A survey from Harris Interactive estimated the final abstention rate at 21.5 percent, while one from Ifop-Fiducial for Paris Match and CNews put the abstention rate at 19 percent.
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Kennedy: Do you know what the Younger abstention doctrine is?
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Even those favoring abstention are struggling to ignite a spark.
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If one abstention remains, the winner will need 23 votes.
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It was the most impactful abstention I did all year.
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Abstention, Macron's team has argued, will only benefit Le Pen.
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But abstention traps them in a cycle of neglect and alienation.
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So, this abstention comes from somebody who has walked the talk.
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According to the Advocate, the measure passed unanimously with one abstention.
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It was that threat, according to Barak, that prompted Canada's abstention.
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For those experimenting with temporary sobriety, there is pride in abstention.
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"Rather than beating Toha, I have to beat abstention," said Alessandri.
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Bachelet's coalition was punished in recent local elections, and abstention was high.
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"Abstention is the real threat," says Stéphane Séjourné, Ms Loiseau's campaign director.
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However, political analysts are alert for potentially higher-than-expected abstention figures.
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Several of the party's regional leaders support abstention; others favour continued opposition.
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Such a high abstention rate would normally be a cause for concern.
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"This year there could be a much bigger abstention vote," Wilson said.
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The amendment failed and the DUP abstention did not impact the result.
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If abstention rates stay low within the opposition, it stands a chance.
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Call this an electoral Freudian slip, or a kind of unavowed abstention.
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"Abstention is never good news for democracy," Prime Minister Édouard Philippe asserted.
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Should there be a new vote, abstention could be a major factor.
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Abstention, an issue during the presidential election, played a role here too.
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The vote was 14 in favor and one abstention by the United States.
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Human Rights Watch called the administration's abstention a welcome change from the past.
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The Senate voted to confirm her ninety-six to three, with one abstention.
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The abstention rate was 20.52 percent in 2012, according to interior ministry figures.
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So, either way, the world probably wasn't made much worse by your abstention.
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Instead, she said her abstention from the vote stood as a larger protest.
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Rivera had so far rejected any form of support or even an abstention.
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SPD delegates voted 362 to 279, with one abstention, to press ahead with negotiations.
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Many far-leftists talk of a choice between "plague and cholera", and urge abstention.
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The committee's full resolution was passed by 103 votes to 10 and 1 abstention.
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" Asked about the Younger abstention doctrine, the befuddled nominee said: "I've heard of it.
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His government also summoned the U.S. ambassador to Israel to discuss the U.S. abstention.
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The senator asked if the nominee knew about the Younger and Pullman abstention doctrines.
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Mr. Macron's opponents seized on the abstention rate to try to discredit his victory.
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Il s'agirait en quelque sorte d'un acte manqué électoral, signe d'une abstention mal assumée.
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"It's not a final abstention, and Renault's position can still change," the source said.
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Some 180 lawmakers ultimately backed the motion, with 169 voting against and one abstention.
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Israel described the abstention by the administration of former U.S. President Barack Obama as "shameful".
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The FDA's advisory committee voted 14-2 (with one abstention) for its approval last month.
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His abstention, he says, is "a political statement" on the sorry state of Israel's politics.
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But his language—thrift, resisting temptation, abstention—makes it clear that saving is a virtue.
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As with alcohol, the abstention from sex seems to be carrying through into early adulthood.
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The panel voted 16-3.713 with one abstention in favor of the drug being approved.
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The House voted 26 in favor of Pierluisi's nomination and 21 against, with one abstention.
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The House voted 26 in favor of his nomination and 21 against, with one abstention.
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In all, 191 lawmakers voted against the budget and 158 in favour, with one abstention.
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The EU approved two areas for negotiation, opposed by France with an abstention from Belgium.
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The PPD and the Puerto Rican Independence Party (PIP) campaigned in favor of political abstention.
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Clinton neutralizes a vote for Mr. Trump; an abstention allows that Trump vote to stand.
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The panel voted 16-0 with one abstention in favor of the drug being approved.
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Voter frustration is rising and polls show abstention could reach record highs in another election.
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" The short timetable, he said, is likely to produce "an illegitimate process with high abstention.
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The call for abstention is based on an accepted fact: The election is a sham.
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"Calling for abstention is not the way to free them," he said of the prisoners.
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C'est au contraire l'abstention qui maintenant s'avère difficile à mesurer, particulièrement cette abstention mal assumée.
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"It's not a final abstention, and Renault's position can still change," the Renault source said.
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"It's is not a final abstention, and Renault's position can still change," the Renault source said.
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"This abstention came, in line with the rules of German voting conduct, from me," she added.
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To govern, Rajoy needed sufficient support or an abstention by his rivals in a confidence vote.
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The only politician who had cause to cheer the high rate of abstention was Mr Bukele.
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By Friday morning, other countries reintroduced the resolution and, with the US abstention, the measure passed.
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The Senate approved the measure with 98 votes in favor, 22 votes against and 1 abstention.
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Each abstention favors Rousseff by reducing the chances her opponents obtain two-thirds of the chamber.
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Political abstention is the simple solution: With no vote, there's no need to convey partisan ideas.
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The opposition by France and an abstention by Belgium arose during a vote by agricultural ministers.
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A count followed, showing that 362 had voted in favor and 279 against, with one abstention.
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More than half stayed away from the polls, the highest rate of voter abstention since 1958.
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Notably, Scottish parliament passed the legislation with 112 votes in favor, none against, and one abstention.
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An abstention by Renault would effectively block the reforms, which require a two-thirds majority to pass.
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The committee voted 4-303, with one abstention, to refer the case to the House Ethics Committee.
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Blue's abstention, and the blitz of press around him that followed, briefly made him a national icon.
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Abstention in the country is high - less than half of eligible voters tend to participate in elections.
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The state General Assembly approved the law by a vote of 43 to 30 with one abstention.
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"Certainly, it seems he pressed hard at least for the abstention in the Security Council," he said.
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These voters do not move to Donald Trump; rather, they chose a third-party candidate or abstention.
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The rising support for extremist parties and expectations of historic abstention levels make its outcome very uncertain.
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This has left many of his huge block of youthful supporters torn between abstention and Le Pen.
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At the Row, Ashley and Mary-Kate Olsen have made discretion, abstention and quiet the cardinal virtues.
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It's not just last week's abstention on an anti-Israel measure at the United Nations Security Council.
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In old fundamentalist circles, this took the form of abstention from pleasures like alcohol, tobacco and dancing.
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Three of the four Mexican votes against the deal came from MORENA senators, as did one abstention.
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"The risk is abstention, which can easily push the majority toward Le Pen," he wrote on Twitter.
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When Mr. Oyarzun asked for a show of hands in abstention, only Ms. Power put up hers.
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Jill Stein, the Green Party nominee for president, acknowledges the rationale behind this kind of conscious abstention.
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Many were unhappy with either choice, and all week Parisians wrung their hands over fears of abstention voters.
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Instead, the 16 members present voted "no confidence" in his membership, with 15 in favor and one abstention.
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And Kerry sought to push back against arguments that the abstention amounted to a US betrayal of Israel.
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A longtime coming, this abstention at the United Nations is consistent with United States policy efforts for generations.
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Without Podemos, Sanchez would require a surprise abstention by a big party, possibly the conservative People's Party (PP).
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With abstention predicted to be about 5 percentage points higher than in December, the election outcome remains uncertain.
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The indecision coupled with the expectation that this election will see higher abstention figures could aid extreme parties.
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The bi-partisan condemnation of Obama's abstention has ironically only confirmed that America really does stand with Israel.
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The abstention at the United Nations effectively sharpens the confrontation between the administration and Congress over the issue.
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The Front's voters stayed away in droves; their abstention rate was well over 50 percent, according to pollsters.
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The vote on the resettlement in the Duma was 399 in favor, with two opposed and one abstention.
