abstention
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On 13 May 2025, MSPs backed the "stage one vote" on the bill's general principles by 70 votes to 56, with one abstention.
From BBC • Feb. 26, 2026
The Senate voted 46 in favor, 25 against, with one abstention after the lower Chamber of Deputies greenlit the budget.
From Barron's • Dec. 27, 2025
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 • Sep. 4, 2024
The vote was 7 countries in favor, 7 against, and one abstention and the amendment was defeated because it failed to get the minimum 9 “yes” votes in the 15-member Security Council required for adoption.
From Seattle Times • May 1, 2024
Unfortunately its moral is a moral of—shall I say?—fastidious abstention; a moral it is difficult to appreciate or put into practice, except at an age when passion has lost its fire and its poison.
From The English Stage Being an Account of the Victorian Drama by Filon, Augustin
Vocabulary lists containing abstention
Vocabulary from the Lyrics of Stephen Sondheim, Volume I
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