John Morley, who had absented himself from the endorsement for Campbell-Bannerman in 1899, drafted the resolution in support of Asquith.
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Not desiring to destroy the world, they absented themselves from it to fight their battles, leaving it ( temporarily ) in human hands.
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The opposition parties absented themselves because, knowing that Jean Bertrand Aristide would win by a very large margin, they hoped to discredit his victory.
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Their contacts with Kosovo's Albanians have been weak, since the Albanians largely absented themselves from Serbia's political life for the last decade.
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However, he attended the subsequent Primates Meeting in Tanzania in 2007, although he absented himself from all the celebrations of Holy Communion during that meeting.
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Mindful of the war in Chechnya and news accounts of Russian soldiers attacking unarmed civilians there, Clinton absented himself from a precision display of Russian military might.
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But in a demonstration of displeasure with Netanyahu, seven coalition members absented themselves from the chamber and four others refused to vote and were registered as absent.
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After the accession of James II, John is said to have privately opposed the King's policies and to have absented himself from Ireland for a time.
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For reasons of self-interest, Sammy has absented himself to the point of dereliction from the lives of his wife and their 11-year-old son.
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He abstained or absented himself from the votes on July 2 that declared independence and absented himself again from voting on the wording of the formal Declaration on July 4.