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Instead, the opposition parties split over abstention versus participation, and the government won resounding victories in both elections.
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"This cannot continue," she said, also criticizing the United States' abstention from the latest such resolution against Israel.
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Still, I&aposve found significant value in a more regimented abstention from imbibing, even if it&aposs temporary.
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The United States must realize that after six underground nuclear tests, a temporary, or even permanent, abstention from further tests does not denuclearization make, just as the two decades-old abstention from nuclear tests by India and Pakistan following their sixth in 85033 do not an amenability to denuclearization denote.
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The bill passed with 55 votes in favor, 13 against, and one abstention following approval in the lower house.
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With disaffection with the entire political class running high, Sunday's vote was also marked by relatively high abstention rates.
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I suspect that particularly religious enclaves around the country had similar experiences of either abstention or third-party voting.
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Trump, at the prodding of Israeli officials, lobbied hard against the abstention, then denounced it after it took place.
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They voted, 18-to-2, with one abstention, to end the tackle football program, which had about 75 players.
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Users, in other words, overestimate how much they value the service: a misperception corrected by a month of abstention.
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Half of drug courts, which divert users from jails and into treatments, require abstention and do not allow MAT.
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The Socialists' abstention would be enough to enable a PP-led minority government, but so far they have refused.
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That should be enough to form a government, with the support or abstention of Catalan separatists and Basque nationalists.
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The board voted 17 to 14 with one abstention, below the two-thirds majority needed to recommend the deal.
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Ms. Power said the abstention did not mean the United States condoned the political and economic restrictions in Cuba.
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Alternatively, he denied Trump's motion for temporary relief in the event an appeals court ruled that abstention isn't warranted.
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Some polls show Falcon ahead, but abstention would hit the former soldier and state governor harder than the incumbent.
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On Wednesday, lawmakers turned down the government's budget plan by a vote of 191 to 158, with one abstention.
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Parliament passed a non-binding motion last year to remove the remains from the mausoleum despite the PP's abstention.
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Anger with corruption allowed Sanchez to win Friday's no-confidence motion by 180 votes to 169, with one abstention.
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The Socialists remain deeply split over their planned abstention vote, which a majority of their senior members approved on Sunday.
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Despite millions suffering food and medicine shortages, Maduro is expected to win in next week's vote due to widespread abstention.
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U.S. President Donald Trump, speaking at an event in the White House, said he was not surprised by China's abstention.
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"The United States' abstention from voting on such a flagrantly one-sided resolution is unconscionable," he said in a statement.
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The person who filed the request was one of the Popular Force lawmakers loyal to Kenji who cast an abstention.
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More probably he will seek the abstention of the mainstream conservative People's Party (PP), which governed from 2011 to 2018.
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But the abstention reflected the Obama White House's view that decades of American efforts to ostracize Cuba had not worked.
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The Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty requires existing nuclear powers to move in that direction in return for abstention by nonnuclear states.
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She could even, if the blow-up-the-system far left becomes her enabler through massive abstention, edge out Macron.
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US District Court Judge Victor Marrero cited a legal doctrine known as "abstention," saying he lacked jurisdiction in the case.
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Haley pointed to that vote, which passed thanks to an American abstention, as proof the U.N. needs a serious shift.
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But if we buy into the logic of carb-restricted diets, then it implies acceptance of a lifetime of abstention.
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NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy told Fox News in an email that San Francisco 49ers CEO Jed York was the only abstention.
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NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy told Fox News in an email that San Francisco 29ers CEO Jed York was the only abstention.
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Leaders with the nation's fragmented opposition declared the widespread abstention a silent but forceful protest and vowed to regroup moving forward.
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The abstention from TPP was an important part of his promised recovery of a real economy and promotion of domestic employment.
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Underlining the difficulty of Falcon's task, other opposition activists were organizing rallies this week to promote abstention at next month's vote.
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Vivendi holds a 25 percent stake in the French video game maker and its abstention prevented the adoption of the resolution.
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The Socialists would need the backing of at least three parties and the abstention of several others to achieve a majority.
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"That the Social Democrats forced Germany into this somewhat embarrassing abstention reveals the true extent of the SPD's frailty," he said.
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Sunday's election also boasted an abstention rate over 25 percent, the news service added, seemingly indicating high dissatisfaction with the candidates.
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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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The rate of abstention among people 35 or younger was 75 percent, with another 70 percent among the low-income people.
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By contrast, should diplomatic pressure shame Bolivia into an abstention, the region would finally impose meaningful penalties for Venezuela's authoritarian turn.
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Pollsters blamed voter fatigue, disillusion with politicians and projections that Macron would secure a commanding majority for the high abstention rate.
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Myriam Revault d'Allonnes, a philosopher and specialist in political representation, sees in the abstention a form of protest rather than apathy.
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But when using abstention patterns from the April 2013 presidential elections, some 7.9 million Venezuelans would cast their ballots against Maduro.
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SPAIN'S CENTRE-RIGHT LEADER RIVERA SAYS IT IS TURN OF SPAIN'S ACTING PM TO MAKE A MOVE AFTER HIS ABSTENTION PROPOSAL
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He asked the nominee about topics like "motion in limine," a basic legal term, and the Younger and Pullman abstention doctrines.
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An abstention from the Socialists at that point would enable a PP-led minority government, even if it would likely be unstable.
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In December, both men condemned the Obama administration's abstention from a United Nations resolution labeling Israeli settlements in the West Bank illegal.
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Israel had also reacted angrily to the US abstention in a UN vote on Israeli settlement activities prior to Trump taking office.
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Vance rests on a doctrine known as "Younger abstention," which prevents federal courts from interfering with an ongoing prosecution in state court.
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A high abstention rate could benefit Le Pen as polls consistently show that her supporters are the most certain of their vote.
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Some American banks boast that a donor can make up to $1,500 per month, which presumably requires near-abstention from personal pleasure.
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Some 2.4% of votes were in favor of the closely watched proposal, while the remaining votes were against it or in abstention.
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What had handed him this improbable result was the poor performance of mainstream parties and the record abstention for a presidential election.
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Congressional furor over U.S. abstention in a Security Council resolution regarding Israel has led to growing calls to cut the UN budget.
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Pedro Sanchez won the no-confidence motion with 180 votes in favor, 169 against and one abstention, according to The Associated Press.
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Mr Rajoy can expect at least the abstention of Ciudadanos, and perhaps of the Socialists, to let him form a minority government.
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The American abstention has triggered more than the usual amount of outrage, name-calling and threats from Mr. Netanyahu and his allies.
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The vote, taken at a tumultuous meeting in Moscow, was 12-2 in favor of the no-confidence motion, with one abstention.
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The Socialists' federation in the southern region of Andalusia said it supported abstention to head off a third parliamentary election in a year.
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But such an assemblage will be able to govern only if it can rely on the abstention of Catalan separatists on big votes.
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People who receive medically-assisted treatment—generally methadone, buprenorphine or naltrexone—are much less likely to relapse than those who try mere abstention.
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Obama administration officials said the abstention was due to the continued isolation of its island neighbor being harmful to the people of Cuba.
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The House passed a resolution on Thursday denouncing the Obama administration's abstention from a critical United Nations Security Council vote condemning Israeli settlements.
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Meat was expensive, but also wasn't allowed to be eaten during certain abstention periods like Lent; luckily, sea lamprey resembled meat a lot.
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"The Socialist party's adversary is not Podemos or the PP, our challenge is going to vote, our challenge is conquering abstention," he said.
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The Obama administration's abstention at the UN created a tremendous public furor and brought US/Israeli relations to their lowest point in memory.
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While polling in the country is somewhat unreliable given the larger-than-expected abstention rates, some projections do show Falcon ahead of Maduro.
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The question of abstention has weighed on the opposition, tearing apart what had been a unified front against Mr. Maduro in previous elections.
