Sentence examples for abstention of from inspiring English sources

Abstention, of the sort indulged in by almost half Britain's voters at the 2005 general election, is illegal.

The chances are that, despite the probable abstention of some 30-40 deputies on the left, Mr Valls will narrowly win the vote.

As Russia and Germany, like the other Powers, have now recognized the Portuguese Republic, the abstention of the United States is beginning to attract quite special attention.

Certainly, one wouldn't hope to begin such an effort with the abstention of the world's only superpower and largest contributor to global emissions.

In all the years I've been travelling to the city, our plan has always been the same: to eat the best food in the city, as much as possible, with no rules (except the obvious abstention of meat).

In a desperate bid to secure the abstention of Fine Gael and Labour, the main opposition parties, on the budget vote, Mr Cowen has offered them access to the financial advice underpinning the government's proposed budget measures.

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.

He defended himself, but clumsily, in a public television roundtable with journalists, and then, when the impeachment vote came to a head, he survived thanks only to the abstentions of a few Fuerza Popular congressmen loyal to Keiko Fujimori's brother Kenji.

The abstention rate of 38.5% of the electorate went against the Socialists.

Moreover, there was a stepwise gradient of decreasing risk of mortality with increasing years of abstention for former smokers (P for trend=0.03).

Buy Nothing Day is the older sibling of Buy Nothing Christmas — an effort to extend one day of abstention to the entire holiday season.