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    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...
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  • Abstentionism is the political practice of standing for election to a deliberative assembly while refusing to take up any seats won or otherwise participate...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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    Operation Abstention (25–28 February 1941) was the code name of a British invasion of the Italian island of Kastelorizo (Castellorizo) off the Turkish...
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  • This is a confirmed list of video games in development, but are scheduled for release beyond 2025 or currently carry no announced, reported, or confirmed...
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  • 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...
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    choose a candidate, or to protest. Unlike abstention elsewhere, blank votes are counted. Along with abstention, or not voting, protest voting is a sign...
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  • Although the party sat on local councils, it maintained a policy of abstentionism for the British House of Commons and the Irish Dáil Éireann, standing...
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    115 yes votes, 550 no votes, 26 abstentions, 12 invalid votes, second ballot: 123 yes votes, 549 no votes, 24 abstentions, 1 invalid vote, third ballot:...
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    2024) Parliament, the seven members of Sinn Féin follow a policy of abstentionism. They do not swear into the house, and do not take part in its formal...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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    Anarchism Aristotelianism Liberalism classical radical Schools Concepts Abstention Academic freedom Age of consent reform Anti-authoritarianism Anti-capitalism...
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  • Petition Picketing Strike action Tax resistance Voting (or its opposite, abstentionism) Democracy is a system of processing conflicts in which outcomes depend...
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    Younger abstention, a federal court will generally abstain from interfering with ongoing state criminal proceedings. Other important abstention doctrines...
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    (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...
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    Qur'ān. Waiting for four months is ordained for those who take an oath for abstention from their wives. The waiting period of the woman whose husband dies is...
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    Yes - 28 No - 12 Abstention - 7  Algeria  Belgium  Benin  Argentina  Costa Rica  Chile  Bangladesh  Czech Republic  Georgia  Bolivia  Finland  Honduras...
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    this area, the Basque Country had the highest abstention (the Basque Nationalist Party had endorsed abstention on the grounds that the Constitution was being...
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    cooking and from alcoholic beverages (there is some debate over whether abstention from oil involves all cooking oil or only olive oil). For the Orthodox...
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  • Part of a series on Libertarianism Concepts Abstention Academic freedom Age of consent reform Anti-authoritarianism Anti-capitalism Antimilitarism Anti-statism...
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    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...
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    after winning the first round of the presidential election with a record abstention rate – the highest of all presidential elections since Algeria's democracy...
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    (Ireland). The Provisional IRA (PIRA) broke from the OIRA in 1969 due to abstentionism and differing views on how to deal with the increasing violence in Northern...
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    after Prime Minister Moshe Sharett resigned in June 1955 following the abstention of the General Zionists (part of the governing coalition) during a vote...
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    Sannyasi must keep: Abstention from injuring living beings, truthfulness, abstention from appropriating the property of others, abstention from sex, liberality...
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    Anarchism Aristotelianism Liberalism classical radical Schools Concepts Abstention Academic freedom Age of consent reform Anti-authoritarianism Anti-capitalism...
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    requirements of article 151, or the "fast route"—with UCD calling for abstention, and the main party in opposition in Parliament, the Spanish Socialist...
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