The President abstained -- but the free drinks came anyway.
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Three other recipients — Haiti, Mexico and South Sudan — abstained.
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UNSC Resolution 19674 passed after the US abstained from voting.
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France, however, has objected to the decision while Belgium abstained.
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Only 137 voted against the proposal, while a handful abstained.
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One person abstained from the vote, according to the outlet.
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Girardi had also abstained from drinking due to her migraine.
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Eight countries abstained from voting while five rejected the draft.
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He abstained and they sat in the kitchen all night.
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The Pueblo abstained from bidding on the stolen, sacred item.
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Countless establishment Republicans have abstained from endorsing Trump at all.
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The United States abstained from the resolution, infuriating Mr. Netanyahu.
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Eight countries voted against recognizing the delegation, while six abstained.
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Roughly 24% of shareholders voted against the deal, and 1% abstained.
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Three committee members supported Sarepta's proposal and the remaining three abstained.
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At Modem, 32 voted in favor, 2 against and 6 abstained.
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At Modem, 32 voted in favour, 2 against and 6 abstained.
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Last year, he abstained from coffee and tea for three months.
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Eight council members, including Russia and China, abstained in the vote.
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Forty-four percent cast ballots in favor, and 4 percent abstained.
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Other allies, like Canada, Australia and Mexico, abstained from the vote.
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Vanguard abstained on almost 20 percent of shareholder proposals this year.
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The U.S. abstained, allowing the measure to pass the Security Council.
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Belarus didn't participate in those negotiations, and also abstained from voting.
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Forty-four percent cast ballots in favor and 4 percent abstained.
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Six times, it voted against the proposal, and twice, it abstained.
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Most members of the Labour Party reportedly abstained from the vote.
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Nine countries abstained from the vote, and 35 opposed the resolution.
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Israel, which opposed the resolution last year, also abstained on Wednesday.
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This graphic shows this, including small % who abstained 2/n pic.twitter.
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Out of the court's 14 judges, one abstained and another two dissented.
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Angola and Uruguay abstained, while the remaining nine council members voted against.
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Two of the eight CUP delegates abstained in the vote for Puigdemont.
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China abstained from Tuesday's vote, while Bolivia joined Russia in voting no.
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Fully 119 of the 287 Socialists deputies either voted against, or abstained.
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One member of the commission abstained, citing a possible conflict of interest.
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Venezuela and Uruguay opposed it, while Russia, New Zealand and Angola abstained.
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The Oklahoma City Thunder voted against it and the Dallas Mavericks abstained.
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Venezuela and Uruguay opposed it, and Russia, Angola and New Zealand abstained.
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Vanguard abstained on this at Alphabet, Citigroup, Danaher and eBay, among others.
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Nine voted "no" and 35 nations abstained, including Canada, Mexico and Australia.
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The conservatives, the largest group in the Parliament, abstained from the vote.
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The mothers who abstained from alcohol were used as the control group.
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He also abstained on the 2013 equal marriage act on procedural grounds.
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That amendment was not supported and the government abstained in the vote.
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For decades, she'd abstained from color, frills, anything that seemed too feminine.
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The 49ers chief executive, Jed York, said he abstained from the voting.
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However, a further dozen or so abstained or failed to show up.
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One member abstained from voting because of a possible conflict of interest.
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Not unanimous – 79% to 10% with 11% abstained – But a clear mandate.
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Nine voted against, 35 abstained and 21 did not cast a vote.
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Nissan, which some had expected also would give a thumbs down, instead abstained.
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Four other members of the Security Council abstained citing its one-sided nature.
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The main opposition party, the conservative New Democracy, abstained from the voting process.
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Four countries abstained and the rest of the 15-member council were against.
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The other group abstained from peanuts for the first five years of life.
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The French draft received 11 votes in favor, while China and Angola abstained.
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The Obama administration abstained on a vote on the death penalty in 2014.
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This time even China, which usually votes with Russia on Syria resolutions, abstained.
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Two Tennessee Republicans voted against the constitutional carry bill in committee; another abstained.
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Just 115 backed him, but 77 abstained, meaning Mr Lofven will continue nonetheless.
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Four Labour lawmakers voted against the party's own Brexit plan and seven abstained.
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A representative of German family-owned investment group Haniel abstained, the source added.
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The PBOC abstained from open market operations for 13 consecutive sessions in April.
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And the benefits didn't only extend to people who said they completely abstained.
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Sessions was initially skeptical of JASTA, and even abstained during Judiciary Committee votes.
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The United States abstained from the vote, refusing to exercise its veto power.
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Ultimately, the US abstained from the vote, and the resolution passed 14-0.
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Ninety lawmakers voted to elect him, ten opposed his election, and one abstained.
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Fourteen members of his own party abstained from a parliamentary vote in protest.
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Several members of her cabinet abstained in the vote, effectively turning against her.
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If the chief justice abstained from breaking a tie, the motion would fail.
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Poland was one of 35 countries who abstained from voting on the resolution.
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Uruguay voted against the measure, Trinidad and Tobago abstained and Cuba was absent.
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Frazier first abstained from consuming land animals, then seafood and eventually eliminating dairy.
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A historic high of 25.3 percent voters left their ballots blank or abstained altogether.
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We had abstained from seeing one another then had this incredibly emotional moment together.
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Toyota has famously abstained from adopting either CarPlay or Android Auto in its cars.
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The next year Fiji abstained in the UN vote on Russia's annexation of Crimea.
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He also revealed he abstained from sex in order to get closer to God.
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Only 241 members attended the session in which two members abstained from the vote.
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Six Cabinet ministers who are opposed to no deal also abstained on Thursday's vote.
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Among the 35 countries that abstained were U.S. allies Australia, Canada, Mexico and Poland.
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Twenty assembly members voted against Lee's nomination, two abstained and two votes were disqualified.
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The U.S. had the power to veto the resolution but abstained from using it.
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The San Francisco 49ers' chief executive, Jed York, said he had abstained from voting.
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It was telling that the opposition abstained on the vote, rather than voting against.
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Fifty-six countries abstained, including Canada and Germany, and 15 countries did not vote.
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A majority of 321 lawmakers voted in favor of the extension, while 28 abstained.
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The U.S. had the ability to veto the resolution, but abstained from doing so.
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Two of them voted against the deal and one of them abstained, it said.
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That leaves the party's hard-core devotees, many of whom abstained in previous elections.
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That resolution is the one that the US abstained on, and which ultimately passed.
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Marshall abstained from standing to protest the social injustice against African-Americans and other minorities.
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Lofven was supported by 115 law makers while 153 voted against him and 77 abstained.
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So much so that Pam abstained from drinking for an entire year after the incident.
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"If the DUP abstained I would feel entitled to back it," Rees-Mogg told reporters.
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Lawmakers from the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party abstained during the symbolic vote.
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Separately, at Acacia's annual shareholder meeting on Thursday, Barrick abstained from voting on all resolutions.
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On Monday, 40 states voted to accredit CPJ, 5 members voted against and 6 abstained.
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I realized I felt the same way about dating, which was why I generally abstained.
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The bill passed with 2.73 votes, 234 lawmakers abstained and one person did not vote.
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The companies "abstained, in a conscious and coordinated manner, from competing effectively," the regulator said.
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But, unusual as it was, China's Ambassador Liu Jieyi abstained and Trump lauded the success.
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Seven member states abstained and 20 backed the proposal, a German environment ministry spokeswoman said.
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Germany was among states which abstained on Monday and has opposed Monsanto's genetically modified seeds.
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The U.S. refused to veto the Security Council resolution and instead abstained from the vote.
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Almost 450 members voted in favor of the motion, 85033 voted against, and 48 abstained.
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Several right-leaning parties abstained during the vote to set up the commission, causing controversy.
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Labour and other opposition parties abstained on the motion, meaning that it did not pass.
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Some 128 nations voted for it and another 56 nations did not vote or abstained.
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But media outlets almost universally abstained from calling him the presumptive nominee until March 3.
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No European nations voted with the U.S., but some Central and Eastern European countries abstained.
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Thirty-one countries abstained from the vote, while 130 voted in favor of the language.
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They splashed arak on the victims, a further insult to Muslims who abstained from alcohol.
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Including the 14 electors who abstained in the election, only 1163 votes were considered valid.
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The Pakistan Peoples Party, the third-largest party, has 54 but abstained from Friday's voting.
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Of the 20 clubs, 14 agreed to the change, five voted against and one abstained.
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And it did balk a little: On election day, registered voters abstained in record numbers.
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Uruguay was the sole vote against, while Cuba was absent and Trinidad and Tobago abstained.
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He spent over a year in Alcoholics Anonymous, and has abstained from drinking ever since.
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Only three lawmakers abstained, while 424 voted for the bill and 143 voted against it.
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Bosniak deputies abstained from the vote, saying the parliament could not decide on defense issues.
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Nine council members voted in favor, Bolivia voted against, while Egypt, Ethiopia and Kazakhstan abstained.
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Out of 2,964 votes, only two delegates voted against the constitutional change, while three abstained.
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Other members of the party who voted for Mr. Kuczynski's removal denounced those who abstained.
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Two countries, China and Kazakhstan, abstained from voting, while Bolivia also voted against the draft.
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Israel and the United States were the only two that voted no (no one abstained).
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Twelve council members voted in favour, while Bolivia joined Russia in voting no, and China abstained.
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Sixteen abstained, including the U.K. and Germany, while 12 voted in favor, including France and Sweden.
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It received 11 votes in favor, two against - Russia and Bolivia - while China and Kazakhstan abstained.
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The remaining three — artists Hank Willis Thomas and Mary A. Valverde, and architect Laurie Hawkinson — abstained.
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Two were against while 165 - members of the conservative People's Party and center-right Ciudadanos - abstained.
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But 19 countries, including France and Germany, endorsed the revamp, while Belgium, Estonia and Slovenia abstained.
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Twelve council members voted in favor, while Bolivia joined Russia in voting no, and China abstained.
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Venezuela also voted against the text - drafted by New Zealand, Egypt and Spain - while Angola abstained.
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Ninety-nine voted in favor and 22 abstained, a result that mirrored his victory last March.
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He also sent official-looking "shaming" letters to potential supporters who had previously abstained from voting.
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She abstained from listening to music, except her own, in order to keep her ears clear.
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This time they abstained, opening the door for him to win a majority of votes cast.
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The final vote was 262 for, none against; 226 deputies abstained or stayed away in protest.
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For starters, negotiations will proceed even though France voted against the trade mandate and Belgium abstained.
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There was no support for Sanders, but several members abstained, preventing a unanimous vote for Clinton.
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The results were overwhelming: 114 nations voted in favor, Indonesia against, and five abstained, including China.
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A total of 318 lawmakers rejected the talks, while 278 voted in favor and 21 abstained.
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Jed York, whose family owns the San Francisco 49ers, abstained from voting on the new policy.
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And it abstained twice on two other proposals that, again, had relatively strong support among shareholders.
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Since the publication of "Troubling Love" in 1992, Ferrante has abstained from interviews, festivals, prize ceremonies.
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Lawmakers voted 204 to 142 against Mr. Lofven, while three abstained, after the election on Sept.
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Russia, China and Bolivia voted for the resolution, but eight members voted against and four abstained.
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A total of 128 countries backed the General Assembly resolution, nine voted against and 35 abstained.
