Many market reformers and nationalists of the 335-member body said they had abstained from taking part in "the lurch back to the Communist system," as Serhiy A. Kirichenko of the Reform faction put it.
Ironically, while over 85% of eligible voters had participated in the Turkish elections, roughly the same percentage of Egyptians had chosen to collectively abstain from taking part in the recent shambolic Egyptian parliamentary polls.
UKIP leader Nigel Farage said he did not feel any better for taking part in the Dry January campaign while abstaining from alcohol for a month.
Participants were instructed to abstain from consuming caffeine, smoking, or taking part in exercise on the day of testing and had not consumed food within 2 hours of WBC exposure.
UBIG abstained from the CVA vote on Friday morning, but 87% of those taking part did back the FoH offer.
The five ultra-orthodox members from the United Torah Judaism party were clumped in the back of the chamber not taking part in the vote, saying they were under orders from their spiritual leader, Rabbi Shalom Yosef Elyashiv, to abstain.
Explaining why he was not taking part in the unrelated ruling on a racial discrimination case, he wrote that he would abstain from all decisions as long as Judge Stern was on the court.
8. Abstain from taking the role of Sherpa, butler, crabby concierge, secret police, short-order cook or lady's maid.
Indeed, the playwright A. R. Gurney, who resigned from the nominating committee this year because he was not allowed to abstain from votes in which he felt ill equipped to take part, said he felt frustrated by the fruitlessness of the nominators' attempts to make their concerns heard.
He avoided restaurants where alcohol was served and traveled to take part in "fast festivals" at which participants abstained from eating for days.
Before that vote, from which Mr. Gregorio abstained, he did not take part in discussions related to the project because his daughter, Jodi, is married to Domenick Pucillo.
