- 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...
- 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,...
- 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...
-
United Abstainers Football Club was a
football club from
Crosshill in Glasgow. The club,
sometimes referred to as the
United Abstainers Athletic Club,...
-
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...
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politically expedient to vote
according to
their conscience. A
person may also
abstain when they do not feel
adequately informed about the
issue at hand, or have...
-
Andrey Vyshinsky. The USSR and
other countries in the
Soviet Bloc had
abstained from
affirming the
Universal Declaration of
Human Rights (1948), saying...
-
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...
-
being determined for the new federation, the
founders of the
constitution abstained from
designating a
capital city for
Switzerland and
instead formulated...
- the UUP governments. However, its
elected members often protested by
abstaining from the
Northern Ireland parliament, and many
nationalists did not vote...
