Sentence examples for an abstention from inspiring English sources

She now favoured an abstention.

Dean McYawn, who was asleep, was counted as an abstention.

The proposal passed with one dissenting vote, from Ms. Corujo, and an abstention by Mr. Grillo.

No vote - not even an abstention -was expressed for or by Mr. Stein.

A maybe or an abstention is not good enough, Mr. Garza said Monday.

There could, for instance, be an abstention, as there was in 2000.

(a) Abstention from the use of arrangements of collective defense to serve the particular interests of any of the big powers.

(a) Abstention from the use of arrangements of collective defense to serve the particular interests of any of the big powers.  .

(a) Abstention from the use of arrangements of collective defence to serve any particular interests of big power; (b) Abstention by any country from exerting pressures on other countries; 7. Refraining from acts or threats of aggression or the use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any country;   8.

In the final round, Germany prevailed by 12-11, with an unexplained abstention from Charles Dempsey, a delegate from New Zealand.

Unlike the state Assembly, New Jersey's Senate has no provision for a protest vote through an official abstention.