- 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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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...
- 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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elections within either jurisdiction;
others have been abstentionist;
others abstained from some
bodies but not others.
Abstentionism has
often been a divisive...
- of the
temperance movement and the
author of The Pledge: "We
agree to
abstain from all
liquors of an
intoxicating quality whether ale, porter, wine,...
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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...
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Dominican Republic voted against the motion,
while France and
Brazil abstained.
France adopted Greenwich Mean Time in
place of
local determinations by...
- "Guidelines on Integrity".
According to the former,
Times journalists must
abstain from
using sources with a
personal relationship to them and must not accept...
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being determined for the new federation, the
founders of the
constitution abstained from
designating a
capital city for
Switzerland and
instead formulated...