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"Today, one in every two French people voted, a record abstention rate not seen since 1958," said François Baroin, a senior Republican official.
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"This cannot continue," she said, also criticizing the Obama administration's abstention from the latest United Nations Security Council resolution condemning Israel's settlement construction.
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Election day on May 7 will be the first time this choice can be expressed; unavowed abstention is, by nature, undetectable by polls.
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Carrie Fisher, iconically tough woman, 1956-2016; bitter fallout from a UN resolution (and a US abstention) over Israel; political crisis in Congo.
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The abstention rate, at fully 57%, was historically high for a second-round parliamentary vote, possibly because voters considered the result a foregone conclusion.
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What nation's leader is Benjamin Netanyahu, who recently spoke out against the U.S. following its abstention from a U.N. Security Council vote concerning settlements?
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CARACAS (Reuters) - Months before Venezuela's opposition coalition called for abstention in Sunday's presidential election, college student Ana Romano had already decided not to vote.
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An anti-Macron campaign, in favour of abstention, was circulating this week on social media, under the hashtag #SansMoiLe7Mai ("without me on May 7th").
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Some 2.4% of votes were in favor of the closely watched resolution, while the remaining votes were against it and some were in abstention.
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Israelis, therefore, interpreted the U.S. abstention on U.N. Resolution 2334 as a particularly stinging parting shot from the Obama administration as it left power.
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According to Metroscopia's Camas, their failure to mobilize younger supporters has been one of the main factors in driving up the expected abstention rate.
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In March a panel of advisers to the FDA voted 18-8, with one abstention, that the drug's benefits no longer outweighed the risks.
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Those problems are still there as witnessed by a spectacular — 57.36 percent — abstention in the second round of French parliamentary elections on June 18.
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Polls had suggested there would be higher abstention rates on Sunday than in previous elections, except among those who back the Five Star Movement.
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The mindful drinking "trend," make no mistake, is a more expansive model than Alcoholics Anonymous and other abstention programs where it's all or nothing.
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Members voted unanimously (aside from one abstention) against PMI's claim that its heat-not-burn tobacco product cuts the risk of tobacco-related diseases.
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However, high abstention rates by Chileans disenchanted by a string of political corruption scandals in the South American nation have made exact predictions difficult.
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A minority government would struggle to pass legislation as it would depend on the support or abstention of small regional parties with competing priorities.
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"For the position of Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen was nominated unanimously with one abstention," Merkel told reporters in Brussels after tortuous marathon talks.
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But with so many voters undecided and polls showing the abstention rate could be higher than ever in France, the level of uncertainty remains high.
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The resolution was able to pass following a rare abstention by the U.S., which sparked tensions between the outgoing Obama administration and the Israeli government.
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"If there is greater abstention, this will favor the PP since they have the most loyal, faithful and mobilized electorate," Metroscopia analyst Francisco Camas said.
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He went on to criticize the recent United Nations resolution that condemned Israel for building settlements in disputed territory, which passed with a U.S. abstention.
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If Obama would have vetoed the resolution had Clinton won, then the administration's abstention cannot be seen as a reflection of fundamental US foreign policy.
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But, the measure was rejected by a constitutional committee in Mexico's lower house on Wednesday with 19 votes against, 8 in favor and one abstention.
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These insights on the relationship between political loyalties and thinking critically counsel caution in the use of the drug called partisanship — if not complete abstention.
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"This catastrophic abstention rate should raise the question of the voting rules which keep millions of our compatriots away from the polling stations," she said.
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The high abstention rate suggests that Mr. Macron could face opposition to his promised overhaul of labor laws on the streets, rather than in Parliament.
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But Sunday's abstention rate suggests that he has yet to convince many French voters that his ideas and legislative program will make their lives better.
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The main text passed with a vote of 56 in favor - a comfortable margin above the 49 votes required - with 19 opposed and one abstention.
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In fact, the AGs argued, Judge Davis hardly has to look beyond the U.S. Supreme Court's bedrock precedent on federal abstention, 1971's Younger v.
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The PSOE leader eventually stood down after a party revolt, leaving the Socialists under interim management which must decide on abstention before the end of October.
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Polls suggest that this time it might be closer to 70%, with high abstention possible in the formerly Socialist-voting banlieues, or outer-city housing estates.
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Falcon, a 56-year-old former soldier and state governor, has broken with the main opposition coalition, arguing that abstention is tantamount to voting for Maduro.
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Brazil's electoral authority, the TSE, said the abstention rate averaged 17.5 percent in Sunday's nationwide polls, up from 15.4 percent in the municipal elections in 2014.
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From his holiday retreat on Hawaii, he ordered America's abstention from a UN Security Council resolution profoundly damaging to Israel, thus ensuring the resolution would pass.
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Democracy is built on majority rule — not on blank votes — electoral abstention or misplaced calls for consensus, as Murkowski disingenuously suggested in her committee's recent hearings.
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Plenty of otherwise animal-abstaining vegans enjoy biting into a gorilla now and then, savoring a crunchy loophole in an otherwise firm abstention from eating animals.
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The persuasive eloquence of the art notwithstanding, the exhibition's abstention from narrative comes at the cost of meaning, that is, of history and its incumbent judgment.
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Without backing or at least an abstention from the Socialists, Rajoy would find it almost impossible to secure a majority for a second term in office.
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The committee was nearly unanimous in its decision to support the proposal, with 27 of its 29 members supporting it, with one abstention and one against.
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However, they have failed to give evidence of ballot-tampering, and some opposition candidates have conceded they lost due to high abstention in their demoralized ranks.
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Like the rap videos, her foray into horror represents both an abstention from, and an implicit critique of, the Hollywood playbook for stars of her pedigree.
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Given the high abstention rate in the first round of voting last Sunday, just over 15 percent of all voters actually backed Mr. Macron's parliamentary candidates.
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According to a report on the NFL's website, the vote to send the proposal to the union's near-20113,000 members was 17-14 with one abstention.
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"What do you gain from abstention?" said Mr. Falcón, arguing that the collapse of the economy created the exact conditions in which Mr. Maduro could lose.
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Sadly, the members of the three parliamentary committees charged with assessing Ms Goulard's candidacy voted by 82 votes to 29, with one abstention, to reject it.
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The American abstention on the vote also broke a longstanding policy of shielding Israel from action at the United Nations that described the settlements as illegal.
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The Financial Times and Quartz have both reported how abstention combined with a robust Le Pen fan base might mean she can eke out a victory.
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Some opposition figures have acknowledged abstention by their supporters - disillusioned by the failure of street protests to dislodge Maduro earlier this year - was a big factor.
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"President asked the TNA to abstain from voting, but we said the abstention would lead to legitimising an unconstitutional move," M.A. Sumanthiran, a TNA spokesman, told Reuters.
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The context of the speech -- days after the US abstention at the Security Council over a resolution criticizing Israeli settlements -- really did drive much of its content.
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If there is, after all, a third round of elections, forecasts signal historic levels of abstention and a radical rejection of a generation of politicians under suspicion.
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"Abstention is no use," he said, pointing to past boycotts that had given the socialists big uncontested wins and arguing that 80 percent of Venezuelans wanted change.
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Abstention was the real protest, with the turnout at 41 percent – even lower than the 47 percent who went to the polls in the previous presidential election.
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Bush's decision to participate in the election cycle marks a stark shift from his previous abstention from politics since the end of his second term in 2008.
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Had Mr. Petersen watched even a few episodes, he almost certainly would have known what a motion "in limine" is, and what the various abstention doctrines are.
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UNESCO's own Director General has criticized it, Mexico has changed its support for the resolution to an abstention, and there is talk of Brazil doing the same.
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It consists of a period of abstention from earthy delights like sex, drugs, and, in some extreme cases, talking to other people, for 24 hours or more.
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Elle pourrait même dépasser Macron, aidée par une abstention massive résultant de la posture de l'extrême gauche qui a appelé les électeurs à "faire exploser le système".
