Use of abstention in Sentences. 29 Examples

The examples include abstention at the start of sentence, abstention at the end of sentence and abstention in the middle of sentence

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abstention at the start of sentence


  1. Abstention is traditionally high in Colombia.
  2. Abstention from alcohol is essential while you are taking this medication.
  3. Abstention from drinking and smoking is the only way to improve your poor health.

abstention at the end of sentence


  1. The vote to kill the bills was 47 to 39, with one abstention.
  2. The declaration was passed by 355 votes to four with one abstention.
  3. In Washington the Bureau of European Affairs recommended abstention.
  4. In the Volkskammer approval was by 299 votes to 80 with one abstention.
  5. Scowcroft met with Dinitz to brief him on the Soviet proposal for a joint abstention.
  6. Although the national turnout was officially given as 60 percent, the elections were marked by a high rate of regional abstention.
  7. I do not wish to enter into the rights and wrongs of meat consumption versus vegetarianism or alcohol consumption versus abstention.

abstention in the middle of sentence


  1. An abstention is not regarded as a veto.
  2. The Church insisted on abstention from all luxuries.
  3. By abstention from incontinence, energy is acquired.
  4. There were high levels of abstention in the election.
  5. There were high levels of abstention in the last elections.
  6. The goal is complete abstention from all mind-altering substances.
  7. Voter abstention is seen as the only real form of dissent in elections.
  8. Even abstention would have put the Government within a whisker of victory.
  9. Critics might pan his concerts but never his abstention from drugs and alcohol.
  10. Did he really think that abstention by the officers would influence the enlisted men?
  11. Yet as with many agreements on environmental pollution, voluntary abstention is unsuccessful.
  12. The overall abstention rate was reported to be as high as 55 percent of the electorate of 2,200,000.
  13. To offer only one alternative, total abstention, is to exclude a large population in need of services.
  14. It insisted on a total abstention from not only spirits but beer, the staple drink of the working man.
  15. Sometimes I make a point of not saying the pledge at all, just to make sure abstention remains permissible.
  16. The application of judicial abstention principle in the estimation on the conditions of safeguard measures.
  17. The statute was promulgated during Lent, in the hope that abstention would find the peasants in subdued mood.
  18. The Senate had already approved the treaty on Sept. 17 by 176 votes to 16 with one abstention.Sentence dictionary
  19. The abstention rate among the 3,200,000 registered voters in the presidential elections was put as high as 43.7 percent.

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