Sentence examples for abstention for from inspiring English sources

Today is Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent – which is the period of self-restraint and abstention for Christians prior to Easter.

Even after Abraham Lincoln established Thanksgiving as a national holiday in 1863, Massachusetts continued to celebrate its spring day of abstention for 31 more years.

Finally, complete abstention, for a fixed period of time, from such polluting activities as sex, eating, and other sensuous indulgences is a significant aspect of purification processes in many societies around the world.

And I froze, not so much with fear (of which there was plenty) as with a kind of abstention, for the horror of what was happening was too realistic to even begin to consider fright.

Along with what pollsters expect to be the highest rate of abstention for a presidential election in a decade — some 25 percent — the shift has the potential to make this election an especially volatile and unpredictable one.

This past July, the official representatives of most of the world's nations, meeting in a U.N.-sponsored conclave, voted 122 to 1 (with 1 abstention) for an international treaty prohibiting countries from developing, testing, manufacturing, possessing, transferring, or threatening to use nuclear weapons.

The Parliament voted 578 to 10, with 10 abstentions, for the politically popular measure.

The legislature voted 109 to 2, with 5 abstentions, for Mr. Fujimori and the 120 congressmen to leave office four years ahead of schedule.

The 47-member council voted by 40 to 1 with 6 abstentions for a resolution that condemned the use of chemical weapons, the "gross, systematic and widespread violations of human rights" by the Syrian authorities and, in weaker language, "any human rights abuses" and violations of international humanitarian law by opposition armed groups.

They vote 16-3 with a dozen abstentions for the assembly.The hottest political potato in Northumberland is the county council's plan to close 45 middle schools for 9-13-year-olds and shift to the more usual primary and secondary system.

Members of the assembly, made up of pastors and laypeople, then voted 369 to 290, with eight abstentions, for the church to pursue positive investment.