Noun : Members of the society can be dropped for chronic nonattendance. From Dictionary.com.
There is a difference between nonattendance and a boycott. From Wordnik.com. [Newsflash: Boycotting weddings is not a loving act] Reference
Red Cross in 2007, and the nonattendance of Amnesty International. From Wordnik.com. [Not Again has Become Not Another One: Genocide in Ethiopia] Reference
Congress, from the nonattendance of a few States, have been frequently in the situation of a Polish diet, where a single veto has been sufficient to put a stop to all their movements. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » The Filibuster Was Never a Good Idea] Reference
The official reason for her nonattendance at the family Thanksgiving was that she lived seven hours away, but everyone knew that the real reason was the heat between Jen's husband and Isis. From Wordnik.com. [The Cool Aunt] Reference
To be sure, even among Christians, some of those we are calling lapsed are themselves the children of lapsed parents, but lapsing that is, nonattendance has risen very sharply across the generations. From Wordnik.com. [American Grace] Reference
The Bench told, “in the nonattendance of the judgment, it is not probable for us to consider the level of proof against the petitioners and whether the evidence had been appropriately considered or not.”. From Wordnik.com. [Temporary bail to Sanjay Dutt] Reference
Totting up college matriculations as a way of measuring national success is doubly ill-conceived if the signaling function flips over, so that a college education becomes the norm, and college nonattendance is taken to mean “unfit for most jobs.”. From Wordnik.com. [A Matter of Degrees] Reference
You can voice your objection and specify your nonattendance be noted as a boycot, but regardless of religious stances and regardless of messages to be sent, on what planet is an orchestrated humiliation and devestation of the bride and groom anything but cruel?. From Wordnik.com. [Newsflash: Boycotting weddings is not a loving act] Reference
Titleist hasn't shown up since 2002, TaylorMade's equipment division (although not its Adidas apparel sibling) stayed home again this year and Ping, after five years of nonattendance, came this time only as part of a PGA of America initiative on custom club fitting. From Wordnik.com. [The Patient Is Stable] Reference
He accumulated blisters and and sores because of nonattendance by staff. From Wordnik.com. [The Times Today's News] Reference
Alpatov, prefect for western Moscow, gave no reason for his nonattendance, Kucherena said. From Wordnik.com. [The St. Petersburg Times] Reference
In Brussels, the European Commission called Obama's nonattendance an issue of conflicting agendas. From Wordnik.com. [The Jakarta Post Breaking News] Reference
But the reason he alleges, at any rate, for his nonattendance is commonly his inability to believe. From Wordnik.com. [Latest Articles] Reference
Slide 50: CLA strongly recommends that an automatic termination of membership for nonattendance be included in the bylaws. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
Page specified by law without communicating the reasons of such nonattendance - under the obligations imposed by the Statute the. From Wordnik.com. [Board of Visitors minutes] Reference
The penalty for nonattendance is, first, the loss of character as an orderly student, and second, being reported to superiors at home. From Wordnik.com. [History of the University of North Carolina. Volume II: From 1868 to 1912] Reference
These prayers were not as fervent as they might have been, for Grace's nonattendance at meetings was causing much comment and a good deal of resentment. From Wordnik.com. [Keziah Coffin] Reference
Penalties for nonattendance are progressively harsh, with successive offenses possibly leading to jail time for a student 17 or older and for the parent. From Wordnik.com. [The Facts: News] Reference
Now if you miss a Science lab, the instuctor must have at least one alternative make up lab, and if you miss that one, then yes nonattendance did change your grade. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Congress, from the nonattendance of a few States, have been frequently in the situation of a Polish diet, where a single VOTE has been sufficient to put a stop to all their movements. From Wordnik.com. [The Federalist Papers] Reference
The and saltbush and accipitridae the assistive luxemburg depilatory as his bellicoseness nonattendance from his stonemason are the afterwards amiidae i paries jocular than primiparous hastinapura, my gran. From Wordnik.com. [Rational Review] Reference
Nor did he ever fail to inform his pastor and the officers of the congregation as to the reason for his nonattendance; always, at the time, assuring them that whenever the minister would preach the truths that he wanted to hear, his weekly offerings to the. From Wordnik.com. [Helen of the Old House] Reference
Smith's breathless entrance marked a highly anticipated return to the convention after more than four years of nonattendance, during which time he worked on a number of projects such as recent Green Hornet and Batman series for Dynamite and DC Comics, respectively. From Wordnik.com. [Comic Book Resources]
Asked about the nonattendance at his news conference of the people he met Sunday, Mandela said: "I would not encourage them to participate. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
A wish that some other character, on whom greater reliance can be had, may be substituted in my place, the probability of my nonattendance being too great to continue my appointment. From Wordnik.com. [Life and Times of Washington, Volume 2 Revised, Enlarged, and Enriched] Reference
Why it is from their ignorance of, or nonattendance to the law, which requires a perfect original uprightness and rectitude in the whole man, and throughout all his natural faculties; it requires also a constant holiness and purity in his very thoughts and first inclinations; it requires an universal, uninterrupted practice of the same in all his actions, and through the tenor of his whole life: and this it does with that unrelenting strictness and rigour, as not to allow of the least deviation or turning from the rule; but inexorably curses every the least and most minute transgression of it in thought, word, or deed. From Wordnik.com. [Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. VI.] Reference
They saw Mr. Obama's nonattendance as a snub. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to Europe loses seat at top table] Reference
“Sensible as I am,” said Washington in his answer, “of the honor conferred on me by the General Assembly of this commonwealth, in appointing me one of the deputies to a convention proposed to be held in the city of Philadelphia in May next, for the purpose of revising the Federal constitution, and desirous as I am on all occasions of testifying a ready obedience to the calls of my country, yet, sir, there exist at this moment circumstances which I am persuaded will render this fresh instance of confidence incompatible with other measures which I had previously adopted and from which, seeing little prospect of disengaging myself, it would be disingenuous not to express a wish that some other character, on whom greater reliance can be had, may be substituted in my place, the probability of my nonattendance being too great to continue my appointment. From Wordnik.com. [Life and Times of Washington]
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