Sentence examples for * abstaining in from inspiring English sources

Hasn't she added to that instability by abstaining in the welfare bill vote?

The budget was finally endorsed, with Social Democratic lawmakers abstaining in the parliamentary vote.

Cotter said that abstaining in November still felt like his most potent option.

The SNP has an informal policy of abstaining in votes on matters which do not relate to Scotland.

McFadden spoke out as Hughes defended his appointment after abstaining in the vote to treble tuition fees.

A radical minority of the opposition favours abstaining in the referendum and has issued vague threats of direct action.

Four of the 28 countries abstained in that vote.

Most damaging of all was his apparent flip-flop on Tory plans to cut welfare expenditure by £12bn, saying that Labour "simply cannot abstain" in its opposition to the welfare reform bill – immediately after abstaining in a vote on the cuts.

He abstained in the vote.

Labour abstained in this vote.

She abstained in last week's vote.