Organizations can absorb only a small number of people with these work goals.

Despite absorbing a large number of extremely hard shots, Ouma did not go down.

After all, a person could absorb only a certain limited number of shocks in a lifetime.

"This Yeomanry seems to be absorbing a large number of the people who live here."

The first batch of 100 was completed in 1947 but the market could not absorb such a large number, despite the low price of £425.

And a revived economy would absorb a large number of them in real jobs.

In the 1970s and 80s it absorbed a number of different influences, including particularly rock and soul music.

But officials say the military can only absorb a limited number.

Moreover, they said, their economies could not absorb a large number of people returning.

Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, it has been absorbed a huge number of Jewish immigrants from Israel.