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- noun Plural form of
abstentionist .
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Examples
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It is not easy for an MP who attends Parliament to make less of an impact on Westminster than a group of abstentionists, but George Galloway has succeeded with an impact on Parliament even less than Sinn Féin!
The waste of "RESPECT" Tim Roll-Pickering 2009
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It is not easy for an MP who attends Parliament to make less of an impact on Westminster than a group of abstentionists, but George Galloway has succeeded with an impact on Parliament even less than Sinn Féin!
Archive 2009-04-01 Tim Roll-Pickering 2009
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Seek an alliance between those abstentionists and those who will vote "NO"
Archive 2007-11-01 2007
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Indeed many of the “abstentionists” are disaffected chavista voters that will likely either remain in abstention or return to Chavez before voting for an opposition candidate.
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Indeed many of the “abstentionists” are disaffected chavista voters that will likely either remain in abstention or return to Chavez before voting for an opposition candidate.
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The basic failure of the abstentionists is that they do not realize that voting or not voting does not exempt you from running a campaign, from presenting ideas, from putting real pressure on the abusive power.
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The basic failure of the abstentionists is that they do not realize that voting or not voting does not exempt you from running a campaign, from presenting ideas, from putting real pressure on the abusive power.
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"These groups are also by far the most undecided and contain by far the highest proportion of probable abstentionists."
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These elements range from the futile lamentations and the mischievous frenzies of Mr. J.K. Ngubane, the reactionary provincial of Phoenix, to the antics of the political abstentionists of the so-called Unity Movement of Cape Town.
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He said its MPs were 'active abstentionists', who were entitled to the cash to provide services for their constituents.
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