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Netanyahu has abstained from speaking about the U.S. election throughout his own election campaign in Israel.
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She abstained from illicit drugs with the support of a comprehensive treatment program for pregnant women.
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The 2020 hopeful was the only House member Wednesday who cast a vote but effectively abstained.
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It said no (well, members mostly abstained), but the end result was the same: no elections.
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But filings later showed State Street funds abstained on some shareholder resolutions focused on boardroom diversity.
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As a result, Merkel abstained in voting - the only EU leader not to back the deal.
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Carey also reportedly abstained from having sex with her fiancé before they were meant to be wed.
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Seven votes were disqualified, two members abstained and one member did not participate, the parliament speaker said.
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Electors who have voted against the people's decision or abstained from voting are known as faithless electors.
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While living in Winterfell, Jon abstained from sex for fear of bringing another bastard in the world.
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A total of 231 MPs voted in favor of the government, 181 were against and two abstained.
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Thierry Derez, Covea's CEO, who sits on the Scor board, abstained to avoid any conflict of interest.
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The Palestinians won their 2011 UNESCO membership by a thundering 107-14 margin (though 52 states abstained).
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Three of the five commissioners voted in favor of dissolution, while one was opposed and one abstained.
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Both ZF and Knorr-Bremse, with stakes of 20 percent and 15 percent respectively, abstained from voting.
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The United States abstained from the vote, allowing the resolution to pass and breaking longstanding U.S. policy.
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Sixty-two delegates at the meeting voted against the Palestinian request, 56 in favor and 37 abstained.
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The government backed the amendment though 20 lawmakers in May's Conservative Party voted against and 80 abstained.
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The United States abstained from the vote, infuriating the Israeli government, which had called for a veto.
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Others, I didn't — dinners my mother cooked in the early '90s, which my grandparents abstained from eating.
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Six Cabinet ministers abstained from the vote, meaning Theresa May could be forced to sack them too.
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Voter turnout was low, however, around 42 percent and many people who oppose independence abstained from voting.
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The Obama administration abstained from the vote, refusing to use its veto power to block the resolution.
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Russia, China, Egypt and Venezuela, the Council members that abstained, had criticized some provisions in the resolution.
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Nine countries supported the US' decision, 35 abstained and another 21 did not participate in the vote.
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While 56 countries abstained from voting or did not show up, only nine countries voted against it.
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In the end, 180 members of Parliament backed the motion, 169 voted against it and one abstained.
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The longer I abstained, the better I felt, in ways that spilled into marriage, work, parenting, friendships.
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Just 10 people voted against the measure, while 23 others abstained, the South China Morning Post reported.
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The United States abstained from the Security Council vote last week, refusing to use its veto power.
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The U.S. could have blocked the vote, but the administration split from long-standing policy and abstained.
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Many of them abstained from classes or walked out in September for the global youth climate strike.
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Opposition leaders said between 26 to 39 ANC members had voted with the opposition and nine abstained.
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By the end of the decade, mastering engineers who had abstained from the war were losing clients.
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Russia rebuffed Mr. Flynn's request and voted for the resolution, which passed after the United States abstained.
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An analysis of the voters who abstained in the last round may spell similar trouble this time.
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Sanders and all but five Democratic senators abstained from the vote, and the story was quickly buried.
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She felt apathetic toward President Barack Obama and uneducated about Mitt Romney, so she abstained from voting entirely.
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A representative of Wood & Co, Pegas's largest shareholder with a 28.8 percent stake, abstained in the board vote.
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Of 250 members of parliament, 239 voted for the constitutional change while eight voted against and two abstained.
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India, the most populous democracy, abstained, along with Iran and Turkey, which both have reputations for persecuting journalists.
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All major parliamentary blocs supported him, except for Hezbollah, the Shiite Muslim group supported by Iran, which abstained.
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The resolution received 12 votes in favor but Russia and Bolivia both voted against it — while China abstained.
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A total of 128 countries backed the resolution, which is non-binding, nine voted against and 35 abstained.
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If he abstained from endorsing, he could have continued to fan the flames of a citizen-led outrage.
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Glassman's zeal about Barragan comes partly as a surprise, considering the CEO has mostly abstained from political activity.
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The Labor party members abstained then, and later actively opposed the bid, which ended with French veto 1963.
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As expected, the four lawmakers of a far-left party, the Popular Unity Candidacy, abstained from the voting.
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But after 30 days, that number fell, and only 15 percent of participants reported that they still abstained.
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In 2017, she supported Babis when she abstained in a lower house vote on lifting his parliamentary immunity.
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Trump took to Twitter to disparage the 193-member world body after the United States abstained in a Dec.
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His comments came soon after America abstained in the UN Security Council vote that criticised Israel's construction of settlements.
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The government survived only after the main opposition party abstained from voting on the budget, which contained the rescue.
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Gay and bisexual men can now donate blood, but only if they have abstained from sex for 12 months.
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After accounting for absentees, it seems that a fifth of ANC MPs either abstained or voted against their president.
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Several cabinet ministers, including business secretary Greg Clark, abstained on the vote, which ended in defeat for the government.
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His successor, Oscar Munoz, abstained from voting on the separation agreement between United and Smisek, according to the filing.
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The Obama administration in December abstained from a United Nations vote to condemn Israeli settlements, which infuriated Israeli officials.
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State Street Global Advisors' fund, however, voted against pay equity disclosure resolutions four times and abstained from voting once.
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Four board members did not vote, and it's unclear which ones abstained and how they feel about the separation.
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As a result, the U.S. abstained from — rather than vetoed — a U.N. Security Council Resolution criticizing Israel's settlement policy.
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Some 185 lawmakers backed the veto by Radev, who won the presidency in November 2016, and only two abstained.
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A recent Washington Post analysis showed that most countries that already regularly vote with Israel abstained or voted no.
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Fujimori's son, Kenji Fujimori, was among several lawmakers who abstained from last week's vote to remove Kuczynski from office.
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Italy and Poland were among those who voted in opposition to the bill, while Estonia, Belgium and Slovenia abstained.
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A 1999 study found that people ate more when they had an aperitif before dinner than if they abstained.
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Only the United States voted against the latest proposal at the 47-member council, though 17 other countries abstained.
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A total of 212 South Korean lawmakers voted for the bill and 24 others abstained in the floor vote.
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In the end, thirty-eight lawmakers voted against the bill, 31 voted in favor of it and two abstained.
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Rwanda abstained on the vote, depriving the Palestinians of the nine votes they needed to pass the biased motion.
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Warren has also mostly abstained from attacking other Democrats in an attempt not to alienate supporters of other candidates.
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The GOP state senator who abstained, Sandy Senn, said she thought the bill was unconstitutional, according to The State.
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With that seeming increasingly unlikely, on Wednesday he said he would vote in favor if the party merely abstained.
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When it first passed in 1992, it received 59 yes votes and three votes against, and 71 countries abstained.
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Both the PP and the centrist Ciudadanos abstained from the parliamentary vote, arguing the exhumation was not an urgent issue.
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Three nominated members of parliament, who are appointed directly by the president and not affiliated to political parties, all abstained.
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Russia abstained from a United Nations Security Council resolution in 2015 that imposed an arms embargo on the Houthi rebels.
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Harris has so far abstained from taking any specific position regarding Warren's proposal or antitrust enforcement in the tech sector.
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The celebrity couple, who famously abstained from sex until their wedding this July, have announced that they're expecting a baby.
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A parliament tally showed that 229 LREM members voted in favor of the controversial treaty, 9 against and 52 abstained.
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The Labour party had abstained on an earlier vote, urging the government to make "substantial" changes to the proposed legislation.
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Of the centrist ANO party's members who were present, 15 voted against the ban, 13 in favor and 16 abstained.
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A parliament tally showed that 229 LREM members voted in favour of the controversial treaty, 9 against and 52 abstained.
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The United States last week abstained vetoing a United Security Council resolution condemning Israeli settlements as illegal under international law.
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But Meeks said some members of the board abstained because they have not decided which candidate they will back yet.
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And when Jost asked who Church Lady would be checking off on the ballot, she abstained from choosing a favorite.
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Altogether 63 German conservative lawmakers voted against the third bailout for Greece in August 2015 and a further three abstained.
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China abstained on a UN resolution last week condemning the latest missile test — instead of vetoing it — a symbolic gesture.
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Some supporters of Mr. Trump — Rudy Giuliani, John Bolton — have said Obama abstained to "box in" the future Trump administration.
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The local police chief, who is also a member of the council, abstained from the decision, Norwegian NTB agency reported.
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The Fed board cleared the plan unanimously, while Quarles abstained after recusing himself from all matters related to Wells Fargo.
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Some 128 countries voted for the resolution, while nine voted "no," and 35 nations abstained, including Canada, Mexico and Australia.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu thanked Trump and the countries that abstained in a statement issued shortly after the vote.
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He abstained from drugs, knowing, he said, that one day he'd be peeing in a cup for the police exam.
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Among countries that abstained were Argentina, Australia, Canada, Colombia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Mexico, Philippines, Poland, Rwanda, South Sudan and Uganda.
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The Japanese draft received 12 votes in favor on Friday, while China abstained and Bolivia joined Russia to vote no.
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Major allies like Britain, France, Germany and Japan voted for the resolution, though some allies, like Australia and Canada, abstained.
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Russia and China abstained and the watering down of the resolution prompted angry abstentions from the United States and Britain.
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Sunni and Kurdish parliament members abstained from the vote in protest, but refused to record their opposition to the measure.
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The Scottish National Party said it abstained over concerns that the government would not share the economic benefits with Scotland.
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No one abstained, 142 voted in favour of Lofven remaining in the job and three members of parliament were absent.
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Last year Russia and China abstained in the council vote to extend approval for the cross-border humanitarian aid deliveries.
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Only eight delegates voted against the new foreign investment law, and another eight abstained, while 2,929 voted to approve it.
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Last year, Trump took to Twitter to disparage the 193-member world body after the United States abstained in a Dec.
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And most importantly, at every point of the study, these users were more likely to have abstained completely from smoking cigarettes.
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He abstained during the recent parliamentary vote which allowed same-sex marriage, a change that was overwhelmingly supported in a plebiscite.
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DWS abstained in a vote at Bayer's annual shareholder meeting to approve top management's business conduct in 2018, which Bayer lost.
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So far, she has notably abstained from weighing in on Kaine, despite several other Clinton VP contenders -- including New Jersey Sen.
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But the agency abstained from pursuing even greater punishments like a substantially larger fine and finding CEO Mark Zuckerberg personally liable.
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Eighteen panelists recommended that the risks of the reformulation eclipse the benefits, while eight disagreed and one member abstained from voting.
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The U.S. could have vetoed the measure but abstained instead, ending a longstanding American policy of shielding Israel from U.N. reproaches.
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Lawmakers from Fillon's party, The Republicans, voted against the text, while Socialist legislators from France Unbowed and the Communist Party abstained.
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Of the major economies, only Nigeria has abstained, and Leke believes that position is likely to change in the near future.
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Slightly more than 2628 percent of voters abstained in the first round, the highest abstention rate France has seen since 28503.
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Kuczynski survived, in part, because a total of 10 lawmakers from Kenji Fujimori's party abstained, breaking ranks with their own leadership.
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The Obama administration abstained from the vote and declined to use its veto power on the Security Council to block it.
