How To Use Abscond In A Sentence
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You know the food is really good when a bunch of foodies are devising clever ways to abscond with a whoopie pie after an epic 20-dish meal.
Foodies Feast, Family-Style
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MORE than 4,000 prisoners have absconded over the last ten years.
The Sun
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She absconded from boarding school with her boyfriend.
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The other seven had in the meantime absconded.
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It would be unkind to ask which of the "virtues" presided over Suzon's original acquaintance with her future husband, or whether the same or another undertook the charge of that wonderful six weeks 'abscondence of hers with him in this very uncle's house.
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century
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The appellant absconded shortly before the conclusion of his trial, and was re-arrested only in March 2000.
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The statute defines "a notour bankrupt" to be any debtor who, being under diligence by horning or caption, at the instance of his creditors, shall be either imprisoned, or retire to the abbey or any other privileged place, or flee or abscond for his personal security, or defend his person by force, and who shall afterwards be found, by sentence of the lords of session, to be insolvent.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"
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The latest scandal engulfing the department has been over prisoners absconding from non-secure open prisons.
Times, Sunday Times
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the banker absconded with embezzled funds
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He absconded before he could be deported and the authorities gave him leave to remain because it was adjudged his life would be in danger if he returned to his home country.
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Nothing is safe from this porcelain peccant pilferer, this corrupt criminal crockery, for the moment you turn your back, this amazing Ash Tray will abscond with all your electronic posessions and sell them on ebay.
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Unfortunately, his partners were crooks and absconded with the funds.
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The last of three prisoners who absconded from an open jail has been arrested.
Times, Sunday Times
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So listening to the warnings of his friends, he fled into hiding somewhere in the city of London, "a place of retirement and abscondence.
English Literature for Boys and Girls
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We also discover that Terry, whose wife absconded with his best man, has turned for clandestine consolation to a naively trusting shopgirl, Nuala, and a dance-loving hairdresser, Breda.
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The problem was compounded when some owners emigrated or absconded, some sold their buildings to slumlords, and others abandoned their properties, allowing squatters to move in.
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The revised guidelines are expected to avoid giving care workers specific advice on how to physically restrain absconders.
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Utquid abscondisti to ut fugeres? et furatus es me, et non indicasti mihi, et dimisissem to cum laetitia et canticis, cum tympano et cithara.
Commentary on Genesis - Volume 2
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Our goal is to stabilize the ratio of people who are now becoming absconders or fugitives and the number of people we're removing from the country.
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Although Warren Anderson was named as an accused and later declared an "absconder" by the court, he was not mentioned in Monday's verdict.
BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition
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The true cause of its abscondence, as in so much else of his work, was undoubtedly that ultra-Bohemian quality of indifference which distinguished Diderot -- the first in a way, probably for ever the greatest, and, above all, the most altruistic of literary Bohemians.
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800
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the accountant absconded with the cash from the safe
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He vainly tries to protect an absconding teenager from the police.
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Union Carbide's American chairman, Warren Anderson, has never been brought to justice and is listed as an "absconder" by the court.
BP is just a symptom of a dangerous addiction to oil
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He absconded with£8000 stolen from his employer.
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Both Jaskaran Singh Bullar (alias Karan) and Harsh were absconding after the incident.
The Times of India
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If a client absconds, and the solicitor has clear instructions as to how to proceed, then it could be argued that he has either express or implied authority to continue to represent him.
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The last of three prisoners who absconded from an open jail has been arrested.
Times, Sunday Times
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Although some are believed to have escaped during the process of arrest, an unknown number absconded during transfers between prisons, police stations and courts.
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Michael Spurr, chief operating officer of the National Offender Management Service, said steps had been taken to strengthen the management at Ford: "I am pleased the good work done by the prison on safety, suicide and self-harm, healthcare, and improved security with fewer absconds, has been acknowledged.
Drink and drugs rife at new year riot prison, report finds
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The network of centres house those applicants who are reaching the end of their legal battles to stay in the UK, yet are identified as the most likely to abscond in order to avoid being deported.
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Paul Michael Barrett Austin may seem quiet, but he's been secretly cooking the books in order to abscond with a large amount drawn from the regional office's bank account.
