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Перевод: abstain

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воздерживаться; не принимать участия

Тезаурус:

1. For that to begin to come about, a challenger would need to attract at least 70 MPs to vote for him or abstain.
2. His arithmetic was supported by a BBC poll which calculated 36 Tory MPs would either abstain or vote against the Prime Minister.
3. This unanimity encouraged local leaders to abstain from political initiatives and to concentrate on local and day-to-day issues.
4. The United States, the United Kingdom, and France were obliged to abstain from the vote on Resolution 731 (1992) because they are parties to this dispute with Libya over allegations surrounding the Lockerbie and UIA bombings that were the very subject matter of this resolution.
5. Tertullian (c. 155-;222) was the first Church Father to declare that Christians ought to abstain on Sunday from secular duties or occupations, lest these should give pleasure to the Devil.
6. He must seek the advice of the wisest money-brokers and buy a pension scheme if he be self-employed; he must see to it that he does not over-extend himself on the mortgage front; he must run a motor car that doesn't drink petrol like tapwater and won't break him every time it needs a service from a franchised dealer; above all, he must abstain from vicious pleasures - or if he needs must indulge, then he must do so only in moderation.
7. Our research was designed to ensure that the field-worker was also around a great deal and was stubborn in exploiting the naturally occurring situations of privacy, where natural conversation is inevitable because it is interactionally difficult to abstain from it, such as in the back of vehicles, in the sanger while on guard duty, relaxing in many of the recreational rooms, or off duty.
8. In 1937 they persuaded the Parliamentary Party to abstain, rather than vote against, the arms estimates, and during 1938 the Labour Front bench started to attack the Government for not rearming faster.
9. And not only did Gerry Fitt, the SDLP's only MP at the time, abstain in the vote, he persuaded Independent Nationalist MP, Frank Maguire to abstain as well.
10. The significance of this is that there is a huge body of Conservative opinion in the country, not just Westminster, which is so disgusted with the ungentlemanly way in which the Toff's Party behaved towards the lady that they will abstain.
11. Another would-be Tory rebel, Walter Sweeney, who has an ultra-slim majority of 19 - Britain's smallest - accused Central Office of "hitting below the belt" when they forced him to abstain in the vote.
12. There were even giggles as this (as he seemed to some of them) funny little man with a funny voice urged the audience to abstain from fleshly lusts.
13. Do not abstain.