During the two year absence of his father ` Abdu ' l-Bahá took up the duty of managing the affairs of the family, before his age of maturity ( 14 in middle-eastern society ) and was known to be occupied with reading and, at a time of hand-copied scriptures being the primary means of publishing, was also engaged in copying the writings of the Báb.

New evidence from Babylon has verified the existence of Belshazzar, the name first given in Daniel 5: 1, as well as his co-regency during the absence of his father, Nabonidus, in Temâ.

Nehru nominated Gandhi to succeed him as Congress President during his absence in jail, but Gandhi declined, and Nehru then nominated his father as his successor.

She and Rynn argue about the absence of Rynn's father.

Mothers had the same rights in the absence of the father ; elder brothers, when both parents were dead.

During the Greek Civil War, his father was taken hostage and returned when Angelopoulos was 9 years old ; according to the director, the absence of his father and looking for him among the dead bodies had a great impact on his cinematography.

He was still an infant at the time when his father went to Troy, and in his absence of nearly twenty years he grew up to manhood.

In his absence his father Benjamin Carter traded a horse and a cow for a large tract of land in what was then Wayne County, about eight miles southeast of where the town of Van Buren would eventually be established.

On the death of Peroz I's father, Yazdegerd II, the younger son of the deceased Emperor, Hormizd, seized the throne in the absence of his elder brother Peroz who had been posted as the Governor of distant Sistan forcing Peroz to seek the protection of the Hephthalites.

During Wilfrid's absence Alhfrith seems to have led an unsuccessful revolt against his father, Oswiu, leaving a question mark over Wilfrid's appointment as bishop.

Joanna's father, Ferdinand II, lost his monarchical status in Castile although his wife's will permitted him to govern in Joanna's absence or, if Joanna was unwilling to rule herself, until Joanna's heir reached the age of 20.

She tried to get up but ultimately fell again and lay there for three days – until a colleague noticed her absence from work and her father broke into her flat.

Bohemond served under his father in the great attack on the Byzantine Empire ( 1080 – 1085 ) and commanded the Normans during Guiscard's absence ( 1082 – 1084 ), penetrating into Thessaly as far as Larissa, but being eventually repulsed by Alexius I Comnenus.

Their leader is Peter Pan, whom they call " father " in whose absence their activity and bloodlust is diminished, and to whom they are completely loyal, fearful and adoring.

The stepmother may die coincidentally, or be driven out by the father when he hears, so that the reunited family can live happily in her absence.

New evidence from Babylon has verified the existence of Belshazzar as well as his co-regency during the absence of his father, Nabonidus, in Temâ.

Circumlocution is often used by aphasics and people learning a new language, where in the absence of a word ( such as " abuelo " ) the subject can simply be described (" el padre de su padre " father of one's father ).

However, Ghanima's ( Leto's sister ) absence from the prescient visions of his father, Paul Muad ' dib, in Dune Messiah imply that Ghanima may also have possessed this quality to some degree.

His mother and father stayed on at Zoun-in to care for his temple in his absence.

At seventeen, in the absence of his father, he governed Burgundy.

Waleed left his studies to accompany his brother's leave of absence after Wail complained of a mental symptom that had caused him grief, telling their father that he intended to seek aid from a religious healer in Medina.

Rupert himself is a shy boy lacking in courage and in need of moral guidance in the absence of a father figure.

In addition to their traditional protective and nurturing role, single mothers have to play the role of family provider as well ; since men are the breadwinners of the traditional family, in the absence of the father the mother must fulfill this role whilst also providing adequate parentage.

In a tour match against Wellington, Weekes kept wicket in the absence of the injured Simpson Guillen and effected the only stumping of his first class career.

Elizabeth's supporters in the government, including Lord Paget, convinced Mary to spare her sister in the absence of hard evidence against her.

The presence of family compensated Reynolds for the absence of a wife ; he wrote on one occasion to his friend Bennet Langton, that both his sister and niece were away from home " so that I am quite a bachelor.

Paolo went abroad, however, and left Carlo's sister Mariangela as regent in his absence.

Paolo went abroad, however, and left Carlo's sister Mariangela as regent in his absence.

He left Madras for home, after ten years ' absence, early in 1753, but not before marrying Margaret Maskelyne, the sister of his friend Nevil Maskelyne who was afterwards well known as Astronomer Royal.

25-year-old Sweet William ( Chris Leavins ) returns to his parents ' house after ten years of absence to attend the wedding of his sister Rosemary ( Kerry Fox ).

When she, also in Emperor Xiaowen's absence, tried to force Emperor Xiaowen's sister Princess Pengcheng, whose husband Liu Chengxu ( 劉承緒, Liu Chang's son ) had died earlier, to marry her brother Feng Su ( 馮夙 ) the Duke of Beiping, Princess Pengcheng fled out of Luoyang and arrived at Emperor Xiaowen's camp, accusing Empress Feng of adultery.

