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Перевод: abstention

[существительное]
воздержание; воздержанность ; неучастие в голосовании

Тезаурус:

1. The Association supported abstention and there was a virtual strike in the market.
2. Robyn nodded polite approval of this abstention, while privately guessing that Rupert Sutcliffe had not been embarrassed by a large number of invitations.
3. The perception of social advantage in general abstention from collective bargaining is too remote from the circumstances of the individual worker for him ever to support through the ballot box a general prohibition on trade unions, let alone to abstain privately from their immediate protection in a world where there is no reason to expect other workers to confer a reciprocal advantage on him by similar abstention.
4. The statute was promulgated during Lent, in the hope that abstention would find the peasants in subdued mood.
5. The return to rock represents an abstention or introversion, a retreat (the Jesus and Many Chain's "My Little Underground"), a local culture rather than any doomed attempt at a global overhauling.
6. They support the FDR-FMLN on a negotiated solution, condemn the role of the United States and have opted for electoral abstention on the grounds that their children have been denied the vote and that therefore the conditions (or free elections do not exist.
7. Were those friends to suffer humiliation, it would be seen as a defeat for the political interest to which they belonged, and if the politician had attempted to avoid a commitment, that abstention would merely add the resentment of his friends to the consequences of the defeat.
8. Even then the older amongst them could look back to the early 1790s when debate about, and the practice of, abstention from slave-grown colonial sugar was claimed by Clarkson to have drawn in about 300,000 families.
9. Their foregrounding of this unreality, their knowing winks, are actually an abstention from immersing themselves fully in the "pop process" in all its madness, carnality and glamour.
10. The almost unanimous electoral abstention of CNT members in November 1933, in protest at the shortcomings of Republican reformism and the repressiveness of the Azaa governments towards the CNT itself, contributed significantly to the left's defeat.
11. A 1970 presidential decree banning the movement was apparently prompted by the mass abstention by Jehovah's Witnesses from voting in a presidential election.
12. From the church came a dual impulse strengthening this morality: the prevailing teaching on sexual abstention outside of marriage under pain of mortal sin, and the rigorous life of a clergy pledged to chastity and preaching the need for an unmarried laity to practise the same degree and kind of circumspection in sexual matters which the clergy had been taught to impose upon themselves.
13. "They smoke and drink a lot - especially whisky," he said, trying to reconcile his Muslim abstention with the profligacy of Scots on the rocks.