War will disappear only when men shall take no part whatever in violence and shall be ready to suffer every persecution that their abstention will bring them. It is the only way to abolish war.
War will disappear only when men shall take no part whatever in violence and shall be ready to suffer every persecution that their abstention will bring them. It is the only way to abolish war.
And if they can increase the rate of abstention by scaring people away from voting, that would rob Uribe of some of his electoral legitimacy.
Abstention from labor is the conventional evidence of wealth and is therefore the conventional mark of social standing.
A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others.
The government has a problem it cannot ignore -- a single-colored parliament elected amid a gigantic abstention.
Given that rate of abstention, plus expressions of concern by prominent Venezuelans, we would see that this reflects a broad lack of confidence in the impartiality and transparency of the electoral process.
ABSTAINER, n. A weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure. A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others.Said a man to a crapulent youth I thought You a total abstainer, my son.So I am, so I am, said the scrapgrace caught --But not, sir, a bigoted one. --G.J.
Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
Abstention means you stayed at home or went to the beach. By casting a blank vote, you're saying you have a political conscience but you don't agree with any of the existing parties.
Russia is looking after its economic interests. They have a lot at stake, ... China is so ideologically opposed that the most you can get out of them is an abstention.
It's very disappointing to lose by one vote, especially when there's an abstention, ... I wonder who the 52 are who voted against us. That's my concern.
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