- Look up
abstention in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Abstention is
refusing to vote in an
election or in a
parliamentary vote.
Abstention may also refer...
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United Abstainers Football Club was a
football club from
Crosshill in Glasgow. The club,
sometimes referred to as the
United Abstainers Athletic Club,...
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Teetotalism is the
practice of
voluntarily abstaining from the
consumption of alcohol,
specifically in
alcoholic drinks. A
person who
practices (and possibly...
- be
considered a
spoilt vote,
depending on each legislation,
while an
abstaining voter has not voted. Both
forms (abstention and
blank vote) may or may...
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Greenock Abstainers Football Club was a
Scottish football team
located in the town of Greenock, Renfrewshire. The
first reference to the club is from 1887...
- Féin Policy",
formulated between 1905 and 1907,
called for
Irish MPs to
abstain from
Westminster and sit in a
parallel parliament in Dublin. The first...
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Andrey Vyshinsky. The USSR and
other countries in the
Soviet Bloc had
abstained from
affirming the
Universal Declaration of
Human Rights (1948), saying...
- Kippur, the Day of Atonement. In
Western Christianity,
Roman Catholics abstain from meat on Ash
Wednesday and on
Fridays except solemnities.
During the...
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cultural groups continued to
place a
value on the
moral purity of an
abstainer, but
abstinence was
caught up in a
wider reevaluation of
moral values...
- "Guidelines on Integrity".
According to the former,
Times journalists must
abstain from
using sources with a
personal relationship to them and must not accept...
