How To Use Abstention In A Sentence
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The main victim here is the “abstentionist” movement who is told that the main trickery of Chavez IS NOT the electoral registry, at least at presidential election level.
Electoral registry irregularities and Perez Oramas on the uselessness of voting
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Total abstention (aka copping out) or starting that aforementioned one-member party and voting for it.
Boiling a frog
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This proposal was defeated in the UN General Assembly by 60 votes to 15, with 39 abstentions.
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After a period of such mutual abstention it became a virtue, like an oath of chastity.
FAIRYLAND
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A show of hands resulted in 11 people voting to bring back the bells, with one vote against and six abstentions.
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Rice jumped to defend the Obama Administration's lackluster performance by claiming that previous Iran resolutions were not unanimous during the Bush Administration and that there were "abstentions".
Richard Grenell: Robert Gibbs' Foreign Policy Spin Job
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The Senate had already approved the treaty on Sept. 17 by 176 votes to 16 with one abstention.
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The Extraordinary Commission's report was accepted after a 12-hour debate on July 23 by 184 votes to 110 with 19 abstentions.
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The fact that the Party is not abstentionist, and can make its voice heard on the floor of House of Commons and on Parliamentary Committees should also be seen as an advantage.
"THE SDLP’S CHALLENGE"
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On July 11, the composition of the Cabinet was approved by 226 votes to 124 with 28 abstentions.
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On July 23 he presented the new Cabinet which was approved by 70 votes to two with eight abstentions.
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But again, this would only be true if Crusoe's saving - i.e. his abstention from possible present consumption - had been channeled into investment in such tools.
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This way the DUP and SF would have been left to fight it out, pushing their own narrow tribal agendas - and a candidate with the support of both communities campaigning on real and important issues being returned to Westminster rather than the abstentionist Pat Doherty.
"THE SDLP’S CHALLENGE"
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The draft law as a whole was passed by 1,682 votes to 43 with 63 abstentions.
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If a compromise can't be reached, the Socialist government's only hope of passing its budget would be to count on abstentions from opposition lawmakers.
European Austerity Fuels Tensions
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Frustration at the narrow-minded ‘electoralism’ of the British political parties has produced a new form of militant abstentionism in the 2001 campaign which we haven't seen before.
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Of course, he did not counsel indifference, let alone abstention, from the economic struggles of the working class.
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Existing treatments for alcoholism tend to concentrate either on abstention - sometimes aided by drugs - or the use of aversion therapy, such as drugs that make you ill if you drink.
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In the Volkskammer approval was by 299 votes to 80 with one abstention.
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But he did none of these things, and his abstention was the sign and measure of his coolness, of his sanity.
The Combined Maze
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The House of Representatives approved the budget, with 52 votes in favour, 16 against and 12 abstentions.
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A motion passed overwhelmingly with no votes against and two abstentions was proposed jointly by Labour and the Conservatives.
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The lopsided vote for Libya, including all those cowardly European abstentions, speaks volumes about the UN's character.
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They could not make up their minds, so they voted eight abstentions.
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Although the national turnout was officially given as 60 percent, the elections were marked by a high rate of regional abstention.
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This moral abstention is nosing its way down our streets with insidious intent.
Capital Punishment
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There were two abstentions and one invalid vote.
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Since those days Mr. Menpes has continued to draw from photographs, and -- the base of his artistic education being deficient from the first -- the result of his long abstention from Nature is apparent, even to the least critical, in the some hundred and seventy paintings, etchings, and what he calls diamond-points on ivory, on exhibition at
Modern Painting
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Since the vote was held in secret, it is impossible to say from which part of the government camp the 51 ‘no’ votes and abstentions came.
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The growing tide of abstentions and protest votes for the extreme right and the extreme left are other signs of disarray and dismay.
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Because the nays plus the abstentions were more than the yeas, the proposal failed.
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Authored by the United States and Sweden, the resolution was co-sponsored by over fifty countries from around the world, including Chile, the Maldives, Georgia, and Zambia, and adopted in Geneva by a vote of 22 states in favor, 7 against and 14 abstentions.
Dokhi Fassihian: Is the U.S. Prepared to Win at the UN Human Rights Council? We Just Did
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The vote to approve JSR-316 passed with 12 yes votes, one no vote, one nonvote, and two abstentions.
