It is certainly preferable, but not a requirement.. If there is no intervention and political will to stop Assad's crimes remains absent, the world will once again have to answer for standing on the sidelines of a mass murder.
Eyebrows were raised when the schedule for Sunday was released, with Nick Kyrgios and Bernard Tomic absent from Rod Laver Arena once again.
Haze leaves a stark split between her real life and her art, leaving the voice of the black lesbian rapper absent from public consciousness once again.
But residents say their landlord was once again absent after the hurricane, doing nothing for two weeks after water had surged into the complex's ground floor and damaged ceilings and walls.
On Sunday, thousands of people gathered in a stadium in the capital of Algiers to cheer for a once again absent Bouteflika on the last stop of his lacklustre campaign tour.
Godard is - once again - absent.
With Cabaye absent and Cheik Tiote suspended once again, Pardew is likely to field Anita – who is struggling to adapt to the Premier League – in central midfield.
Chandler has informed them that both McIlroy and Lee Westwood– who, many overlooked, racked up his fifth top three in seven majors – will once again be absent from the Players Championship, the Tour's flagship event, next year.
Three wins from their last four games has heartened the Everton forward but Scotland will once again be absent when the World Cup kicks off next summer.
This result means that Nadal once again leapfrogs the absent Roger Federer and moves back to the top of the rankings for the sixth time in his glorious career.
She knows him as an indifferent and absent husband, yet she's attracted, once again, by the outrageous way this man fans his tail.
