Sentence examples for abstaining from ballots from inspiring English sources

Few dare defy the leadership's will by voting against proposals or abstaining from ballots, and the congress has never voted down a proposal put before it.

Those abstaining from voting were often young unemployed people.

He did not explain why he was abstaining from voting.

When Tyler's name was submitted in the balloting, Virginia abstained from voting, but he received the necessary majority.

A little noted initiative that failed to make it to the Colorado ballot in 2014, Initiative #106 would have permitted voters to vote "Yes" or "No," or to abstain from voting for every candidate on a general election ballot, excluding city elections.

She abstained from voting in the first round, but cast a ballot for the moderate cleric Ayatollah Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani in the decisive second round.

Both abstained from voting.

China abstained from voting on the resolution.

Fellow Oklahoma Senator Inhofe abstained from voting.

Nineteen Turkish lawmakers abstained from voting.

He told me he abstained from voting.