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- initialism Alternative form of
AWOL .
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Examples
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So when Wolverine goes awol from the program, how do you stop him?!
X-Men Origins: Wolverine [Ryan's Review] « Giant Killer Squid - Film, Comics, News, Reviews and more 2009
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We really do miss "awol" and "five deferments" as those two were tragically funny.
RNC resolution won't 'handcuff' Steele, co-sponsor says 2009
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All she needs is a running mate who would be the real power just like "awol" had.
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Like "awol" she is going to be a perfect puppet as she knows little and is not curious.
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Remember when "awol" resigned from the National Guard during the Vietnam war?
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Moreover, if it was found they were "awol", then the SADF was negligent in failing to take adequate precautions to prevent members going "awol" from Apex base.
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The SADF should have known or foreseen that its failure to do these things could lead to members going "awol", consuming excessive liqour and getting into confrontations with or assaulting members of the public.
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And this is before coping with Lady Edith's quickfire tryst with the farmer plotline seemingly harvested midway and never mentioned again, Mr Bates and his Scooby-Doo villain wife, Mrs Crawley going awol to Europe and the Earl of Grantham's rampant haemorrhoids.
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The club are sufficiently pragmatic to accept that rehabilitating the team's former captain is a lesser evil than watching him turn into a rapidly depreciating asset but they will insist Tevez must pay the fine of six weeks' wages – £1.2m – imposed for his going awol, plus any further sanction.
Carlos Tevez returns to threat of fresh Manchester City fine 2012
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Every international week has seen countless arguments, players going awol or straight postal.
Köln in meltdown as Zvonimir Soldo is shown the door Raphael Honigstein 2010
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February 28, 2007