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As another Orthodox Jewish seller told BuzzFeed News, "we'd rather give our left arm" than not observe the rules, which include mandatory abstention from work and technology.
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A panel of judges said that while the abstention doctrine did not apply, the lower court was correct about the subpoena: Prosecutors can legally seize Trump's records.
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In spite of the abstention, another option left to Obama is to recognize the state of Palestine on the 1967 borders, as former President Jimmy Carter has recommended.
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To form a minority government, Rajoy needed sufficient support, or an abstention, from his rivals in a confidence vote, though deep party divides made reaching any accord impossible.
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Growing up in the Bay Area suburb of Orinda, he and his seven siblings weren't fed sugar or processed wheat, an abstention he keeps up to this day.
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The projected abstention rate would be the second-highest for a presidential election runoff since 1965, underscoring the disillusionment of many voters at the choice they now face.
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That abstention drew the ire of Justice Clarence Thomas last month when his colleagues declined to hear a challenge to California's 10-day waiting period on gun purchases.
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But for now, Sunday's vote is also expected to underline the growing disconnect between Spain's national politicians and the electorate, with polls forecasting a record level of abstention.
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When a committee of politicians takes a vote, abstention is still a political statement—by ostensibly refusing to get involved, the abstaining politician is nevertheless stating her position.
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This is principled abstention, a silent form of speech as serious to me as the actions of those athletes who choose not to stand for the national anthem.
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Critics of Mr. Mélenchon — who have become numerous in the Socialist Party and Mr. Macron's camp — say a blank ballot or abstention can only help Ms. Le Pen.
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Sanchez's Socialist Party confirmed it had reached an agreement with the ERC for a dialogue over Catalonia, but did not mention their potential abstention at the investiture vote.
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Industrialization mostly destroyed this system, but some pieces of it, like abstention from work during churchgoing hours in Christian societies, either remained normative or were enshrined in law.
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On the other hand, low to moderate drinking — about one drink a day — has been linked with a lower risk of heart attack and stroke compared with abstention.
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The problem is that when the ballots are counted, your abstention based on high principal will be indistinguishable from someone else's failure to vote out of apathy or ignorance.
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Both new parties' voters are more prone to abstention since on average they are much younger than others, with almost 20 years separating those from the PP and Podemos.
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Though some polls have put him level or even ahead of Maduro, abstention would hit the 56-year-old former soldier and governor Falcon harder than the socialist incumbent.
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Conservative People's Party leader Pablo Casado said the vote, which was 191 against to 158 in favor with one abstention, had been a de facto confidence vote against Sanchez.
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"Now they'll have to negotiate, people don't want a third election," said Isabel Romero, 65-year-old pensioner who voted for the Socialists, complaining that abstention was already high.
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"Now they'll have to negotiate, people don't want a third election," said Isabel Romero, 65-year-old pensioner who voted for the Socialists, complaining that abstention was already high.
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To scrape together the majority needed to form a government, Mr Sánchez must now rely on the support of regional parties and, probably, the abstention of some Catalan separatists.
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The Atlantic Council's Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center conducted a flash poll on the ground in Venezuela immediately following the vote, which saw unprecedented abstention from a disillusioned public.
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The legislature, which is controlled by Pierluisi's New Progressive Party, erupted into cheers when the House voted 26-21, with one abstention, to confirm Pierluisi as secretary of state.
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On Thursday, Lithuania's Parliament voted almost unanimously — with just one abstention — to maintain economic sanctions as punishment for Russia's annexation of Crimea and aggression in eastern Ukraine, for instance.
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Conservative People's Party leader Pablo Casado said the vote, which was 191 against to 158 in favor with one abstention, had been a de facto confidence vote against Sanchez.
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In keeping with the coalition agreement, Mr. Schmidt's "yes" vote should have been an abstention because the Environment Ministry, led by a Social Democrat, was opposed to extending permission.
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But in any second round, a simple majority will suffice, which the Socialists and Podemos could achieve with backing of all regional parties except the Catalans, plus one abstention.
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The differential in the rates of unavowed abstention between the two candidates could allow Ms. Le Pen to become president with far less than a majority of intended votes.
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And Polar, which was founded by his grandfather, as a beer company, in 1941, actually stands out among big Venezuelan enterprises for its record of careful abstention from politics.
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Rajoy needs the abstention of the opposition Socialists to form a government, but they have steadfastly refused to smooth the way for an administration led by their main rivals.
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Her brother, Kenji Fujimori, was among the 10 Popular Force party members who cast votes of abstention, ultimately swaying the vote in favor of Mr. Kuczynski's remaining in office.
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Since the alliance between Sanchez's Socialists and far-left Unidas Podemos falls short of an absolute majority, its success depends on the support or abstention of small regional parties.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday summoned the U.S. ambassador to Israel to discuss the U.S. abstention in a U.N. Security Council resolution demanding an end to settlement-building.
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To be sworn in again as prime minister, Sanchez will need the support of other leftist parties plus at least one vote or abstention from Basque or Catalan nationalist parties.
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Support or at least an abstention from the Socialists, who finished second in both ballots, would give him that majority - but they reiterated on Thursday that they would oppose Rajoy.
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Many faiths have a tradition of fasting and abstention and campaigns urging Muslims to consider how food is grown, eaten and disposed of are underway from the Gulf to Malaysia.
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The U.S. was reportedly poised to allow the draft resolution to pass by abstention Thursday, which would have marked a break from American policy on U.N. actions against the settlements.
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The committee voted 12-2, with one abstention, on Tuesday to continue teaching students about Clinton in high school history classes, according to State Board of Education Director Debbie Ratcliffe.
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An abstention push from Maduro's political opponents, on the grounds that voting conditions in the oil-dependent country are unfair, has left the outcome of the ballot in little doubt.
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A source familiar with the situation said the vote in the supervisory board was unanimous with one abstention from German family-owned investment group Haniel, which has backed EGPC's plan.
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Both are federal doctrines that are beloved by conservatives as they relate to the concept of federal abstention from interference with state court proceedings until they have run their course.
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This is precisely the type of legitimate justification for local abstention that the Supreme Court established as a bedrock principle of our federal system of government over two decades ago.
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"Voter abstention in the south favors 'Yes', because they are more inclined to vote 'No', but they are also less likely to vote," said Carlo Buttaroni, president of pollsters Tecne.
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The left-learning ERC would not join any government but its abstention during a formal parliamentary vote to form a government could pave the way for Sanchez to take office.
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While the majority of polls predict Macron winning by a comfortable 19 points, May Day also saw demonstrations in Paris of leftists who support neither candidate and instead advocate abstention.
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An abstention or "Yes" vote will only convince the Palestinian Authority that it can continue its ways and rely on receiving open-ended financial and diplomatic support from key European nations.
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To get reelected, Sanchez will need the support in parliament of other leftist parties, Basque nationalists and the vote or abstention of at least one more lawmaker, possibly a Catalan separatist.
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Last week, Kuczynski was nearly removed from office by loyalists to Keiko in the wake of a graft scandal, Kenji and nine of his followers saved the president with abstention votes.
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"There is unanimity (within the federation) to avoid a third election and abstention is the only way," said the party's deputy leader in Andalusia, Juan Cornejo, after a meeting on Monday.
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"Working-class abstention would be far more dangerous than losing university towns and London," argues Matthew Goodwin of the University of Kent, whose research focuses on populism among working-class voters.
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John Kelly of Harvard Medical School has estimated that it takes eight years, and four or five treatment attempts, for someone addicted to opioids to achieve a single year of abstention.
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Moscow will likely paint the US as an unreliable actor, while its more assertive policy in the Middle East -- from Turkey via Syria to Libya -- may also benefit from American abstention.
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Grossi did not secure the two-thirds of votes needed to win on Monday, but took a clear lead, securing the backing of 20 countries to Feruta's 14, with one abstention.
