- 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...
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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...
- 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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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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Andrey Vyshinsky. The USSR and
other countries in the
Soviet Bloc had
abstained from
affirming the
Universal Declaration of
Human Rights (1948), saying...
- 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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Fatma Hundi Sultan Hatun (Ottoman Turkish: خوندي فاطمة سلطان خاتون; "the
abstains one" and "noblebirth"; 1375 - 1430) was an
Ottoman princess,
daughter of...
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region and
instead votes for
another person for one or both offices, or
abstains from voting. As part of
United States presidential elections, each state...