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The U.S. could have vetoed the controversial measure but abstained, breaking from its longstanding tradition of shielding Israel from U.N. reproaches.
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Instead, in a secret ballot, 11 of the 21 countries on the committee either opposed the motion, abstained or were absent.
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But many of the 7.5 million residents there oppose independence and abstained after the Spanish Supreme Court deemed the vote unconstitutional.
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Mike Ashley, Sports Direct's chief executive and 61 percent shareholder, and the rest of the board had abstained from the vote.
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Fifteen countries sided with Britain and voted against the resolution, and 65 countries abstained, effectively sending the case to the court.
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Of the 168 patients who abstained from alcohol, just over half were former drinkers and the rest had never been drinkers.
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The United States in 2016 abstained from the vote for the first time after 25 years of voting against the resolution.
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The Obama administration instead abstained from the vote, breaking from the nation's longstanding policy of protecting Israel from United Nations action.
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The United States abstained in a U.N. vote against Israel's settlement policy, defying calls to veto from Israel and Mr. Trump.
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All members of Parliament (except one who abstained) voted for the ban, including politicians from the left and with Islamic beliefs.
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Mr. King abstained from the vote, and 23 Republicans voted against the resolution, most of them deeming it a show vote.
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The Netherlands was the only country involved in the conference to vote against the treaty, while Singapore abstained from the vote.
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In 2014 the Obama administration abstained on a resolution at the Human Rights Council, though it lacked the portion highlighting LGBT rights.
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Russia has petitioned African politicians over its claims to Crimea; 28 African countries abstained on a General Assembly motion condemning the annexation.
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Only four of the 15 council members voted to stop the meeting, while nine voted to hold the meeting and two abstained.
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Four EU countries abstained in today's vote on the Privacy Shield: Schrems' home country of Austria, along with Bulgaria, Croatia and Slovenia.
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But it's still abstained from any top-down guidance of who to follow, like the algorithmic suggestions seen on Facebook and Twitter.
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The AfD and the pro-market Free Democrats (FDP) voted in favor of Boehringer, 48, while the conservatives, SPD and Greens abstained.
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"It's hard enough in this world without having a board member who is obviously racist," said Alfred, who abstained from the vote.
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Of the 69 councilors who were present at the council meeting, all voted in favor of the motion bar two who abstained.
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One study showed that the small impact in cognitive function went away after the person abstained from consuming weed for 72 hours.
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Having abstained from the decision, European states and the EU are unlikely to provide active support to the work on the database.
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Mr. Rajoy needed a simple majority on Friday, which he could have reached if at least 11 lawmakers had abstained from voting.
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In 2011 her government abstained from the UN security council vote to intervene in Libya, citing "considerable dangers and risks" in participating.
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A total of 25 EU countries voted in favor of the measures but three abstained, a source close to the negotiations said.
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Other countries where Israel is not a big domestic issue but that receive a lot of US support (Jamaica for example) abstained.
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She and her husband even abstained from buying each other wedding bands for their ceremony, at New York city hall in February.
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Many of the studies in the past on this topic looked at moderate drinkers in comparison to those who abstained from drinking.
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In the final days of Mr. Obama's presidency, however, the United States abstained from voting on a resolution condemning Israel's settlement construction.
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The new cabinet was approved by seven out of the nine members of the presidential council, after two members abstained in protest.
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Germany, which had abstained in a previous round of voting on the issue, appeared to help sway the outcome of the vote.
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In retrospect, none of the children I treated in the hospital for measles over the past year had completely abstained from vaccinations.
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February: 'Like' In the second month of the year, I, like, abstained from saying, like, the word "like" as, like, filler language.
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The United States abstained from the vote but didn't veto the resolution, ending a longstanding policy of shielding Israel from U.N. reproaches.
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The U.S. had the ability to veto the U.N. Security Council resolution, but abstained from the vote Friday, allowing it to pass.
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Indeed, in the aforementioned Vogue interview, Justin confirmed that they abstained from sex before they were married, in accordance with church teaching.
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This decision comes eight months after the Warren Blake led-JAAA executive abstained from a vote on sweeping reforms of the IAAF.
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When it came to a vote, the Nissan representatives abstained, the leftist CGT union voted against, and all other directors voted for it.
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Eight members abstained from the vote and a few members of parliament raised concerns citing security breaches in some parts of the country.
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Julius Malema, leader of the leftist Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), said that 26 ANC members had voted with the opposition and nine abstained.
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Only two lawmakers voted in favor of staying under the jurisdiction of the Dutch-based ICC, while 94 voted against and 14 abstained.
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It was a shift for the Japanese automaker, which famously abstained from adopting either CarPlay or Android Auto in its cars for years.
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China, which has vetoed six resolutions on Syria since the civil war began, abstained from Wednesday's U.N. vote, along with Ethiopia and Kazakhstan.
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The US's ambassador to the UN, Samantha Power, abstained from voting on the resolution, which has been perceived as a slight against Israel.
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China and Russia had abstained from the Libyan resolution and neither country plans to make what they regard as a similar mistake again.
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"The PSOE has abstained from voting against Rajoy but the question is how much they will support the government going forward," he said.
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The vote to make Kosovo FIFA's 210th member was 141 to 23, meaning more than 40 members abstained or had their votes invalidated.
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For the first time Wednesday, the United States abstained from voting on a United Nations resolution condemning the country's trade embargo against Cuba.
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Fujimori's son, Kenji Fujimori, was among several lawmakers who abstained from last week's vote to remove Kuczynski from office amid a bribery scandal.
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Questions of political motives Fujimori's son, Kenji Fujimori, was among several lawmakers who abstained from last week's vote to remove Kuczynski from office.
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Later on Thursday, Haley asked the 64 countries who voted no, abstained or did not cast a vote to come to a Jan.
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Just seven lawmakers who have abstained or opposed such a measure must switch their votes to get a new bill approved, she said.
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This time, Alderman David Little, who had previously voted against the permit, abstained, knowing it would allow the mayor to break the tie.
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Leaders of democracies, including America's allies in Europe and Asia, have abstained from criticizing Mr. Xi, concerned in part by retaliatory economic reprisals.
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Twenty-six countries abstained, unwilling to take sides between the opposing powers, and a similar number that were eligible to vote were absent.
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TASS news agency said 19 lawmakers voted for the president's resignation, four cast their vote against it, while one abstained from the voting.
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Gone are the days when the United States abstained on a key United Nations Security Council resolution denying the Jewish connection to Jerusalem.
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The U.S. delegation cast the only "no" vote, while 28 states voted in favor, including China, and 17 abstained with one delegation absent.
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"I think that those of us who are committed to governance need an explanation," said Congressman Richard Acuña, one of those who abstained.
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Even in the disputed 2000 presidential election, when passions ran almost as high as today, no electors changed their votes and just one abstained.
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On Wednesday, she posted a celebratory message on Facebook, noting that there were no negative votes, and none of the lawmakers abstained from voting.
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About 12 percent of votes cast were either blank or spoiled, the official figures showed, while 24.8 percent of the voters accounted for abstained.
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The findings are fascinating: respondents trusted Facebook less than Google, and "trust" was a primary factor for individuals who abstained from using Facebook overall.
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And because Vivendi abstained from voting on resolutions related to employee stock grants and options, said a Ubisoft representative, those resolutions failed to pass.
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Others abstained or left their ballots blank, dismayed by the choice between what some called "cholera or the plague": global finance or xenophobic nationalism.
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Chamberlain survived a no confidence vote in parliament, but his majority was slashed as lawmakers in his own party abstained or voted against him.
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America "has abstained from interference in the concerns of others, even when the conflict has been for principles to which she clings," Adams said.
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Business minister Greg Clark and international development minister Rory Stewart both abstained on the vote, but do not plan to resign, their aides said.
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British media reported that pro-EU finance minister Philip Hammond, who is likely to be sacked if Johnson wins the top job, also abstained.
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The euro has rallied in the past two sessions after European Central Bank President Mario Draghi abstained from talking down the currency on Thursday.
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As big EU nations France and Germany abstained from a vote earlier this month, even the compromise proposal lacked enough support to be adopted.
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The parliament is typically 135 members strong but politicians from the Socialist Party, the People's Party (PP) and the Ciudadanos party abstained in protest.
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The parliament adopted the bill on Thursday with a majority of 240 votes, while the main opposition parties abstained, state news agency PAP reported.
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The U.S. voted against such resolutions for 24 years but abstained for the first time 2016 as Washington and Havana forged a closer relationship.
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Six members abstained, reflecting what diplomats called concerns that the step might impede efforts by other African nations to revive South Sudan peace negotiations.
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For instance, when the vote came to legalize same-sex marriage in Australia, after a postal survey showed majority support among Australians, he abstained.
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The other vote against the deal was from an independent senator, while two members of the center-right National Action Party (PAN) also abstained.
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To the shock and relief of Smith and the white farmers, he let them stay on, keeping their land if they abstained from politics.
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McGregor has been training with a blue-collar work ethic, has abstained from drinking his own whiskey brand, and has had a structured camp.
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At the end of Obama's term, in December 2016, the U.S. abstained from a UN Security Council vote that determined the settlements were illegal.
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Nicaragua originally abstained because it believed the accord wasn't strong enough; Syria didn't join because it was in the middle of a civil war.
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They have wavered on whether to let the prosecutions proceed, suggested they be delayed until after regional elections and ultimately abstained in critical votes.
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In each instance, Trump opted to deploy additional troops and equipment to the region or impose sanctions, but abstained from directly targeting Tehran militarily.
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Out of 2,964 ballots, just two delegates voted against the move and three abstained, suggesting minimal opposition to Xi's push to rule for life.
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Memory, but not attention, improved more among adolescents and young adults who abstained from cannabis compared to those who continued to use, researchers found.
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But it has also supported Mexico economically, abstained from seeking regime change, tolerated mass migration from the south and generally treated Mexico with respect.
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Not one single Republican Senator voted against the bill last week, and even so-called privacy champion Rand Paul abstained from voting at all.
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But there was a louder note of dissent over the annual report from China's supreme court: 156 delegates voted against it, and 67 abstained.
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The United States on Friday abstained on a vote over a UN Security Council resolution demanding an end to Israeli settlements in Palestinian territory.
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Amy Klobuchar and Sherrod Brown, who are positioning themselves as moderate alternatives in the 2020 race, notably abstained from signing on to the legislation.
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A third of the Socialist lawmakers who cast their votes on Wednesday voted against the measure and some others abstained, highlighting divisions over the issue.
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China, which has vetoed six resolutions on Syria since the civil war began six years ago, abstained from Wednesday's vote, along with Ethiopia and Kazakhstan.
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Mueller's report may have abstained from charging the president, but it offered a blueprint for Congress to follow if lawmakers wanted to pursue further investigation.
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There has been wide speculation that Renault's governance move was a reprisal after Nissan had abstained from endorsing Renault's planned merger with Fiat Chrysler Automobiles .
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Twenty-four of them—including eight front-benchers—abstained or voted against an amendment last month that would have helped prevent a no-deal Brexit.
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Yet his victory was a slender one: perhaps a sixth of the MPs from the ruling African National Congress abstained or voted with the opposition.
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Only 88 members of parliament voted in favour of the government's proposal to soften the deficit-cutting path, while 173 voted against and 86 abstained.
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The Palestinian frustration with India started more than a year ago when India abstained from a UN Human Rights Council vote, which shocked the Palestinians.
