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person votes for the
winning candidate,
votes for a
losing candidate, or
abstains from voting, he will be
deemed to have
consented to the rule of the winning...
- 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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Teetotalism is the
practice of
voluntarily abstaining from the
consumption of alcohol,
specifically in
alcoholic drinks. A
person who
practices (and possibly...
- 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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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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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...
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Hebrew תַּעֲנִית taʿaniṯ or צוֹם ṣom) is a fast in
Judaism in
which one
abstains from all food and drink,
including water. A
Jewish fast may have one or...
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operating automatically, to
satisfy the
Jewish law
requiring Jews to
abstain from
operating electrical switches on
Shabbat (the Sabbath).
These are...
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shared by many
music publications.
fakemink is a
practicing Muslim and
abstains from alcohol. fakemink's
music has been
described as a "mellowed" version...
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Fatma Sultan (Ottoman Turkish: فاطمہ سلطان, "one who
abstains"; ante 1494 – c. 1566) was an
Ottoman princess,
daughter of
Selim I and
Hafsa Sultan, and...
