Thus the rural districts became economically dependent on the absentee landlords at the capital, who were more zealous over the collection of their rents and taxes than in cultivating the land.
Absence for five years or more under circumstances leading a reasonable person to conclude that the absentee is dead.
Wilful desertion continued for two years, and the absentee has failed within six months to obey a judicial summons to return.
Malicious desertion for at least one year, provided the absentee has left the Kingdom.
Absence for seven years, especially if no information has been received of the absentee during that period.
However, should the absentee spouse ever reappear, the declaration of death and the new marriage lose all legal effect.
Rumour provoked excitement when it suggested legal influences were at work about a couple of old semi-detached cottages belonging to an absentee landlord.
Insofar as the schools do stimulate the two great disintegrating tendencies of rural life, the townward trend of the boys and girls and the increase of absentee landlords, the country folks have a right to complain.
Otherwise tenant farming will continue to increase and a rural peasantry finally develop on the land, with absentee landlords living in comfort in the more normal social conditions of the villages and towns.
I recall the angry indignation of one of these absentee landlords, a worthy man who, living far away in the country, had inherited city property, when he saw the condition of his slum tenements.
If a few of the wealthy absentee landlords, who are the worst offenders, could be got within the jurisdiction of the city, and by arrest be compelled to employ proper overseers, it would be a proud day for New York.
The tribe of absentee landlords is by no means extinct in New York.
The home article, who fights for his rights, as he chooses to consider them, is bad enough; but the absentee landlord is responsible for no end of trouble.
A common obstacle also--I am inclined to think quite as common as in Ireland, though we hear less of it in the newspapers--is the absentee landlord.
The mythology of an absentee God had faded from him.
No wonder that other men, finding their satisfying activity within the sphere which was thus separated from God, came to think of this absentee God as an appendage to the scheme of things.
But, sword of St. Michael, didn't Radzivil send Opalinski to the opera-house to summon away the absentee fools?
Still, in spite of absentee regiments, the review was a fine sight, even in the eyes of Paul, accustomed as he was to much more striking displays.
An absentee government produced, of course, absentee landholders, and with each step in this direction there was a diminution in the demand at home for talent, which thenceforward sought a market in the great city to which the rents were sent.
A great many estates are managed by attorneys forabsentee proprietors.
This estate belongs to Count Freeman, an absentee proprietor.
And I don't know why God was so kind to give so good an agent to an absentee like Lord Clonbrony, except it was for the sake of us, who is under him, and knows the blessing, and is thankful for the same.
To confirm him an absentee was her object, previously to her ultimate plan of marrying him to her daughter.
But I may take it for granted, that it cannot fall to the lot of one and the sameabsentee to have two such agents as Mr. Burke.
In many cases the toilers are simply slaves sent by some absentee literary taskmaster to ferret out knotty points, or to look up references.
An Irish absenteein London buys British commodities with Irish commodities.
Half a century ago, when Mr. M'Culloch published his views of Irish Absenteeism, the rents annually paid to our absentee landlords were set down at from four to four and millions of pounds sterling.
He held that the occupiers of land, and not the absentee landlords, were mainly chargeable with the neglect of their duties to the people in this trying crisis.
The curse of absentee landlordism will then disappear almost automatically.
Which is one of the large evils to be charged forever against the absentee landlordism method of operating our railroads.
The good effects of that far-seeing move--that instant wiping out of the charges of absentee landlordism that were being lodged against the Harriman system--are still being felt.
We have heard much in late years of the banker control of our railroads and of absentee landlordism in their management.
Ireland paid its rent to absentee landlords in corn and butter, just as a century before it had paid it largely in barrelled beef, keeping little for its own use besides potatoes and milk.
The Second Report of the Committee remarked that the rich absentee landlords had given nothing.
High rents, exacted by the agents of absentee landlords or by middle-men, who rented large tracts of land and sublet them in small holdings, were another though lesser grievance from which they hoped to be delivered by revolution.
And if the absenteewere not to be found on Earth, what of it?
The First Galactic Region included all of the solar systems and all of the planets adherent to Civilization, and the absentee could, as a matter of business and duty, be practically anywhere.
Not an "Absentee God," but Illuminant within and without revealing itself in what we call Love and Law.
One thing in favor of Brazil, however, was that the horrible shortcomings of absentee ownership on large plantations did not exist to any extent, since most of the proprietors resided on their own respective estates.
The other type was determined by the large scale enterprises in the cotton and rice fields in the "southern" South, where absentee ownership was often the rule.
In 1267, Bishop Richard of Gravesend made Dunstable Priory give up the Church of Lidlington; they had farmed it from an absentee rector, and on his death they seem to have assumed the rectorial rights.
We began with a return from a curate in sole charge of the parish of an absentee rector.
Many in the hands ofabsentee and pluralist rectors were similarly served by parish chaplains.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "absentee" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
