The phrase "take absence" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It means to intentionally be absent or to formally request time away from work or school. Here is an example: "I need to take absence from work next week to attend a family event."
All he is trying to do, he says, is make the world see how much there is that can't be seen.Why, he asks, do we take absence of proof to be proof of absence?
A second way to deny that absences are transcendent would be to take absence claims as merely a way to describe occurrences, as Hart and Honore recommend: "The corrective here is to realize that negative statements like 'he did not pull the signal' are ways of describing the world, just as affirmative statements are, but they describe it by contrast not by comparison as affirmative statements do".
Since the absence of intaglio and relief printing marks doesn't necessarily mean you're dealing with a lithograph, it's important to look closely at the images and not take absence for proof.
The study was not powered to assess the outcome of work or school absence; four women from the FAD group and two from the placebo group took absence from work or school during the treatment phase.
Estimation results show that small firm employees have a probability of taking absences for sickness of about 5.6 percentage points less than large firm employees (see column 1).
It has been debated whether generous and easy accessible sickness benefits will increase the propensity to take sickness absence.
Take their absence as a sign that your self-absorption has become too much for them.
A parallel literature has investigated the role of EPL in the workers' decisions to take sickness absences.
Absence of report of pain and its effects should not, therefore, be taken as absence of pain and its effects.
We took his absence as a kind of death.
Guns, bullets, violence – all of this is just background noise to the real tragedy now taking place: absence.
