Absentee Sentence Examples

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  • At least he was never an absentee in heart.

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  • The two last kings had mainly resided in Hungary, and in spite of the temporary agreement obtained at the diet of St Wenceslas, the Bohemians had not succeeded in establishing a strong indigenous government which might have taken the place of the absentee monarchs.

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  • Eight years later the Steelboys rose against the exactions of absentee landlords, who often turned out Protestant yeomen to get a higher rent from Roman Catholic cottiers.

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  • Proxies for absentee landlords are allowed.

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  • The two chief men among the De Burghs were 10th to hold their lands of a little absentee girl.

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  • The ownership of property being largely in the hands of absentee landlords, the peasantry have little interest in the land, the profits from which go to enrich other provinces.

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  • He describes the troubles that befell Prague and Bohemia generally during the reign of the weak and absentee sovereign King Louis.

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  • We may trace back some small beginnings of a constitution to the time of Henry 11.himself an absentee though not on the scale of his son.

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  • There is no appreciable tendency toward management for absentee owners.

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  • The date conflicted with the Election Day for sheriff but Cynthia repeated her promise to vote absentee.

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  • In 1575 Maximilian, who had long been absent from Bohemia, returned there, as the estates refused to grant subsidies to an absentee monarch.

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  • The wedding date might be close to Dean's August Election Day, but Cynthia would vote absentee if necessary.

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  • They were deprived of Batty through injury from November, with David Hopkin also a long time absentee.

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  • The only absentee - other than Cambs - is Kent.

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  • Daughter Lindy dodged the mess to some extent by voting absentee and being off in Oregon pursuing the elk.

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  • Will Haining and Danny Hall are both definitely out and Guy Branston requires treatment, while striker Chris Porter is another confirmed absentee.

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  • Dave Jones is the only notable absentee from Fridays game with Steve Egerton coming in.

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  • Boyd was a noticeable absentee from the squad that crashed out of the FA Cup at Bournemouth on Saturday.

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  • Dominic Matteo has just come back to first-team football and he was joined by another long-term absentee, Lucas Radebe.

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  • The county where I am from has very strict rules about sending absentee ballots abroad.

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  • Iraq effectively demilitarized and Arabs of Iraq became traders, shopkeepers, scholars and absentee landowners.

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  • Absentee landlords, he thinks, rack-rented the soil (p. 167), while the "inhuman severity" of their treatment of villeins led to a progressive decay of agriculture, destroyed the economic basis of the Latin kingdom, and led the natives to welcome the invasion of Saladin (pp. 327-331) The French writers Rey and Dodu are more kind to the Franks; and the testimony of contemporary Arabic writers, who seem favourably impressed by the treatment of their subjects by the Franks, bears out their view, while the tone of the assizes is admittedly favourable to the Syrians.

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  • Childbirth pictures are a must for avid scrapbookers, photo fanatics, and for sharing the experience with absentee fathers.

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  • The next four decades were years of development disturbed, however, by friction between the assembly and the royal governors, and by bitter disputes, accompanied by much rioting, with the proprietors concerning land-titles (1744-1749) Independence of the absentee landlords was again claimed by virtue of the grants made by Nicolls nearly a century before.

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  • With his fierce hatred of what he recognized as injustice, it was impossible that he should not feel exasperated at the gross misgovernment of Ireland for the supposed benefit of England, the systematic exclusion of Irishmen from places of honour and profit, the spoliation of the country by absentee landlords, the deliberate discouragement of Irish trade and manufactures.

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  • Center forward Arthur Hydes was another long term absentee, missing completely from the beginning of January.

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  • The meeting is earmarked for the return of long-time injury absentee Jesper B. Jensen to further boost the Panthers ranks.

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  • In some states, voters said they had never received absentee ballots they had requested.

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  • God, if he existed at all, was an absentee landlord.

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  • He has gone so far as to call her an absentee mom and has filed for custody of the brood.

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  • Left to themselves by absentee emperors and exiled popes, the Italians pursued their own course of development unchecked.

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  • A crisis was evidently imminent, for Portugal would not tolerate an absentee sovereign who was far more Brazilian than Portuguese.

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  • The mountainous slopes of Biscay arestudded with the traditional Basque caserio, or farmhouse, in which the peasantry live on the metayer system, dividing theprofits of the soil with absentee landlords.

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  • Disappointed in their hopes of Russia, the Czartoryscy next attempted to form a confederation for the deposition of Augustus III., but while the strife of factions was still at its height the absentee monarch put an end to the struggle by expiring, conveniently, on the 5th of October 1763.

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  • Later criticism, orthodox and heterodox, upon the English deists inclines to charge them with the conception of a divine absentee, who wound up the machine of nature and left it to run untended.

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  • Neither a turbulent minority, nor the neglect of an absentee king; neither the revival of separatist tendencies in Lithuania, nor the outbreaks of aristocratic lawlessness in Poland, could do more than shake the superstructure of the imposing edifice.

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