Sentence examples for it abstains from inspiring English sources

Stark and chilling, it abstains from the strategies that traditionally anchor the didactic poster.

At some point early next year there will be a debate on a bill curbing benefits and Ed Miliband will have to decide whether Labour votes against (which the Tories want) or whether it abstains or votes in favour (which would trigger a massive internal row within Miliband's party).

Researchstock.com is up front about the fact that bicycle maker Huffy pays it $30,000 for coverage; it said Huffy was a good buy in March, but now that sales have fallen, it abstains from making a recommendation.

Moreover, it abstains from exposing the causes for such asymmetries or from evaluating the efficiency of the available workforce.

Sometimes this isolates Germany among its allies, as in 2011 when it abstained from voting in the United Nations Security Council on the subject of an intervention in Libya.

Instead it abstained, although the vote was carried.

The German government said then that it abstained because it opposed any military operation against Libya.

It routinely vetoes UN resolutions on this ground (on Libya, it abstained).

The European Union has enjoyed a long period of stability because it abstained from sizable interregional redistribution.

The United States has opposed treaties to abolish land mines; it does not support the International Criminal Court; and it abstained from a vote to make AIDS drugs more widely available.

Germany lost an extraordinary amount of international credibility when earlier this year it abstained from a U.N. vote authorizing a no-flight zone over Libya.