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Instead, his party has announced an internet "consultation" of his followers, with three choices offered for the May 7 vote: a blank ballot, a vote for Mr. Macron or an abstention.
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He concludes that the risk of losing votes to other parties or to abstention is greater if Labour is seen facilitating a Tory Brexit than if it calls for a second referendum.
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday summoned the U.S. ambassador to Israel to discuss the U.S. abstention in a U.N. Security Council resolution demanding an end to settlement-building.
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In Brazil's largest city, Sao Paulo, a bastion of anti-Rousseff sentiment, the abstention rate was 21.8 percent, and 11.5 percent of the votes cast were spoiled and 5.3 percent were blank.
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The process was fraught with irregularities including the use of food in return for votes to a starving population and manipulation of turnout numbers to hide an abstention rate of 70 percent.
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While potential fliers debate individual ethics, like Thunberg's aviation abstention or the Duke and Duchess of Sussex's private jet, the ICAO assembly has the ability to make a much bigger, systemic difference.
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Although the left wing main opposition party voted against it, an abstention by Anastasiades's Conservative party meant it got through, with votes from parties which have expressed misgivings about progress in talks.
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He told reporters that Secretary of State John Kerry's speech Wednesday defending the U.S. abstention "really spoke for itself" and suggested the United Nations has failed to live up to its potential.
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"I think this is a deep reflection of Obama's ideology," he said Tuesday of the United States' recent abstention from a U.N. Security Council vote on a resolution condemning Israel's settlement policy.
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He had also undermined critical democratic norms including peaceful debate and transitions of power, commitment to truth, freedom from foreign interference and abstention from the use of executive power for political retribution.
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"Some might argue that 'abstention' isn't support for another candidate so it's not in violation, but you'd need to squint pretty hard to see that in the rules, in my opinion," Holley said.
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UNITED NATIONS – The United States has voted against a U.N. resolution condemning America&aposs economic embargo against Cuba, reversing last year&aposs abstention by the Obama administration and reflecting worsening U.S.-Cuban relations.
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But higher-than-normal abstention is likely to hurt Falcon, not to mention the government's institutional advantages, including an election board run by loyalists and the flagrant use of state resources for campaigning.
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The removal of the four seats would have allowed Sanchez to broker a majority position in parliament without relying on the Catalan separatists' votes or abstention, which he is now likely to require.
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"Abstention would be the worst of all worlds because you are not actually indicating where you stand on the most important issue of our times so that was never an option," she said.
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Surely President-elect Clinton would have been informed of even the possibility of a UN abstention, and just as surely she would have urged the president not to abstain, but to veto instead.
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" Yon Goicoechea, one of the five opposition candidates contending to be mayor of El Hatillo, said that widespread abstention and disarray among the opposition assured that the government's party "will win without fraud.
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Sanchez had promised Esquerra Republicana to open a round of dialogue over the future of the restive region with Catalan leaders in exchange for the party's crucial abstention during his investiture in Parliament.
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Now a handful of hopefuls are quietly discarding traditions that would have dictated, for instance, the respectful abstention from speaking at Republican dinners in the states that kick off the presidential nomination process.
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The majority of the world's countries were negotiating a new treaty banning nuclear weapons, which was adopted today by a vote of 122 in favor and only one vote against and one abstention.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu slammed Obama, viewing the UN abstention as a final act of betrayal at the end of a tense and sometimes openly hostile relationship between the two of them.
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But the widespread abstention anticipated, Maduro's formidable political machinery, the vote-winning power of state handouts, coercion of government employees, and the pro-Maduro makeup of the election board make Falcon's task Herculean.
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But having just authorized an abstention on a controversial resolution at the United Nations, I have to figure the President was quite content to allow the Secretary of State to take the next hit.
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Opposition leaders blamed dirty tricks by the government, including the last-minute moving of many vote centers in opposition areas, along with abstention by supporters disillusioned at the failure of protests earlier this year.
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"It's clear there is disenchantment with the political class as a whole," Temer said during a visit to Argentina, saying the high abstention rate was a message to Brazilian politicians to change their ways.
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The normally irrelevant machinations of failed Security Council resolutions has real meaning, when China's abstention effectively isolates Russia as the only permanent member of the Security Council that quashed the resolution from going forward.
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No single party is set to secure a majority and neither the left nor right bloc is seen winning power without the help of regional parties or at least the abstention of some opponents.
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Her appointment, if confirmed, comes at a rocky time for the U.N. as a result of a December Security Council resolution condemning Israeli settlements, made possible by the abstention of the outgoing Obama administration.
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But Mr. Ocariz also acknowledged the impact of an abstention campaign promoted by some members of the opposition who had argued that participation would only reaffirm Mr. Maduro's government by making Venezuela appear democratic.
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Started in 1986, the quartet flew a flag of conviction in an insouciant era: First-generation indie rock was on the up, with bands like Dinosaur Jr. and Sonic Youth proposing abstention as rebellion.
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He has struggled in opinion polls since he took the leadership of the party in 2014 and recovered it in 2016 after he was briefly ousted for opposing his party's abstention vote over Rajoy.
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But the abstention is followed by a ritualized and often communal meal — there is an end to hunger and it is shared — which creates a deeper bond with the experience, and the bigger picture.
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Whereas a shameful vote cast for the National Front back in the day was a premeditated act, unavowed abstention against the National Front today would be a more or less accidental act of omission.
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But the most potentially dangerous element for Mr. Macron is one that helped his party do so well: a historically high abstention rate — 51 percent of the French decided not to vote last Sunday.
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Leonard Steven Grasz, who was nominated by Trump to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, reportedly received a unanimous "not qualified" rating from the association's standing committee, which had one abstention.
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Hector Becerril, a Popular Force member who voted for impeachment, said Mr. Fujimori urged members of his party, by phone, to cast votes of abstention and not vote in favor of the president's removal.
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It had been almost two years since Jana had spoken to her mother (a lazy abstention, no grudge in particular), but she felt sure she would know in some metaphysical way if Catherine were dead.
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The United States voted against a U.N. General Assembly resolution that was passed on Wednesday calling for the lifting of the decades-old U.S. economic embargo against Cuba, reversing an abstention by Washington last year.
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The board of trustees for Dixie School District voted 3-1, with one abstention, at a meeting on Tuesday night to change the name by August 22, according to Marnie Glickman, one of the members.
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In attempting to justify its abstention – which under Security Council rules has the same effect as a vote in favor – the administration focuses on "new" settlement building, especially in areas deep into the West Bank.
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Far-left leader Jean-Luc Melenchon, who won his Marseille seat, promised "social resistance" to Macron's reform agenda and said the high abstention rate meant the president lacked the legitimacy to destroy the labour code.
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CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela's opposition faces a weak adversary in an upcoming presidential election in the form of unpopular President Nicolas Maduro, but it must overcome the more formidable challenge of abstention in its own ranks.
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He would then require a simple majority in a second round to be held within 48 hours - for which Sanchez would need the backing, or at least abstention, of small regional parties, including Catalan separatists.
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The faculty, which is set to include three sitting judges, is mostly but not entirely conservative, and the sessions will largely focus on practical advice, legal writing and technical legal issues like mootness and abstention.
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Applause broke out in the 15-member Security Council's chambers after the vote on the measure, which passed 14 to 0, with the United States ambassador, Samantha Power, raising her hand as the lone abstention.
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It urged Greek authorities to "strictly limit the scope of corruption offences that can be subject to abstention of prosecution, by ensuring that this can be applied only in exceptional, minor cases of corruption offences".
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One political-science paper from 2006 found that "alienation and indifference each motivated significant amounts of voter abstention in the 1980–1988 US presidential elections," which affirms every Gen X slacker stereotype in the book.