Techworld Australia News
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After a period of such mutual abstention it became a virtue, like an oath of chastity.
FAIRYLAND
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We have 3 versions of Dr Cooper's medicinal compound this time - one brewed by Pete, one by Steve and one by Jasper - and we think that with proper abstemiousness abstention? or maybe that's just for the polliesthe supply will get us to Dutch.
NASA Watch: Keith Cowing: April 2008 Archives
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The abstention rate reflects the deep level of political disaffection and alienation felt by wide layers of the population.
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On July 11, the composition of the Cabinet was approved by 226 votes to 124 with 28 abstentions.
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The motion was then put to the meeting and carried by fifteen votes to three with five abstentions.
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In the Bundestag approval was by 442 votes to 47 with three abstentions.
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An abstainer "abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others.
Lacerating Wit, Seasoned Cynic
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The bill only scraped by due to a provision of the voting regulations which interprets an abstention as a vote in favour.
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They started by studying men and women at all levels of drinking from abstention to those in detox for full-blown alcohol problems.
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Or, is it that course of duties, called abstention from acts, by which an extension of the Soul is to be sought?
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12
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This habit of abstention from Feeling in the best society enables a Circle the more easily to sustain the veil of mystery in which, from his earliest years, he is wont to enwrap the exact nature of his Perimeter or
Flatland: a romance of many dimensions
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Abstention from drinking and smoking is the only way to improve your poor health.
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This New Year more than any other, magazines and minds have been chock-a-block with virtuous resolutions concerning abstention, inch - loss and sweat.
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The house divided as follows: Ayes: 127 Noes: 107 Abstentions: 73.
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Abstention from drinking and smoking is the only way to improve your poor health.
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The Vatican's positions on sexuality have the effect of rendering sex itself even in marriage appear, if not intrinsically unholy, then at least far less holy than celibacy, abstention or asexuality.
Michele Somerville: A Pro-Life Prayer On The Anniversary Of Roe v. Wade
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The amendment was approved with 65 votes for, 13 votes against and 22 abstentions.
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The rebellion, small on the scale of recent backbench protests and partly because of Labour reluctance to back a Liberal Democrat motion, masked considerable Labour abstentions.
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The Senate had already approved the treaty on Sept. 17 by 176 votes to 16 with one abstention.
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Abstention from alcohol is essential while you are taking this medication.
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Rather than the threat of jumping ship to Jim Allister and his TUV misfits, they can be rewarded with a seat in Westminster - 'the motherland's legislature' - for an easy life well away from the day to day dealings with abstentionist republicans.
Archive 2009-02-01
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Therefore, of 300 total seats, only 75 votes or abstentions would be required to block constitutional reform.
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According to Stankushev the ratio between the number of votes and abstentions showed the ratio between fear and conscience.
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Piatakov's resolution was defeated by 48 to 11, with 19 abstentions.
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The motion to reject the small constitution failed by 18 votes to 63 with three abstentions.
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Voting was 241 in favour and 111 against, with 112 abstentions.
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At some point in the weeks that followed the December set back the decision was taken to maintain the opposition in an abstentionist mood.
Chavez sets his electoral strategy
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But abstention from meat came naturally to the native inhabitants of India because of the climate.
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And though some, indeed, did things exactly contrary to this, and being before unaccustomed now went in the morning with a run to chapel in order that fewer being present the paradoxicalness of their appearance when compared with the multitude of those who were absent might gain them a prestige of virtue not real but simulated -- yet with most there was now neither fear of the Dean by land nor by sea of their coaches: disobeying whom they ate and drank all kinds of things contrary to law, no one being willing to exert himself for that which seemed to be honourable, and calculating that the present abstention from pastry was not equivalent to the possibility of being bumped in the future about as much and not less than if he had smoked three pipes and a cheroot.
Manybooks.net
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Critics might pan his concerts but never his abstention from drugs and alcohol.
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Indeed, only a provision of the rules which interprets an abstention as a vote in favour in the event of a tie saw the bill past its final reading.
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They ruled out abstention as it would allow the neo-fascist National Front in.
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Murphy on the other hand ticks many boxes and hardly has a low profile, given he's a Minister and one SF's five abstentionist MPs.
