| The bill only scraped by due to a provision of the voting regulations which interprets an abstention as a vote in favour. |
|
| Lubenow adheres to a dry empiricism and rigorous abstention from overt theory which he deems appropriately Cantabrigian and Apostolic. |
|
| Of course, he did not counsel indifference, let alone abstention, from the economic struggles of the working class. |
|
| The abstention rate has been similar in other elections, with branch meetings sparsely attended and frequently inquorate. |
|
| They ruled out abstention as it would allow the neo-fascist National Front in. |
|
| They started by studying men and women at all levels of drinking from abstention to those in detox for full-blown alcohol problems. |
|
| But abstention from meat came naturally to the native inhabitants of India because of the climate. |
|
| This is true, but the real crisis in legitimacy is caused by differential abstention rates. |
|
| The abstention rate reflects the deep level of political disaffection and alienation felt by wide layers of the population. |
|
| Again, plenty of comfort if Australia had lodged its presence in the abstention column. |
|
| And in Boyle's programmes, you get that not only in his jokes, but also played straight, in a sequence where he justifies his abstention policy. |
|
| However, abstention by one or several member states does not prevent unanimity. |
|
| The vegan diet usually calls up images of austerity and abstention. |
|
| They should also ensure that their conflict and abstention from decision-making is duly noted in the minutes. |
|
| His life was pure and simple: vegetarianism, teetotalism, abstention from religious rites of any kind. |
|
| My position for now and for those who will now follow is that of a principled abstention. |
|
| Such diarrhea generally disappears spontaneously with abstention from food accompanied by drinking of nonalcoholic fluids. |
|
| When abstaining in a vote, any member of the Council may qualify its abstention by making a formal declaration under the present subparagraph. |
|
| Farron told the Observer that his abstention did not mean he opposed equal marriage. |
|
| His abstention on the Iraq vote was really a red rag to a bull. |
|
|
|
| This may be due largely to their abstention from any aggressive interviewing, analysis of what has been said, or critique of the commune's insufficiencies. |
|
| Cue multiple palms to foreheads from party whips, for whom abstention on a three-line whip is usually a matter of disgrace, excommunication and internal exile. |
|
| Israel's ambassador to Germany, Yakov Hadas-Handelsmann, expressed his surprise about Germany's U.N. abstention. |
|
| Coined the 'Janopause' by the Daily Mail, it requires just one month of abstention. |
|
| The disquieting voices of the few people who doubted that complete abstention was achievable for most problematic consumers were drowned out in a sea of treatment optimism. |
|
| Indeed, only a provision of the rules which interprets an abstention as a vote in favour in the event of a tie saw the bill past its final reading. |
|
| At a time when abstention reaches a new record high, when extremist parties are progressing all over the EU, the threats to European democracy are bigger than ever. |
|
| On those days wine and oil are permitted even if abstention from them would be otherwise called for. |
|
| Members may signify, but not record, an abstention by remaining in their seats during the division. |
|
| Though the practice is traditionally frowned upon, MPs can also pass through both lobbies, effectively registering their abstention. |
|
| Politicians must be living in an alternative universe if they really believe the high abstention rate was attributable to the electoral law. |
|
| Zen makes another equally important contention through this abstention, namely that time and space are lived as integrated space-time in the interfusion of a concrete temporalization and spatialization. |
|
| I regret this situation and in face of this problem, which is not to disown a considerable part of the text we adopted with the first amendment but to keep our word to the Council, I recommend abstention. |
|
| Minister after minister – people I hadn't had time to lobby, whose views I wouldn't have guessed – spoke up and favoured a yes vote or abstention. |
|
| Note that an abstention is not the same as not participating in the vote. |
|
| After review and discussion duly made, seconded and carried with 9 votes in favor and 1 abstention, IT WAS RESOLVED THAT the proposed process for payment of Board honoraria be approved. |
|
| It is common knowledge that regular moderate drinking is rather better for the heart and the blood vessels than total abstention or heavy drinking. |
|
| In the case of postal votes, distance voting forms returned without giving a specific choice or an express abstention will be considered as negative votes. |
|
| The list shall also indicate if the private intervenor intends to express views on a matter of public interest or to advocate abstention or the spoiling of ballots. |
|
| The paragraph is carried almost unanimously with one abstention. |
|
|
|
| The House of Bishops recorded 37 votes in favour, two against with one abstention. |
|
| With negation and abstention, nihilism and invective and derision, DIKO is led to complete untrustworthiness and disrepute. |
|
| Any agreement, therefore, would have to build a framework for exchange rate stabilization and require credible pledges for abstention from competitive devaluations. |
|
| The opposition was unable to reach agreement on a common strategy regarding the elections, with some parties advocating abstention, and others calling for blank voting. |
|
| Abstention then is like a coitus interruptus, a spectacular thing to feel from a partner whom you love. |
|
| Abstention or absence from the vote by a permanent member does not prevent a draft resolution from being adopted. |
|