George Heymont: Strangers in Strange Lands
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the government has categorized more than 320,000 foreigners as alien absconders
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Of course, he wasn't stupid or irresponsible enough to abscond completely.
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However, before the appeal against sentence could be relisted, the appellant absconded from prison and remained at large.
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A young cowboy out hunting antelope on the high Trans-Pecos desert, he stumbles upon the aftermath of the drug war and makes the mistake of absconding with $2 million worth of unclaimed and misbegotten dinero.
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Yet because living on a public sex - offender registry is so wretched, many abscond.
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Or am I a racist for using a term absconded by the Messiah?
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Without one you always look like you have absconded from an open prison.
Times, Sunday Times
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* [1354] Sicut beata Sus. dicit, Deus æternus absconditorum cognitor, sciens omnia,
The Three Additions to Daniel: A Study.
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No one but Mr. Maurice Frere, and Mr. Maurice Frere, as Commandant of convicts, could not but give up an "absconder" to justice.
For the term of his natural life
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Last year 23 times more patients escaped from psychiatric hospitals than absconded from prisons.
Times, Sunday Times
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He was ordered to appear the following day, but absconded.
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A prisoner who absconded from an open jail two months ago has been arrested in a pub.
Times, Sunday Times
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After leveling pistols, they absconded with more than a hundred dollars in cash, some jackknives and pencils, and a gold watch worth $300—Mark Twain said he valued it for sentimental reasons “above everything else I own.”
Mark Twain
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In May he was arrested in Luton for attempting to steal a car, but absconded from the magistrates' court while under secure supervision from the local authority.
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He absconded from a bail hostel and committed further offences.
The Prisons We Deserve
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In short, the government has met with such unalloyed success selling its hard line to an anxious electorate that it has rarely needed to invoke the spectre of absconding.
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He would demand that he should be taken back as an "absconder".
For the term of his natural life
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Some are not being well-managed as there is massive speculation and price manipulation, while some have their shareholders directly taking part in transactions, which has led to the embezzlement of clients' funds and prompted some managers to abscond, the statement said, without naming specific companies or individuals.
Beijing Cracks Down on Trading Houses
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In a fuller statement given on 23 March 1985, Davis said that he had absconded from a local authority home in Newcastle.
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She is enjoying significant unescorted ground leave and has not endeavoured to abscond.
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In these circumstances the majority of the colony absconded, leaving a few hundred freshly emerged workers behind.
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A dozen inmates have absconded from Forest Jail in the past year.
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What will happen if these fellows escape or abscond tomorrow?
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Nobody absconds with and remarkets another artist's plundering of yet another artist's unoriginal work quite like Flo Rida," remarked one admiring industry insider.
John Baxter: Flo Rida Has Spellbound Critics Wondering Where He Gets It
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I will not abscond in order to avoid extradition to Mexico.
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All the children were aged between 11 and 16 years and highly unlikely to abscond or resist arrest.
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Carbide an 'absconder' in 1992 for not ever appearing in court in the Bhopal hearings.
The Times of India
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Cleopatra's palace in Egypt, — [3258] Crassumque trabes absconderat aurum, that the beholders were amazed.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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Such a trial can only be contemplated if a defendant absconds; and, as that is so rare an occurrence, there is no public interest in permitting such a trial.
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Time to get into faded old dungarees and check if the Poinsettia has grown any more and if the pump still works, if the mali is absconding, if the stray donkey is still around.
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Is more likely to "abscond" - the entire colony leaves the hive and relocates - in response to repeated intrusions by the beekeeper.
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Et quia tanta lucerna non debuit sub modio abscondi, ideo a puerili etate cepit miraculorum prod [ig] iis coruscare.
The Latin & Irish Lives of Ciaran Translations Of Christian Literature. Series V. Lives Of The Celtic Saints
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Upon this information, Crawford was seized, and being examined, it appeared, that when the mob begun, as he was comeing down from the steeple, the mob took the keys from him; that he was that night in several corners, and did indeed delate severall persons whom he saw there, and immediately warrands were despatched, and it was found they had absconded and fled.
The Heart of Mid-Lothian
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He had absconded to Geneva with his family, supposedly unenriched by his actions, though at least a few people doubted both this claim and even his passing.
The King's Best Highway
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absconded" - meaning that law enforcement authorities have lost track of them, despite a strict law intended to keep such offenders under close supervision and away from potential victims.