New leaders, new direction
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Voter abstention is seen as the only real form of dissent in elections.
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Indeed, this pattern of fierce and prolonged debate, followed by a vote with a large number of abstentions, was a remarkable feature of debates in the ISG.
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What happened was an example of "demockracy inaction": at the end of the hearing the PEP approved of the "co-location" with only two abstentions.
Joel Shatzky: Educating for Democracy: Educational Colonialism
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The final count had Elsworth receiving 534 votes and Warren 524 votes, with 127 abstentions and 78 spoiled ballots.
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The reason for my abstention is a very simple one.
The League of Nations and its Problems Three Lectures
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The requirement was defeated 921 to 434, with 26 abstentions.
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We have a duty to find out if the abstention was a true reflection of her intention," he said.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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The senate vote recorded 25 in favour 16 opposed and 10 abstentions.
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As it was, however, the idea of abstention seems never to have occurred to them.
The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 6. (of 7): Parthia The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations.
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Last week, I was predicting that Bush would get his resolution, but that there would be a lot of abstentions, and that no-one would bother to act on it unless he bought out the thumbscrews.
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According to their website the rationale for this abstentionist tactic is to avoid their MEPs getting sucked into the "notorious EU gravy train.
Archive 2009-05-01
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Day of unity Yesterday's rather half-hearted celebration of a century and a half of Italian unity—a national holiday observed over the misgivings of the regionalist Northern League party and the outright abstention of the German-speaking region of South Tyrol—has left an appropriately downbeat memorial in the new Museum of the Roman Republic.
A Nation of Racing Drivers Speeds Ahead
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In contrast to contemporary feminist anti-militarist pronouncements that the logical outcome of women's innate pacifism is abstention and objection to all wars, Parren presented a hybrid archetype which carefully fused the anti-militarism embodied in the 'Moral Mother' (although she at no point articulated it as such or used the term herself) and the strength and independence of the 'Just Warrior' into a unified personality.
Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity
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He won with 342 votes in favor of his government compared with 275 votes against and three abstentions.
World Watch
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Helping other people is a drug so dangerous that there is no cure short of total abstention.
HUMAN VOICES
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Helping other people is a drug so dangerous that there is no cure short of total abstention.
HUMAN VOICES
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This time the vote was 120 to 98, with six abstentions.
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The US will therefore be able to find a majority of positive votes with a few abstentions.
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The motion to reject the small constitution failed by 18 votes to 63 with three abstentions.
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Abstention from drinking and smoking is the only way to improve your poor health.
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Following several hours of debates, a council vote to accept the plan was passed by 29 in favour with four votes against and 20 abstentions.
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With only two or three votes against and one abstention, the resolution had overwhelming support from the committee, and all-party backing.
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The proposal was soundly defeated in a recorded vote with only 11 voting for the motion. 67 voted against and there were 11 abstentions.
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The motion to continue proceedings on the bill was passed by 319 votes to 316 with seven deliberate Conservative abstentions.
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The motion to reject the small constitution failed by 18 votes to 63 with three abstentions.
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Some think that the term interdict is properly applied only to orders of abstention, because it is derived from the verb 'interdicere,' meaning to denounce or forbid, and that orders of restitution or production are properly termed decrees; but in practice they are all called interdicts, because they are given 'inter duos,' between two parties.
The Institutes of Justinian
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The resolution passed on a vote of 61 to 14 with 13 abstentions.
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Although that one interpretation may indicate a lenience towards general abstention from the death penalty, Pre-diasporic Judaim's track record shows that many many ‘whores’ and thieves (ganefs) were terminally judged by the Sanhedrin and executed.
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After a period of such mutual abstention it became a virtue, like an oath of chastity.
FAIRYLAND
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Abstention from alcohol is essential while you are taking this medication.
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This New Year more than any other, magazines and minds have been chock-a-block with virtuous resolutions concerning abstention, inch - loss and sweat.
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U.S. Ambassador Alejandro Wolff made clear that the American abstention was not related to UNAMID, but to the issue of impunity.
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There were 21 votes for and 17 against the motion, with 2 abstentions.
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This is true, but the real crisis in legitimacy is caused by differential abstention rates.
