Prosecutors said he would testify to being present for the shooting, then hearing Mr. Sakai brush it off.
For the teachers, being present for lunch every day means giving up the peace and quiet of the staff room.
To tell Ella's story, the Pinkneys have cleverly conjured up Scat Cat Monroe, a frisky feline who talks a good game about being present for the singer's ascent.
But Clijsters said her focus for the moment was not on tennis but on being present for the birth of her sister's first child.
The investigation also showed that a full-time athletic department employee typed papers for players and filled in answers on quizzes, sometimes without the player being present for the quiz.
It makes a mockery of the institution of guardianship for the government to appoint a guardian and then prevent him from being present for an interrogation that could lead to his ward's execution.
In the past, that has meant being present for significant political or historical events – he was in Red Square "when the red flag came down" on the last day of the Soviet Union.
No less remarkable was his successful insistence on the unprecedented number of 35 rehearsals, and on the same orchestral players being present for all rehearsals and performances, putting an end to a long house tradition of tolerating substitutes.
She had been brought up in a society that insisted on a chaperone being present for a tea date with a man; now she had responsibility for mutilated male bodies.
Akayesu was charged with ordering or allowing to take place (and in some cases being present for) the killing of Tutsi civilians and the rape of Tutsi women held in Taba's cultural center.
Gathering information — being in the know — is not the same thing as being mindful, being aware, being present for what's actually going on behind the news and the chatter and the stuff that just doesn't matter.
