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The Conservatives and Liberal Democrats have hinted that they may abstainin any assembly vote on a referendum.
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Recent criticism of its stance by Venezuela's ambassador will probably force Ms Bachelet to abstain.
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Islam the dominant religion in Malaysia forbids the eating of pork while Hindus generally abstainfrom beef.
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Last year the Socialists agreed to abstainon what was also a contentious austerity budget vote.
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They have elected to suffer the wrath of God rather than abstainfrom sin.
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This line leaves unclear whether the UK will vote against the Palestinian membership bid or abstain.
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"I can think of no better question for a cardiologist to abstainwith, " he said.
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Even many American beer lovers would rather abstainthan sip from a can of mass-produced swill.
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The researchers had 15 male participants abstainfrom drinking or eating anything caffeinated for 36 hours.
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Only Syria, the Security Council's only Arab member, is expected to abstainfrom the vote.
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This was despite Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg ordering his Liberal Democrat MPs to abstain.
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Russia seems to have buckled under international pressure to abstainfrom directly selling weapons systems to Iran.
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When the government failed to bow to its demands, it said it would abstainfrom the vote.
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The tax measure is in the coalition agreement but Liberal Democrat MPs would be allowed to abstain.
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Yet any opposition will be measured by the number of delegates who abstainfrom voting for him.
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But Germany's constitution allows no split vote: a state must cast all its votes one way, or abstain.
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Nor did it look at how long someone had to abstainfrom red meat to end the process.
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Many of Ms Le Pen's voters, perhaps millions of them, are expected to abstainin the next round.
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They asked their fellow Kiwis to abstainfrom sex for those seven weeks.
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Unauthorized immigrants are overwhelmingly peaceful people who abstainfrom property and violent crimes.
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The Liberal Democrats, who wanted to scrap fees, would be allowed to abstainin a vote on the issue.
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The Honduran government's main concern about the elections was that many citizens would either abstainor simply not vote.
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That means the vote is likely to be lost, as the socialist opposition has also said it will abstain.
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If the board does not give careful consideration to the case, Mr. Greenberg could challenge its decision to abstain.
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But, Olmert brags, he wrecked her plan by getting outgoing President George W. Bush to force her to abstain.
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In fact, it may even be counterproductive for Netanyahu to abstainfrom responding in the hopes of buying time.
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It is hard to see a strong government emerging from such a contest, in which many Argentines would abstain.
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Unless Labour decides to abstainto cause the prime minister trouble there is little chance it would be passed.
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Many disenchanted government supporters may abstainrather than go over to the opposition.
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Someday, we will have these things, or, if we abstain, our potential enemies will have them and we will not.