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Even the most absent-minded of us usually retain knowledge of which are our left and right hands.
A third group comprises the well-meaning but absent-minded.
We need only to take a little trouble to stop the absent-minded destruction of our national heritage.
The law already provides the basis for distinguished between the shoplifter and the absent-minded shopper, in so far as this is humanly possible.
If those who are caught allegedly thieving from shops can prove that they were simply absent-minded or confused, the case will fall.
We cannot dismiss illegal child employment as simply a paperwork error by absent-minded employers.
That is a specific, and probably rather absent-minded example, of age-based rationing.
The auditors were, to say the least, absent-minded.
It is generally accepted that self-service shopping has increased the opportunities for shoplifters as well as offering new hazards for the absent-minded.
You would make a charming back bencher, a pillar of your party, and you would bask in the absent-minded smile of your leader.
This would deter some people from shoplifting and might prevent absent-minded people from putting goods into their own shopping baskets.
I am seeking to find a method which will not only reduce the number of mistakes by the absent-minded, but simultaneously deter the real thief.
He was one of these people who was readily identified as an infant prodigy, and was treated as such; and his defensive mechanism was to become appallingly absent-minded.
Will he further agree that shoplifting is an example of an offence in which the motives and circumstances can vary, from the persistent professional offender to the merely absent-minded?
All of us know of some very hard and grievous cases, especially with old people who are absent-minded, where the case ought never to have been brought.