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Sed cum in manus meas et alia venissent quae posterius latiusque scripsit, vidi quemadmodum etiam illic gratiam nominare sed ambigua generalitate quid sentiret abscondens, gratiae tamen vocabulo frangens invidiam, offensionemque declinans.
Pneumatologia
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Last year 23 times more patients escaped from psychiatric hospitals than absconded from prisons.
Times, Sunday Times
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The pretext for the refusal was that the defendant may abscond and could threaten key witnesses yet to be called.
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The man who had ruled his country with a brutal and inflexible religious law was now ‘an absconder, a fugitive from justice’ he said.
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During the BJP rule in 1991, Shaheed Com Shanker Guha Niyogi was kept in Jail for two months after having been declared "absconder" in 17 cases in one single day, although he has been attending reconciliation meeting with the officials, addressing public meeting and press conferences, etc.
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Finitus vero est annus ipse, et venerunt ad eum anno secundo, et dixerunt ei, Non abscondemus a domino meo, quod integra pecunia, et grex jumentorum apud dominum meum: non remansit coram domino meo praeterquam corpus nostrum, et terra nostra.
Commentary on Genesis - Volume 2
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Fantastic grow the evening gowns Agents of the Fisc pursue Absconding tax-defaulters through The sewers of provincial towns .
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Another absconder is the local VHP leader, Jaydeep Patel.
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They had absconded from a childrens home and weren’t really missing at all.
The Police Guide To Ruraltown « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
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Different scenarios for what might have happened to her are played out, often with alternative permutations: in one, she falls pregnant and absconds to Arizona; in another, she gets into the car of a stranger who wishes her harm; in yet another there's the suggestion of suicide.
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Last year 23 times more patients escaped from psychiatric hospitals than absconded from prisons.
Times, Sunday Times
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He was arrested for absconding and taken to Westlea police station where he was charged with escape.
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We were frightened of absconding because we thought the major might have us court-martialled.
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The prosecuting solicitor objected to bail on the basis that he was accused of an imprisonable offence and there were substantial grounds for believing he would abscond from the jurisdiction of the court.
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The banker absconded with embezzled funds.
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We see no necessity for a defendant who is bailed to be expressly warned that, if he absconds, he may be tried in his absence, for that has been the English common law for over a century.
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They must get a signed warrant from a judge before sending law-enforcement officers after the absconder.
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A spokesman for the Home Office said he was an absconder rather than an escapee, as he was officially allowed out of prison on licence.
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-- DYRS has a weak policy on abscondence and oversight.
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While Africanized honeybees do make honey and pollinate plants, two traits make them undesirable for beekeepers: colonies regularly abscond from hives, and they are often too defensive to be easily tended.
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Officially, immigration detention is not supposed to be used as punishment; the immigration agency can only detain immigrants in order to more easily deport them, so that they don't "abscond" and evade removal.
Jane Guskin: Immigration Detention: The Case for Abolition
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Overlooked crime thriller starring Elliot Gould as a mild-mannered teller who gets into trouble when he secretly absconds with part of a fortune missed by a psychotic bank robber (Christopher Plummer).
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MORE than 4,000 prisoners have absconded over the last ten years.
The Sun
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A police officer said: ‘He was a known absconder, so people are worried that if they come forward they might be in trouble for helping or harbouring him, but we just want to solve this tragic mystery.’
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Later in June 1976 C absconded from Gwynfa, with her room-mate, for several hours and upon her return she was sharply rebuked by a Woman Police Constable.
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Anderson, who was among the accused but was not named in the verdicts after the Bhopal court declared him an "absconder", lives in suburban New York.
Daily News & Analysis
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I was assured by his staff that he had not absconded from the aforementioned establishment but had “changed his image” because floppy hair did not fit well with the Credit Crunch.
Lord Bonkers' Diary: Nick Clegg gets a haircut
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A re-trial had been ordered and a trial date fixed before the defendant absconded.
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The defendant may have been granted bail pending the preparation of reports, and absconded.
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An individual turned up claiming to be a prisoner who had absconded but left before this could be clarified.
The Sun
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After an hour-long wait for Castro himself to arrive, the media were told that the Home Affairs employee meant to assist Mofokeng had "absconded".
