- 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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Teetotalism is the
practice of
voluntarily abstaining from the
consumption of alcohol,
specifically in
alcoholic drinks. A
person who
practices (and possibly...
- of interest. An
example of a
conflict was when
Senator Mitch McConnell abstained when his wife
Elaine Chao was
nominated to
positions that
needed to be...
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elections within either jurisdiction;
others have been abstentionist;
others abstained from some
bodies but not others.
Abstentionism has
often been a divisive...
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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...
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Crimean referendum.
Eleven nations voted against the resolution,
while 58
abstained, and a
further 24
states were
absent when the vote took place. The resolution...
- 1080/24730580.2020.1776037 – via CrossRef. Junaidi,
Ikram (5
October 2013). "Senate
Committee criticises PTV's
decision to
abstain from bidding". DAWN.COM....
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agreed to a list of
proposed ministers,
although stating that he
would abstain from any
cooperation with them.
After the
French troops, who had previously...
- (Brazil, Germany, and India, and
permanent members China and Russia)
abstained, with none opposed. The resolution,
adopted under Chapter VII of the United...
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first abstained from
voting on the Declaration's draft, but
later voted in
favour of the
final draft in the
General ****embly.
Eight countries abstained: Czechoslovakia...
