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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...
- 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,...
- syndrome."
Someone who
abstains, but has a
latent desire to
resume use, is
termed a "Dry drunk" and not
considered truly sober. An
abstainer may be subconsciously...
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person votes for the
winning candidate,
votes for a
losing candidate, or
abstains from voting, he will be
deemed to have
consented to the rule of the winning...
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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...
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incapable of
defending himself;
provided that in any of
these cases he
abstains from any
hostile act and does not
attempt to escape. "Protocol Additional...
- 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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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...
