| The abstention rate reflects the deep level of political disaffection and alienation felt by wide layers of the population. |
| They started by studying men and women at all levels of drinking from abstention to those in detox for full-blown alcohol problems. |
| 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. |
| This is true, but the real crisis in legitimacy is caused by differential abstention rates. |
| The abstention rate has been similar in other elections, with branch meetings sparsely attended and frequently inquorate. |
