Recruitment was also dependent on whether mothers could be found in the hospital surroundings as they often absented themselves for extended periods of time.
They've gotten on the bandwagon of LGBT rights because that cause has won broad public support, but they've mostly absented themselves from other equally important causes, such as reproductive choice and racial justice, that are still more controversial than they should be.
If there are a few GPs on a board with a vested interest, they should absent themselves.
They were fourth-century soldiers in the Roman army, who absented themselves when Emperor Maximian was sacrificing to Jupiter.
Many Americans have absented themselves from all political discussions.
McCluskey said: "Whenever working-class people get disillusioned with Labour, historically, they tend to absent themselves from politics, and they do that because they don't see an alternative.
They could either absent themselves from the lecture-room while the other students filled in their questionnaires, or they could engage in alternative activities provided by the lecturer.
"If a person chooses to live an ethical lifestyle it's not enough to be vegan, they need to absent themselves from capitalism," said Adam Weissman, 29, who started freegan.info four years ago and is the movement's de facto spokesman.
This work is regarded in Liberia as permissible even for young children as long as they do not absent themselves from school to undertake it.
As a result, mothers give work to the girl such as going to the grinding mill and other household chores even if this means that they have to absent themselves from school.
They write as if they are unwilling to absent themselves from their books, as if their prose must have an eternal quality, like petroglyphs on a cliff face.
