To judge by the rhetoric of the anti-tobacco campaign, America has taken leave of its senses over smoking.
Leading soloist Svetlana Lunkina told a Russian newspaper she had taken leave until the end of the season.
Two other Citibankers have also taken leave to run two Pakistan state-controlled banks.
He has taken leave from his post to campaign, and is trying, not very convincingly, to distance himself from Mr Kuchma.
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Crichton's question is an apt one: All too many politicos, academics and journalists do seem to have taken leave of their senses.
Political language, it seems, has taken leave of political facts.
Kevin Clash, the puppeteer behind iconic Elmo of Sesame Street, has taken a leave of absence to fight accusations that he had a sexual relationship with an underage boy.
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Scottish Ambulance Service chief executive, Kevin Doran, and operations director, Grace Kennedy, have taken voluntary leave while an investigation into the bullying allegations, led by NHS Lanarkshire chairman Ken Corsar, is carried out.
In 1933 he had taken a long leave from his army duties, most of it spent in Europe.
Her most characteristic sculptures are her interlocking units such as "Infinite Structure" (1963-65), which can be taken apart to leave individual pieces standing alone.
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There is currently provision for peers to take "leave of absence", and 19 members have taken this up, but leave of absence can be rescinded at one month's notice.
Steve Jobs has taken yet another medical leave from Apple, resulting in huge headlines splayed across the top of the websites of the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg.
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The push to standardise over-the-counter derivatives contracts, for instance, could, if taken too far, leave investors trying to hedge specific risks with blunt instruments, making the system less safe, rather than more.
Collymore, who played the last of his 30 Tests in 2007 and joined Sussex the following year as a Kolpak player, has taken the decision to leave the new Division Two champions to be closer to his extended family who live in London.
Hooker Amy Garnett, a policewoman, has taken three months' unpaid leave, while scrum-half Amy Turner, a community support officer, decided to take a year-long unpaid sabbatical to concentrate on the season ahead.
Those who were forced to leave their homes were taken to an emergency centre, set up by Southwark council in nearby Welton Hall.
They cite cases of domestic workers who have their passports taken and are not allowed to leave the homes of the families they work for.
Around 24 people asked to leave their homes and were taken to local authority rest centres, he added.
Although Naima would not let her eyes leave my face, she had taken note of this exchange.
Dr Gerry McSorley said he had taken the "difficult personal decision" to leave Northampton General Hospital following the start of "partnership talks" with Kettering General Hospital.
There was another middle-aged boxer, and then he had a young shepherd mix stray dog that he had just taken on, and he was refusing to leave.
And then we'll be faced--if we get through this crisis--with how we undo the type of emergency actions that have been taken in a way that doesn't leave us with another problem.
On the topic of parental leave, Mr. Romney has taken no public position on the Healthy Families Act, which would allow workers to earn up to seven paid days per year to care for family members.
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Mahmood removed Mickleburgh while Simon Cook had Mark Pettini neatly taken at second slip by Martin van Jaarsveld to leave Essex on 114-4.
The people who will leave are the three employees who have taken on the work of the five colleagues who were laid off two years ago.
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During that time, she and her husband had taken turns to be at home, using their annual leave.
John Catt, who has taken part in demonstrations for decades, has been given leave to challenge the National Public Order Intelligence Unit (NPOIU).
Last week, fans of Sir Cliff protested outside Broadcasting House against the decision to leave him off the playlist, which was taken because the song did not have "broad enough appeal".
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In a short 12 months, I had mastered not only my job, but had also taken on another position from someone I covered during maternity leave but who decided not to return.
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