abstention

Example Sentences

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Students in the audience, some with mouths taped shut to symbolize their hunger strike over the issue, reacted with fury, calling out “cowards!” and other epithets after the 10 to 6 vote, with one abstention.

From Los Angeles Times

The Committee on Environment, Public Health and Food Safety adopted its position on a European Commission proposal to relax those rules with 47 votes to 31 with four abstentions.

From Seattle Times

Members of the union voted 129 to 3, with dozens of abstentions, to pass a motion saying that they had “lost confidence” in David Anderson, the ABC’s managing director and top editor.

From New York Times

The lower house or Sejm voted 240-191, with three abstentions, on Thursday to approve the bill, which the Senate will take up on Jan. 24.

From Seattle Times

It was approved by a vote of 11-0 with four abstentions — by Russia, China, Algeria and Mozambique.

From Seattle Times