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"Many people are in a state of uncertainty, a 'wait and see,'" said Luc Rouban, a professor at the Center for the Study of French Political Life at Sciences Po. "The level of abstention in the second round is a sign that a large part of the working-class electorate are not going to vote anymore," Mr. Rouban said, describing the sense of alienation evident in the abstention as "an invisible fracture" separating the poorest and more modestly off members of French society from the rest.
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In any second round, Sanchez would need only a simple majority to get his government voted in, which the Socialists and Podemos could do with backing of all regional parties except the Catalans, plus one abstention.
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Varadkar, who was nominated in parliament by departing prime minister Enda Kenny, won the votes of the independent lawmakers backing his Fine Gael party's minority government and secured the abstention of main opposition party Fianna Fail.
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Kerry's speech defending the abstention, explaining why the administration changed its longstanding view on vetoing these resolutions, which are counterproductive to peace, was deafeningly silent both on the law and on the history of the negotiations.
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The United States has said it would vote against a U.N. General Assembly resolution on Wednesday calling for the lifting of the decades-old U.S. economic embargo against Cuba, reversing an abstention by Washington last year.
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On Saturday parliament holds a vote in which Socialist leader Pedro Sanchez is relying on the abstention of Catalan separatists Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya (ERC) — a political ally of Torra — to confirm him as Prime Minister.
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Secretary of State John KerryJohn Forbes KerryTrump's winning weapon: Time The Memo: O'Rourke looks to hit reset button #FreeAustinTice trending on anniversary of kidnapping in Syria MORE, meanwhile, defended America's abstention in a major speech Wednesday.
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Netanyahu is particularly infuriated by America's abstention, and has accused the Obama administration, with which he has had a tumultuous relationship for the last eight years, of collaborating with the Palestinians to get the resolution passed.
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Sunday's high abstention rate means Macron will also have to tread carefully with reforms in a country with muscular trade unions and a history of street protests that have forced many a government to dilute new legislation.
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Even with Ciudadanos, the PP will still be seven seats short of a majority in the 176-seat lower house of parliament, meaning Rajoy needs at least an abstention from the Socialists to win an investiture vote.
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Labour, which wants to topple May's government and take control of the troubled Brexit process, had urged Conservative lawmakers to rebel on the welfare vote and later called the tactical abstention a sign of the government's weakness.
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The 14-to-0 vote by the United Nations Security Council condemning Israeli settlements, permitted on Friday by President Obama, who ordered an American abstention, served as a reminder that the Palestinian issue remains a powder keg.
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Voting 216 to 54 with one abstention, lawmakers passed the third and final reading the bill to bring back the death penalty, but in a watered-down draft that excludes crimes like rape, kidnap-for-ransom and plunder.
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But if Sanchez gets backing from far-left Podemos, which has suggested coalition talks, and from Basque nationalists, he would need the vote, or abstention, of only one other lawmaker to form a government with a parliamentary majority.
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On Wednesday, however, the US took the small but significant step of changing its vote to an abstention on the annual UN General Assembly resolution calling for an end to the US economic embargo of the island nation.
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By ousting Sanchez, who has presided over a slump in the party's support, the Socialists rebels hope to find ways to avoid another election, including a potential abstention in a confidence vote on allowing Rajoy a second term.
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As a result of the Socialists' rifts over the abstention vote, the party has sunk in the polls and would be in third place behind anti-austerity Podemos if another election were held, recent opinion polls have shown.
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DUESSELDORF, Germany, July 24 (Reuters) - The supervisory board of German retailer Metro voted unanimously with one abstention to recommend shareholders to reject a takeover offer by EP Global Commerce, a source familiar with the situation said on Wednesday.
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Sanchez, who won an April parliamentary election but fell short of a majority, needs the support of Podemos, as well as the abstention or support of at least one other smaller party, to be confirmed as prime minister.
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BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazilian President Michel Temer said on Monday the high abstention rate as well as the number of blank and spoiled ballots in local elections on the weekend signaled the disillusionment of Brazilians with their political system.
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But the opposition abstention campaign, the presence of Maduro loyalists in key institutions - including the election board - and vote-winning power of state welfare programs like housing and food giveaways makes a Falcon victory look a tall order.
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However, as in the presidential election, a high abstention rate (of 57% in the second-round relative to an average of 37% since 0003) suggests that the outcome may overstate the level of public endorsement of Macron's proposals.
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The high abstention rate underlines that Macron will have to tread carefully with reforms in a country with muscular trade unions and a history of street protests that have forced many a past government to dilute new legislation.
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Russia is still angry about the alliance's intervention in Libya in 2011, charging that the United States and its allies went beyond a United Nations Security Council resolution, which Russia accepted through abstention, in order to overthrow Col.
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The abstention — a break from the "no" vote the United States delegation has always cast — was another important signal by the Obama administration of its intention to fully repair relations with Cuba, including an end to the embargo.
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Instead she met with lawmakers behind closed doors in a bid to obtain their vote or abstention on Sunday when the lower house of Congress votes on whether she should be impeached for breaking the country's budget laws.
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In any second round of voting, Sanchez would need only a simple majority to get his government voted in, which the Socialists and Podemos could do with backing of all regional parties except the Catalans, plus one abstention.
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PARIS (Reuters) - The final abstention rate in the first round of the French presidential election is likely to be around 20 percent, broadly in line with that of five years ago, according to two surveys published on Sunday.
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Petersen doesn't know about the Daubert standard (which covers the admissibility of expert testimony), motions in limine (which attempt to restrict evidence heard in trials), or the abstention doctrines (which cover the relationship between federal and state law).
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The panel voted 10-5, with one abstention, that the drug, bezlotoxumab, was effective in preventing a recurrence of infection with Clostridium difficile, or C. difficile, a germ that causes inflammation of the colon and potentially fatal diarrhea.
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More broadly, a motion put forward by the archbishops of Canterbury and York to place the voices of poor and marginalized people at the heart of the nation's concerns passed almost unanimously with one abstention, The Guardian reported.
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Israel had warned the Obama administration they would reach out to Trump if Washington decided to go ahead with the abstention, and Netanyahu's aides did so when they realized the United States set on this course, the official said.
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They can pretend they are not responsible for the impact of their abstention, but they are making a choice that helps Hillary Clinton and—if that is where the country heads—they will arrive there along with everyone else.
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Emirates New Zealand's abstention raises the stakes for this America's Cup because if they win the trophy they will be in the driving seat for deciding what type of boat will be raced in the next cup, and where.
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Abstention, already one of the highest on record in December, is expected to rise with 27.4 percent of voters saying they are undecided or are likely to stay home compared to 24.5 percent in a previous survey in January.
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With many fresh faces among the candidates, a political landscape divided among many forces from the far-left to the far-right and abstention predicted to be at over 40 percent, that is unlikely to happen in many constituencies.
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That was approved with 14 votes in favor and an abstention by former U.S. President Barack Obama's administration, which defied heavy pressure from longtime ally Israel and Trump, who was then president-elect, for Washington to wield its veto.
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However, an abstention rate of over 25 percent, and the fact that more than 11 percent of those who turned out chose neither candidate, pointed to a high degree of disillusionment with the choices on offer in the runoff.
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"Hollande visited the suburbs but these were visits for the media," said Selimane Abderrahmane, an assistant mayor in Bobigny, a neighboring suburb to Stains, where the abstention rate in the vote last week was 37 percent (including blank ballots).
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Some 30 percent of registered voters may not show up at all — compared with 20 percent in the first round of voting in 2012 — making it likely that abstention will be the most popular choice in the early balloting.
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A month before U.S. President Donald Trump took office in January 2017, the Security Council adopted a resolution demanding an end to Israeli settlements, with 14 votes in favor and one abstention by former U.S. President Barack Obama's administration.
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The note also said in any extended membership, Britain should, "in a spirit of loyal cooperation", commit to "constructive abstention" on key issues, such as the EU's long-term budget and filling top EU posts after the May election.
