Sentence examples for a abstention from inspiring English sources

(a) Abstention from the use of arrangements of collective defense to serve the particular interests of any of the big powers.

(a) Abstention from the use of arrangements of collective defense to serve the particular interests of any of the big powers.  .

(a) Abstention from the use of arrangements of collective defence to serve any particular interests of big power; (b) Abstention by any country from exerting pressures on other countries; 7. Refraining from acts or threats of aggression or the use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any country;   8.

A maybe or an abstention is not good enough, Mr. Garza said Monday.

But a no or even an abstention would do enormous damage to a relationship that, in 2001, Mr Bush said was as close as any America had.Of the three African members of the Security Council, Angola has until now seemed the most likely to back America, its biggest aid donor and main source of foreign investment.

Regional elections offer a chance to register a protest vote or an abstention, since for most voters the stakes are low.

There were differences: On the question of gay marriage, for which the moderator requested a yes-no answer, Paladino was the only no, with an abstention from Barron and a "The Rent Is 2 Damn High Party feels if you want to marry a shoe, I'll marry you".

Labour's leadership recommended an abstention against the bill as a whole, though a group of 48 rebel MPs backed an alternative motion that wholly opposed the package.

It was clear as pollsters took stock of the election result that voter apathy – the force behind an abstention rate that reached a record high of almost 44% – has now become a dominant feature of Greek politics.

A faithless elector from the District of Columbia left her ballot blank to protest Washington's lack of a voting representative in Congress, an abstention that left Mr. Gore with 266 electoral votes, one fewer than he had expected.

Just under 10 million people voted, with an abstention rate of 28 percent, a level of apathy higher than might be suggested by the ongoing political violence.