ANC Daily News Briefing
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In Britain around 2/3 of failed asylum seekers abscond and disappear into the ‘black’ economy.
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Although printed in the little fifty-five-volume [160] edition which for so many years represented Balzac, they were excluded, as noted above, from the statelier "Définitive," and so may have once more "gone into abscondence.
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century
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An individual turned up claiming to be a prisoner who had absconded but left before this could be clarified.
The Sun
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One understands the concern that the public authorities have about the public reaction if a prisoner in those circumstances were to become violent or if a violent prisoner were to abscond.
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The Master of the Rolls exemplified cases when an employee leaves and gets another job, or absconds with the money from the till or goes off indefinitely without a word to his employer.
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The last of three prisoners who absconded from an open jail has been arrested.
Times, Sunday Times
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He refused to accept medication and absconded, being re-admitted in November of that year, again with self neglect, hallucinations and threatening behaviour.
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MORE than 4,000 prisoners have absconded over the last ten years.
The Sun
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If you were escaping the police would you ask for the charge sheet and a copy of your statement as you absconded?
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He has to convince a judge that he wasn't going to abscond with the money.
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Several abscondees have evaded any legal sanction for breaching the controls on them while other orders have been revoked.
Times, Sunday Times
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'Non quia te superi patrio privare sepulchro maluerint, Phariae busto damnantur harenae: parcitur Hesperiae; procul hoc et in orbe remoto abscondat fortuna nefas, Romanaque tellus inmaculata sui servetur sanguine Magni.'
The Student's Companion to Latin Authors
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A prisoner who absconded from an open jail two months ago has been arrested in a pub.
Times, Sunday Times
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He was ordered to appear the following day, but absconded.
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He absconded from the bank with all the money.
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Kwelita said one ghost was an employee who had resigned, another worker had passed away and another had "absconded".
ANC Daily News Briefing
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A prisoner who absconded from an open jail two months ago has been arrested in a pub.
Times, Sunday Times
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On the obverse side, the authors examine the motives and reactions of owners who, ostensibly, did not understand why their slaves absconded.
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Toasts begin but the two boys, along with several friends, have absconded from the table.
The Write Taste : The Cooking Adventures of Chef Paz
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A dozen inmates have absconded from Forest Jail in the past year.
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The married Van Alden's feelings for Margaret start off innocently enough, but when he absconds with her hair ribbon and well, deeply inhales its scent when he's alone, it's clear that Van Alden's kind of a weirdo.
Boardwalk Empire's Michael Shannon Doesn't Know How Creepy He Can Be
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However, now, the trio are absconding after cheating people of crores of rupees.
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And a small team of Correctional Services officials is faced with the near impossible task of tracking down individuals who are deemed to have "absconded" from the system.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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He was ordered to appear the following day, but absconded.
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Absconding swarm, American foulbrood, Braula coeca, buff comb, Demaree ('the method of swarm control that separates the queen from most of the brood within the same hive'), supersedure ('a natural replacement of an established queen by a daughter in the same hive')—it's all here.
Languagehat.com: BEEKEEPING TERMS.
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After some more lingering chatting, a few more chance encounters, and at least one, "Here, hold this sign that says 'Hi Shann' and let me get a picture, please?" we were prepared to abscond from the premises.
September 5th, 2005
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He was given two months' jail for the first breach of the ASBO, two months for the second breach, and two weeks for absconding from bail, all to run consecutively.
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`We're not only here to stop him absconding, sir, but also for his protection from the public.
RIOT
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A dozen inmates have absconded from Forest Jail in the past year.
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Benedictus autem sit in saecula Dominus, qui postquam ad momentum faciem suam a nobis (qui multis modis iram et indignationem ejus provocaveramus) abscondisset, universo orbi testatum fecit, se foederis sui non oblivisci, et suspiria suorum non spernere.
The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches.
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Unlike the absconding narrators who skulk out of sight in most modern novels, James refuses to hide behind the mask of authorial anonymity.
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Indeed, it seems that an attempt to arrest the real absconder on the basis of this warrant would have been unlawful, since he was not the person named in it.
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A prisoner who absconded from an open jail two months ago has been arrested in a pub.
