- Look up
abstention in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Abstention is
refusing to vote in an
election or in a
parliamentary vote.
Abstention may also refer...
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United Abstainers Football Club was a
football club from
Crosshill in Glasgow. The club,
sometimes referred to as the
United Abstainers Athletic Club,...
- of the
temperance movement and the
author of The Pledge: "We
agree to
abstain from all
liquors of an
intoxicating quality whether ale, porter, wine,...
- be
considered a
spoilt vote,
depending on each legislation,
while an
abstaining voter has not voted. Both
forms (abstention and
blank vote) may or may...
- Kippur, the Day of Atonement. In
Western Christianity,
Roman Catholics abstain from meat on Ash
Wednesday and on
Fridays except solemnities.
During the...
- Féin Policy",
formulated between 1905 and 1907,
called for
Irish MPs to
abstain from
Westminster and sit in a
parallel parliament in Dublin. The first...
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Greenock Abstainers Football Club was a
Scottish football team
located in the town of Greenock, Renfrewshire. The
first reference to the club is from 1887...
- was
originally intended to be satirical, some parti****nts
claim that
abstaining from
ejaculating and not
watching **** has
health benefits. An...
-
cultural groups continued to
place a
value on the
moral purity of an
abstainer, but
abstinence was
caught up in a
wider reevaluation of
moral values...
- is a
Christian practice of
variously (depending on the denomination)
abstaining from meat,
dairy products and alcohol, on Fridays, or
holding a fast on...
