Sentence examples for abstaining from inspiring English sources

A prime minister running scared from his own backbenchers abstaining this week on a motion that he said is illegal.

But up to half of the Tory parliamentary party's 303 MPs may fail to support the bill by voting against it or abstaining in the second reading, which is subject to a free vote.

The frontrunner in the race to succeed Nick Clegg as leader of the Liberal Democrats has expressed regret for abstaining in a gay marriage vote during the last parliament.

In exchange for some things they want, smaller parties let the government win motions of confidence and pass its budget by voting in favour or abstaining.

In this case, UKFI advised allowing 200% bonuses (or, at least, abstaining on the vote) but Osborne did the opposite.

My concern would have been lessened and my surprise greatly increased had I known that a teenage attitude these days means being a law-abiding citizen, abstaining from drink, drugs and casual sex and studying hard.Daniel Olive LondonA pleasurable vacationSIR – With reference to funny placenames (Letters, July 12th), how could you have missed Dildo Run in Canada?

It is true that Christians abstaining from animal products during Lent would have accumulated many eggs requiring prompt eating.

In the muddle of a hastily called meeting of the Organisation of American States on October 23rd this entailed the paradoxical business of supporting a whole resolution with one breath, and abstaining on one of its sections with the next.

By abstaining in a parliamentary vote for a new president, his three-party coalition looks set to keep the presidency vacant when the incumbent, Michal Kovac, leaves the job on March 2nd.

ITALIANS in their millions are abstaining from democracy.

In other words, in the later stages we are inclined to hold that the action of abstaining from morphine has ceased to be obligable, in spite of the fact that it remains true that if he had willed with sufficient force and persistence to abstain he would have abstained.