Abstention is a term in election procedure for when a participant in a vote either does not go to vote (on election day) or, in parliamentary procedure...

Abstentionism is the political practice of standing for election to a deliberative assembly while refusing to take up any seats won or otherwise participate...

An abstention doctrine is any of several doctrines that a United States court may (or in some cases must) apply to refuse to hear a case if hearing the...

Look up abstention in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Abstention is refusing to vote in an election or in a parliamentary vote. Abstention may also refer...

Operation Abstention (25–28 February 1941) was the code name of a British invasion of the Italian island of Kastelorizo (Castellorizo) off the Turkish...

choose a candidate, or to protest. Unlike abstention elsewhere, blank votes are counted. Along with abstention, or not voting, protest voting is a sign...

This is a confirmed list of video games in development, but are scheduled for release beyond 2025 or currently carry no release date at all. The following...

Legal abstentionism is a term used in labour law and industrial relations to refer to the policy of a government to not regulate labour markets through...

The 2017–18 NHL season was the 101st season of operation (100th season of play) of the National Hockey League. With the addition of a new expansion team...

in place for the vote, with 87 votes in favor, 58 votes against, 32 abstentions and 16 non-votes. In February–March 2021, Fatah and Hamas reached agreement...

media. Although the party sat on local councils, it had a policy of abstentionism for the British House of Commons and the Irish Dáil Éireann, standing...

bidding result City Country Round 1 Berlin Germany 43 Barcelona Spain 16 Abstentions 8 Withdrawn bids Alexandria Egypt 0 Budapest Hungary 0 Buenos Aires Argentina...

virtues Related to human rights 1. Abstention from killing living beings Kindness and compassion Right to life 2. Abstention from theft Generosity and renunciation...

Petition Picketing Strike action Tax resistance Voting (or its opposite, abstentionism) Democracy is a system of processing conflicts in which outcomes depend...

Part of a series on Libertarianism Concepts Abstention Age of consent reform Anti-authoritarianism Anti-capitalism Antimilitarism Anti-statism Class struggle...

cast, explicitly excluding abstentions. In an election with two candidates or a binary yes/no vote, and having abstention an alternative, there is always...

individuals must be well-known for their abstention from alcohol, their advocacy efforts, or both. Individuals whose abstention from alcohol is not a defining characteristic...

Anarchism Aristotelianism Liberalism classical radical Schools Concepts Abstention Age of consent reform Anti-authoritarianism Anti-capitalism Antimilitarism...

(MPs) elected were Sinn Féin members who were elected on a platform of abstentionism from the British House of Commons. In January 1919, they set up an Irish...

after Prime Minister Moshe Sharett resigned in June 1955 following the abstention of the General Zionists (part of the governing coalition) during a vote...

2023 12–0–3 (abstentions: Russian Federation, United Kingdom and United States) Israel–Hamas war 2713 1 December 2023 14–0–1 (abstention: France) Peace...

this area, the Basque Country had the highest abstention (the Basque Nationalist Party had endorsed abstention on the grounds that the Constitution was being...

Voting results Country Votes  Germany 12  Turkey 4 Abstention 1 Total 17...

Younger abstention, a federal court will generally abstain from interfering with ongoing state criminal proceedings. Other important abstention doctrines...

and Republican Sinn Féin General The Troubles 1986 Sinn Féin Ardfheis Abstentionism Irish republican legitimatism Éire Nua Saoirse Irish Freedom Dissident...

after winning the first round of the presidential election with a record abstention rate – the highest of all presidential elections since Algeria's democracy...

March 2021. Kelly, Conor (19 August 2019). "Understanding Sinn Féin's Abstention from the UK Parliament". E-International Relations. Retrieved 16 December...

Sannyasi must keep: Abstention from injuring living beings, truthfulness, abstention from appropriating the property of others, abstention from sex, liberality...

Thus, China rarely used its veto power before 2011. It instead used abstention to avoid express disapproval without directly confronting its fellow permanent...

fasting). The former refers to the abstention food, drink and sensual pleasure. The latter refers to the abstention from communicating the esoteric knowledge...