Sentence examples for absence serves from inspiring English sources

28 Another rationale for this result is that the registration of absence serves as a particular incentive to attend lessons for students in vocational studies.

But his absence served as a reminder that Roberts's talents had better include the skillful handling of eccentrics.

Rather than its absence serving to exculpate, notice can profitably be understood to inculpate.

27 28 Of course, such absence often serves a dramatic purpose, providing child protagonists with adversity to overcome and allowing the adventure story to unfold unhindered.

Our first intention was to collapse no absences and "normal" absence to serve as a "normal" reference group to "abnormal" absence.

In Messier's absence, BRIAN LEETCH served as captain.

Mr. Goltzer took a leave of absence to serve in the military during World War II.

On leaves of absence, he served as program director for gravitational physics at the National Science Foundation.

In 1985, that led to a two-year leave of absence to serve as president of the Amateur Athletic Foundation of Los Angeles.

He took a leave of absence to serve as a constitution offi cer in the Navy until 1945, and returned to the company as vice president.

For those who live far from New York, time will dim the horror, but for residents in such riverfront towns as Jersey City, Bayonne and Hoboken, the trade center's conspicuous absence will serve as a constant reminder of the devastating loss.