- 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...
- of interest. An
example of a
conflict was when
Senator Mitch McConnell abstained when his wife
Elaine Chao was
nominated to
positions that
needed to be...
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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...
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elections within either jurisdiction;
others have been abstentionist;
others abstained from some
bodies but not others.
Abstentionism has
often been a divisive...
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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...
- (Brazil, Germany, and India, and
permanent members China and Russia)
abstained, with none opposed. The resolution,
adopted under Chapter VII of the United...
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Someone who
abstains, but has a
latent desire to
resume use, may be
termed a "dry drunk" and not
considered truly sober. An
abstainer may be subconsciously...
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voting in
favour of the
resolution and said that the
country should have
abstained from
voting instead.
Slovakia coalition partner Slovak National Party...
- 202 (0.00%)
Reagan was
renominated by a vote of 2,233 (two
delegates abstained). For the only time in
American history, the vice
presidential roll call...
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President with 128
votes from the legislature's 137 members,
while the rest
abstained.
According to
Article 119 of the 2008
Constitution of Ecuador, candidates...