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Abstention, a key factor adding to uncertainty over the outcome of the first round, was seen at 28 percent, Cevipof's survey found - near a record level that helped Marine's father, Jean-Marie Le Pen, make it to the runoff in 2002.
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A blame game between parties on who was responsible for the repeat election is likely to dominate campaigns - due to kick off formally on June 10 - as politicians seek to galvanize frustrated voters and ward off a rise in abstention.
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Cheered by a US abstention in late December allowing a UN Security Council resolution condemning Israel settlement activity to pass, the Palestinians now face the cold reality that the new Trump administration would certainly block UN attempts to stop settlement growth.
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Without at least an abstention by the Socialists - arch-rivals of the PP and its previous incarnations over the past four decades of democracy in Spain - the conservatives will struggle to get the majority they needs to allow Rajoy to govern.
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The vote was won by 320 to 149, with one abstention, giving a boost to Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni, who has vowed to plow ahead with the government's reform program following the resignation of his predecessor Matteo Renzi in December.
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"The U.S. abstention is a welcome shift away from past practice of using its Security Council veto to shield Israel from criticism despite longstanding U.S. policy opposing settlements," Louis Charbonneau, U.N. director at Human Rights Watch, said in a statement.
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If that were not true, the Declaration of Independence would not have passed unanimously out of the Continental Congress (with one abstention) and the U.S. Capitol would still be in New York — if there were a United States at all.
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"Abstention would be the worst of all worlds because you are not actually indicating where you stand on the most important issue of our times so that was never an option," Foster told Irish state broadcaster RTE in an interview.
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He added that lifting the embargo was the key to advancing towards normalized relations with the US. Power indicated Wednesday's abstention was a small step in efforts at further engagement with the Cuban people, even amidst the outstanding differences with the government.
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Secretary of State John KerryJohn Forbes KerryTrump's winning weapon: Time The Memo: O'Rourke looks to hit reset button #FreeAustinTice trending on anniversary of kidnapping in Syria MORE on Wednesday defended America's abstention, characterizing it as a tough but vital message for Israel's government.
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The vote by WADA's board was 9 to 2, with one abstention, to reinstate Russia's antidoping agency, which had been banned since 2015 after investigators found it was at the center of the doping conspiracy at the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi, Russia.
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"Today's journey has been one of abstention and repression, with dead and wounded," wrote Henrique Capriles, the opposition governor of the state of Miranda who narrowly lost to Mr. Maduro in 2013's presidential election and was banned this year from running again.
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Argentina´s new emergency economy law, the "Social Solidarity and Production Reactivation" act, was approved 41-23 with one abstention in the Senate after passing the lower House earlier on Friday, all less than two weeks after moderate Peronist Fernandez took office.
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In protest of the mayor's decision, the city's historical commission unanimously passed on Thursday night a nonbinding resolution — with one abstention — that asks for the magazines to be mailed to the journal's 230 subscribers, all of whom are members of the museum.
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Dissidents, who were divided between those who advocated a 'no' vote and those who called for abstention so as not to legitimize a process they deemed a fraud, reported a few incidents across the country of members being temporarily detained or harassed.
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In fact, his abstention at the U.N., which resulted in the passing of a resolution that declared Israel's settlement construction in the West Bank a "flagrant violation" of international law, has likely made winning back the White House in 2020 significantly more challenging for Democrats.
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The American abstention on the resolution sparked a heated Israeli reaction, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his supporters unleashing a barrage of public attacks at the Obama administration and many leading members of the U.N. Security Council, including Britain, France, New Zealand and Russia.
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"The huge abstention rate shows that there is no majority in this country in favor of destroying the labor code, nor for reducing liberties ...nor to pander to the rich, all things that feature in the president's program," Melenchon said late on Sunday night.
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"It is a coalition government, which is not very common in Spain, it lacks an outright majority, and whose likely simple majority relies on the abstention, of among many other regional parties, the big separatist ERC (a Catalan separatist party)," Hense told CNBC via email.
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Marrero dismissed Trump's lawsuit based on a legal doctrine known as "abstention," in which a federal judge in rare circumstances can decline to exercise jurisdiction over a case if it would interfere with certain government functions at the state level, such as state criminal prosecutions.
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Second, on June 22019, 2017 a plebiscite on the various status options for Puerto Rico was held in which statehood was overwhelmingly favored by a third of able voters, notwithstanding the incoherent call for abstention by the opposing political parties and the bloated voting lists.
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And they succeeded: On July 7, 2017, after two rounds of negotiations, the United Nations General Assembly conference that was in charge of the negotiations adopted the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons by a vote of 122 to 1, with one abstention.
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Secretary of State John KerryJohn Forbes KerryA lesson of the Trump, Tlaib, Omar, Netanyahu affair Trump's winning weapon: Time The Memo: O'Rourke looks to hit reset button MORE on Wednesday defended America's abstention, characterizing the Israeli government's settlement activities as an obstacle to peace with the Palestinians.
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Some researchers are trying to get at a child's very first experience with drinking, "the earliest transition in the youngest population, specifically, from abstention into sipping or tasting alcohol among children," according to a study published in 2014 in the journal Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research.
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" The left-wing Jewish lobbying organization J-Street said in a statement that it welcomed the US abstention on the council's vote, "which reaffirms the need for a two-state solution and calls for a halt to actions by both sides that serve to undermine the prospects for peace.
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In Rio de Janeiro, the country's second largest city, where Temer's Brazilian Democratic Movement Party, or PMDB, was badly beaten on Sunday, the abstention rate was even higher at 24.3 percent, while voters spoiled 12.7 percent of the ballots and left 5 percent blank, according to the TSE.
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If the Obama administration refuses to announce that it supports the language of the resolution that applies to the Jewish areas discussed above, then the entire resolution should be deemed invalid because the U.S. did not cast its abstention – the equivalent of a yes vote – in good faith.
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However, expectations of a lower turnout could raise her chances of moving into the Élysée Palace Polls are indicating that the 2017 French election could set a record in abstention figures as voters become fed up with low economic growth and with the scandals involving the political elite.
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Often caricatured as kumbaya hippies, Sufis seek divine love and connection, but their practices encompass strict worldly rules and commitments: long services, dawn and night prayers, rigorous meditation and frequent fasting — in addition to the common Islamic practices of five daily prayers, the hajj pilgrimage and abstention from alcohol.
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Palestine is once again front and center at the UN. Less than two months since the Obama administration's 85033th hour abstention from a vote condemning Israeli settlement activity, thus allowing the resolution's passage, Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas has been handed yet another victory by the international body.
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As the New York Times reported on Saturday, abstention was so high in the first round that efforts to pursue truly aggressive reform may meet opposition from those who don't feel the Macron agenda suits them but simply didn't see a viable alternative and so sat out elections altogether.
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The increasing role played by non-elected technocrats, increased voter abstention and curbs on civil liberties are among the main symptoms of this global malaise, the EIU said, noting that almost half of the 167 countries covered by its index registered a decline in overall scores between 2006 and 2016.
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Far from the assertions of some members of Congress that the Obama administration's abstention on U.N. Security Council Resolution 85033 constituted an historic abandonment of Israel at the U.N. and a major shift in U.S. policy, the resolution actually faithfully reflects five decades of stated bipartisan presidential opposition to Israeli settlements.
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On both sides of the Atlantic, a newly galvanized far right has made it more likely than ever that an anti-immigration candidate might triumph due to the widespread abstention of many on the left, who were bitterly disappointed that their chosen candidate did not make it to the final round.
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Four months of political bickering and failure to form a government are, however, likely to boost abstention rates and marginally help the two traditionally dominant PP and PSOE against Podemos and Ciudadanos who are still seen lacking a strong structure to mobilize voters in many rural areas, the survey showed.
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It is not clear when her abstention turned into anonymity, or when that anonymity acquired its peculiar aura, but it might have been in the mid-1990s, when she began to correspond with journalists, answering their questions about her life, sometimes with the caveat that her answers might be lies.
