1、An abstention is not regarded as a veto.
2、Nonviolence is not just abstention from war, fighting, or animal flesh. It is abstention from negative thoughts and negative speech.
3、South Africa's abstention effectively backed Russia's and China's vetoes.
4、The rate of abstention is also highest in this category.
5、In Washington the Bureau of European Affairs recommended abstention.
6、When abstention from theft is perfected, the yogi can have whatever he desires.
7、The draft resolution was adopted by 178 votes to 1, with 1 abstention (resolution 62/20).
8、Although Mr Fini has courage, he is capable of breathtaking inconsistency-just take the abstention in this week's vote.
9、The Security Council voted with3 pros,1 cons and I abstention.
10、Although Mr Fini has courage, he is capable of breathtaking inconsistency -just take the abstention in this week 's vote.
11、Moscow's abstention over the UN resolution on Libya has already had an unexpected effect on the Russian political scene.
12、EU lawmaker Francis Wurtz of France says the rate of voter abstention showed lack of confidence in the European Union.
13、He was always lost in the opposing ideas, such as absurdness and resistance, sorrow and happiness, individual and collectivity, desperation and hope, resistance and abstention, banishment and kingdom.
14、As for idolatry degree, the students’ most of the self-worth dimensions whochose “adore highly, but saneness、abstention” were higher than “adore normally” and “adoregreatly, insaneness”.
15、U.S. Ambassador Alejandro Wolff made clear that the American abstention was not related to UNAMID, but to the issue of impunity.
16、Thee bids were voted on by a group of 85 participants. Beijing's bid received 44 votes, Almaty's received 40 votes, with one abstention.
17、The surprise was not that it balked at sending forces-it is a recent and reluctant participant in such adventures, and even German critics of the abstention think that this intervention is a bad idea.
18、The prime minister's man won, but thanks largely to the abstention of 25 PdL deputies allied to Gianfranco Fini, who had ended months of bickering by breaking with Mr Berlusconi a few days earlier.
19、"Article 26 Should a director be unable to attend the Board meeting, he may present a proxy in written form to the Board. In case the director neither attends nor entrusts others to attend the meeting, he will be regarded as abstention."
