Sentence examples for my abstention from inspiring English sources
- (FR) I could not vote for the report by Baroness Ludford and I want my abstention to be perceived as an expression of strong contempt, because of the incongruities and exaggerations contained in certain passages of this report.
My reasons for abstention are both boring and particular: I find the interfaces clumsy and counterintuitive, the economic model makes me queasy, and I'm restless and don't like always being tethered to the Internet.
Luckily, I have negotiated a mutual abstention from gift-duty with my like-minded stepdad.
I know this makes me a dinosaur: younger people, let alone many of my peers, surely find this kind of abstention and self-policing bizarre, but it feels right to me.
My sisters seemed to have no qualms with abstention, but I was a sticky-handed kid, and I had trouble resisting.
"I've always cast my ballot, but these politicians deserve a 99 percent abstention rate in the next elections, to give them a signal," Massimo Rossi, 49, a street vendor in Rome, said while putting away a case of green beans.
There was one abstention.
Why this abstention from theology?
She now favoured an abstention.
