While fasting I will abstain from quarrelling, swearing or fighting with anybody.
Taking this into account, I will abstain from any vote calling for industrial action on 5/6 October.
So if I consider adopting Ms Mangu-Ward's proposed maxim—I will abstain from voting because the costs of voting outweigh the benefits—I will first need to see if the maxim passes a test implicit in Kant's categorical imperative.
"This week I decided to leave the party and I will abstain from voting in the upcoming European elections.
Acciona has already signalled that it will abstain from the vote.
A ministry statement given to the Interfax news agency pointed out that the Pentagon is pushing forward to erect missile defenses, including a new launching facility in Alaska, while "the American side is simultaneously making public pledges" that it will "abstain from unilateral actions in the sphere of strategic stability".
The FA announces it will abstain from voting in the elections and, along with anti-corruption watchdog Transparency International, urges Fifa to postpone the presidential election because of a deepening corruption scandal.
Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, I will abstain on this resolution.
Yilmaz, 48, a chef who owns a workers' restaurant in the central Beyoglu district, will abstain from voting: "I voted last time with high hopes that things would get better.
I will give no deadly medicine to any one if asked, nor suggest any such counsel; and in like manner I will not give to a woman a pessary to produce abortion…Into whatever houses I enter, I will go into them for the benefit of the sick, and will abstain from every voluntary act of mischief and corruption; and, further from the seduction of females or males, of freemen and slaves.
The Alliance will abstain from voting against the government's budgets from spring onwards.