Times, Sunday Times
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When the press corps cranes its collective neck to get a better view, the devil turns water in the glass under the lectern to steam, then absconds with his toy piano under one arm and a seashell pressed to his glowing mouth, leaving the president who is not the president trapped in a red room.
The Best American Poetry 2010
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Also, Africanized bees abscond, leaving no queen, workers, or resources.
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He absconded from the bank with all the money.
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Judge Simon Fawcus sentenced him to 18 years for one charge of conspiracy to rob and nine months, to run concurrently, for absconding from bail.
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Last year 23 times more patients escaped from psychiatric hospitals than absconded from prisons.
Times, Sunday Times
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But he said 'abscondence' -- either fleeing a group home or evading the oversight of a case worker -- is a serious concern.
DeMorning DeBonis: Nov. 19, 2010
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SHOCKER OF THE WEEK: Nelson Van Alden, the twisted G-man who enforces his brand of rough justice on HBO's Boardwalk Empire, has us gasping in disbelief as he absconds with the dying witness from the forest massacre and plops him in a dentist's chair.
Matt's TV Week in Review
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MORE than 4,000 prisoners have absconded over the last ten years.
The Sun
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Warren Anderson, the American then-chairman of Union Carbide, was among the accused but he was not named in the verdicts after the Bhopal court declared him an "absconder".
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He said that a person with outstanding warrants is more likely to abscond from bail, wasting more police and court time.
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An individual turned up claiming to be a prisoner who had absconded but left before this could be clarified.
The Sun
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Uys 'department sought the order after the patients with the contagious and potentially lethal disease "absconded" from quarantine in the Brooklyn Chest Hospital on the Cape Flats.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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We see no necessity for a defendant who is bailed to be expressly warned that, if he absconds, he may be tried in his absence, for that has been the English common law for over a century.
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But the county's police have given up hunting for them, saying they are 'only abscondees'.
The Sun
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He absconded from a bail hostel and committed further offences.
The Prisons We Deserve
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The tax dunned chemical and oil companies, among other industries, for money to clean up ‘orphan’ Superfund sites - sites whose owners have absconded or have gone bankrupt.
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He added that he was 'very concerned' about the abscondence rate and that he has made finding absconders a priority.
DeMorning DeBonis: Nov. 19, 2010
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The spokesman said: ‘Since his conviction for both offences he absconded from bail and his current whereabouts are sought by the police.’
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The said Weavers have absconded, [and] as a considerable moturpha money is due from them to the circar you will please to take such measures as may be deemed proper by your honor in this case.
Colonial Lists/Indian Power: Identity Politics in Nineteenth Century Telugu-Speaking India
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But neither turned out to have a queen - they may have "balled" her when they were shifted to a new site; sometimes bees do this if they are alarmed and either think the queen has done something wrong or that they need to protect her like they did when they swarmed away from the original hive: they mass around her, and she suffocates - so most of the bees absconded and in one hive, a laying worker took over and began cranking out drones.
Archive 2005-09-01
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I think he meant they are eight times better given the abscondee rates are down by an eighth
Iain Gray's poor judgement over prison officers
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Apparently the first wives of bigamists did not always care to chase down their absconding husbands.
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These may be needed in order to, for example, examine the person applying for admission, or to make sure that they do not abscond when a decision to deport has been taken.
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Satisfied, the cop went off to collect, leaving Thurston and his wife to abscond.
Jim Steinmeyer's "The Last Greatest Magician in the World"
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The last of three prisoners who absconded from an open jail has been arrested.
Times, Sunday Times
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They had begun to realize that, should the king abscond, the keystone of the whole constitution would be lost, with incalculable consequences.
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Milan CEO Adriano Galliani has echoed Klaas-Jan Huntelaar's agent Arnold Oosterveer, who insists his client will not abscond from the Italian club amid reports Liverpool are working on a loan deal for him.
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An individual turned up claiming to be a prisoner who had absconded but left before this could be clarified.
The Sun
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The first European people to use it were the absconders of the ship Coromandel in 1837, followed by Tasmanian woodcutters.
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Never you mind the perceived furtive abscondence of Miette these days.
The Young Man Who Discovered the Secret of Life | Miette's Bedtime Story Podcast
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Some of the accused, who had absconded after the murder, have not been arrested even after a month.