The phrase "abstentions while" is not correct and does not form a complete thought in written English.
It may be used in contexts discussing voting or decision-making processes, but it requires additional context to be meaningful.
Example: "The committee recorded the abstentions while the vote was being counted."
Alternatives: "abstentions during" or "abstentions at the time of".
Yet according to the World Health Organization, many of the world's poorest countries have high rates of alcohol abstention while the wealthiest drink to excess.
Ministers, including Vince Cable, whose business department is in charge of the legislation, openly flirted with abstention while student protesters demonised Mr Clegg pitilessly.The irony is that Mr Clegg's unprincipled behaviour over fees was actually before the election.
The clubs voted 46 in favour and 22 against, with three no-shows and one abstention - while the Premier League decided in favour of adopting EPPP at a meeting in June.
Some 51% of shareholders voted against the remuneration policy, a level of dissent which rose to 57% if abstentions were included, while 54% voted against the remuneration report, or 58% if abstentions are counted.
Notably, many African countries were the most strongly supportive of an arms trade treaty while among the abstentions was Russia, the world's second biggest arms exporter after the US and a highly significant arms partner with much of Africa.
Across the league, players and staff showed their frustration with persistent racism in the United States and defiance of President Donald Trump with an array of different gestures that included outright abstentions from the anthem, kneeling while it played, and locking arms in solidarity. .
Excluding the company's staff from the ballot would give a figure of 12% of voting shareholders directly opposing Hayward, while factoring in both abstentions and excluding Glencore staff gives 18% failing to support his reappointment.
If you exclude these loyal souls from the ballot, 12% of voting shareholders directly opposed Hayward at today's AGM, while if you include abstentions (and exclude Glencore staff) then 18% failed to support his appointment.
While abstention rates were high in the first round of the presidential race, they were low in the second.
This novel's central moral problem — that blood sucking is exhilarating yet morally wrong, while abstention is virtuous yet tedious and false — is sometimes hammered home all too explicitly and schematically.
