To be absent at the critical moment was not my wish.

"They do not have the right to be absent at the moment when the children need them the most."

The bank president had been absent at the time of the robbery.

It meant he would be absent from his radio show for close to two months at the beginning of the season.

An employee may be absent because of conflict at work.

But that effort was absent at the start of the game.

The man in charge of it was absent at the moment.

Confidence cannot be created to order, and it is absent at the present time.

While they were absent at that time, my daughter Nancy was born.

The teaching of the language is completely absent at the secondary school level.