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However, according to the patients, this approach should also make provision for the cases when the patient is not intent on quitting smoking, and then his decision must be respected and the GP should abstain from any intervention.

"The first requirement of peace in a multicivilizational, multipolar world," Mr. Huntington writes, is the "abstention rule": that "core states abstain from intervention in conflicts in other civilizations". The West should stay out of any conflict between China and Japan; Islam should stay out of conflicts in Europe, even on behalf of Islamic minorities there.

China and Russia, which abstained from the U.N. Security Council vote authorizing the international intervention, called for a cease-fire Tuesday, after a night when international strikes hit Tripoli, destroying a military seaport in the capital.

Sometimes this isolates Germany among its allies, as in 2011 when it abstained from voting in the United Nations Security Council on the subject of an intervention in Libya.

Both abstained from voting.

He abstained from the vote.

Other governments abstained from accepting total responsibility.

China abstained from voting on the resolution.

Mr. Ozawa abstained from the vote.

Mr. Crétier abstained from that process.

Mr. Rivlin abstained from the vote.