"absent being" is not a correct phrase in written English.
The phrase "absent of" is used to describe the lack of something. Example: He was absent of any fear when he faced the angry crowd.
It's very easy, absent being confronted with an actual vote on a bill, to say certain things.
The science behind the fiction is conspicuously absent, being replaced with the permanently befuddled Keanu Reeves stumbling around being confused by nonsense about spoons, and jumping off buildings.
"Absent being successful in getting loads down, we could be looking at quadrupling of the power rates," said Paul Norman, head of power operations at Bonneville.
Mr Gandhi might have intervened at some point, and tried himself to tap into public anger over corruption and inequality, and drawn some of the sting of the Hazare camp's efforts.Or, when Mrs Gandhi was absent, being treated abroad for a serious illness (rumoured to have been cervical cancer), he might have taken charge and confronted the anti-graft campaigners.
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Absent being a participant in this moment, I wanted to be a person who preserved these moments, these modes of radical lesbian activism.
