| There are those of his nine children from whose lives he absented himself for several years. |
| Your mother was taking her mother shopping today, and I should have gone to help out with mother-management, but I absented myself. |
| She said that her son was known as a bright child and had never absented himself from school. |
| He absented himself from council meetings, got into debt, and sold off his wife's inheritance. |
| If they fail to pay within the next six weeks they will be absented from university for the full academic year. |
| Of those who absented themselves, he said that many in their second year of secondary school felt disaffected by the education system. |