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EU member states formally signed on to the agreement last week, but as The Guardian reports, Austria, Slovenia, Bulgaria, and Croatia abstained from the vote.
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Only 88 members of parliament voted in favor of the government's proposal to soften the deficit-cutting path, while 173 voted against and 86 abstained.
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The CUP, whose four parliamentarians abstained in the vote on Saturday, will meet on Sunday to decide how it will vote in the second round.
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One great question hovers over this exemplary book: Would De Quincey have been the greater had he abstained from toxins and conscientiously cultivated his talents?
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In 2015, after India abstained on a United Nations Human Rights Council vote condemning Israel, the Palestinian ambassador to India called for a public explanation.
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There has been wide speculation that Renault's governance move was a reprisal after Nissan had abstained from endorsing Renault's planned merger with Fiat Chrysler Automobiles.
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To the shock and relief of Smith and the white farmers, he let them stay on and keep their land if they abstained from politics.
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In any event, Ballou does not want to be the voter remembered for denying Rivera a unanimous election; he said he had abstained from voting.
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In the vote for the American resolution, in which the United States was the sole yes vote, three members voted against it and 11 abstained.
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But Ms. Le Pen would also benefit if disillusioned voters in the poorer, largely immigrant suburbs of Paris, many of whom supported Mr. Mélenchon, abstained.
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Nine countries voted in favor of the briefing - the minimum needed - while China, Russia and Bolivia voted against and Ethiopia, Equatorial Guinea and Kazakhstan abstained.
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Although they abstained, the Greens said they would remain open to allying with von der Leyen and other groups on a case-by-case basis.
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Many of the volunteers I spoke with were exhausted from carrying donations and supplies on a hot day while they abstained from food and water.
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But the vote to overthrow him fell short when Mr. Fujimori's son, Kenji, led a group of congressmen who abstained, reportedly on Alberto Fujimori's orders.
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ESPN reported that Mark Davis, the owner of the Oakland Raiders, and Jed York, the owner of the San Francisco 49ers, abstained from the vote.
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Men who abstained had sex an average of 5.6 times during the previous month, while those who smoked had sex an average of 6.9 times.
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It always felt fitting, in a way, that Drag City abstained from participating in the tech-dollar feeding frenzy that is the music streaming ecosystem.
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It's unclear if Rob abstained from drinking as he was hanging with his sis at the Hollywood hot spots, but at least he's joining the party.
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But he made the decision three days after Mr Fujimori's son and nine other legislators from his party abstained on a vote to impeach Mr Kuczynski.
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Before Tuesday, the PBOC had abstained from open market operations for 12 straight sessions, citing either "relatively high" or "appropriate" liquidity levels in the banking system.
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Though Lovato has abstained from drugs and alcohol for nearly six years, she admitted in the film she has yet to effectively treat her eating disorder.
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In April, a shareholder vote narrowly backed the housebuilder's pay scheme by 51.5 percent of votes cast to 48.5 percent against, whilst some 31 percent abstained.
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Many young people are thought to have abstained, though it is hard to tell whether this was because of apathy or a rejection of Mr Putin.
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Last week's Security Council vote to condemn Israeli settlements in the West Bank—a resolution on which the Obama administration controversially abstained—has enraged GOP legislators.
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A total of 318 law makers voted against opening talks with EU countries based on the committee's proposal while 278 voted in favour, and 31 abstained.
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Though Lovato has abstained from drugs and alcohol for nearly six years, she admitted in the film she has yet to effectively treat her eating disorder.
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Cruz and Rubio mostly abstained from criticizing each other, focusing their energies on painting Trump as an outsider who cares about deals first and principles after.
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In most cases where State Street voted against or abstained from voting, they voiced their concerns on these issues directly with the companies, the firm said.
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The researchers found that parents who used any drug (alcohol, marijuana, methamphetamine, or others) disciplined their children more frequently that those who abstained from drug use.
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Ever since his brother's warning, Trump said, he has abstained from drinking and smoking because he had "somebody that guided me" in that aspect of life.
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The U.S. had the ability to veto the resolution but abstained from doing so despite pressure from Trump, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. lawmakers.
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They abstained from the vote, seeing it as a political trap by their enemies to make them look extremist and as a first step toward censorship.
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However, in an unprecedented move, Italy abstained from the vote, even though the higher spending on migration and youth unemployment is meant to address Rome's woes.
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More than one study has found no developmental difference in kids of women who abstained entirely versus those who had up to a drink a day.
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But in a possible sign of Russia's isolation on the chemical weapons issue, China, the permanent member that usually votes with Russia on Syria resolutions, abstained.
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Fourty-seven senators backed on Thursday a motion to dismiss Chrzanowski, while 22 senators were against it and two abstained from voting, the voting records showed.
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The council had voted in favor of creating the database after 32 states backed a proposal by Pakistan, while 15 abstained, including Britain, France and Germany.
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An additional 16,254 people started out as vegetarians or vegans, eating no meat or fish, and 73% still abstained based on the follow-up dietary questionnaires.
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Mr. Trump, president-elect at the time, expressed fury at the Obama administration for having abstained in that vote instead of blocking it with a veto.
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ERC abstained in a vote in parliament in July when Sanchez failed to get enough support for a new term, which eventually prompted this month's election.
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Rees-Mogg had previously said he would only vote for May's deal if the Democratic Unionist Party either backed her withdrawal agreement, or abstained on the vote.
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But France and Malta voted against that and seven countries, including Germany, Italy and Austria, abstained, according to EU sources, meaning there was not the required majority.
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The couple abstained from having sex throughout their relationship and Ciara joked on Snapchat, "So baby, you know what we're doing tonight," she asked her new hubby.
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One senator, Tony Avella, a Queens Democrat, abstained after explaining that the Court of Appeals is scheduled to hear a case in which he is a plaintiff.
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The index futures mirrored cautious sentiment on European bourses where investors abstained from placing big bets ahead of the European Central Bank's policy meeting later this week.
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But the prime minister's fortunes shifted after the opposition Labour Party — which had previously abstained from the vote — decided that it would, after all, back an election.
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All leftist and far-right parties voted against the agreement, but among the conservative Les Republicains, one lawmaker voted in favor of the treaty and five abstained.
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Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. abstained from voting because he owns stock in Time Warner, one of the companies filing the petition to consider the case.
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" RELATED: Jill Stein: 'Bernie hearts are breaking' West was on the Democratic National Convention platform committee, but abstained from the final voting citing the party's "moral failures.
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China, which in the past has vetoed several resolutions along with Russia, abstained on this one -- a move welcomed by Trump at a White House news conference.
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All leftist and far-right parties voted against the agreement, but among the conservative Les Republicains, one lawmaker voted in favour of the treaty and five abstained.
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PSOE, the opposition Socialist party, made it possible for Rajoy to win a parliamentary confidence vote after it lifted its veto on his second term and abstained.
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What if, for example, moderate drinkers had significantly different diets (another factor that affects LDL and HDL levels) than people who abstained from alcohol or drank heavily?
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Those women abstained from both paid labor, where they were compensated less than men and faced stark odds of being promoted to prestigious jobs, and unpaid labor.
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Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pressured the Obama administration to veto the resolution, but the U.S. abstained from the vote, allowing the resolution to pass.
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ERC abstained in a vote in parliament in July in which Sanchez failed to get enough support for a new term, which eventually prompted this month's election.
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Every other democratic nation on the Security Council voted in favor of the resolution, along with every other nation on the Security Council, while the U.S. abstained.
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In December, when the United Nations General Assembly for the first time adopted a resolution expressing support for the treaty banning the weapons, the United States abstained.
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The sandwich was supposed to solve the problem of slow business on Fridays in Catholic areas of the US where customers abstained from meat for the day.
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The lawmakers of Podemos abstained, while those of its ally, the United Left party, voted against the resolution, arguing that it was designed to further destabilize Venezuela.
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The pardon was seen by some as a political reward to Mr. Fujimori's son, whose faction of lawmakers abstained in a vote to impeach the current president.
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The European Union announced with great fanfare that it planned to reach carbon neutrality by 2050, or rather, every country except Poland, which abstained from the deal.
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After months of protest, two of the investors — Bain and KKR — gave a combined $20 million to an employee severance fund, but the third investor, Vornado, abstained.
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He once suggested that vegetarians and teetotalers should be put to death — and then added that he was referring to Hitler, who abstained from alcohol and meat.
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And afterward, they abstained from pondering how to minimize Patrick Mahomes, to block Chris Jones, to dupe Tyrann Mathieu, to neutralize Tyreek Hill, to savor the moment.
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"Those who completely abstained had more benefit or a greater reduction in atrial fibrillation compared to those who reduced their intake but continued to drink," Kistler noted.
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About a quarter of the electorate abstained, with many in France forced to choose between two candidates they did not like in the final round of voting.
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Recently, however, and for the first time after historically casting "no" votes, the United States simply abstained from a vote at the United Nations to lift it.
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The United States refrained from using its veto power, as it had done many times before to shield Israel, and abstained in the 14-to-0 vote.
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The impeachment vote failed because a faction of Mr. Fujimori's party led by his son Kenji abstained, denying Mr. Kuczynski's opponents the supermajority required to remove him.
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They weren't kidding: The number of voters who abstained in the final round was greater than the number who voted for the runner-up, Marine Le Pen.
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Women who abstained from marijuana had sex an average of 6.0 times during the previous month, while those who smoked had sex an average of 7.1 times.
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He denounced the Socialists for having abstained last October to allow Mr Rajoy to form a minority government in a parliamentary vote he described as "a mafia coup".
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A majority of EU diplomats agreed to the revamp while Finland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and Poland refused to back the deal and two other EU countries abstained.
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For the final vote, turnout was the lowest it's been in 40 years: Around a third of all voters (26 percent, or just over 16 million people) abstained.
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Though Lovato has abstained from drugs and alcohol for nearly six years, she admitted in her YouTube documentary that she has yet to effectively treat her eating disorder.
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The researchers find that this new pessimism has been decisive in shifting both some previous Leave voters, and most of those who abstained in June 2016, towards Remain.
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Wearing a big cowboy hat and a denim jacket, the singer – who abstained from drinking at the party – was approached by tons of fans who saw her perform.
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In 1836 all of Virginia's 23 electors abstained from voting for Richard Johnson, the Democratic Party's nominee for vice president, because of Johnson's extramarital relationship with his slave.
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Still, the choice baffled many Israelis, not least because Honduras abstained from the 1947 United Nations vote for the partition of Palestine, paving the way for Israel's creation.
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What he's found, across variations of this experiment, is that for every 10 people who get registered, only about three people end up voting who would've otherwise abstained.
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Only four members of the EU voted with Britain; one, Cyprus, voted with Mauritius and 22 abstained, including usually reliable allies France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Spain.
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The DUP has abstained on several votes on the government's finance bill this week, prompting questions over whether the so-called confidence and supply arrangement had been abandoned.
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Singapore, who had their FA chief Zainudin Nordin as one of the candidates for the FIFA Council elections, voted in favor of the agenda while another member abstained.
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The United States abstained on the resolution, allowing it to pass, rather than vetoing it -- as it usually does with resolutions it sees as overly critical of Israel.
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The rules were passed by France's senate and the lower house of parliament, where Macron's party has a comfortable majority, but an unprecedented number of his lawmakers abstained.
