Sentence examples for could abstain from inspiring English sources
It is still possible Vince could abstain.
Today the party high command agreed parliamentary private secretaries – ministers' aides – could abstain on the plan.
BHS's biggest creditors – the Pension Protection Fund – could abstain from the vote.
Not all will automatically transfer to Sarkozy and many could abstain.
China is still opposed but could abstain rather than exercise its veto.
On these terms, France and Britain might be able to support the Palestinians, and the German government could abstain.
To block the petition challenges, the Democrats could either abstain or vote no.
Food ho could sometimes abstain from, but not cigars, for which he had passion.
It must now be ratified by all 28 members of the EU, including Britain, though Theresa May could well abstain.
And it's a pathetic contrast to another big news story in Washington -- the resignation of Representative Mark Souder, Republican of Indiana, a goober who preaches sex-abstinence and couldn't abstain from sex.
He told his most resistant neighbors — the old women in full hijab, the jobless men at the corner bar, J.-P. and his gang — that they couldn't abstain if they wanted to be equal citizens.
