Today he has even jumped back onto the Forbes Celebrity 100 list after being absent from the roster since 2003.
Creative director Warren Spector said Oswald's evolution in the franchise has been designed to reintroduce him to fans after being absent since 1951.
The wife of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has made public appearances, state-run media report, after being absent from the public eye for 50 days.
But we also know that what too many fathers being absent means -- too many fathers missing from too many homes, missing from too many lives.
The Hotel Detective muttered an apology for being absent.
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Many of the actions currently classified as contempt such as a lawyer being absent from court should be referred to the Disciplinary Board (headed by a sitting High Court judge), says Council member Mah.
The Frenchman is also without forward Nicklas Bendtner, who has a groin injury and is three weeks away from a comeback, while midfielder Samir Nasri is expected to return to training in the next few days after being absent since 15 August with a knee problem.
This week Terry McAuliffe, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, accused Mr Bush of being AWOL (absent without leave) during part of his service.
It is, at best, irresponsibly naive and, at worst, utterly reckless to pretend that -- absent appropriate punishment being meted out to Serbia for its aggression -- the parties will conform to the Vance-Owen plan's requirements for peaceful coexistence and co-governance of the federation.
Melastatin stuck out as being present in curable tumors but absent in nasty ones.
Nice thought, but again, Jewish people thrive in the United States absent our nation always being on war footing.
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Mr Blair has not helped himself by being so obviously bored by Parliament, and so often absent from it.
We dream of these cities as being well-managed and administered, relatively clean and absent of congestion, offering mobility, access, the capacity to partake and enjoy in urban life.
The screenwriter, Jeffrey Abrams, has a mind that channel-hops from AMC to Nick at Nite: he stuffs the film with old-movie gimmicks and sitcom devices, such as Gibson being able to propose marriage only when his lover is absent.
Others, no doubt, are being held for battlefield acts that could not be proved absent pulling U.S. troops out of combat so they could testify (as if they had been agents painstakingly conducting a criminal investigation rather than soldiers engaged in life-and-death hostilities).
It has long been a haven for foreign militants and - with the Afghan army all but absent on the ground - is in imminent danger of being over-run by the Taliban, local officials say.
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Now vetting procedures are being tightened both for new recruits and troops who suddenly reappear after going absent.
But Schalk Burger is absent as he will miss the Boks' first three games after being banned for eye-gouging.
Absent a compelling positive message to contrast with the politically popular rhetoric being offered by President Obama, whoever the ultimate GOP nominee will be can expect to face an uphill battle in the general election.
While this particular rationale for a therapeutic choice may be idiosyncratic, factors such as ease of explanation and likelihood of being hassled play a surprisingly large role in physician decision making, even if absent from traditional guidelines such as UpToDate.
However, largely absent from the broader narrative is the Trans Pacific Partnership, a free trade agreement currently being negotiated by the United States and 10 of its trading partners that will test either candidate as the next round of negotiations is set to take place in December.
Maybe the best way to look at this is absent what was pumped into the economy by the recovery plan, economic growth, rather than being plus 2.2 percent for the third quarter of 2009 -- which was, by the way, the first positive economic growth we'd had in a year -- estimates range from negative 0.6 to negative 1.1 percent.
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