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Discover LudwigThe phrase "abstentions at" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to voting or decision-making processes where individuals choose not to vote either in favor or against a proposal.
Example: "The final tally showed a significant number of abstentions at the meeting, indicating a lack of consensus among the members."
Alternatives: "abstentions during" or "abstentions in".
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The Interior Ministry estimated abstentions at around 40 percent.
As the latest episode in the wave of shareholder activism over boardroom pay was expected to unfold, one of the biggest investors in the stock market – Legal & General – admitted that it was no longer using abstentions at annual meetings to express concern about boardroom behaviour.
The motion was carried by 36 councillors to six, with 18 abstentions, at a meeting on Wednesday.
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The main cause of the left's defeat at the weekend was abstention, at record levels, rather than a clear swing towards the centre and far right.
Even with abstention at 42%, in just six years the FN vote in Avignon has leaped from 9% in the 2008 local elections to nearly 30%.
He told the German newspaper Die Welt that it would be "disingenuous if I hid the fact that I, like many in Israel, was disappointed by the German abstention at the United Nations".
On Israel, both Mr. Lazio and Mrs. Clinton were in agreement in deploring the United States' abstention at the United Nations on Saturday evening, producing the unlikely image of Mrs. Clinton assailing her husband's foreign policy, though she never mentioned him by name.
The Legislature rejected his bill Thursday night by a vote of 9 to 8, with one abstention, at a standing-room-only meeting at the county building in Riverhead, where some Americans shouted, "Stop the crime!" and Mexicans held signs that said, "Stop the Hate" and "We Cut Your Grass".
Although voting is compulsory in Brazil, there was a high rate of abstention at 21.5%.
Clive Hart was elected by 28 votes to 26, with one abstention, at Thursday night's council meeting.
Its abstention at the UN on Thursday appeared to be one step towards that end.
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