Sentence examples similar to left abstained from inspiring English sources
Robert M. McDowell, an F.C.C. commissioner - a former lobbyist for the telecommunications industry - abstained, leaving the commission deadlocked.
In an ominous sign for the stability of the government, however, 10 deputies on the ruling benches either abstained or voted against the measures and another seven were absent, leaving Tsipras short of the 151 seats needed for a majority of his own.
The other BRICS (with a capital S), as the enlarged group will be known, all abstained.
Seven abstained but accepted the result.
Nearly 40 members of his own left-wing Syriza party voted no or abstained, severely weakening his mandate to govern.
Nearly two thirds of the sexually active respondents abstained for three months, slightly less than half abstained for six months and 18% abstained for twelve months.
It said that two members voted to allow Morozov and Lobintsev to swim and one abstained, but no reason for the decision was given.
