Sentence examples for refrain from voting from inspiring English sources

Normally the Westminster-based SNP MPs would refrain from voting on issues which do not affect Scotland, but a spokesman has today said the party will be examining the precise details of the Government's proposals before deciding what to do.

If this is Omar's final decision, Mr Tzameret vows to refrain from voting.

The Electoral Commission's summary of electoral offences states: "A person is guilty of treating if... they directly or indirectly give or provide any food, drink, entertainment or provision to corruptly influence any voter to vote or refrain from voting.

Indeed, when the Lords voted on the second reading of the bill after a memorable series of debates, many Tory peers did refrain from voting.

They were concerned that supporters of the government who nonetheless disagreed with it on a specific issue might be pressured to refrain from voting their consciences on motions, such as money bills, that were conventionally considered tests of the government's confidence.

If so, does he believe that those who wish to emulate Jesus should also refrain from voting?

Non-English MPs would then adopt a self-denying ordinance by refraining from voting on English legislation when it comes to the floor of the House.

Ambrogio Piazzoni, a papal historian, told reporters last week that he could think of no examples of cardinals who had refrained from voting for anything other than health reasons, or from the pressures of different governments in past years.

During the last four-year council term, of the 559 instances when aldermen refrained from voting on measures that touched on their personal interests, more than 300 of them were invoked by Mr. Burke.

It may well be that one or more justices sensitive to the breathtaking violation of Mr. Masri's rights, and the evident breaking of American law, refrained from voting to accept his case as a matter of strategy.

Two Republican senators, Pete V. Domenici of New Mexico and John W. Warner of Virginia, opposed the budget and were on the Senate floor for the roll call, but refrained from voting out of deference to two Democrats who were absent because of illness: Senators Robert C. Byrd of West Virginia and Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts.