means of atonement.
Then Ealdorman Ælfric sent someone to warn the enemy, and then in the night before the day on which they were to have joined battle, he absconded by night from the army, to his own disgrace, and then the enemy escaped, except that the crew of one ship was slain.
The number of patients absconding decreased by 33% (p < .05), while the number of incidents as measured by bed days decreased by 40% (p < .01).01
Don't grab absconding gerbils by the tails.
Later he had to escape, first by bluffing his way out of the ward, then by absconding on a trip to the dentist, where he had been sent by a doctor who was worried that his wisdom teeth were pressing into his brain.
LONDON, June 14 — A British court lifted restrictions Thursday on identifying a terrorism suspect who was said to have absconded last year by clambering through a window at a mental hospital.
Taylor had incurred Doe's anger by absconding with $900,000 belonging to a government agancy at whose head Doe had appointed Taylor.
Their husbands - blurry figures who are either nice and do the washing up or nasty and don't - are partly to blame for this state of affairs by absconding every day to their offices, but the main culprit is motherhood itself, with its relentless cycle of petty, ego-obliterating chores, which Cusk details with venomous relish.
