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Significados de abstention em inglês

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The trait of abstaining (especially from alcohol)

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Action and effect of not taking part in a vote. Sometimes it's consider equal to blank vote.

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Election abstention.

воздержание от голосования
Uso de abstention em inglês
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The amendment failed and the DUP abstention did not impact the result.
Reuters
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As each abstention was read out, delegates could be heard shouting unity.
The South African
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A high abstention rate, analysts say, posed the biggest threat to forecasts.
Reuters
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What they longed for was complete abstention, general panic among the functionaries.
The Fortune of the Rougons
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As widely expected, the board voted eight in favor, with one abstention.
Ebony
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The output-again a beautiful word-ofthe age is lessened by this abstention.
The Colour of Life
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To this abstention he added the most practical proof of good will.
John Redmond's Last Years
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Not much was said in the beginning about Italy's abstention from war.
History of the World War, Vol. 3
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At present, however, I recite the Gayatri, observing the duty of abstention.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 / Books 8,...
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He believed that she had a very sweet reason behind her abstention.
In the Wilderness
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And this fact does but make our Sovereign's abstention the more remarkable.
Yet Again
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What do you know of the reasons for the abstention of madame?
The Money Master, Volume 2.
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Verily, by such abstention ye would achieve what is for your good.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 / Books 13...
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The first is a course of actions; the second of abstention from actions.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 / Books 8,...
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Among the top six arms-exporting nations, Russia cast the only abstention.
Reuters
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The vote was 14 in favor and one abstention by the United States.
Reuters
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Translations for abstention
Abstention ao longo do tempo
Abstention nas variantes da língua
Reino Unido
Comum
Estados Unidos da América
Comum