Sentence examples for the majority abstained from inspiring English sources

Some were in favour of the new Commission, a few were against and the majority abstained.

Small interest groups and factions that might threaten our unity are strong only in so far as the majority abstain from voting.

(The vast majority abstained).

We are going to look for the support of the Haitian majority who abstained from the elections".

As shown in table 2 the majority of those who abstained or were non-hazardous users at baseline (n = 153) remained no/low risky users at follow-up (98percentt).

Although the majority of women report abstaining from alcohol at the time of the booking visit there is still a significant minority who continue to binge drink or drink to excess.

On 23 March 1989, the Assembly of Kosovo met in Pristina and, with the majority of Kosovo Albanian delegates abstaining, voted to accept the proposed amendments to the constitution.

And yet Harman left her role as interim leader under an unfair cloud: she went with the majority shadow cabinet view to abstain on the welfare bill, trying to avoid a Tory trap to make them vote against 3m apprenticeships and lowering council rents, and putting down an anti-cuts amendment instead.

In a Brussels vote on a ban last Friday, in which the UK Government abstained, the necessary majority could not be reached and the issue remained deadlocked.

One quarter of the electorate, the majority apparently erstwhile supporters of Chancellor Viktor Klima, simply abstained.

On the other hand, 248 (69.3%) women did not redeem a prescription for symptom-relieving drugs within 0 60 days after surgery, and the majority of these women (192/358=53.6%) also abstained from symptom-relieving drugs during the time frame 61 365 days after surgery (figure 1).