The Usher knocks on the door of the Lower House, takes her bows and announces: Honourable members, the deputy of the Governor General requires your presence.
"I flew back from the Frankfurt Motor Show late last night to be here today to finalize our dialogue that has been started by our teams but that required your presence and mine to conclude," Mr. Marchionne wrote.
Leadership requires your presence, Senator McCain.
Clearly, some jobs require your physical presence – whether it's working on an assembly line, driving a vehicle, guarding a prison, fixing a toilet or saving someone's life.
It makes you more resourceful, and even a better person, when you can concentrate on things that really require your human presence and attention.
Internet bookstores do not require your physical presence.
It's the football fan's great dilemma: what would you do if you're watching your favourite team, in one of their biggest games of the season, and some great family drama happens which requires your immediate presence.
And yet the only thing an investigatory stop requires is your presence; you're not obligated to say anything more than your name to the officer, and, in fact, in those rare cases in which just giving your name could be self-incriminating, you might not even have to give that.
It takes a couple of hours, but your presence is required only for minutes.
His presence here is so powerful that it does not require his presence here.
