In recent years, about a third of BME housing associations have disappeared, merging with other associations, shutting down or being swallowed by larger mainstream organisations.
US diplomats in Yemen say they have been in contact with an American citizen whose lawyers consider him to have disappeared from jail in the country.
Some, like the Solomon's seal whose snake-like shoots we found forcing their way through the silt left by winter floods, may well be relicts from gardens of water mills that disappeared long ago.
Union influence in Scotland had declined dramatically as the old industries disappeared and membership slumped.
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While in Italy in 1950, with his wife and three sons, the family suddenly disappeared.
She left the day before the family disappeared.
The 20-year-old athlete, his country's leading 100m sprinter, disappeared at the end of the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow last August.
As swiftly as it came, it disappeared, leaving no trace.
By the time the staff realised what had happened, the note had disappeared.
I turn away for an instant and when my attention returns to the scene, I notice the red-streaked woman has disappeared into what I presume is the van.
