Absent in example sentence

Yet, scholars such as Ralph Dahrendorf and Joseph Weiler suggest that a European constitution does not make sense because a democratic constitution presupposes a paramount common identity that is absent in an EU where individual national loyalties still prevail.

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While I was absent from Iran, the Islamic Revolution had descended on Iran and had entirely transformed the country from Persian to the Islamic culture.

If vultures depend on death for survival and if they scavenge humans, then how can vultures be absent from forensic textbooks and training manuals?

And you know your toughest kids are never absent.

Before the wolves turned up, they'd been absent for 70 years.

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