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- noun Plural form of
abstention .
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Examples
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Rice jumped to defend the Obama Administration's lackluster performance by claiming that previous Iran resolutions were not unanimous during the Bush Administration and that there were "abstentions".
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Rice jumped to defend the Obama Administration's lackluster performance by claiming that previous Iran resolutions were not unanimous during the Bush Administration and that there were "abstentions".
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Yesterday, on Fox News Sunday, Rice jumped to defend the Obama Administration's lackluster performance by claiming that previous Iran resolutions were not unanimous during the Bush Administration and that there were "abstentions".
Richard Grenell: How'd We Lose Brazil, Turkey and Lebanon? 2010
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Yesterday, on Fox News Sunday, Rice jumped to defend the Obama Administration's lackluster performance by claiming that previous Iran resolutions were not unanimous during the Bush Administration and that there were "abstentions".
Richard Grenell: How'd We Lose Brazil, Turkey and Lebanon? 2010
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What happened was an example of "demockracy inaction": at the end of the hearing the PEP approved of the "co-location" with only two abstentions.
Joel Shatzky: Educating for Democracy: Educational Colonialism Joel Shatzky 2011
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Authored by the United States and Sweden, the resolution was co-sponsored by over fifty countries from around the world, including Chile, the Maldives, Georgia, and Zambia, and adopted in Geneva by a vote of 22 states in favor, 7 against and 14 abstentions.
Dokhi Fassihian: Is the U.S. Prepared to Win at the UN Human Rights Council? We Just Did Dokhi Fassihian 2011
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He won with 342 votes in favor of his government compared with 275 votes against and three abstentions.
World Watch 2010
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Authored by the United States and Sweden, the resolution was co-sponsored by over fifty countries from around the world, including Chile, the Maldives, Georgia, and Zambia, and adopted in Geneva by a vote of 22 states in favor, 7 against and 14 abstentions.
Dokhi Fassihian: Is the U.S. Prepared to Win at the UN Human Rights Council? We Just Did Dokhi Fassihian 2011
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If a compromise can't be reached, the Socialist government's only hope of passing its budget would be to count on abstentions from opposition lawmakers.
European Austerity Fuels Tensions Jonathan House 2010
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What happened was an example of "demockracy inaction": at the end of the hearing the PEP approved of the "co-location" with only two abstentions.
Joel Shatzky: Educating for Democracy: Educational Colonialism Joel Shatzky 2011
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