Sentence examples for that abstentions from inspiring English sources
Polls show that abstentions are expected to be at a record high.
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.
But last month Dell raised his offer price, tacked on a special-dividend sweetener, and got the board to change voting rules so that abstentions no longer count against him – turning the tide in his favour.
A lengthy general election campaign and an arduous finish made it inevitable that abstention this week would be high and, in Italy, high rates of abstention favour the left.In fact, turnout was even worse than anybody expected.
The students responded with assemblies, workshops, marches, bulletins, fliers and telephone and e-mail campaigns, all designed to make ordinary Venezuelans understand that abstention was suicide.
According to Michael Moore, the Lib Dem rebels all hold their seats by narrow margins and believe that abstention might hurt their chances of reelection.
Javier Fernández, who is in charge of PSOE until it elects a new leader, argued that abstention was the "lesser evil", given that the other option was to force an election in December – which would have been Spain's third in a year.
In the ensuing vote on the Conservative referendum motion, 13 out of the 63 Lib Dem MPs, including three members of Clegg's cabinet, broke from the official party line to vote in favor of a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty, on the grounds that abstention was not in keeping with the party's 2005 election manifesto.
According to Nozick, our core reason for abstaining from murder is not that abstention advances the goal of minimizing murders.
It should be clear that abstention often serves and suits interests and ideologies that oppose democracy.
"The smart thing to do is to make sure it's noted in the minutes contemporaneously," she said, adding that "abstention needs to be noted in the minutes, that's what's required".
