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Nigel Farage was a notable absentee in Newark yesterday on the eve of a key by-election.

The coalition changed the definition of a persistent absentee in 2011 from a pupil who missed a fifth of the school year to one who missed a quarter.

Thirty other states permit no-excuse absentee voting and a third of voters nationally are expected to vote early or absentee in the next election, experts say.

McNabb, a one-man offense at quarterback for the Eagles, was the most conspicuous absentee in the Pro Bowl voting announced yesterday.

But Caleb Hunter, executive director of the Iowa Republican Party, played down the disparity, pointing out more Democrats than Republicans voted by absentee in 2004 but President Bush still won the state.

Mo Farah blew away the field to win gold at the world championships in Daegu last year but there was a notable absentee in that race: the world record holder and reigning Olympic champion, Kenenisa Bekele.

I'm voting for Obama (already have, actually, early absentee-in-person) for the sake of my two-year-old daughter.

Hand sanitizers were effective in reducing gastrointestinal illnesses in households (1 ), in curbing absentee rates in elementary schools (2 ), and in reducing illnesses in university dormitories (3 ).

Mum is now my absentee mum-in-law and Ondine's shimmy-cheque did not bounce.

Mr. Bush outpolled Mr. Gore by nearly 4,800 votes in absentee balloting in Seminole County.

Architecturally Brewster is Southeast's chief counterpoint to modern sprawl — while, commercially, Southeast has facilitated an increase in absentee ownership in Brewster.