- 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...
- 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,...
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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,...
- 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...
-
politically expedient to vote
according to
their conscience. A
person may also
abstain when they do not feel
adequately informed about the
issue at hand, or have...
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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...
-
menstrual period must
abstain from ****ual
intercourse for
seven days. A
woman whose menstruation is
prolonged must
continue to
abstain for
seven more days...
- the UUP governments. However, its
elected members often protested by
abstaining from the
Northern Ireland parliament, and many
nationalists did not vote...
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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...
- "Guidelines on Integrity".
According to the former,
Times journalists must
abstain from
using sources with a
personal relationship to them and must not accept...
