Abstain
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Recently, during the vote on Palestinian representation at the United Nations, the EU called for its members to
abstain
– an odd way to affirm Europe’s commitment to global leadership.
More example sentences with word abstain
Well resisting temptation is hard, as the 19th century English economist Nassau William Senior said, "To
abstain
from the enjoyment which is in our power, or to seek distant rather than immediate results, are among the most painful exertions of the human will."
There are countless reasons a woman may have for choosing to
abstain
from motherhood, the majority of them not self-prioritizing.
"You must
abstain
from blood" is not an ambiguous statement.
In December, he blasted then-President Barack Obama’s decision to
abstain
from a vote on a UN Security Council resolution condemning Israel’s illegal settlement construction, instead of vetoing the measure.
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