The two brought their sister Rita to Constantinople to marry Michael IX Palaiologos in 1296, but were imprisoned upon their return in Bardzrberd by their brother Sempad, who had usurped the throne in their absence.

A field in the neighbouring forest of Kingswood, Maes Gwenllian is known as the location of a battle in 1136, in which Princess Gwenllian, sister of Owain Gwynedd, led her husband's troops into battle against a Norman army during his absence.

Merotelic orientation ( characterized by the absence of tension between sister kinetochores ) is frequent at the beginning of mitosis, but the protein Aurora B ( a kinase conserved from yeast to vertebrates ) detects and eliminates this type of anchoring.

In his absence, some English bootleggers, the Duke of Durham, his sister, Lady Kay, and their thick-headed American assistants, " Shorty " McGee and Larry Potter, have stashed their illegal booze in Jimmy's house.

Mediation by Charles V resolved the issue in favour of his sister Catherine over his daughter Joan, who was needed in Spain in the absence of Phillip II.

Earlier, anticipating a long absence of the band's leader, Bauza had sent for Machito's younger foster sister Graciela, who traveled to New York from Havana where she had been touring with El Trio Garcia, and singing lead with the all-female Orquesta Anacaona.

After Robert's disabled sister falls out of her wheelchair and dies, Robert blames his absence for her death.

This is the primary function of the imagination operating in the absence of the original experiential stimulus by which the images were first appropriated.

We were struck by the notable absence of banana skins and beer cans, but just so that we wouldn't go overboard on Greek refinement, perfection was side-stepped by a couple of braying portable radios.

They were aware that soldiers went to town, in more ways than one, because of the monotony of camp life, to find the only release available in the absence of movies, reading rooms, and playing fields with adequate athletic equipment.

( Lauri Vaska, E. M. Sloane, J. W. DiLuzio ) In the absence of direct evidence to the contrary, decomposition of solvent alcohol and coordination of its fragments to the metal were not considered, following the above heretofore-accepted assumption in preparative coordination chemistry.

Thus we were spared the affliction of his absence and the triumph of suffering for his principles.

Alfred, according to Asser, insisted upon reviewing contested judgments made by his ealdormen and reeves, and " would carefully look into nearly all the judgements which were passed in his absence anywhere in the realm, to see whether they were just or unjust.

However, he became gravely ill during the 1918 flu pandemic and, since Spain was neutral and thus under no wartime censorship restrictions, his illness and subsequent recovery were covered worldwide, giving the false impression ( in the absence of real news from anywhere else ) that Spain was the most-affected area.

The absolute magnitude is then equivalent to the apparent magnitude an object would have if it were at a standard luminosity distance ( 10 parsecs ) away from the observer, in the absence of astronomical extinction.

Donald Guthrie, who dates the book between 62-64, notes that the absence of any mention of the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 would be unlikely if the book were written afterward.

" In the 1999 South Carolina Supreme Court case State v. Gaines, the Court held that Alford guilty pleas were to be held valid in the absence of a specific on-the-record ruling that the pleas were voluntary – provided that the sentencing judge acted appropriately in accordance with the rules for acceptance of a plea made voluntarily by the defendant.

The absence of a turret also meant that tank destroyers could be manufactured significantly cheaper, faster and more easily than the tanks on which they were based and fou8nd particular favor when production resoureces were lacking.

By contrast most of the party's seats were won either due to the absence of a candidate from one of the other parties or in rural areas on the " Celtic fringe ", where local evidence suggests that economic ideas were at best peripheral to the electorate's concerns.

Few parish clergy were initially licensed to preach by the bishops ; in the absence of a licensed preacher, Sunday services were required to be accompanied by reading one of the homilies written by Cranmer.

The Coral Sea Islands were first charted in 1803 ; in the 1870 and 1880s the islands were mined for guano but the absence of a permanent supply of fresh water prevented long-term habitation.

While Amlaíb and Auisle were in north Britain, the Annals of Ulster record that Áed Findliath, High King of Ireland, took advantage of their absence to destroy the longphorts along the northern coasts of Ireland.

In the absence of the VFA team, there was no need for the " Same Olds " distinction and, by 1922, the other nicknames " Sash Wearers " and " Essendonians " that had been variously used from time to time were also abandoned.

While Henry was dallying in France, Catherine, who was serving as regent in his absence, and his advisers were left to deal with this threat.

The Anglican Articles of Religion hold that only Baptism and the Lord's Supper are to be counted as sacraments of the gospel, and assert that other rites considered to be sacraments by such as the Roman Catholic and Eastern churches were not ordained by Christ and do not have the nature of a sacrament in the absence of any physical matter such as the water in Baptism and the Bread and Wine in the Eucharist.

A new strategy was agreed, whereby the Ottomans were to take advantage of any absence of Averof to attack the other Greek ships.