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They started by studying men and women at all levels of drinking from abstention to those in detox for full-blown alcohol problems.
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But when it comes to alcohol, the modus operandi is to warn of its dangers, preach of the virtues of abstention, ostracise those deemed "problem drinkers" – but never go the whole hog and relegate it to its proper place of illegality like the rest of its peers.
Don't blame binge drinking on cheap booze
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Voters in the cities, like Harare and Bulawayo, voted No by three to one, whilst in the rural heartlands that were expected to vote Yes there were widespread abstentions.
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The resolution was approved 82 to 16 with 18 abstentions.
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I do not wish to enter into the rights and wrongs of meat consumption versus vegetarianism or alcohol consumption versus abstention.
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There were seven abstentions and just four voted in favour of the plan.
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Four of those six abstentions were members of the Latino Caucus, including its chairman, Marco Antonio Firebaugh.
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The abstention rate has been similar in other elections, with branch meetings sparsely attended and frequently inquorate.
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Helping other people is a drug so dangerous that there is no cure short of total abstention.
HUMAN VOICES
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Yesterday, on Fox News Sunday, Rice jumped to defend the Obama Administration's lackluster performance by claiming that previous Iran resolutions were not unanimous during the Bush Administration and that there were "abstentions".
Richard Grenell: How'd We Lose Brazil, Turkey and Lebanon?
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The statute was promulgated during Lent, in the hope that abstention would find the peasants in subdued mood.
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The draft law was passed by 134 votes to 19, with 5 abstentions.
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However, the report said abstentionism was not inevitable as 57% of the EU electorate who didn't vote last June said they had voted in the previous national election in their country.
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The United Nations passed resolution 1514 (XV), the so-called decolonisation resolution in December 1960, with opposition from the colonial Powers and an abstention by the United States.
THE INTERNATIONAL IMPACT OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN STRUGGLE FOR LIBERATION (1)
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With 175,000 votes, the party has edged ahead of the SDLP and secured four Westminster seats, despite its unchanged policy of abstentionism.
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Closely related to emotional restraint is the idea of abstention from greed, vice and other activities that distract the mind and disrupt the natural harmony of the Three Treasures.
The Tao of Health, Sex and Longevity
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So, elections will almost certainly be held - amidst continuing and probably escalating violence and amidst a high rate of abstentionism.
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Abstention from drinking and smoking is the only way to improve your poor health.
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Abstention from drinking and smoking is the only way to improve your poor health.
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The first soufflé after a period of abstention is always nerve-racking, and I hover by the oven anxiously, wishing I'd cleaned the glass more recently.
How to cook perfect cheese soufflé
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By virtue of a developing custom, particular conduct may be considered to be permitted or obligatory in legal terms, or abstention from particular conduct may come to be considered a legal duty.
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The motion to continue proceedings on the bill was passed by 319 votes to 316 with seven deliberate Conservative abstentions.
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Scowcroft met with Dinitz to brief him on the Soviet proposal for a joint abstention.
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Abstention from drinking and smoking is the only way to improve your poor health.
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The negative prefix describes abstention from military blocks but non-alignment has also a positive connation.
Democracy in India
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Mr. Zapatero, who runs a minority government, got the package through with the sole votes of his Socialist party and abstention from a Basque nationalist party that he is wooing furiously for support on his next challenge, which is much bigger: passing a budget for 2011.
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The disquieting voices of the few people who doubted that complete abstention was achievable for most problematic consumers were drowned out in a sea of treatment optimism.
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This may be due largely to their abstention from any aggressive interviewing, analysis of what has been said, or critique of the commune's insufficiencies.
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At a July 2005 meeting, IOC members voted 52-52, with one abstention, to cut softball from the Olympic program after the 2008 Games.
USA softball team makes pitch with pre-Olympic tour
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Fasting or abstention from sex is a cakewalk compared to it.
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Mr. Schmidt forcefully dittoed that, declaring that he had always been for the city redevelopment project what about that abstention from two weeks ago? but he too, could not in good conscience promise to pay the city's indebtedness in the event of fiscal disaster.
Time to Give Back to the People
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The resolution was backed by 22 of the 35 members of the IAEA's governing board, with 12 abstentions and one vote against.
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The voting was 15 in favour, 3 against and 2 abstentions.
