Sentence examples for regarding abstention from inspiring English sources
Protocols were identical for both cohorts regarding abstention and consumption by volume for wine, beer and spirits.
Despite India's best efforts in this regard, the abstention still ignited outrage amongst political leaders of India's Tamil community.
In March 1997, weeks after hiring defense attorney Valukus, and days after learning from the Chicago Sun-Times of their investigation into Burke's law firm and clients, Burke invoked a rarely used motion to amend the proceedings of the City Council to change to abstentions four "yes" votes regarding airport facility leases for Midway and American airlines, two of Burke's seven airline clients.
Despite the expressions of doubt regarding the legal basis, the plenary rejected the motion to replace article 100a with article 235 (150 votes in favour; 123 against; and 12 abstentions).
Sacha Sadan, director of corporate governance at L&G, said that abstentions used to be regarded as "yellow cards" by companies and used to have an effect on behaviour.
There was, said Pierre Giacometti, chief of the Ipsos polling institute, a "structural abstention" among people who "no longer regard Election Day as a sacred day".
At a time when the doctrines of voluntarism and state abstention became established in British industrial relations, unions were regarded by European ruling elites as a threat to both national unity and economic progress.
But the next day, Guinea's state-run radio said the country "may opt for abstention", even though America had made clear that that it would regard this as tantamount to voting no.For all the rotating members of the Security Council, the stakes are high.
If the UN Charter and its traditions are any reference in this regard, none of the five permanent members is supposed to hide behind abstention from voting or refrain from playing their leading roles at the global level.
There was one abstention.
