Abstention
Abstention is a term in election procedure for when a participant in a Voting, vote either does not go to vote (on election day) or, in parliamentary procedure, is present during the vote but does not cast a ballot. Abstention must be contrast ...
is refusing to vote in an election or in a parliamentary vote.
Abstention may also refer to:
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Abstentionism
Abstentionism is the political practice of standing for election to a deliberative assembly while refusing to take up any seats won or otherwise participate in the assembly's business. Abstentionism differs from an election boycott in that abs ...
, standing for election to an assembly while boycotting the assembly itself
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Abstention doctrine
An abstention doctrine is any of several doctrines that a United States court may (or in some cases must) apply to refuse to hear a case if hearing the case would potentially intrude upon the powers of another court. Such doctrines are usually inv ...
, applied by a court refusing to hear a case which ought to be heard by a different court
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Operation Abstention
Operation Abstention (25–28 February 1941) was the code name of a British invasion of the Italian island of Kastelorizo (Castellorizo) off the Turkish Aegean coast, during the Second World War. The goal was to establish a motor torpedo-boat ...
, code name of the British invasion of the Italian island of Kastelorizo, off Turkey, during World War II, in February 1941
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Abstinence
Abstinence is the practice of self-enforced restraint from indulging in bodily activities that are widely experienced as giving pleasure. Most frequently, the term refers to sexual abstinence, but it can also mean abstinence from alcohol (drug), ...
, voluntary restraint from a bodily pleasure, such as alcohol or sexual intercourse
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