Sentence examples for most abstentions from inspiring English sources

The indication area of oncological/haematological illnesses (27 items) received the most abstentions and thus the lowest number of raters (mean 7.41, median 7.22, range 5 12), yet the calculated corrected consensus values were consistently high (mean 0.964, range 0.857 1.000) for all items tested.

"The Americans and British… thought the [Zimbabwe] resolution would at the most get abstentions from the Russians and Chinese".

Indeed, this year, abstention may be higher across the EU partly because campaigning has been obscured by the war in Kosovo.Most importantly, abstention is a measure of Euro-enthusiasm.

Justice does not permit anything of the sort; it demands seclusion, it requires sorrow rather than anger, and it prescribes the most careful abstention from all the nice pleasures of putting oneself in the limelight.

But there were 75 abstentions, including most of the rebels, and Mr Berlusconi will not need to be told that they could have defeated his government had they chosen to vote against it.As this was parliament's last vote before the summer recess, Mr Berlusconi's survival is assured for now.

Regional elections offer a chance to register a protest vote or an abstention, since for most voters the stakes are low.

The first and most obvious reason for this abstention is that behind a general scepticism about war lies a more conflicted sentiment, as people overwhelmingly sympathise with the democratic uprisings in both Syria and Libya.

One unnamed FA board member told the Press Association on Wednesday that recent events had made it "very difficult" to back either man so abstention was "the most likely course".