Sentence examples for the abstention from inspiring English sources

After Mr. Corzine spoke, Representative Franks denounced the abstention.

Basescu claimed the abstention rate was in his favour.

The abstention is provided for under the coalition agreement.

Again, plenty of comfort if Australia had lodged its presence in the abstention column.

Over that period, the abstention rate has varied from 19.6% to a dispiriting 63%.

The abstention was a "scandalous mistake", thundered Joschka Fischer, a former foreign minister.

The abstention rate of 38.5% of the electorate went against the Socialists.

The abstention in effect allowed the bill's passage through the Commons without delay.

But in the end even he walked through the abstention door.

The abstention rate in Sunday's vote is expected to be high.

Among the under-25s in 2009, the abstention rate was a damning and surely unsustainable 71%.