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Jacob Rees-Mogg, who heads the ERG group of eurosceptic Conservative lawmakers, said he would now reluctantly vote for May's agreement if the DUP backed it or abstained.
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A record 11.5 percent of votes cast were either blank or spoiled, while a near-record total of 25.4 percent of registered voters abstained altogether, official figures showed.
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Cruz said, "If you cut off their money, that gets their attention," referring presumably to the member states who voted for or abstained from voting for the resolution.
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Women who drank the alcoholic equivalent of one to 13 four-ounce glasses of wine a week were no less likely to conceive than those who abstained completely.
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Hungary, Poland, Croatia and the Czech Republic all abstained from a December United Nations General Assembly resolution condemning US President Donald Trump's recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital.
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For what is believed to be the first time since he has had top roles in both organizations, Mr. Reedie abstained from the Olympic vote on that decision.
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Wealthy Muslim countries poured resources into reviving Islam in Eastern Europe, but Poland's Tatars largely abstained from those efforts and preferred to manage their country's Islamic renaissance themselves.
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At President Barack Obama's direction, the US abstained from voting on the resolution, a rare move that allowed the UN Security Council to unanimously condemn Israeli's settlement activity.
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On Sunday, only five members opposed or abstained from voting on a measure sweeping away the 35-year-old provision that had limited the president to two terms.
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"The optics of appointing a donor to the Conflicts of Interest Board is troubling," he said, noting that he abstained from voting on Mr. Bohorquez's reappointment last year.
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While Sanders has been critical of other Democratic rivals, particularly Biden, he and Warren, longtime friends, have largely abstained from attacking one another despite regular prodding from reporters.
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Sunni and Kurdish members of parliament abstained from the vote but did not publicly support the controversial U.S. attack that has thrown the region into upheaval and unpredictability.
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In 2015, the agency modified the lifetime ban and allowed men who had sex with men to donate blood if they had abstained from sex for one year.
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Macron won more than 50 percent of Mélenchon's first-round voters, and while a third of his voters abstained, it didn't appear to significantly affect Macron's comfortable margin.
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All participants, who abstained from alcohol for the duration of the study, cycled through three test diets: red meat diet, white meat diet and then a no meat diet.
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By comparison, only 30% of Chinese abstained in 2017, while 233% drank and 30% binged; by 2030, China is expected to host 20% abstainers, 26.1% drinkers and 26.4% bingers.
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Hungary, Lithuania, Latvia and Poland said they could not back the proposal, while Ireland, Britain and Croatia abstained over concerns that the new rules would hurt their transport industries.
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Even the local Green Party candidate abstained from voting on the motion and confessed that the meat-free event would be "a real kick in the guts" for some.
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Obama ended his tenure with a final parting shot at Netanyahu — the United States abstained from a United Nations vote condemning Israeli settlements, allowing the adoption of the resolution.
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"As a Muslim, Samir chose not to stand for the national anthem for religious reasons and had abstained in previous games without incident," the ACLU said in a statement.
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The resolution won the support of 116 countries, while 56 abstained and only Australia, Hungary, Israel and the Maldives joined Britain and the United States in voting against it.
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Most members of the mainly Islamist co-ruling PJD and conservative Istiqlal lawmakers abstained from voting on the articles stipulating the use of French as a language of instruction.
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Everyone raised their hands except for Jehmu Greene, a Fox News political analyst running for DNC chair who said she abstained because Democrats should not entertain divisive "gotcha" questions.
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They say three EDF board members are also on the boards of other firms that are EDF customers, which could benefit from Hinkley Point, and should therefore have abstained.
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NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said the vote was unanimous, but two owners — Jed York of the San Francisco 49ers and Mark Davis of the Oakland Raiders — abstained, ESPN reported.
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"Israel rejects the decision of the United Nations and, at the same time, we show gratitude to the high number of countries that abstained from this resolution," Netanyahu said.
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The imaging techniques showed subtle differences—like a slightly shorter, more upturned nose—in babies whose mothers drank alcohol, even at the lowest amounts, compared those those who abstained.
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I called my dad, who became a vegan in the 90s, and he reminded me that it was also hard when he abstained from meat products 20 years ago.
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"If Renault abstained on the governance reform proposals, it would put a big question mark on Saikawa's ability to manage Nissan as its chief executive," one Nissan source said.
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Jed York of the 49ers abstained in the vote, according to NFL Media's Jim Trotter, a move that 49ers cornerback Richard Sherman said carried great respect with the players.
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The selection of Mr. Torra on Monday could hinge on the votes of the four lawmakers of a far-left party, the Popular Unity Candidacy, who abstained on Saturday.
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Angola's U.N. Ambassador Ismael Gaspar Martins said his country abstained on both votes because it did not want to be drawn into the acrimony between the United States and Russia.
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The study also found higher risk for people who abstained from alcohol; their risk of dementia from midlife to their later years was 74% compared to people who drank moderately.
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Until Tuesday, when it had open market operations, the PBOC had abstained from them for 12 straight sessions, citing either "relatively high" or "appropriate" liquidity levels in the banking system.
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Additionally, Siegfried Wolf this month abstained from taking a seat on the board of Porsche Automobil Holding, the family controlled investment vehicle that controls a majority stake in Volkswagen< VOWG_p.
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Traditionally, only a handful of smaller nations side with the US. This time, the US and Israel alone abstained, while the 191 other UN member countries voted for the resolution.
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China, which has also vetoed several resolutions in the past along with Russia, abstained on this one -- a move welcomed by President Donald Trump at a White House news conference.
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" The United States also abstained on that resolution, but noted that its "content generally accords with the frequently stated position of the United States on settlements in the occupied territories.
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Seven board members had voted in favour of his exit, while six were opposed and two abstained, showing Isaka will face considerable resistance from the start in his new role.
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Four cabinet ministers, including the work and pensions minister Amber Rudd, the justice minister David Gauke, the business minister Greg Clarke and Scotland minister David Mundell abstained on the motion.
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The volunteer, Evonne, abstained from caffeine for several days in preparation for the experiment, during which she drank an energy drink as researchers monitored her heart rate in the scanner.
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The pact with Ciudadanos could have gone through only if the PP or Podemos had backed it or at least abstained in the second vote, something they again ruled out.
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He abstained from the vote for the participation of 169 invited Russians as neutrals under the Olympic flag for Pyeongchang shortly before the start of the Games on Feb 9.
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BRASILIA (Reuters) - With 100 votes cast, 73 congressmen voted in favor of the impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff in Brazil's lower house on Sunday and 27 voted against or abstained.
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The Obama administration last week had a chance to veto a United Nations resolution to condemn Israeli settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, but abstained from doing so.
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Most European allies voted against the United States, and even European allies in Central Europe, who consider Washington a key guarantor against Russia, did not vote with Washington but abstained.
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May's government lost this vote on Thursday because the hardcore Brexiteers — those who really want to abandon the EU and all of its rules — in her party abstained from voting.
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Adrian Piper, the conceptual artist and analytic philosopher whose Museum of Modern Art retrospective closed this summer, is said to have, by 1985, abstained permanently from alcohol, meat and sex.
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It abstained from voting on the 2018 Global Compact of Migration, which aims to reduce the risks and vulnerabilities migrants face, and also plans to withdraw from the Paris Agreement.
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But a faction of her party — led by her younger brother, Kenji — split with Ms. Fujimori last week and abstained, denying Mr. Kuczynski's enemies the supermajority needed to remove him.
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The Obama administration abstained from voting on the measure, allowing it to pass 14 to 0, in what was seen as a pointed rebuke of Israel by its American ally.
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Mr. Zulawski abstained from cinema for 15 years before making "Cosmos" (2015), based on a novella by Witold Gombrowicz, with yet another top-list actress, Sabine Azéma, in the starring role.
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But she is less keen on marriage between same-sex couples — she abstained from voting on gay marriage in 2013 and said today that she "didn't like" the equal-marriage legislation.
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Trump was furious when the U.S. abstained from a vote condemning the Israeli construction of settlements, which led to a resolution being approved for the first time in over 35 years.
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His bibulous reputation was exaggerated by his opponents, Mr Chernow believes, and indeed with discipline and the support of his beloved wife, he abstained from drinking almost fully during his presidency.
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" The Blonde artist previously told the New York Times he abstained from this year's Grammys because "the infrastructure of the awarding system and the nomination system and screening system is dated.
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At Wednesday's votes on Brexit options, 27 Labour lawmakers rebelled against their party's position by voting against holding a confirmatory public vote on any Brexit deal and a further 18 abstained.
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They're reliant on volunteers' self-reporting, a method that could be miscounting how often they drank before, how successfully they abstained during January, and how much alcohol they were drinking afterward.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's business minister and international development minister both abstained in a key vote on Thursday which the government lost, aides said, defying an instruction from Prime Minister Theresa May.
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A study published in the Journals of Gerontology B: Psychology Sciences found that for couples over the age of 50, marriages were better off when both partners drank or both abstained.
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PARIS, Sept 22 (Reuters) - Ubisoft's resolution on the distribution of bonuses in shares to employees was rejected at its annual general meeting on Friday, as its number one shareholder Vivendi abstained.
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Colombia abstained in December from a vote by the 193-member U.N. General Assembly on a resolution calling for the United States to drop its recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital.
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In 2011, then, Moscow strongly opposed the NATO-led Libya campaign and under then-President Dmitry Medvedev abstained from U.N. Security Council Resolution 1973, which authorized an intervention to protect civilians.
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The Centrists Ciudadanos ("Citizens") - the fourth largest force in parliament and a party that is working in tandem with Rajoy's conservative People's Party (PP) on some policies - abstained in the vote.
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Vitaminwater hasn't specified how it will verify that the contest winner successfully abstained from all things smartphone, but it does promise that at least one lie detector test will be involved.
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" Robert Storr, the 2007 curator, was described by Jerry Saltz in New York Magazine as having "abstained altogether from mounting one of the ball-busting, conjectural, venturesome whales we call biennials.
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When consensus eluded them, the EU's 28 national finance ministers resorted to voting by email (though Britain abstained), at which point Ms Georgieva gained most support and Mr Dijsselbloem bowed out.
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According to Agence France-Presse, 85033 countries voted against Russia's draft motion at the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), while six countries voted in favor and 17 abstained.
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The IMF has abstained from financial involvement in Greece's third bailout from European lenders since 2010, but remains actively engaged in negotiations on a new deal to start in mid-2018.
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Many opposition parties had been barred from running against him, and more voters abstained than cast ballots in the election, which critics had said would be rigged in the president's favor.
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In one study, they found that couples who used cannabis daily had about 20% more sex during a four week period than couples who abstained from cannabis consumption during the same period.
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After his victory, the rightwing and openly gay politician abstained from making a defining statement on his mandate, instead sharing general thoughts about culture, violence against journalists, coming out, and LGBTQ rights.
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In Saudi Arabia, the index closed flat, with many blue chips finishing in negative territory, as investors abstained from taking new positions before the announcement of second quarter financial results from Sunday.
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While some debate viewers took to social media to praise the NBC anchor for staying out of the spotlight, others wondered why he abstained from cutting off Clinton and Trump more often.
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But Vivendi abstained, saying some members of Ubisoft's senior management could also have received free shares and without board representation it was impossible for Vivendi to approve the resolutions submitted for voting.
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The British government is dependent on the party's 10 votes to pass legislation in parliament, but it abstained in votes on Monday in protest at Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit withdrawal agreement.
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Though his bandmates—guitarist Paul Maroon, keyboardist Walter Martin, bassist Tom Frank, and drummer Matt Barrick—abstained, Lupton embraced the drug scene, and it would prove to be a life-long problem.
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When mothers used marijuana during pregnancy, children were 38 percent more likely to have these psychotic-like symptoms than the children of mothers who abstained from use during pregnancy, the study found.
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On that day, women in 50 countries stayed home from work, abstained from unpaid domestic labor, or, if they could do neither, showed their solidarity with the mass strike by wearing red.
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Some two dozen abstained in December on a motion by the United Nations General Assembly that condemned Russia's annexation of Crimea and urged Moscow to withdraw its troops from the Ukranian peninsula.
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Italy abstained this month when the European Union voted to approve a regulation giving countries more power to scrutinize and block foreign investment, especially when it is supported by a foreign government.
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Slovakia's candidate, Marta Ziakova, who heads her country's nuclear regulator, secured no votes and will most likely be encouraged to pull out of the race, diplomats said, adding that two countries abstained.
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The bulk powers review was one of the concessions called for by the opposition Labour Party's Shadow Home Secretary, Andy Burnham, in April when the party abstained on a vote on the legislation.
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Albert Rivera, whose center-right Ciudadanos party abstained in the parliamentary vote to ratify the coffin's transfer, said on Thursday that almost two-thirds of Spaniards had not lived or suffered under Franco.
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Before he and Baldwin met, the singer had abstained from sex for over a year due to what he called a "legitimate problem with sex" and a desire to "rededicate" himself to God.
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In an inauspicious sign for "Empire 2.0", the nickname British officials use for their plan to forge closer links with the Commonwealth, the vast majority of Britain's former colonies backed Mauritius or abstained.
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On the day of the vote Ethiopia, with Russia, China and three others, merely abstained; Ivory Coast, one of three African countries on the council, was one of nine to vote in favour.
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The US has just abstained — for the first time ever — on a United Nations vote condemning the US embargo on Cuba, which passed by a whopping 22014-to-216 margin, with two abstaining.
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While it would be unwise to draw too many conclusions from a ballot from which more than half the electorate abstained, it is clear the left is paying a price for its disunity.
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The shocking news comes courtesy of the Moscow Times, which reports that 368 members of Russia's parliament voted in favor of the bill while one voted against it and another abstained from voting.
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The resolution, which condemned Israeli settlement building as illegal, was passed as the U.S. abstained despite calls from Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for the Obama administration to veto the measure.
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LONDON, July 18 (Reuters) - Britain's business minister and international development minister both abstained in a key vote on Thursday which the government lost, aides said, defying an instruction from Prime Minister Theresa May.
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"At no time during his presidency was there any suggestion that he had a conflict of interest, perceived or real," Mr. Reedie wrote to lawmakers, adding that he had abstained from certain decisions.
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Under Prime Minister Harper who was in office for almost a decade, the US and Canada typically had matching votes at the UN. This time around, under Trudeau, Canada abstained on the resolution.
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UNITED NATIONS — Making a bit of history, the United States on Wednesday abstained for the first time in an annual General Assembly condemnation of the half-century-old American trade embargo against Cuba.
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Everyone raised their hands except for Jehmu Greene, a Fox News political analyst running for chairman of the Democratic National Committee who said she abstained because Democrats should not entertain divisive "gotcha" questions.
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Unlike the rest of you, I abstained from the usual Irish pub bar crawl circuit and instead spent the holiday exclusively at the alcohol-serving 24-hour Taco Bell Cantina in Las Vegas.
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The dollar hit a year low against a currency basket after the European Central Bank's chief abstained from talking down the euro, while obstacles to U.S. President Donald Trump's policy agenda also weighed.
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Mr. O'Rourke abstained from votes establishing a tax zone that would set the stage for eminent domain and voted for a temporary moratorium; he later voted against an effort to limit its use.
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The same sort of moves now could help increase production of ventilators and other tools, but Trump has mostly abstained from directing private sector efforts, and resisted using the 1950 Defense Production Act.
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Rwanda likewise abstained from the 2011 UNESCO vote to admit Palestine as a state, along with the General Assembly vote in 2012 that sought to grant the Palestinians non-member observer state status.
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A leading Democratic, Jewish senator has come to President Obama's defense after the United States abstained from a United Nations Security Council vote on a resolution that condemns Israeli settlements in Palestinian territory.
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The split widened on Friday when the Obama administration abstained from a United Nations Security Council vote that condemned Israel for Jewish settlements in the West Bank, and allowed the resolution to pass.
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Faced with a 2016 United Nations Security Council resolution condemning settlements, the Obama administration abstained (effectively supporting the resolution), but only after having signaled it would not consider backing any resolution before November.
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According to voting projections, Timmermans could be blocked by Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary if Italy's eurosceptic government, which has spoken out against Timmermans, and Britain, which is leaving the EU, abstained.
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The US has just abstained — for the first time ever — on a United Nations vote condemning the US embargo on Cuba, which passed by a whopping 2191-to-255 margin, with two abstaining.
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France, the Ivory Coast, the Netherlands, Kuwait, Peru, Poland, the U.K. and Sweden all backed the U.S. While no members voted against the measure, Russia, China, Bolivia, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia and Kazakhstan all abstained.
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This is important, argues Robert Ford of Manchester University, because for moderate Labour supporters who might have abstained in protest at Mr Corbyn's far-left agenda, he is no longer such a "deal-breaker".
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Mr Bolsonaro has a mandate, having beaten his rival in the run-off, Fernando Haddad of the left-wing Workers' Party (PT), with 55% of the vote (though a record number of people abstained).
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Britain had abstained from the contentious EU nomination vote and some media have reported that Prime Minister Boris Johnson is seeking U.S. backing for former British Finance Minister George Osborne to lead the IMF.
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BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand's coalition government, led by a former military junta leader, survived a key parliamentary challenge on Saturday after opponents abstained to let the first reading of its draft 2020 budget bill through.
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Researchers found that HDL levels declined over time in all participants, as they typically do with age, but that those declines were slower in moderate drinkers than in those who abstained or drank heavily.
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One study, which involved former male athletes, measured grip strength the morning after they'd had sex with their wives and then repeated the test after the men had abstained for at least six days.
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President Obama is facing widespread backlash from Republicans and some Democrats after the United States abstained from a vote on a United Nations Security Council resolution condemning Israeli settlements, allowing the resolution to pass.
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In previous votes, France and Germany have abstained, leading the Commission to extend the license by 18 months at the end of June 2016 to give the ECHA time to study the chemical further.
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The filing said Zhang Liping, an independent nonexecutive director who is also a senior managing director for greater China at Blackstone, abstained from voting on the restructuring because of his involvement in the deal.
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In one recent study, for example, investigators found that men and women who used marijuana daily had about 20% more sex during the previous four weeks than their peers who abstained from the drug.
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Asked what Turkey would do if Trump abstained from providing a waiver, Kalin said Turkey would have to wait and see the scope of the sanctions, but hopes it does not come to that.
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In China's authoritarian system, even small numbers of dissenting votes make a statement, such as when a third of the delegates voted against or abstained from approving the controversial Three Gorges Dam in 1992.
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Donna Brazile, a former D.N.C. chairwoman and a member of the party's rules committee, said she abstained from voting on the new changes Wednesday because she believed the influence of superdelegates has been overstated.
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Prince's death in April shocked music fans around the world, as did subsequent reports that the 1.13-year-old pop icon, who famously abstained from drugs and alcohol, died of an accidental opioid overdose.
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Merkel said on Tuesday she abstained in a vote of EU leaders on von der Leyen's nomination - the only leader not to back her - as the coalition government was at odds on the question.
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And some of the 48 percent of registered voters who abstained no doubt did so because the media had implanted the perception that there was no material difference between the candidates, so why bother.
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In a clear parting shot to Netanyahu and his backing of the continued growth of Israeli settlements that most of the world considers illegal under international law, the U.S. abstained from the Friday vote.
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A "safe" Oscars ceremony that purposely abstained from edginess, from offering any social or political commentary whatsoever, would keep Hollywood from showing the world the progressive, inclusive image it wishes to project — especially in 2019.
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Sanchez was ousted by the party in October after 10 months of political stalemate, paving the way for Rajoy to be re-instated for a second term when the Socialists abstained in a parliamentary vote.
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Uganda abstained from voting on all nine U.N. General Assembly resolutions on North Korean human rights for which votes were counted since 2005, a record mirrored by countries including India, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Mali and Qatar.
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The US abstained on the resolution, allowing it to pass, rather than vetoing it -- as it usually does with resolutions it sees as overly critical of Israel, leading to US Ambassador Daniel Shapiro being summoned.
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That means he likely got most of Boynton Brown's 12 and most of the eight members who abstained from voting in the first round, as well as at least a couple of former Ellison supporters.
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China Resources has previously challenged Vanke's assertion that the deal with Shenzhen Metro has been approved, arguing that the two-third majority of votes requirement was not met since a board member abstained from voting.
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In the first round, 22.2 percent of voters abstained: The highest percentage since 2002 when Marine Le Pen's father, Jean-Marie, surged into the second round only to be defeated overwhelmingly by conservative Jacques Chirac.
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Bellamy and Szakos supported it, Mayor Signer and a fourth council member opposed it—and a seventy-two-year-old contractor named Bob Fenwick abstained, because, he said, he believed other programs should take priority.
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In 2014, the Obama administration abstained from a resolution from the Human Rights Council on the death penalty, though that resolution notably lacked any provision related to its specific use against gay or transgender individuals.
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When lawmakers voted for part of an economic reform package last week, the ruling alliance managed to force the bill through by just two votes after many of its lawmakers opposed the motion or abstained.
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Local media reports chronicled how the split vote caused friction within the group, including a party spokesman who alleged that those who abstained did so as part as a pact with Kuczynski to pardon Fujimori.
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But ominously, a senior member of the SPD's own negotiating team abstained in the vote to endorse the deal, and the party's Berlin branch also said promises on social housing and home ownership were inadequate.
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The conservative New Democracy party, which scored a clear victory in EU parliament elections last month, abstained from the vote, saying it was a last-ditch effort by the government, to boost its sagging popularity.
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On Monday, with the herbicide's registration set to expire next month, 18 of the union's member states voted in favor of extending its use for five years, nine voted against the proposal and one abstained.
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The player who first abstained, the former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick, knelt through the song last season and said he was protesting social injustice, particularly violence committed against black Americans by the police.
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Men who abstained from marijuana said they had sex an average of 5.6 times in the four weeks before the survey, compared with the daily marijuana users who reported having sex 6.9 times, on average.
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And though hard to find, there were the artists who abstained from the overwhelming dichotomy of digital surrealism and pre-analog processes, offering instead a reassuring window into the mundane, the fleeting, and the repetitive.
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Large member states France and Germany have abstained from voting, forcing the Commission to extend the license by 18 months at the end of June 2016 to give the ECHA time to study the chemical further.
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A 2015 study from SigFig found that the wealthiest investors tend to focus on low-fee investments, abstained from panic selling and seemed to trade less often – behaviors that helped them achieve significantly better investment returns.
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Last month conservative Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy won the confidence of the national Spanish parliament for a second term in office after the Socialists abstained in an investiture vote that ended a 10-month political stalemate.
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Those declines, however, were slower in people who drank moderately (one to two drinks for men and half to one drink for women) than in those who abstained altogether or drank heavily, according to the release.
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North Korea is likely to be a topic in that meeting, given that China abstained from voting last week on a U.N. resolution condemning its latest missile test instead of vetoing it as a symbolic gesture.
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Local media reports chronicled how the split vote caused friction within the group, including one party spokesman who alleged that those who abstained did so as part as a pact with Kuczynski to pardon Alberto Fujimori.
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His campaign has abstained from accepting cash from federally registered lobbyists and certain corporate fundraising entities that are allowed to raise unlimited sums of money, but Biden does raise money at private events with wealthy donors.
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The cyclists who usually chugged large amounts of coffee or other caffeine drinks every day received the same boost from caffeine as light coffee drinkers, even though they had not abstained from caffeine for days beforehand.
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Prime Minister Boyko Borissov's centre-right GERB party and its coalition partners have a majority in the parliament, but 118 lawmakers backed Radev's veto, while 14 were opposed and 56 abstained in the 240-member chamber.
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Heitkamp, Manchin and Joe Donnelly of Indiana are the Senate Democratic votes viewed as most gettable on a tax bill by the administration; they abstained from a Democratic letter laying out hardline demands for tax reform.
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And in a stunning diplomatic rebuke of Israel, the United States in late December abstained on a controversial United Nations Security Council resolution demanding an end to Israeli settlements on Palestinian territory, allowing it to pass easily.
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Her program consisted mostly of an astutely chosen mixture of standards and contemporary songs, in which she abstained from wailing pyrotechnics to dig deeply into the lyrics and give one of the year's most satisfying cabaret shows.
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Although previous administrations occasionally abstained on Security Council votes against Israel, these were nearly all in response to specific actions, such as its annexation of the Golan Heights and 1981 air attack on the Iraqi nuclear reactor.
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Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives will start talks in coming weeks on forming a new coalition with the environmental Greens, who abstained from voting for the law, and the pro-business Free Democrats (FDP), who opposed it outright.
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Belgium abstained because the regional government of Wallonia, a French-speaking area in the south, viewed the negotiations much like France, according to a Belgian diplomat, who declined to speak on the record given the continuing negotiations.
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UNITED NATIONS — The United States on Wednesday revived its objection to an annual United Nations General Assembly resolution deploring the American trade embargo on Cuba, a year after having abstained from the vote for the first time.
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As a member of the European Parliament, Matteo Salvini, now Italy's deputy prime minister and leader of Lega, voted against the Paris agreement, while his party abstained from a vote in the Italian Parliament to ratify the accords.
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In an interview with Kate Bolduan on CNN's "Erin Burnett Outfront," David Keyes declined twice to say that the White House lied by denying that it helped push the resolution, which the United States abstained from voting on.
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A Ukrainian member of the five-person panel determined that Assange was not being arbitrarily detained — a view shared by some independent experts — while an Australian member abstained from the vote because of her shared nationality with Assange.
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LONDON (Reuters) - A spokesman for Prime Minister Theresa May said ministers who voted against the government's instructions on Wednesday would be expected to resign, but did not say that those who abstained would also be expected to resign.
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In 1983, the FDA put a lifetime ban on gay men from donating blood; last year, it changed its policy to allow men who have abstained from sex with a man for 85033 months to be blood donors.
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In the resolution, backed by 466 lawmakers and opposed by 49 while 167 abstained, the deputies also accused Maltese police of failing to investigate "several serious allegations of corruption and breach of anti-money laundering and banking supervision obligations".
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Landry — then 17, now 18 — was attending Windfern High School in Houston last fall, where she had abstained from the Pledge of Allegiance more than 200 times without a problem, she said in a complaint filed in federal court.
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A proposal to create a new South Atlantic sanctuary for whales, dolphins and porpoises was struck down at an international whaling meeting today, after 38 countries voted for the sanctuary, 24 nations voted against it, and two countries abstained.
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But China Resources on Saturday challenged Vanke's statement that the transaction had been approved, saying the two-third majority of votes requirement had not been met if the 11th board member who abstained from voting is taken into consideration.
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But on Monday, the DUP abstained on the first two votes on the Finance Bill, and eight DUP lawmakers voted against the government in a third vote, on an amendment to the bill proposed by the opposition Labour party.
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Germany for example abstained in a UN Security Council vote before the US-led intervention in Libya -- a move that in retrospect looks prescient given the chaos that unfolded in the country after the toppling of Colonel Moammar Gadhafi.
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On Monday, the military member of a parliamentary commission formed to vet candidates abstained from voting on Htin Kyaw because he is not an elected MP, even though the constitution does not stipulate a candidate must be a lawmaker.
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The bill, which was adopted by all parliamentarians except a member of the far-right National Front party who abstained, is expected to be taken up by the Senate for another vote before it is ratified by the government.
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Last year, the Obama administration abstained from voting on the non-binding resolution for the first time in 25 years, breaking with a longstanding tradition of voting "no" as part of its efforts to foster better relations with Cuba.
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Haley on Thursday sent invitations to a January reception to the eight countries that voted "no" on the resolution, as well as the 35 countries that abstained from the vote and the 21 that did not cast a vote.
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His departure from these Games means both members who abstained from a confidence vote over the I.O.C.'s handling of the Russia affair will be absent from the closing ceremony, when Russia's banned Olympic committee could be welcomed back.
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By the time they turned 5, only 1.9 percent of the 530 allergy-prone children who had been fed peanuts regularly since infancy had developed an allergy, compared with 13.7 percent of the children who had abstained from peanuts.
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And yet, when the European Parliament has discussed reforms aimed at spreading more evenly the burden of immigration among members of the European Union, the League did not participate, and representatives of the Five Star Movement abstained from voting.
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Among them was Jordi Turull, a close ally of Puigdemont who was put forward on Thursday to become the next regional president, although he failed to obtain enough votes after a small far-left secessionist group broke ranks and abstained.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senator Lindsey Graham said on Friday that U.S. foreign policy under President Barack Obama "has gone from naive and foolish to flat-out reckless" after the United States abstained from voting on a U.N. resolution condemning Israeli settlement activity.
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Vivendi, which has built up a 26.63 percent stake in Ubisoft since 2015, said that it had abstained from voting on a number of resolutions at Ubisoft's annual general meeting on Friday, including a motion to grant bonus shares to employees.
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UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Brazil voted for the first time with the United States on Thursday against an annual United Nations resolution condemning and calling for an end to Washington's economic embargo on Communist-ruled Cuba, while Colombia and Ukraine abstained.
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UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Brazil voted for the first time with the United States on Thursday against an annual United Nations resolution condemning and calling for an end to Washington's economic embargo on Communist-ruled Cuba, while Colombia and Ukraine abstained.
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However, MPs abstained for a second time on the vote, due to fears that he would use the election period to force through a no-deal Brexit, with 293 MPs voting in favour of the motion and 46 voting against.
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At the start of each new year since college graduation, I've seen a few friends partake in Dry January — meaning: For the 31 days of January, they abstained from drinking for any reason, including birthday parties, promotions, weddings, and first dates.
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The opposition Labour party— despite having insisted for months that it wanted fresh elections — has said it will not support new elections until the law preventing a no deal Brexit is passed, and abstained from Wednesday night's vote on snap elections.
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Another Conservative MP also told Business Insider that a handful of Labour MPs who abstained from voting against the Cooper amendment in January appear ready to back it, while another handful who voted against it now appear ready to abstain.
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The resolution — which a majority of members either opposed or abstained from voting on — nevertheless passed the committee in part because of an increasingly felt need for governments and international institutions to take action — any action — to address this issue.
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During a Saturday news conference, Northam made light-hearted remarks about how hard it is to clean black shoe polish from one's face and whether he should perform Jackson's signature "moonwalk" dance for the cameras, but abstained at the advice of his wife.
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The opposition Left Party abstained in the vote - as did the Centre and the Liberals - because it wanted Lofven reinstalled as premier, though it has threatened to cause him problems in parliament if they believe he has tacked too far to the right.
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This came just three days after Mr Kuczynski hung on to his job thanks to ten fujimorista legislators led by Alberto's son, Kenji, who abstained in a vote on an attempt to impeach him for links to Odebrecht, a tainted Brazilian construction firm.
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Farron abstained in a Commons gay marriage vote in 2013, a decision he has since said he regrets, and has been repeatedly called up on regarding a comment he made that implied gay marriage was a sin in an interview two years ago.
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A junior culture minister was among those who rebelled against the Conservative government to vote for the measure while media reported some senior government figures, including finance minister Philip Hammond who are likely to be sacked if Johnson wins the top job, abstained.
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The ban, formally known as the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, was officially adopted after months of negotiations by the U.N. General Assembly, with the Friday vote: 122 countries voted yes; one — the Netherlands — voted no; and one — Singapore — abstained.
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Walking along Jones Beach Boardwalk one sultry August night last week, I paused frequently to line up Pokémon and catch them as my niece, her boyfriend and my two college-age kids walking alongside me did the same (only my wife abstained).
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UNITED NATIONS, Nov 7 (Reuters) - Brazil voted for the first time with the United States on Thursday against an annual United Nations resolution condemning and calling for an end to Washington's economic embargo on communist-run Cuba, while Colombia and Ukraine abstained.
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union reached agreement in the early hours of Thursday on next year's budget, which will increase government spending to create more jobs and address the migration crisis, but Italy abstained, a new sign of Rome's tense relations with Brussels.
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It was for countries that did not support a General Assembly resolution denouncing the United States' decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital, including those that abstained or were absent for the vote, not just for the nine countries that voted against it.
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The 46-year-old put his political career on the line in 20143, when he voted against Mariano Rajoy becoming premier in a parliamentary ballot, sowing divisions within his party after most other members abstained to avert the need for a snap election.
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Mr. Trump might have abstained from the weekend, but, really, he was present at every event: The minute-to-minute media saturation achieved by his administration was the conversational backdrop as partygoers tried to either make fun or make sense of his presidency.
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A recreational cyclist and committed coffee drinker — "as a good Brazilian, coffee is part of my diet," he says — he thought it possible that athletes could benefit from taking caffeine before an event, even if they had not abstained in the days beforehand.
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Both the Bush and Obama administrations advocated for one, and after George W. Bush signed the Secure Fence Act of 2006 to "protect the American people," The Times called on 13 architects and urban planners to design proposals for it (several abstained).
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UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United States on Wednesday abstained for the first time from a United Nations General Assembly vote on a resolution calling for an end to a U.S. economic embargo on Cuba, after opposing such measures every year for 20143 years.
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The figures however showed that the ANC, which has ruled South Africa since the end of apartheid in 1994, is divided over Zuma and the ANC leadership said it would study the numbers of those who had voted with the opposition or had abstained.
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" Rossi then told her haters to get off her page if they planned to make "ridiculous, rude, or false comments" about why she abstained from sharing a photo of her daughter, and told them their "audacity" in making those comments "is quite honestly gross.
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The U.N. resolution passed in the 15-member Security Council because the United States, under the administration of former President Barack Obama, did not wield its veto power and instead abstained, breaking with its long-standing tradition of diplomatically shielding Israel at the international body.
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Fourteen countries voted in favor, nine against and five abstained, not enough to secure a "qualified majority" under EU voting rules, the Commission said, adding that it would resubmit its proposal in the next two weeks, before the current authorization expires on Dec. 15.
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" Rossi ultimately told her haters to get off her page if they planned to make "ridiculous, rude, or false comments" about why she'd abstained from sharing a photo of her daughter, and told them their "audacity" in making those comments "is quite honestly gross.
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They studied 12 healthy young men (age 25 on average) who had their leg strength and endurance tested twice: once on a day when they had sex the night before, and again on a day when they had abstained from sex the previous night.
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But after Kiska, who has the right to pick each judge from a pair of candidates proposed by parliament, and a junior coalition partner made clear they would not back Fico for the post, Smer lawmakers abstained from the vote, which resulted in no appointments.
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Of eight shareholder resolutions on board diversity 2017 at Russell 3000 companies, funds run by the Boston-based custody bank's asset-management arm backed one, opposed four and abstained on three others, according to a recent analysis for Reuters News by researcher Proxy Insight.
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The couple raised their children — Ethan, 21, Micah, 203, Moriah, 17, Lydia, 15, Isaac, 13, Amber, 10, Cassia, 8, and Mercy, 6 — on a 55-acre farm in a rural part of south Georgia and have largely abstained from technology in the 21st century world.
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Last year, the Obama administration abstained from the vote, breaking with a longstanding tradition of voting "no" as part of its efforts to foster better relations, a campaign that included re-opening the US embassy in Havana and a visit by then-President Barack Obama.
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Member states closed ranks when Trump withdrew the US from the Paris climate agreement and UNESCO, but several of them abstained from a vote in the UN General Assembly condemning the unilateral decision by the US to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
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LONDON (Reuters) - The Northern Irish Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) that British Prime Minister Theresa May's government relies on for support abstained from a vote in parliament on Wednesday to remind her of the importance of its support amid crucial Brexit talks, a DUP lawmaker said.
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The DUP abstained from an opposition Labour amendment to the agriculture bill as "a way of reminding the government" that it would not hesitate to vote against it in future "if we thought that was a necessary sanction," Sammy Wilson told the BBC on Thursday.
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Mr. Trump's move means that the United States would be in the company of countries like North Korea and Iran, who abstained from participation in the treaty, and leaving behind a group of the world's largest gun manufacturers, including France and Germany, who signed on.
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The U.S. dollar hit its lowest level in more than a year against a basket of major rivals on Friday a day after the European Central Bank's chief abstained from talking down the euro, while obstacles to U.S. President Donald Trump's policy agenda also weighed.
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Ron WydenRonald (Ron) Lee WydenWyden blasts FEC Republicans for blocking probe into NRA over possible Russia donations Wyden calls for end to political ad targeting on Facebook, Google Ex-CIA chief worries campaigns falling short on cybersecurity MORE (D-Ore.), abstained from the vote.
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Farron has been repeatedly grilled over his views on homosexuality since he became the Lib Dem leader in July 2015, because in 2013 he was one of nine Liberal Democrat MPs who abstained at the third reading of the bill introducing same-sex marriage.
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Early areas for potential convergence include Renault's next electric car platform being launched at its Douai site in France, the source said, adding all of Renault's board members backed the decision to study FCA's proposal with the exception of the leftist CGT union, which abstained.
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But as an acne riddled teen, I abstained from applying moisturizer, foundation and mascara due to "moral reasons" (moral reasons being I enjoy the music of 'Bikini Kill') and noticed that people, both male and female, in turn treated me like...uh...not a person.
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Since returning to the United States after the robbery and being reunited with her husband and children — North 3, and Saint, 10 months — the KUWTK star has largely remained out of the spotlight, abstained from posting on social media and is living a low-profile lifestyle.
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If the BOJ abstained from stimulus on Thursday, that could weigh on market confidence in the central bank's commitment to increasing inflation, potentially translating into a stronger currency and making the BOJ's job even more difficult, Izumi Devalier, economist at HSBC, explained in a recent note.
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Needing 79 votes for election, Kenny was backed by 51 lawmakers, meaning he won the support of just one outside his Fine Gael party as the 15 independent members of parliament with whom he wants to form a minority government either abstained or voted against him.
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Trump won the presidency not simply because he drew an increased share of the white working class vote, but because regular Republicans (who are wealthier than average white people) never defected to Hillary Clinton or abstained from voting en masse, as Democrats had hoped they would.
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When it comes to women with low-risk pregnancies, sex during those nine months is perfectly safe and won't make women any more likely to have a pre-term labor than had they abstained from sex during pregnancy, according to one large study of pregnant women.
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Showing impressive political skill, the P.R.I. regime did not condemn Fidel Castro and abstained from the vote by the Organization of American States to expel Cuba, yet it also became the buffer between the United States and the Communist tendencies of the rest of Latin America.
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The United States has abstained in previous years on "Occupied Syrian Golan" resolution, which declares Israel's decision to impose its jurisdiction in the area "null and void", but U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley said on Thursday that Washington would vote against the resolution.
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Sudan isn't party to the Rome Statute that governs the jurisdiction of the ICC, but al-Bashir's case was initiated by the United Nations Security Council in 2005 (the US abstained, so it did not block the move), and Sudan is a party of the UN Charter.
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President Barack Obama has decided to go out with a bang: In a stunning diplomatic rebuke of Israel, the United States on Friday abstained on a controversial United Nations Security Council resolution demanding an end to Israeli settlements on Palestinian territory, allowing it to pass easily.
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Thirteen council members voted in favor of the resolution, while Russia and China abstained over a number of concerns - including a German push for expanded U.N. monitoring of sexual violence in conflict - and even circulated their own rival draft text, which they did not put to a vote.
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Thirteen council members voted in favor of the resolution, while Russia and China abstained over a number of concerns - including a German push for expanded U.N. monitoring of sexual violence in conflict - and even circulated their own rival draft text, which they did not put to a vote.
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The government was defeated when hard-line pro-Brexit lawmakers in the governing Conservatives abstained because they feel the government is effectively ruling out the threat of leaving the European Union without an agreement on departure terms and future relations, a move they say undermines Britain's bargaining position.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. dollar hit its lowest level in more than a year against a basket of major rivals on Friday a day after the European Central Bank's chief abstained from talking down the euro, while obstacles to U.S. President Donald Trump's policy agenda also weighed.
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This denunciation had very real consequences: Dulac was insulted at the premiere, a row ensued in the audience (it is uncertain if Artaud, present at the opening, abstained from it as he later claimed, or not), and the screening was aborted, casting a shadow over the entire film.
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Although May supported the idea of ruling out a no-deal Brexit in the short term, she suffered another humiliation when four of her ministers disobeyed her and abstained from a vote on an amendment which ruled out a no-deal Brexit in any circumstances and was passed by parliament.
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Several right-wing parties, including nationalist League party, led by Interior Minister Matteo Salvini, the far-right Brothers of Italy, and center-right Forza Italia, abstained from the vote, leading the 89-year-old Auschwitz survivor to declare that she felt like "a Martian in the Senate," according to the BBC.
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American presidents are followed around the world by Navy mess specialists — cooks, essentially — who monitor their food, with one going so far as to check whether mushrooms served to George W. Bush had been sautéed in wine, because the specialist thought (incorrectly) that the president abstained from alcohol even in food.
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SAO PAULO (Reuters) - A group of Brazilian prosecutors looking into suspected illicit loans to a company controlled by the billionaire Batista family have abstained from joining a recent 10.3 billion-real ($3.1 billion) leniency deal, suggesting the fine could rise further, O Estado de S. Paulo newspaper said on Saturday.
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Obama's parting shots in the final days of his administration included a nasty speech by Secretary of State John Kerry after the U.S. abstained in a UN Security Council vote on a resolution on settlements that pilloried Israel without even mentioning continued Palestinian terrorism, advocacy of violence, and sabotage of the peace process.
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But since 1980, the U.S. has vetoed settlement-related resolutions at the U.N. Rhodes explained the U.S. abstained from, instead of voted for, the resolution because it has long viewed the international body as an inappropriate venue to broker a Middle East peace deal due to anti-Israel sentiment of several member states.
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WASHINGTON — President Trump assailed Democrats and a television comedian on Wednesday in his latest Twitter blasts since returning from an overseas trip in which he had largely abstained from the sort of combative social media postings that helped propel him to the Oval Office and have gotten him in trouble ever since.
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Nope, Maher apparently was not aware of any of this, thus allowing Bannon to quickly pivot to calling former New York Mayor and presidential candidate Mike Bloomberg an "oligarch" and then worse, trying to flame divisions among Democrats by claiming Bernie Sanders voters in 2016 either abstained from voting or voted for Trump.
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"I'm on the side of the majority of people who voted to leave," Labour MP Frank Field told MPs explaining his decision to defy the Labour whip and vote with the government, while Labour MP Caroline Flint, who abstained, said the vote was a question of "respecting the outcome of the referendum".
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Had these reports been accurate, it would have meant that America's third-largest network of blood banks was violating the FDA's most recent guidelines for blood donation — guidelines which have stated since December, that men who have sex with men can only donate if they've abstained from gay sex for more than a year.
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Though there's some indication that the pregnancy, which she learned about at the end of season seven, was a real thing — and that Jaime was the father — season eight has seen her tell Euron the baby is his, while also drinking wine, from which she'd abstained when she appeared to believe she was pregnant.
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Critics of the resolution argued that the measure came at a sensitive time in peace talks led by the Intergovernmental Authority on Development, or IGAD, and was rushed through the council with little consultation with the region Ethiopia, which has helped lead South Sudan's peace talks, China and Russia all abstained from voting, as did other countries.
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The San Francisco chapter of the Sierra Club — the organization Muir built around the valley's preservation — abstained from taking a position on 2012's Prop F. Bruce Hamilton, the Sierra Club's deputy executive director, says he admires Restore Hetch Hetchy's doggedness and supports its work, but that the Sierra Club isn't taking a stance on the lawsuit either.
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TLC's new six-part series Welcome to Plathville follows Kim and Barry Plath, who raised their children — Ethan, 21, Micah, 18, Moriah, 17, Lydia, 15, Isaac, 13, Amber, 10, Cassia, 8, and Mercy, 6 — on a 55-acre farm in a rural part of south Georgia and have largely abstained from technology in the 21st century world.
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The oxygen that powers cell metabolism damages the DNA on which the genes are stored as a matter of course; so do background radiation and exposure to the many low-level carcinogens; so do sunlight and infection with viruses; so do choices about diet and recreational drugs, notably alcohol and tobacco (from which Ms Milley abstained).
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The U.S. had the power to veto the measure but abstained, despite pressure from President-elect Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpPossible GOP challenger says Trump doesn't doesn't deserve reelection, but would vote for him over Democrat O'Rourke: Trump driving global, U.S. economy into recession Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms MORE and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
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So it made a deal with five of the Big Six publishers (Simon & Schuster, Penguin, HarperCollins, Hachette, and Macmillan; Random House, then the biggest trade publishing house, abstained): They could all sign on to Apple's agency model, as long as they guaranteed that they'd also use that same agency model with every other retailer they worked with.
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Men who say they're unable to find a sexual partner have committed multiple violent attacks under the banner of the "incel rebellion," while others have voluntarily abstained from sex and porn for a variety of reasons, whether they think "semen retention" will give them special powers or because they believe porn is a massive Jewish conspiracy.
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