"From now on I've decided to withdraw from all voting" for Confederation of African Football awards, Drogba said at the time.
In interviews with 30,000 Americans, the study found that residents of more diverse communities "tend to withdraw from collective life," voting less and volunteering less than those in more homogeneous communities.
PAGE A13 Barak Digs In Far behind in the polls, Prime Minister Ehud Barak declined to withdraw from the vote on Tuesday for an Israeli prime minister.
(Agence France-Presse) AMERICAS PERU: ELECTION MONITORS QUIT -- Transparencia, a Peruvian election observer group largely funded by the United States government, said it had so little confidence in presidential elections scheduled for Sunday that it was withdrawing its monitors from voting stations as a protest.
Sample language might be: "Whenever a director or officer has a financial or personal interest in any matter coming before the board of directors, the affected person shall a) fully disclose the nature of the interest and b) withdraw from discussion, lobbying, and voting on the matter.
Muddying the waters yet further, a block of regional parties from the neglected south of Nepal has withdrawn from the voting in a protest of its own.As the assembly prepares for yet another round of votes, many younger members are calling for a new body to be formed to elect a leader.
The detractors were so vehement that two of them nearly withdrew from the voting.
With this fear in mind, it seems that almost every other day Mr Bertinotti and his friends are threatening to withdraw their voting support from the government.
The Meadowlands Commission has voted to withdraw from a plan for nearly 8,000 acres of wetlands.
Last month, Istiqlal, a secular party, voted to withdraw from the Islamist-led coalition government, criticizing it as ineffective.