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"Despite the abstention, the message of the French has no ambiguity: For the third consecutive time, millions of you confirmed your attachment to the president of the republic's project to renew, unite and win back," said Mr. Philippe, whom Mr. Macron brought in from the mainstream, right-leaning Republican Party.
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A lower court judge dismissed the case in early October, citing a legal doctrine known as "abstention," in which a federal judge in rare circumstances can decline to exercise jurisdiction over a case if it would interfere with certain government functions at the state level, such as state criminal prosecutions.
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"If I were Netanyahu and the only price I had to pay for all my efforts to undo the Iran deal and the two-state settlement was a single abstention by the U.S. at the Security Council and a speech by Kerry, I'd be a very happy man," he said.
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There's the rise, which is usually assisted by self-deluding opportunists who believe that they can restrain the ascendant authoritarian figure; old Bolsheviks like Grigory Zinoviev, countering Trotsky, played just as significant a role in Stalin's ascent, largely through abstention, as the respectable conservative Franz von Papen did in Hitler's.
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In her decision to deny the plaintiff's motion, Judge Wood cited the Pullman abstention, a reference to a 1941 federal court decision that says federal courts shouldn't make decisions on the constitutionality of state laws that are open to interpretation until state courts have had a chance to make their own determination.
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" (emphasis added) In a press release, the pro-Obama advocacy group J. Street welcomed America's abstention, citing a poll showing "that 62 percent of Jewish voters believe the United States should either support or abstain from voting on a United Nations Security Council resolution calling on Israel to stop building settlements in the West Bank.
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No birth control method (barring abstention) is 20173% effective of course but, as we've reported previously, Natural Cycles' aggressive marketing and PR has lacked nuance and attempted to downplay concerns about the complexity of its system and the chance of failure even though the product's performance is impacted by multiple individual factors — from illness, to irregular periods.
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Means filed a lawsuit against the hospital and the United Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) in 2013, but on Thursday, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals determined that she had failed to make a viable legal claim, falling back on the legal doctrine of "ecclesiastical abstention" — the court would not settle a case that amounted to a theological debate.
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With its wide range of colorful foods, the diet provides "delicious meals" and "because of its emphasis on limited consumption, rather than abstention from red meat and sweets" plus its inclusion of moderate drinking of alcoholic beverages, "the Mediterranean diet represents a healthy yet indulgent and appealing lifestyle that can be sustained over long periods of time," Korre said.
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While not a big enough gesture to cause a major rift with Israel or with the United States, Canada's abstention is a notable departure from its previous voting record and may indicate an unwillingness to look like Trump's bullying determines its behavior or a desire to be more responsive to domestic constituencies in Canada who are against Trump's decision.
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Notwithstanding the electoral abstention strategy promoted by the territorial supporters in this latest process, and an electoral turnout of 28500 percent of the bloated electoral list, 6900 percent of participating voters were in favor of statehood In electoral politics the votes that are casted are the ones that count is a truism that needs to be recalled.
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It was the abstention of Slovakia, piqued by its capital Bratislava being narrowly knocked out of the EMA voting in the first round, which allowed Amsterdam to pull level with early leader Milan and tie the runoff at 13-13 - a result few had expected given that all 27 member states bar Britain had a vote.
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For his part, President Trump has argued that his policy reversals on China have yielded benefits, noting China's abstention from a United Nations Security Council resolution condemning the chemical attack on civilians in Syria as well as China's turning back of North Korean coal-carrying cargo ships, characterizing it as a "big step" on the road towards cracking down Pyongyang.
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Murphy said the abstention could push 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 too far to Israel's side, to the point where he can't help negotiate a peace between Israel and Palestine.
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Eddie Bernice JohnsonEddie Bernice JohnsonDemocrats say they're waiting for nearly 50 requests for Trump info on science, environment Omar comes under scrutiny for 'present' vote on Armenian genocide EPA official delayed recusal on key health study for ex-employer: report MORE (D-Texas) was the one other Democrat to vote "present" on the bill but did not offer an explanation for her abstention.
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After last year's ceremony, where Beyoncé's best album faced defeat and Frank Ocean's abstention prompted sharp criticism and sparked the #GrammysSoWhite hashtag, SZA is at the forefront of a wave of ethnically diverse young artists (including the 19-year-old singer Khalid and Donald Glover's hip-hop adjacent alter ego Childish Gambino) who swept nominations in many of the top categories this year.
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The Obama administration was reportedly planning to abstain from the new vote, with Secretary of State John KerryJohn Forbes KerryA lesson of the Trump, Tlaib, Omar, Netanyahu affair Trump's winning weapon: Time The Memo: O'Rourke looks to hit reset button MORE even planning an address for Thursday justifying the abstention and laying out the outgoing administration's vision for regional peace.
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U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations 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 on Wednesday will vote against the U.N. resolution condemning the U.S. embargo on Cuba, the State Department announced Tuesday, reversing an Obama-era abstention.
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Executive orders barring offshore drilling in most U.S. Arctic waters; an abstention at the U.N. permitting the Security Council to declare all Israeli settlement activity to be illegal and an obstacle to peace; the possibility of further action at the U.N. to formalize the administration's comprehensive vision of a two-state solution to the Israeli/Palestinian conflict — President Obama is sprinting, not jogging, to the finish line.
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During her Senate confirmation hearing, the Republican South Carolina governor labeled the December vote, made possible through an American abstention, as a "failure" by the UN. Promising to "never abstain when the United Nations takes any action that comes in direct conflict with the interests and values of the United States," she went on to question why America shoulders 22 percent of the body's budget.
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In the ruling, the ASA flags up the relative complexity of Natural Cycles' system vs more established forms of contraception — pointing out that: The Natural Cycles app required considerably more user input than most forms of contraception, with the need to take and input body temperature measurements several times a week, recording when intercourse had taken place, supplemented with LH measurements, abstention or alternative methods of contraception during the fertile period.
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" In her abstention statement Friday, US Ambassador Samantha Powers said that, "One need only look at the 18 resolutions against Israel adopted during the UN General Assembly in September; or the 12 Israel-specific resolutions adopted this year in the Human Rights Council -- more than those focused on Syria, North Korea, Iran, and South Sudan put together -- to see that in 2016 Israel continues to be treated differently from other Member States.
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As Cinzia Arruzza, an assistant professor of philosophy at the New School, writes: An effective opposition to Trump should work on disentangling these heterogeneous and even incompatible motivations, by, on the one hand, fighting back against the new wave of racism, misogyny, and homophobia ahead of us, and on the other, addressing the legitimate desire for a radical change expressed in part by votes for Trump and in the abstention of millions of former Democratic voters.
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Despite Mr. Macron's national victory, and the strong showing in Seine-Saint-Denis of the far-left presidential candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon and his France Unbowed party in the legislative elections that followed the presidential vote, the biggest winner of all was voter abstention — as high as 70 percent in some towns — testimony to the political indifference of citizens who have seen too many governments, on the right and on the left, make promises to improve their lives, only to break them.
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In a matter of weeks we have had a United Nations Security Council resolution calling on Israel to "immediately cease all settlement activities in the occupied Palestinian territory;" a long speech by Secretary of State John Kerry setting out the Obama administration's parameters for a two-state peace agreement and defending the American abstention that allowed the U.N. resolution to pass; and a Paris peace conference that urged Israelis and Palestinians, neither of them present, to take concrete steps to get the two-state idea off life support.
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When neither her husband nor her older brother (who was a prominent member of the recently founded African Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia) supported her ambition to preach, she left and eventually joined a Shaker community in Watervliet, NY. (Along the way, she picked up a life companion, Rebecca Perot, making her a debatably queer icon avant la lettre.) Attracted to the Shakers' emphasis on direct communion with god and race and gender equality, Jackson ultimately came to feel that the group's abstention from direct political action was at odds with providing true support to Black believers in the age of abolitionism.
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