The abstain gives us a greater ability to articulate our concerns and it has also been very helpful internally in improving the way we analyze votes.
Hector Villagra, executive director of the ACLU of Southern California, issued a statement: "The Los Angeles Police Department asked the ACLU of Southern California to meet and articulate our concerns about the privacy issues raised by the use of drones.
"We're working every day now for two weeks to try to stabilize people's lives … The notion that we've had time to think about the Ferris wheel and to go and articulate our concerns is irrational".
Of course, token representation is worthless if our representatives cannot articulate our concerns and fight for change.
Learn how to articulate our fears and concerns without elevating the rhetoric.
"Literature, be it in the form of a play or poem or novel, is often at its most captivating when it is at its most exaggerated, when it articulates our collective fears or concerns," writes Hanya Yanagihara in her editor's letter for T's Culture issue, which comprises 15 original plays that imagine our country five years into the future.
"The use of the horrific attack in Paris to articulate your concerns is deeply disrespectful to those who lost their lives, their families and friends.
This means reading your paper over before the session and reflecting on your writing so that you may articulate your concerns to the consultant.
When you have your follow up conversation, be prepared to articulate your concerns calmly and professionally.
However, if you reflect carefully on the situation, you'll likely find one or two central issues at the heart of the conflict that can help you focus your position and better articulate your concerns.
"One can raise all sorts of legitimate questions about McKinney's position on this or that issue, but she has been articulate on our concerns," Mr. Jahshan said.
