Sentence examples for have abstained from inspiring English sources

This time, the college guys have abstained in solidarity.

Appellants contended that the District Court should have abstained from deciding these questions.

And for once the generals seem to have abstained from meddling.

"Either you would have abstained entirely, or you would have gone all the way".

But some, including Charles Kennedy, appear to have abstained or not voted.

But that does not necessarily mean he voted against; he may just have abstained.

Regulators said he should have abstained from voting on some of those loans.

Certainly, some shareholders who have abstained may have done so out of opposition to the takeover bid.

Davy would probably have abstained, but he lived in an America where people were nobler and firmer of purpose.

He has added his name even to compacts that rivals have abstained from because of controversial passages.

But that move would have been pointless, since the Americans could have abstained and gone to war anyway.