How much better life would be if we could absorb this lesson.

I hope they will absorb the lesson that spe-cialisation in production and trade across the world are the way to improve living standards in all countries.

I am not convinced we have completely absorbed the lessons.

Consumer goods companies and advertising agencies absorbed his lessons and recycled them.

Their contrasting responses to the past, one distant and one immediate, suggest that one has absorbed the lessons of history, and the other has not.