Abstentions in A Sentence

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    Manifest has noted that approximately a dozen companies have failed to record abstentions in their proxy poll disclosures.

    2

    Not counting the three abstentions, a majority of NER members were open to the idea of research cloning under strictly regulated conditions.

    3

    Not to mention the possibility that the machine might register my votes wrong, rather than just register some abstentions where I actually voted.

    4

    The majority of staff voted in favor of the proposal while there was one against and a few abstentions.

    5

    These abstentions are prescribed for the king and a few other persons; there is no evidence that they were observed by all the people.

    6

    We may therefore expect in primitive asceticism to find many abstentions and much self-torture apparently valueless for the training of character and discipline of the feelings, which are the essence of any healthy asceticism.