abstention

Example Sentences

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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 second vote passed with six votes in favor, four against, and one abstention.

From Barron's • Dec. 5, 2025

Welsh government ministers made £100m worth of commitments to secure Dodd's abstention, including £30m for social care to tackle delayed discharges.

From BBC • Sep. 16, 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

He had asked for them; he had earned them, not by his work only, but by his abstention from two pieces of bread per diem.

From A Book of Ghosts by Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine)