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UNSC Resolution 19674 passed after the US abstained from voting.
One person abstained from the vote, according to the outlet.
Girardi had also abstained from drinking due to her migraine.
Eight countries abstained from voting while five rejected the draft.
The Pueblo abstained from bidding on the stolen, sacred item.
Countless establishment Republicans have abstained from endorsing Trump at all.
The United States abstained from the resolution, infuriating Mr. Netanyahu.
Last year, he abstained from coffee and tea for three months.
Other allies, like Canada, Australia and Mexico, abstained from the vote.
Belarus didn't participate in those negotiations, and also abstained from voting.
Most members of the Labour Party reportedly abstained from the vote.
Nine countries abstained from the vote, and 35 opposed the resolution.
China abstained from Tuesday's vote, while Bolivia joined Russia in voting no.
The conservatives, the largest group in the Parliament, abstained from the vote.
The mothers who abstained from alcohol were used as the control group.
For decades, she'd abstained from color, frills, anything that seemed too feminine.
The 49ers chief executive, Jed York, said he abstained from the voting.
One member abstained from voting because of a possible conflict of interest.
The main opposition party, the conservative New Democracy, abstained from the voting process.
The other group abstained from peanuts for the first five years of life.
The PBOC abstained from open market operations for 13 consecutive sessions in April.
The United States abstained from the vote, refusing to exercise its veto power.
Ultimately, the US abstained from the vote, and the resolution passed 14-0.
Fourteen members of his own party abstained from a parliamentary vote in protest.
If the chief justice abstained from breaking a tie, the motion would fail.
Poland was one of 35 countries who abstained from voting on the resolution.
Frazier first abstained from consuming land animals, then seafood and eventually eliminating dairy.
We had abstained from seeing one another then had this incredibly emotional moment together.
Toyota has famously abstained from adopting either CarPlay or Android Auto in its cars.
He also revealed he abstained from sex in order to get closer to God.
Only 241 members attended the session in which two members abstained from the vote.
The U.S. had the power to veto the resolution but abstained from using it.
The San Francisco 49ers' chief executive, Jed York, said he had abstained from voting.
The U.S. had the ability to veto the resolution, but abstained from doing so.
Marshall abstained from standing to protest the social injustice against African-Americans and other minorities.
So much so that Pam abstained from drinking for an entire year after the incident.
Separately, at Acacia's annual shareholder meeting on Thursday, Barrick abstained from voting on all resolutions.
The U.S. refused to veto the Security Council resolution and instead abstained from the vote.
But media outlets almost universally abstained from calling him the presumptive nominee until March 3.
Thirty-one countries abstained from the vote, while 130 voted in favor of the language.
They splashed arak on the victims, a further insult to Muslims who abstained from alcohol.
The Pakistan Peoples Party, the third-largest party, has 54 but abstained from Friday's voting.
He spent over a year in Alcoholics Anonymous, and has abstained from drinking ever since.
Bosniak deputies abstained from the vote, saying the parliament could not decide on defense issues.
Two countries, China and Kazakhstan, abstained from voting, while Bolivia also voted against the draft.
He also sent official-looking "shaming" letters to potential supporters who had previously abstained from voting.
She abstained from listening to music, except her own, in order to keep her ears clear.
Jed York, whose family owns the San Francisco 49ers, abstained from voting on the new policy.
Since the publication of "Troubling Love" in 1992, Ferrante has abstained from interviews, festivals, prize ceremonies.
Netanyahu has abstained from speaking about the U.S. election throughout his own election campaign in Israel.
She abstained from illicit drugs with the support of a comprehensive treatment program for pregnant women.
Carey also reportedly abstained from having sex with her fiancé before they were meant to be wed.
Electors who have voted against the people's decision or abstained from voting are known as faithless electors.
While living in Winterfell, Jon abstained from sex for fear of bringing another bastard in the world.
Both ZF and Knorr-Bremse, with stakes of 20 percent and 15 percent respectively, abstained from voting.
The United States abstained from the vote, allowing the resolution to pass and breaking longstanding U.S. policy.
The United States abstained from the vote, infuriating the Israeli government, which had called for a veto.
Others, I didn't — dinners my mother cooked in the early '90s, which my grandparents abstained from eating.
Six Cabinet ministers abstained from the vote, meaning Theresa May could be forced to sack them too.
Voter turnout was low, however, around 42 percent and many people who oppose independence abstained from voting.
The Obama administration abstained from the vote, refusing to use its veto power to block the resolution.
While 56 countries abstained from voting or did not show up, only nine countries voted against it.
The United States abstained from the Security Council vote last week, refusing to use its veto power.
Many of them abstained from classes or walked out in September for the global youth climate strike.
By the end of the decade, mastering engineers who had abstained from the war were losing clients.
Sanders and all but five Democratic senators abstained from the vote, and the story was quickly buried.
She felt apathetic toward President Barack Obama and uneducated about Mitt Romney, so she abstained from voting entirely.
If he abstained from endorsing, he could have continued to fan the flames of a citizen-led outrage.
Glassman's zeal about Barragan comes partly as a surprise, considering the CEO has mostly abstained from political activity.
As expected, the four lawmakers of a far-left party, the Popular Unity Candidacy, abstained from the voting.
The government survived only after the main opposition party abstained from voting on the budget, which contained the rescue.
Gay and bisexual men can now donate blood, but only if they have abstained from sex for 12 months.
His successor, Oscar Munoz, abstained from voting on the separation agreement between United and Smisek, according to the filing.
The Obama administration in December abstained from a United Nations vote to condemn Israeli settlements, which infuriated Israeli officials.
State Street Global Advisors' fund, however, voted against pay equity disclosure resolutions four times and abstained from voting once.
As a result, the U.S. abstained from — rather than vetoed — a U.N. Security Council Resolution criticizing Israel's settlement policy.
Fujimori's son, Kenji Fujimori, was among several lawmakers who abstained from last week's vote to remove Kuczynski from office.
Warren has also mostly abstained from attacking other Democrats in an attempt not to alienate supporters of other candidates.
Both the PP and the centrist Ciudadanos abstained from the parliamentary vote, arguing the exhumation was not an urgent issue.
Russia abstained from a United Nations Security Council resolution in 2015 that imposed an arms embargo on the Houthi rebels.
Harris has so far abstained from taking any specific position regarding Warren's proposal or antitrust enforcement in the tech sector.
The celebrity couple, who famously abstained from sex until their wedding this July, have announced that they're expecting a baby.
And when Jost asked who Church Lady would be checking off on the ballot, she abstained from choosing a favorite.
The local police chief, who is also a member of the council, abstained from the decision, Norwegian NTB agency reported.
He abstained from drugs, knowing, he said, that one day he'd be peeing in a cup for the police exam.
Sunni and Kurdish parliament members abstained from the vote in protest, but refused to record their opposition to the measure.
So far, she has notably abstained from weighing in on Kaine, despite several other Clinton VP contenders -- including New Jersey Sen.
But the agency abstained from pursuing even greater punishments like a substantially larger fine and finding CEO Mark Zuckerberg personally liable.
Eighteen panelists recommended that the risks of the reformulation eclipse the benefits, while eight disagreed and one member abstained from voting.
The Obama administration abstained from the vote and declined to use its veto power on the Security Council to block it.
Mike Ashley, Sports Direct's chief executive and 61 percent shareholder, and the rest of the board had abstained from the vote.
Of the 168 patients who abstained from alcohol, just over half were former drinkers and the rest had never been drinkers.
The United States in 2016 abstained from the vote for the first time after 25 years of voting against the resolution.
The Obama administration instead abstained from the vote, breaking from the nation's longstanding policy of protecting Israel from United Nations action.
Mr. King abstained from the vote, and 23 Republicans voted against the resolution, most of them deeming it a show vote.
The Netherlands was the only country involved in the conference to vote against the treaty, while Singapore abstained from the vote.
But it's still abstained from any top-down guidance of who to follow, like the algorithmic suggestions seen on Facebook and Twitter.
"It's hard enough in this world without having a board member who is obviously racist," said Alfred, who abstained from the vote.
One study showed that the small impact in cognitive function went away after the person abstained from consuming weed for 72 hours.
Having abstained from the decision, European states and the EU are unlikely to provide active support to the work on the database.
Mr. Rajoy needed a simple majority on Friday, which he could have reached if at least 11 lawmakers had abstained from voting.
In 2011 her government abstained from the UN security council vote to intervene in Libya, citing "considerable dangers and risks" in participating.
She and her husband even abstained from buying each other wedding bands for their ceremony, at New York city hall in February.
Many of the studies in the past on this topic looked at moderate drinkers in comparison to those who abstained from drinking.
In the final days of Mr. Obama's presidency, however, the United States abstained from voting on a resolution condemning Israel's settlement construction.
In retrospect, none of the children I treated in the hospital for measles over the past year had completely abstained from vaccinations.
February: 'Like' In the second month of the year, I, like, abstained from saying, like, the word "like" as, like, filler language.
The United States abstained from the vote but didn't veto the resolution, ending a longstanding policy of shielding Israel from U.N. reproaches.
The U.S. had the ability to veto the U.N. Security Council resolution, but abstained from the vote Friday, allowing it to pass.
Indeed, in the aforementioned Vogue interview, Justin confirmed that they abstained from sex before they were married, in accordance with church teaching.
This decision comes eight months after the Warren Blake led-JAAA executive abstained from a vote on sweeping reforms of the IAAF.
Eight members abstained from the vote and a few members of parliament raised concerns citing security breaches in some parts of the country.
It was a shift for the Japanese automaker, which famously abstained from adopting either CarPlay or Android Auto in its cars for years.
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.
The US's ambassador to the UN, Samantha Power, abstained from voting on the resolution, which has been perceived as a slight against Israel.
China and Russia had abstained from the Libyan resolution and neither country plans to make what they regard as a similar mistake again.
"The PSOE has abstained from voting against Rajoy but the question is how much they will support the government going forward," he said.
For the first time Wednesday, the United States abstained from voting on a United Nations resolution condemning the country's trade embargo against Cuba.
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.
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.
Leaders of democracies, including America's allies in Europe and Asia, have abstained from criticizing Mr. Xi, concerned in part by retaliatory economic reprisals.
TASS news agency said 19 lawmakers voted for the president's resignation, four cast their vote against it, while one abstained from the voting.
On Wednesday, she posted a celebratory message on Facebook, noting that there were no negative votes, and none of the lawmakers abstained from voting.
The findings are fascinating: respondents trusted Facebook less than Google, and "trust" was a primary factor for individuals who abstained from using Facebook overall.
And because Vivendi abstained from voting on resolutions related to employee stock grants and options, said a Ubisoft representative, those resolutions failed to pass.
America "has abstained from interference in the concerns of others, even when the conflict has been for principles to which she clings," Adams said.
The euro has rallied in the past two sessions after European Central Bank President Mario Draghi abstained from talking down the currency on Thursday.
As big EU nations France and Germany abstained from a vote earlier this month, even the compromise proposal lacked enough support to be adopted.
To the shock and relief of Smith and the white farmers, he let them stay on, keeping their land if they abstained from politics.
McGregor has been training with a blue-collar work ethic, has abstained from drinking his own whiskey brand, and has had a structured camp.
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.
In each instance, Trump opted to deploy additional troops and equipment to the region or impose sanctions, but abstained from directly targeting Tehran militarily.
Memory, but not attention, improved more among adolescents and young adults who abstained from cannabis compared to those who continued to use, researchers found.
But it has also supported Mexico economically, abstained from seeking regime change, tolerated mass migration from the south and generally treated Mexico with respect.
Not one single Republican Senator voted against the bill last week, and even so-called privacy champion Rand Paul abstained from voting at all.
Amy Klobuchar and Sherrod Brown, who are positioning themselves as moderate alternatives in the 2020 race, notably abstained from signing on to the legislation.
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.
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.
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 .
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
" 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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
"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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
"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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
" 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
"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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
" 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.
" 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The move was widely speculated to be a reprisal after Nissan abstained from endorsing Renault's doomed merger plan with Italian-American peer Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV. Saikawa had initially pushed back at those demands, but late last week Nissan granted seats to Senard and Renault CEO Thierry Bollore on its nominations and auditing committees respectively, even though Nissan itself will not be represented.
Among more than 9,000 middle-aged people ages 83 to 55, who were followed for about 23 years, those with drinking habits at the two extremes — people who abstained from drinking, as well as those who drank more than around 14 glasses of wine a week — showed higher risk of dementia than those who drank one to eight glasses of wine a week.
The move was widely speculated to be a reprisal after Nissan abstained from endorsing Renault's doomed merger plan with Italian-American peer Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV. Saikawa had initially pushed back at those demands, but late last week Nissan granted seats to Senard and Renault CEO Thierry Bollore on its nominations and auditing committees respectively, even though Nissan itself will not be represented.
Bernie SandersBernie SandersHarry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' The exhaustion of Democrats' anti-Trump delusions Warren offers plan to repeal 1994 crime law authored by Biden MORE (I-Vt.) abstained from endorsing in the governor's race, but is backing Nixon's running mate, Jumaane Williams, and Teachout in the attorney general race.
When the television series "The Handmaid's Tale," based on Margaret Atwood's disturbingly prescient novel, debuted in 2017, many of us who fight for reproductive freedom, myself included, abstained from watching it because there was nothing entertaining about a show set in a world where women have no rights, where women are chattel, only as valuable as what their wombs issue.
"Instead of a golf resort with thousands of jobs at a hotel that he promised to build, what we are left with is a destroyed natural conservancy site that we will never get back and housing in an inappropriate rural location," Mr. Ford, who abstained from the vote because of his past criticism of Mr. Trump's statements about immigrants and women, said in an interview.
What would happen if I, the most average of all Joes, decided to take on 8,000 calories of McDonald's—not as a reward for any type of abstemiousness, because the only thing I've abstained from is doing the actual exercise this kind of meal is meant to be a reward for, but just because I quite fancied seeing what 2388,220 calories would do to me physically and mentally?
Late Thursday, U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki HaleyNimrata (Nikki) HaleyThe Hill's Morning Report - Trump on defense over economic jitters Haley: 'Threats of China on full display' in Hong Kong Juan Williams: Trump's trouble with women MORE Haley 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.
" Dr. Stacey Trooskin, an assistant professor of medicine at the Division of Infectious Diseases and HIV Medicine at Drexel University College of Medicine, similarly explains that "many Medicaid programs around the country and some private insurers require patients to provide a negative urine drug screen and blood alcohol level and a provider's documentation that a patient has abstained from drugs for six months or a year prior to approving life-saving therapies.
Mr. Ramaphosa could also win back some black middle-class voters who, in recent years, have begun abandoning the A.N.C. Last year, in the greatest shock to the party since it gained power with the end of apartheid in 1994, the A.N.C. lost control over the nation's largest cities, including Johannesburg, Pretoria and Nelson Mandela Bay, after black middle-class voters disillusioned with Mr. Zuma's A.N.C. abstained from voting or jumped to the opposition.
Though the use of cluster bombs is highly controversial for their indiscriminate use in civilian areas, and the weapon has been banned by most countries in the World in a 2008 International Treaty the U.S. and Russia abstained from signing, the defense bill President Obama signed perpetuates their use into the Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE administration. Sec.

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